Nintendo

其实没有任何进展. 有消息说, Walmart明天(Dec. 6th)早上8点会供货. 打电话问了一个local store,只有3台,让我打电话问问其他store. 没有继续查下去, 觉得还没热情到要一大早去排队, 更何况没有看到足够大的希望. 圣诞也还早,还会有机会.

抢购Wii需要排队,抢购PS3或者去年的Xbox 360也需要排队, 两者有什么不同呢? 看看这幅来自xkcd.com的漫画:

from http://www.xkcd.com/c186.html

这也验证了Phd Comics的Ceclia的Blog上说的:

Waiting for a Wii

I accompanied a friend, who is not a morning person, to the local Target at 6:30 AM this morning to wait for the new batch of Wiis to go on sale. The people in line were all so nice! People said “Good morning” to each other and chatted about games and controllers while waiting. After all the tickets were handed out, they were even helpful to the people who came too late, telling them where else they might be able to get a Wii.

It was a completely different experience from the reported muggings and shootings that I read happened on some of the PS3 lines. My friend thinks Nintendo brings out the best in people. We all applauded and cheered when the first customer exited the store with his new Wii.

今天起来，Mcdull从gtalk上发来信息，叫我去Toys”R”Us看看，有没有可能买到Wii。虽然明知不可能，我们还是本着留大溜达的愿望跑了一趟。不出所料，没有。问了一下店员，今天就他们一个store就确实出过95台的货。早上9点开门的时候，门口已经有百来号人等着了。问下一次什么时候会有货，店员说他们也没有被告知什么时候会有货，有多少，每次都是收到就开卖。看起来，圣诞前买到的可能性还是存在的，但是需要：1)有消息来源，需要泡论坛 (现在谣传6号Walmart会有货）；2）不畏早起不畏天寒地冻得去和一堆才十几岁的小毛孩一起排队抢购。路漫漫阿…..，对于根本不是玩家的我来说，有严重得凑热闹的嫌疑…..

好消息是Nintendo总裁许诺会在年底前使总出货量达到四百万台，不知道是全球还是就北美市场。目前，第一批的60万台已经全部卖光光了。