Are you in the market for a "Summer Fun" Wii bundle to get your Independence Day started right? Oh, yeah? Fantastic, 'cause GameStop has just the packages for you. For the low, low price of $249.99, the aforementioned bundle consists of a Nintendo
Wii console, a water gun and... wait, what? Amazingly enough, GameStop has seen fit to bundle a $0.25 water gun with a Wii and call it a bundle; heck, it's even limiting them to two per household. If that's not strange enough for you, there's also the Pirate Tattoo bundle and Take a Bath with a Buddy (a rubber ducky, just so we're clear) bundle. Talk about really taking advantage of that whole "freedom" thing.
Read - Summer Fun bundle
Read - Pirate Tattoo bundle
Read - Take a Bath with a Buddy bundle
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Joystiq]
posted July 4th 2009 10:01AM
HEHEHEHEHE :D
awesome?
Yes, Awesome.
Yes. Pirate tatoos are awesome, Jacob.
This solidifies that the Wii is indeed aimed at children.
I'd take that watergun and spray the Wii's power converter with it.
hahaha...the same post over on Joystiq was lowest ranked; on Engadget, it gets a high rank. Hmmm...
Gamestop didn't make the console... Nintendo didn't create the bundle.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to trade in my PS3 for that rubber duck bundle. It's just the combination I've been waiting for!
All the Wii's including the un-bundle are 2 per household.
Perhaps this should have been filed under Crapgadget.
This just proves that the execs at Gamestop are smoking something.
WTF... Sometimes CEOs have to say no. Even if a business suggestion this bad comes from a family member.
This seems like a good idea. When you find that Wii games are absolutely no fun at all you can play with your water pistol, which would be considerably more fun. That way you won't feel completely ripped off.
I actually had a similar experience when I got a Wii and after playing on it for a while my brother and I started kicking a mini football to each other. My brother commented "this is a lot more fun than the Wii" and I also noticed I was having a lot more fun than playing on the Wii. The Wii really does encourage you to become more active - I'd do anything to get away from the bloody thing.
Aw man!!! And my girlfriend JUST bought me a Wii for my birthday last month!!
Lies.
Anyone that plays with a Wii has no girlfriend. You mean your Mom, right?
We've all seen the Wii fit video. Clearly only people with hot girlfriends have Wiis
lol.... they should try bundling vibrators with wii's that'll keep the girl friends happy!
lol.... they try bundling vibrators with wii's to keep the girl friends happy!
FK typos...
it should read...
they should try bundling vibrators with wii's to keep the girl friends happy!
What the hey, for $250 you you just buy 1000 waters pistols!
I think that's a better deal anyway.
Wow, someone was high when they thought of these ideas.
So when the first (inevitable) idiot, uses the water gun on the TV, thinking its a new wireless, hydrogen powered eco-controller, and destroys the TV; how many lawsuits will there be?
Basically "chutia bana rahe hain bundle ke naam pe"
Meh to these bundles...
1.) If they are making an appeal to Independence day, why not bundle it with the Xbox, the only American designed console
2.) They promote it with cheap goods that probably come from Oriental Trading Co. from China. Why not throw in some American flags may in oh, you know America!
well for $250 u could buy a couple super soakers and have a lot more fin then u would playing wii.
Yes, because your "summer fun" should be centered around sitting inside playing video games...
*sigh*
WTF, this proves wii is a joke and not aimed at adult males! also it proves gamestop came up with one of the worst marketing ideas of all time. A company called moosejaw online sent me a coupon for free chinese food if you spend a certain amount in celebration of chinese new year. that weird promotion comes in second as weirdest stupidest idea ever. The only way i could see these ideas working is if their thinking is that the promotion is so weird sites will cover it and thats publicity. So maybe in actuality they are geniuses?
Take a Bath with a Buddy, eh? That doesn't sound creepy at all....
Your girlfriend and I don't find the idea creepy either. By the way, it just LOOKS like a rubber ducky.
wow... america, F*** yeah!
Um, shouldn't this be a Crapgadget article?
no u
oh balls, there it goes replying to the wrong thing again.
For those of you bashing the Wii, saying that it's not fun, and this promotion proves that Wii is aimed at children, you're idiots! First of all, it's likely you haven't played any games on a Wii, because if you had, then you would know that it is actually fun to play, and there ate a lot of great games on the Wii. Second, this promotion isn't sething Nintendio put together, and has nothing to do with who the system is aimed at. Quit being a bunch of lifeless trolls, and grow the f$c@ up!
lol.... try bundling vibrators with wii's that'll keep the girl friends happy!
Generally when you make a joke 4 times you try to make a funny joke. Just a suggestion.
thank you zorque. i have never laughed harder on engadget.
fk im sorry if i make typos.
take a chill pill and rage less please
typos are the worst, I haee them.
fk, let's try that again...
typos aee the worst, I hate them.
oh noes not again, whatever will I do?! I know I'll type it again.
typos are the worst, I hate them.
Ate= are
sething=something
Correction of words in my post.
Further corrections:
"Nintendio" = "Nintendo"
"f$c@" = "fsca"..(psst, this isn't really a word, buddy)
"you're idiots" = "I don't know how to handle differing opinions from my own"
With spelling mistakes like that, you must be a kid yourself, thus rendering you previous statement null and destroying any credibility you once had on this prominent and culturally rich message board.
This has got to be a joke... What jackball executive would even consider such a trashy idea. I am in shock... Wow... um... WOW!
They're missing the boat. If they target the adult industry with their motion devices, can you imagine the apps that can be used that are interactive when you're "participating". Only problem will be that the chicks wont come out at night anymore.