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Buying Nintendo Wii in China
I just got a Wii a few days ago. It was in Zhuhai, but you will find it in all Chinese cities. I bought the Japanese version modchipped with the new D2C chip together with two games for 2100 RMB (approx. $285 USD), and later got an extra controller and nunchuck for an additional 390 RMB ($53 USD).
The major advantage with buying a Wii in China is, after you buy the chipped console, future games will more or less be free. Pirated games go for only 4 or 5 RMB (around $0.6-0.7 USD) each. The bad part about buying a Japanese Wii is that the menus are in Japanese, but it’s not hard to figure out what’s what after some testing. There is a Japanese – English translation (PDF) you can look at if you’re really stuck.
I originally bought it because I felt that my daily tasks were getting repetitive and that I would need to do some thinking that only some well designed video game puzzles would give me. Unfortunately, I still suck ever as much at playing games so I’m still glued to the computer, checking for full step-by-step walkthroughs to play my games. Sigh…
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about 4 years ago
Hello Carl!
Where in Zhuhai did you buy your Wii? I live in Zhuhai too and saw some at the Gongbei underground shopping area but I was a little bit afraid to buy one there.
Regards,
Robert
(Another crazy laowai in China)
about 4 years ago
where did you buy your Wii? China or Japan? I am from the United States and have a friend going over to visit Hong Kong. He asked me about buying a Wii while he is there, to bring back to the U.S. Would games here in the U.S. work in a machine bought in Hong Kong?
about 4 years ago
Robert – I bought it at the “computer city” here in Xiangzhou. I’ve always thought the sellers in Gongbei were a bit shady. I could give you the address if you still need it.
Chad – Since this post was titled “Buying Nintendo Wii in China”, it most likely was China I bought it in. As the consoles on Hong-Kong are chipped, I think all games will work.
about 3 years ago
Have you at all seen the Vii’s since then? Wondering how those compare.
about 3 years ago
You all know if you can switch the language on the Japanese system to Chinese? I hear it doesn’t have EngRish but I’ll do some Chinese.
gracias
about 3 years ago
Hi I’m in China for 5 more days and I’m ooking for Nintendo Wii I’m i Yuwi Is there anyone who can tell me where I can buy it from or I have to look around some more
about 2 years ago
i bougth a wii console in china too, with 40 pirates games, everything was ok, language are in japanese, but the bad thing is some games (originals or pirates) can`t be read it like rock band, i think because of the zone, i bougth this game in US and doesn`t work, also news are from china. so i recomended buy it in USA, and find the pirate chip there.