Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime wants you to get a Wii. And while he can't guarantee you'll have one under your tree some Christmas, he has a plan to get you one soon. Maybe.
In a conference call this morning, Reggie told IGN that retailers will be getting large stock of Wiis this Sunday morning. And if you can't get one of those, you can get a raincheck.
This means that people who need Wiis ccan go to GameStop on Dec. 20 or 21, pay for the system and pick it up in January. Reggie says "many tens of thousands" will be available.
Based on these recent revelations, Man Zero has come up with two sure-fire ways to score a last-minute Wii.
Method One: The Campout:
1. Go to your favorite big-box retailer (Best Buy and Toys R Us are good bets) and talk to the manager in the video game department. Make sure they expect a shipment of Wiis on Sunday. If so, ask what time the manager recommends showing up to get in line. If not, go to another store.
2. Once you have found a store where the odds are good, get some cold-weather gear to keep warm. Heavy coats, hats, gloves and long underwear are a must, and I recommend some of those hand and foot warmers, too.
3. Find a camping buddy. You'll need somebody to hold your spot in line if you need to take a bathroom break or make a hot chocolate run.
4. Regardless of what the manager told you, get to the store at midnight Saturday night. It's best to come early and guarantee a Wii.
5. Do your best to entertain yourself, and try to enjoy meeting fellow Wii warriors as you freeze for eight hours. Make sure the people around you know who you are, and they'll look out for you at voucher time.
6. Get a voucher when the store begins handing them out.
7. Purchase Wii. Go home. Get warm. Sleep.
Total time in the cold: 8 hours, but you come home with Wii in hand.
Method Two: The Raincheck:
1. Go to a GameStop or EB Games store on Thursday, Dec. 20 at 7 a.m. You could go earlier if you were super hardcore, but the super hardcore should just go with Method One anyway.
2. Put on a normal amount of cold-weather gear. You live in Michigan, so gathering this stuff shouldn't be a problem.
3. Wait in line until the store opens. You won't be the first person in line, but you should be fine
4. Pay $249.99 for a Wii raincheck. Put it a big box, wrap it and give it to your kid.
5. Sometime in mid-January, head back to GameStop and pick up your Wii.
Total time in the cold: 2 hours, but you have to wait a few weeks to get your Wii.
While these methods likely are your two best bets, there are a handful of other ways people are trying to score Wiis.
A coworker signed up for text alerts on a site called Wii Alerts. He swears up and down that he'll score a coveted Wii from Amazon, but I have a feeling he'll come up disappointed.
Many online Wii trackers were built last year and no longer work.
Man Zero reader whatsu posted this ingenious way he scored a Wii:
You will never believe how easy it was for me to get a Wii. Walmart advertised it in their ad.... it did not say it was excluded from rainchecks, so I asked for one. Next time the shipment came in they called me. All I had to do was go pay and pick it up. It was too easy and wonder why no one else has ever thought of it. No waiting in lines, no wondering if I will get one for my kids.
Have a Merry Christmas and I pray for the Customer Service Desk Employees when everyone reads this!
But unless you have a particularly benevolent or gullible Wal-Mart employee, they'll probably tell you rainchecks aren't available for Wii consoles. Still, it couldn't hurt to try.
If you have any Wii-finding tips — or if you want to organize a midnight campout — post your comments below.
) so its good to have the warranty 
I'm a bit careless as I have 3 wii of them, one for me one for my roommate and one for anyone else that comes over. Most of my friends have Wii's too so they just bring over thiers Sync them up and we start playing.
