Index:
Part 1 - Toys R Us, Prelaunch until Midnight; Interviewing two line-goers, Meeting with Gamespot, Catching the first console sold, Listening in on Reggie and Isiah "Triforce" Johnson's answers
Part 2 - After launch, Toys R Us, Nintendo world Store; taking a look at merchandise and the scene outside, walking to Nintendo World Store, and Interviewing multiple people including the guy who started the light-affects-sensor-bar rumor, Greg Nugent (Mario) and Adam (Luigi)
Part 3 - Sunday, 11-19-06, 6AM in the Morning - the Nintendo World Store does NOT know how to run a launch for pre-orders (video to come soon)
Here's Part 1 of Trigames.NET's Nintendo Wii Launch Coverage from the NYC Toys R Us in Times Square. We get INTO the store at the 8:45 mark in the video, witness the first console being sold just before the 10:00 mark and run into Gamespotters at the 12:40 mark. (A few minutes later I chat with Ryan Mac Donald, which you may have heard on Gamespot's live streaming coverage.) Immediately after we catch interviews between the media and Reginald Fils-Aime and Isiah "Triforce" Johnson (customer number one).
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Part 2 below - and it consists of us milling about the store afterwards checking out the merchandise, hitting up the Nintendo World Store to check out the lines, and the Trigames.NET podcast crew acting silly as normal.
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Part 3 will come soon; you'll watch as AnTiPoDe and myself get up at crap-o-clock in the morning to pick up our preorders at that same Nintendo World Store. The line was hideous, the logistics of the NWS launch were horrible, and we ended up waiting for hours to get a console that we PREORDERED. And finally, I still hate that stupid name.
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