Score a Wii This Weekend — Or Buy a Rain Check?

Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:27AM EST

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Online searches for the Wii are at an all-time high, and as Dec. 25 approaches, the search for the ultimate gaming console everyone wants under the tree keeps raging. But don't fret, your chances of finding a Wii are looking good. Nintendo's president Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, Sears, Toys R Us, and Circuit City all will have large supplies of Wii consoles in stock this weekend. That means you still have a chance of scoring a Wii before the holidays.

Kotaku says that according to Best Buy tipsters, each store will have at least 21 consoles in stock, with some carrying as many as 100. Target stores, on the other hand, will carry more than 100 (again rumored by a tipster). These figures are not confirmed, but they should give you an idea of where to look for one.

If that fails, and you still can't find a Wii at a reasonable price, then you have another option. According to the Associated Press, GameStop will start selling rain checks for the Wii system for $249 on Dec. 20 and 21, which guarantees you a console before Jan. 29. The company is doing this so that you "have something to put under the tree." Fils-Aime said there will be "tens of thousands" of these Wii rain checks available, so you don't have to worry about any shortage there. I'm not sure how badly your kid wants a Wii, but giving them a rain check for Christmas just sounds like a cruel idea. What do you think?

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  • 1 Posted by rkerszul on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:42PM EDT Report Abuse

    And if they don't deliver the Wii in January? $250 for a slip of paper is pretty expensive. They are risking nothing.

  • 2 Posted by shootsbooz on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:21PM EDT Report Abuse

    I got one today on my first try. Best Buy in Denver had 54 of them I got number 52 at 7am. I think it will be worth the 1 hour in the cold. I am pretty sure that my kids will dig it. I can tell you that Big Daddy can't wait..

  • 3 Posted by house_natasha on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:21PM EDT Report Abuse

    Forget the Wii there are other toys out there that are both educational and fun check out the I-Que. Now thats something a kid of any age would love to have.Its a robot with an IQ any grown adult would like to have.

  • 4 Posted by goldenarmz_1999 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:11PM EDT Report Abuse

    Best Buy had some on Tuesday 12/18 in the NJ area, 15 of them (despite gamestop 3) and I got mine before #4 was gone. Yea!!!

  • 5 Posted by agusman5 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:47PM EDT Report Abuse

    The Game Stop thing worked for us. I went in on December 21, 2007 to upgrade my son's DS for a new one and was told about the raincheck and that the Wii could come in between Monday, December 24, 2007 to January 29, 2007. I relunctantly paid and left. On Monday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. I got a call my Wii was in. Merry Christmas!

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