December 14, 2007 - In a conference call this morning, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime revealed a plan to get Wii systems in the hands of frustrated consumers still unable to get ahold of the elusive system.
Fils-Aime revealed that the company has partnered with GameStop to distribute rain check certificates. Consumers can buy a certificate on December 20th and 21st for the full price of the Wii system, securing a system for pick-up in January.
The company partnered with GameStop because of GameStop's strength in pre-sell technology.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
This is a good thing
Consumers will start to get frustrated if they can't get their hands on a Wii soon
i'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
except it's the other way around and nintendo is getting the better deal.
it's more like i'll gladly pay you today for a wii in 3 months.
This is crap. This company is so cheap on actually updating their systems and now that they finally have a system that is selling out. They decided to be cautious for 2 years now and only develop so many Wii's a month. Pathetic cheap ass company.
this is lame. nintendo gets the full money for the console and say they sold another one, and you have to wait maybe a month to get it? rip-off.
Hear ya go timmy its a coupon for a wii
no you can't have it now
because this is a voucher
(tears)
poor timmy