GameStop hits the sauce for the 4th, offers up bizarre Wii bundles

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

[Via Joystiq]

[Joseph @ Jul 4th 2009 10:08AM]

HEHEHEHEHE :D

[jacobsonab @ Jul 4th 2009 10:09AM]

awesome?

[Dull @ Jul 5th 2009 11:02PM]

Yes, Awesome.

[AMiSH PiRATE @ Jul 4th 2009 4:10PM]

Yes. Pirate tatoos are awesome, Jacob.

[bighap @ Jul 4th 2009 10:09AM]

This solidifies that the Wii is indeed aimed at children.

[Quantumphysics @ Jul 4th 2009 10:15AM]

I'd take that watergun and spray the Wii's power converter with it.

[kevin @ Jul 4th 2009 12:08PM]

hahaha...the same post over on Joystiq was lowest ranked; on Engadget, it gets a high rank. Hmmm...

[N30 G30 @ Jul 5th 2009 4:25PM]

Gamestop didn't make the console... Nintendo didn't create the bundle.

[grillface @ Jul 4th 2009 10:09AM]

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!

[Cris T @ Jul 4th 2009 10:15AM]

All the Wii's including the un-bundle are 2 per household.

[daelin1782 @ Jul 4th 2009 10:23AM]

Perhaps this should have been filed under Crapgadget.

[ReaperRob @ Jul 4th 2009 10:28AM]

This just proves that the execs at Gamestop are smoking something.

[thequinox @ Jul 4th 2009 10:28AM]

WTF... Sometimes CEOs have to say no. Even if a business suggestion this bad comes from a family member.

[Richard @ Jul 4th 2009 10:33AM]

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.

[Aelsehamy @ Jul 4th 2009 10:39AM]

Aw man!!! And my girlfriend JUST bought me a Wii for my birthday last month!!

[Agent .25i @ Jul 4th 2009 10:58AM]

Lies.
Anyone that plays with a Wii has no girlfriend. You mean your Mom, right?

[Josh @ Jul 4th 2009 11:09AM]

We've all seen the Wii fit video. Clearly only people with hot girlfriends have Wiis

[lol @ Jul 4th 2009 1:21PM]

lol.... they should try bundling vibrators with wii's that'll keep the girl friends happy!

[lol @ Jul 4th 2009 1:22PM]

lol.... they try bundling vibrators with wii's to keep the girl friends happy!

[lol @ Jul 4th 2009 1:24PM]

FK typos...
it should read...

they should try bundling vibrators with wii's to keep the girl friends happy!

[Chris @ Jul 4th 2009 10:45AM]

What the hey, for $250 you you just buy 1000 waters pistols!
I think that's a better deal anyway.

[JerseyBricklayer @ Jul 4th 2009 10:52AM]

Wow, someone was high when they thought of these ideas.

[Agent .25i @ Jul 4th 2009 11:02AM]

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?

[Nitin Mehra @ Jul 4th 2009 11:24AM]

Basically "chutia bana rahe hain bundle ke naam pe"

[Boomerchute @ Jul 4th 2009 11:31AM]

Meh to these bundles...

[Takahashi @ Jul 4th 2009 11:44AM]

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!

[dan! @ Jul 4th 2009 11:46AM]

well for $250 u could buy a couple super soakers and have a lot more fin then u would playing wii.

[kevin @ Jul 4th 2009 12:09PM]

Yes, because your "summer fun" should be centered around sitting inside playing video games...

*sigh*

[johnny @ Jul 4th 2009 12:21PM]

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?

[bartoron @ Jul 4th 2009 12:25PM]

Take a Bath with a Buddy, eh? That doesn't sound creepy at all....

[Phrank @ Jul 4th 2009 1:13PM]

Your girlfriend and I don't find the idea creepy either. By the way, it just LOOKS like a rubber ducky.

[acniehaus04 @ Jul 4th 2009 12:46PM]

wow... america, F*** yeah!

[CH3BURASHKA @ Jul 4th 2009 1:09PM]

Um, shouldn't this be a Crapgadget article?

[Firebird @ Jul 4th 2009 1:43PM]

no u

[Firebird @ Jul 4th 2009 1:43PM]

oh balls, there it goes replying to the wrong thing again.

[Haters are idiots! @ Jul 4th 2009 1:17PM]

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 @ Jul 4th 2009 1:19PM]

lol.... try bundling vibrators with wii's that'll keep the girl friends happy!

[Zorque @ Jul 4th 2009 2:10PM]

Generally when you make a joke 4 times you try to make a funny joke. Just a suggestion.

[pierredpark @ Jul 4th 2009 4:59PM]

thank you zorque. i have never laughed harder on engadget.

[lol @ Jul 5th 2009 12:30AM]

fk im sorry if i make typos.
take a chill pill and rage less please

[Greg @ Jul 6th 2009 12:05PM]

typos are the worst, I haee them.

[Greg @ Jul 6th 2009 12:06PM]

fk, let's try that again...
typos aee the worst, I hate them.

[Greg @ Jul 6th 2009 12:07PM]

oh noes not again, whatever will I do?! I know I'll type it again.
typos are the worst, I hate them.

[Haters are idiots! @ Jul 4th 2009 1:21PM]

Ate= are
sething=something

Correction of words in my post.

[Phrank @ Jul 4th 2009 1:25PM]

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"

[Greg @ Jul 6th 2009 12:13PM]

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.

[kobioshi @ Jul 4th 2009 3:18PM]

This has got to be a joke... What jackball executive would even consider such a trashy idea. I am in shock... Wow... um... WOW!

[Owen Uridge @ Jul 18th 2009 6:52PM]

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.