Sine i’ve had some time off from my University study, I have been playing alot more of my Nintendo Wii. What I have noticed is the severe lack of places to rent Wii games around my area (greater Belconnen, North Canberra and Civic). I am puzzled because the Wii has been the no.1 selling console in Australia and around the world since launch in November 2006.
After doing some calling and in-person visiting, here are the results.
Civic Video: No Wii games in any store, but they do have Xbox360 and PS3 games. Woman on the phone didn’t even know what a ‘Wii’ was, and sounded as if I had said an obscenity.
Video 2000: No Wii games in any store. Went in person to store in Jamison Centre.
Woman said they didnt have any Wii games because it’s not as popular as PS3 and XBOX360.
After telling her that the Wii is infact the no.1 console (and has been for some time), she didn’t belive me.
Leading Edge (Belconnen): Around the time of Wii’s launch, this store had about 6 or so games. I went back a couple of days ago and the same 6 or so games were sitting there on the shelf. Meanwhile, new PS3 and 360 games were plentiful. Weird considering there are many, many more Wii games available than PS3 games.
Video Ezy: The store in belconnen is the only place to go.
They have plenty of Wii games, and regularly release higher profile games as soon as they are on sale in stores. Other Video ezy’s in did not have Wii games.
Blockbuster: Belconnen store had no Wii games, Dickson store had a grand total of 8 Wii games.
If you want more places to stock Wii games for rental, just visit the stores that have none and maybe if enough people keep asking for Wii games (or more Wii games) they might finally listen!
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