I’ve been coveting the Nintendo Wii console ever since it came out before Christmas, but I didn’t have a chance to actually try it out until last weekend. We went to a party at a friend’s place and spent the evening playing various Wii games, and now I really really want one. I thought I had managed to score one on The Source by Circuit City website earlier this week, but alas their online store inventory system is stupid and allowed over 400 orders to be placed when they had only 48 consoles in stock! I was not part of the lucky 1/10 of customers who actually had their order filled.

This morning Future Shop had some Wiis in stock in local stores, but when I found out about it I was a good 30-40 minutes away from any of them by transit. So now Dan and I are planning on waking up at 5am tomorrow morning and lining up at the local Zellers, which opens at 8am and has promised to have at least three in stock. Wii-mania has made us certifiably insane.

Update:

We went over at 5am and there were already three people in line (Zellers was only going to have three available). Darn it!