How About A Wii

***UPDATE***

All the sites below have stopped taking pre-orders now online…

You can still pre-order a Wii from HMV, however they state on their website:

“*Limited Availability: Owing to a limited supply of consoles from Nintendo, we are unlikely to be able to fulfil any further orders before Christmas. We will, of course, endeavour to get your Wii console to you as soon as we receive additional shipments from the supplier, on a first-come, first-served basis.”
 

The UK release date for the Wii is the 8th December.  So less than 2 weeks left for us UK punters to wait!!

So the big question is…

Where can you still pre-order a Wii??

Hopefully I can help you make your choice…  For the record, I’ve pre-ordered from HMV online and with PC World in the shop…  Hopefully, I’ll get at least one on the expected day!!!!

RETAILER	PRODUCT	PRICE	DELIVERY	AVAILABLE	GAMES PRICE
	Wii + Wii Sports	£179.99	FREE	NO	£34.99	YES
	Wii + Wii Sports	£179.99	FREE	NO	£34.99	YES
	Wii + Wii Sports	£179.99	FREE	NO	£34.99	YES
	Wii + 4 games	£319.99	£6.50	NO	£34.98	YES
	Wii + Wii Sports + 1 game	£219.99	FREE	NO	£39.99	YES
	Wii + Wii Sports	£179.99	FREE	NO	£37.99	YES

On my previous post about Play.com I recommended HMV as a good retailer to pre-order your Wii from.

There are multiple reasons why this is so true.            

The Wii Console itself is competitively priced at £179.99.  This includes the Wii Remote, Nunchuk attachment and Wii Sports.  And best of all delivery is free!!!

They have a decent selection of games that are available to pre-order as well.  These include the favourites such as Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Brothers, Red Steel etc.  I’d previously posted that the prices of the games were £32.99.  But they seem to have recently changed their tune: The new price for each game is £34.99!

Many thanks to Steve who left a comment on my last post about Play.com.  Read the comment here

Steve kindly informed me that Play.com have changed their policy with Wii pre-orders.  He received an email saying that Play wouldn’t supply a Wii to him on launch day!!!!!  And he pre-ordered on the first day that they took orders!!!

Not really cricket from Play.com is it!!!

Is this the sign of things to come from all distributors of the Wii in the UK??  Hopefully it is not, and is just an isolated incident!!!  Or a lot of people, including ME, are going to be very angry and annoyed!!!

Steve also commented that they have raised the prices of their Wii games!!!  The last time I looked they were £32.99, and they are now £37.99!!

I’ve had a quick look around other retailers on the internet and games are still available for pre-order at £32.99.  The best I found that was still available was at HMV.