Extensive queues adorned the masses of electronic retail outlets in Japan today, as the highly anticipated Nintendo Wii launched to a captive audience of exhilarated games fans.
In excess of 3,000 intrepidly brave customers adorned electronics store Bic Camera in spite of the bitterly brisk weather to be one of the first in the country to own Nintendo’s revolutionary home console.
Concerned staff began turning away overwrought customers at the inordinate time of 5.40am, which was more than an hour before the hallowed store doors were set to open due to the fervour of demand.
To dissuade any riotous behaviour from the ecstatic, and highly charged customers, the store deployed shop attendants with megaphones to urge enthusiastic shoppers to stop the inevitable pushing and shoving that was occurring.
A spokes person for the electronics store Naoko Ito stated that the Wii was indefinitely sold out “for the foreseeable future”, something many had predicted due to the phenomenal success of the company’s intuitive hand-held; the Nintendo Ds.
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