Call your local major retailers and go there before opening when they get in new shipments
Avoid specialty game places like Gamestop when looking because there's a litany of stories of people who have either reserved a Wii or contacted the store and was told there were Wii's and when they got there, no Wii's.
They're everywhere in New Mexico. I stopped at 3 walmarts on my move out of NM and every one of those I stopped at had a Wii. Granted these were all small town walmarts.
Maybe that's what you need to do, make a road trip to a small town walmart to get a Wii.
I have yet to see a Wii "in the wild" at any store, nor have any friends of mine (in several states). I'd love to be able to pick up a few as gifts this holiday season (something I intended to do last Christmas), but I'm starting to wonder if they'll even be available this year.
It sounds like there are numbers of them in specific places, but between online vendors being constantly sold-out and local shops never having them in stock, I have no clue where these places are.
Never seen a Wii in any store. Got mine at launch and glad I did. Every time I see a "NINTENDO WII IN STOCK" ad they had allready sold out hours before I got there.
More and more people are saying Wiis are available where they live, but there's still lots of people who've never seen a Wii on a store shelf. This is all anecdotal evidence, so there's no way to really know how available Wiis are on average. I still haven't seena Wii for sale.
Well in my area they are still hard to come by and I just recently got mine last Friday from a small mom and pop game store. Around here Walmart and Gamestop only receive MAYBE 4 consoles a month.
Were i live they are not sold out anymore they are still selling but not as fast. Most stores get the shippement in on Sundays so just call right when the open and see if they have any.
When I've looked for Wiis just for the hell of it at Target and Walmart they both had multiple 360s AND PS3s, but not even 1 Wii. I've never seen one in a store...but I also haven't been trying to find one...
ive only seen one wii just sitting there waiting to be sold. it was in a walmart and i swear, i walked into the next aisle, came back, and a woman had bought it in a span of three minutes
To be honest, Nintendo just ain't distributing right. There are corners of the world, where there are plenty of Wiis on store shelves such as here in Finland. Of course it's a small country and the few Wiis here wouldn't satisfy demand overseas even if distributed there as (not the exactsame units dumb*ss, NTSC-versions of course).
It's playing catch up. To be honest they are close to selling the same number of consoles as the 360, in half the time. That is impressive.
I called Best Buy Sunday in my area, they had 4 in. Called Wednesday to double check b4 I went to buy, they were all gone. But decided to call our Walmart, and Bam, they got 4 in that day. If you have the funds just call your local stores each day till ya succeed. :P
They switch up what region is going to get the lion's share of shipments every few months. Right now the US is getting a ton but they are also stockpiling units and stores are doing so as well for the holidays.
Europe got more then usual numbers of wiis for the launch of Strikers will the US got lots of units for Metroid Prime 3. When certain releases hit Japan units will be diverted there but since Japan is right next to the factories it takes far less time for that.
Nintendo is supplying the entire world with a console that is either selling out in most areas or selling extremely well.
Microsoft and Sony would love to have the problems Nintendo is having right now.
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