Wii hits UK ...

[leng]

and sells out in minutes.

Now available on ebay at ?300 (?179 list) or amazon new&used at ?474.

I think they do it deliberately for the headlines.

Or maybe the executive perk is a crate of Wiis to ebay before the supply chain fills.

[noptov52]

Perhaps, but I know in the US at least, the Wii has arrived in far greater quantities then the PS3 (which has sold so few units I am close to dismissing its existence as a bad rumour).

[Draknor]

From the title, I half expected another story about how someone lost control of a Wii controller again.