Dawson Street GAME

Jonakin

I dont know what time i should go at.. I havent pre-ordered and anyone know how many consoles they'll have for non preordered people and if anyone is in line yet. And what time are you guys going to line up at?

mikeruurds

Jonakin wrote:

I dont know what time i should go at.. I havent pre-ordered and anyone know how many consoles they'll have for non preordered people and if anyone is in line yet. And what time are you guys going to line up at?

Stupid answer, but go ASAP. There won't be many first-come-first-served units available and there are a lot of people with the same idea as you.

Mike

christophicus

get there as early as you can, THey may not even have consoles for non preorders. There is supposedly a huge shortage in europe

christophicus

I just read that apparently norway is only getting 1000 consoles and that spain is only getting 4000 units!!!

Jonakin

Do you know how many consoles dublin is getting.

Creamy Goodness

GAME on dawson street stop taking preorders ages ago because they couldn't guarantee me of a console (this was at the start of november).

christophicus

No sorry, But Nrway has a population simular to ours €4.5 M And they only got 1000 units. so its not looking good for us. Not to mention the fact that we(Ireland ) Are traditionally not great at embrassing Nintendo consoles, so they may choose to allocate less to Ireland.

machalla

I toddled into Dawson street earlier. A few people queueing outside the door about 7pm. Guy at the front of it was juggling! Apparently he and some of the others had been there since 8.30 this morning I heard a staff member say. Also heard another one say to a customer that unless you were in the queue before 11.00pm tonight you can forget about getting your hands on a wii.

Of course the proof will be known tommorow but thats what I heard. Lots of wii games going up on shelves. I quite like the look of rampage which is a game I have a lot of fondness for. Not as many copies of Zelda around than I thought there would be.

Gonzo_Reporter

Man all these threads are freakin me out!!! I have the Wii and zelda prebooked in Dawson St. and was told it was ok come in tomorrow and get it. but the mood of these threads is that your screwed if u dont go to the launch tonight

machalla

Oops sorry didn't mean to imply that anyone who pre-ordered wouldn't get it. The person who was asking the staff member was like me another one who believed there would be plenty of wiis around

I took a friends(former after this!) advice there would be loads of them..

Ah well.

Jonakin

My brother started lining up around 8:15 do you guys think he'll get one.

Star Lord

Not a notion. Where is he queueing and will they have free units available?

whitetrash

I'm not going down till 11:30 but I've preordered one, I better get it!

Jonakin

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Not a notion. Where is he queueing and will they have free units available?

Dawson Street I dont thnik hes going to the party. Im not sure what place hes in but i hope we get a wii. havent preordered either. Yeah i think theres free stuff.

Kevok

Was in town tonight and passed Dawson street at 12:10am, there was an ungodly amount of people queued up.

Star Lord

Cool, its actually great to hear of such a huge anticipation for a Nintendo machine, a sign of things to come I hope! At least the weather calmed down a bit for them too!

bk

Lined up outside for 4 hours and got a Wii (and lots of other stuff).

Must have been about 300 people there, line went half way down Dawson St.

Good atmosphere there despite the weather, people playing Mario Cart on DS, chatting etc.

People organised there own numbering system to try and stop queue jumpers (write number on hand).

Half hour before opening, all the Game staff came out and gave us Pizza

Just wanted to say thanks to all the people there and for the hard work of the Game staff.

wombat

bk wrote:

Just wanted to say thanks to all the people there and for the hard work of the Game staff.

Ditto - got there at ten, was forty second in the line. I've never done the launch thing before (and hadn't preordered like the goon I am) and I thought it was a blast. To everyone who made the effort to keep queue skipping to a minimum I'd just like to say you folks were awesome.
I managed to snag a Wii, extra remote and nunchuck and a stack of games. I'm like a kid today.

koneko

Figure I heard for Wiis in Ireland was 1500

dclifford

I had 49 on my hand. I got worried when I heard they only had 50 non-preorder. Got there about 10:15. They guy behind the counter reckons I got about the 40th Non-preorder.
I'm in work and its at home unopened.:mad:

portach king

I still have a very faint number 6 written on my hand.
Wow, impressed the numbering system we had organised in the front went back as far as 49, I thought it would have stopped at 15 or 20!

dclifford

It went as far as 52. The kid that had 51 nearly cried when he had the news that there was only 50 non-preorder.
But it was all good when he handed over his parents money at the counter and then even gave the 1 cent change back to his dad.

Nietzschean

the numbering thing? we figured it'd never make it all the way to the back alright....

sleur

i was no. 83 and got a non pre-ordered console! delighted

bk

sleur wrote:

i was no. 83 and got a non pre-ordered console! delighted

That is great, I was hoping that most people who lined up would get one. It looks like that people who arrived up to at least 11 got one, which is fair enough.

Did everyone get one, or were some people left disapointed?

The thing was despite you being number 83, a number of people in the queue a head of you were actually pre-orders, so you really didn't get the 83rd pre-order machine, more likely 50 something.

I'm glad that there wasn't much messing in the queue and that it was orderly, it says a lot about the people there. I've lined up outside Aldi in the past for 3 hours to buy a new PC only for a riot to start when the doors opened and people actually geeting injured as they ran across the store, not nice.

portach king

I saw someone say that there were 7 non-pre-order wii's in Game this morning so.. I'd say anyone who turned up last night left happy.
Nice work Game!
Still can't believe the number system went back and worked that well.
Nice work Guys!

Emmo

That was me Potach King.

Also how are you?

Emmo

portach king

Emmo! I am great. Deelighted with my newly purchased console thought completely wii-sausted.. frig, that doesn't quite work.

Tank Top Fever!

Got mine in Dawson St this morning

they'd no Zeldas though, had to go looking for that

Fringe

Got my Wii there last night. I was 33 but later, a friend in Game told us it wasn't official. Kinda made us sad =( There were loads of people skipping the queue though.

Also I know 51. I don't think his dad was there so it's probably the wrong guy.

Nietzschean

33? hrmmm i was probally talking to you so

Ah its good they'd enough for everyone, most people towards the end of the queue all had pre-orders from what i heard, I hadda pick up zelda for one of em to make sure he got it..

portach king

Nope the number was not at all official. That was just something the crowd organised, and worked quite well near the front of the queue anyway (people making sure that number ahead of them got into the store first etc)

bk

Fringe wrote:

Got my Wii there last night. I was 33 but later, a friend in Game told us it wasn't official. Kinda made us sad =( There were loads of people skipping the queue though.

Also I know 51. I don't think his dad was there so it's probably the wrong guy.

In fairness I don't think there really was much skipping, at least not before the doors opened. It might have looked like it as some people arrived later to give moral support and pickup people who were waiting after they got it and a few people went up front to play Mario Kart DS with others or look in the window, but all went back to their spot later. A few people went up and down the line a few times to make sure there was no skipping. I think on the whole it was pretty static, fair and good natured.

It was weird, when the pizza came out there was nearly a riot to get at the pizza, which had me a little worried as to what would happen when the doors opened. But in the end, people were very quiet and orderly when the doors opened.

Emmo

portach king wrote:

Emmo! I am great. Deelighted with my newly purchased console thought completely wii-sausted.. frig, that doesn't quite work.

Im picking mine up after work, prebook from Smyths.

Im not allowed to play before crimbo though!

TankTopForever wrote:

Got mine in Dawson St this morning

they'd no Zeldas though, had to go looking for that

You must have been in after me so TTF, what time did you get in there?

Did you find one yet?

I am hoping they have one prebooked in Smyths for me.

Emmo

evad_lhorg

workin in there last night was nuts. The good thing was it went by without a hitch and not one complaint. everycustomer got a wii which was excellent! nobody had to be turned away,.

Now I go out with the rest of the lads tonight and get drunk as a skunk!

Jonakin

I got a wii now woo. Only 1 controller though =[ I got zelda and cod3. Didnt preorder either =D

Absolam

never seen so many people queue for a launch..ever! Great that everyone got a machine though...

Hugh Hefner

I was in Game, Dawson St. yesterday looking for Wii Play at around 09:40.
While in there I saw about 6 people just walk in, ask for a Wii and get a slip guaranteeing them one. In fact I saw the last one go. I was amazed at how many consoles Game must have had.


However, I thought the not selling games or accesories to anyone without a pre-order until Monday was a bit crap.