Portable Planet

If the North America Wii launch is any indication, it should be a wild time trying to pick up a console when it hits the UK on December 8th.

Those wishing to have the best chance might consider checking out the Midnight launch from GAME. Standing in line playing DS games for a few hours with a bunch of fellow devoteesisn’t so bad at all, really. You can always call in sick afterwards and get an early start on the weekend.

Details from the retailer follow.

GAME Stores Group Ltd, Europe’s leading video games retailer, have confirmed that they will be opening their flagship Oxford Street store at midnight on Thursday 7th December 2006 to sell the very first units of the highly anticipated Nintendo Wii, the incredible new console that could well rewrite the videogame rulebook.

Nintendo and GAME are expecting hundreds of customers who have pre-ordered their Nintendo Wii’s to queue up to collect them on the stroke of midnight, so keen are they to start experiencing this unique way of playing games.

The launch extravaganza will include music, crowd entertainment, competitions, pizza delivery and demonstration Wii pods to play on. The grand finale will be a countdown to midnight when the first Nintendo Wii will be purchased by the lucky gamer at the front of the queue.

Anna Macario, GAME’s Marketing Director stated, “We are anticipating huge crowds of customers will come to our Oxford Street store to get their hands on their Nintendo Wii at the first possible moment. The console has been hotly anticipated by thousands of customers who have reserved this console for weeks in advance and we are working flat out to make sure customers get the products they want first.”