On Saturday February 24th, I decided that I wanted a Wii and started to look around. I called a few stores in Riverside, but none were in stock. I found out that all Circuit Cities were scheduled to release Wii's the next day. I figured that I could get there and have a good chance of getting one. Circuit City opened at 10am, and I arrived around 10:30. When I asked the lady at the register, she almost laughed at me. It turned out all the Wiis were sold before they even opened.
I checked all the electronics places around, Best Buy, Target, and Gamestop. There was none to be had. I got back to San Diego at around 8:30. On my way back I passed by Best Buy and decided to check it out. I wasn't even sure if they were still open. They were and I asked one of the sales guys if they had any more Wiis. He said they had some and to talk to this other associate. I talked to the associate who wasn't very helpful. I stayed around, waiting for him to come back so I could speak with him again. After a few minutes I turned around and saw a demonstration area with some Nintendo employees. I asked if they had any more Wiis, and the handed me a ticket! I told them that I was ready to pay for it and the gentleman escorted me to the checkout.
At the checkout I spoke with the cashier and it turned out they were having some event. I ended up getting over 700+ rewards points for my purchase, instead of the normal 250 ( the dollar value of the Wii). I brought the Wii home and prompty figured out that I HAD NO TV. Being the impatient bastard that I am, I hooked it up to the only screen I had that could accept the RCA signal... a 10 year old Sony Camcorder. I was able to play WIi Boxing onthis sucker. Yes. I was playing Wii on a 2 INCH screen. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of that.
This is the Wii box. At first it reminded me of an Apple product, with a different color scheme.
Another view of the box.
The Apple influence shows again, as the box is very straight forward to unpack. As if the steps to unpack it were designed.
The contents of the top level. Including the Wiimote, nunchuck, connectors and Wii Sports.
The contents of the bottom level. This includes the Wii itself, stand and power brick.
The Wii itself. Its actually quite tiny. About the size of an external CDRW. I thought the Mac Mini was small.
Another view of the system itself. It functions very well horizontally. I almost prefer it horizontal.
A picture of all the hardware that was included.
Finally a shot of the current setup. I wanted an HDTV, but at this point it really just did not make sense to get one. I instead bought a cheapo 20" Magnavox from Wal-Mart.
BTW the Wii is named Eggs. Don't ask why.
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