Amazon UK opened up preorders for the Nintendo Wii this morning, allowing gamers across the United Kingdom to secure one of the hottest new gaming systems around for the holidays.

For a whole 2 minutes!

While preorders were supposed to go live at 9AM GMT, a kotakuite named Juho (which is amazingly fun to say) reports that they didn't start up until 9:35, after spending the better part of a half hour endlessly refreshing the page. Then at 9:37 the preorders were all gone, having only lasted 2 minutes. It's okay Amazon UK. We understand it was your first time and you were nervous. It happens to all major online retailers.

Looking back over the past few weeks, we could have saved a lot of time by creating story templates. 'Blank' sold out of 'blank' preorders in 'blank'. It would be like Kotaku Mad Libs! Michael Fahey

Amazon.co.uk Wii Page [Thanks Juho]

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