Wii / PS3 rumors: Preorders and Kiosks
Posted by inpheaux on September 28th, 2006 at 8:42 pmWelcome to Rumor Land!
Today's set: Wii and PS3 preorders and kiosks.
A Gamestop employee on the Something Awful Forums mentioned that today he read in an internal e-mail that Gamestop and EB locations in the US will start accepting preorders for the Nintendo Wii on October 9th. Put down $50 and you'll be put in line for when they come in on 19 NOV 2006. No info yet on when PS3 preorders will start, but it would make sense to have them start at roughly the same time. Similar plans for Best Buy were leaked over at NeoGAF, with the pertinent dates there being October 20th for PS3 preorders and October 29th for the Wii.
The same leaked powerpoint slides from NeoGAF indicate that on October 20th and 29th there will also be demo kiosks for the PS3 and Wii, respectively. The last time I entertained a rumor from NeoGAF it was the dubious and now debunked (since it didn't happen) "trade-in only" Wii/PS3 preorder rumor from a couple weeks ago, so I'm concerned about even putting this out there. But at least it seems logical, unlike the last rumor from over there.
If preorders are really going to start soon, we should get confirmation relatively soon. If not this week, then next week.
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