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Buying Nintendo Wii in China
December 19, 2007 | Author: C P | Filed under: Shopping
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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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)
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?
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.
Have you at all seen the Vii’s since then? Wondering how those compare.
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
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
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.