Purchasing Wii off base could backfire

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A small mountain of Nintendo Wii video game consoles dominates the video game aisles at the Saturn electronics store in Darmstadt, Germany. Similar piles of Wii consoles, which are nearly impossible to find in the United States or at military exchange stores, have been sighted across Germany.


Purchasing Wii off base could backfire
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, December 9, 2007

Nintendo’s Wii is nearly impossible to find at Army and Air Force Exchange Service and Navy Exchange stores, yet one can hardly navigate an off-base electronics store in Germany without crashing into a pile of them.

With Christmas drawing near, it’s tempting to run out and plop down a little extra cash and a value added tax form at an off-base shop to keep from disappointing the kids.

But there’s something you should know about the European Wii: It might not play well with your American television.

And, if that’s not enough bad news, it also isn’t compatible with Wii games from the States. How can this be?

Well, Nintendo claims a number of reasons.


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