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Wii shortage disaster looms

If you’re after a Wii this Chrimbo you could find yourself in a Cabbage Patch style frenzy with frazzled parents eager to snare the last stocks

If you’re after a Wii this Chrimbo you could find yourself in a Cabbage Patch style frenzy with frazzled parents eager to snare the last stocks ’til New Year.Nintendo’s predicting a world wide shortage of the consoles in the run up to the Festive Season, despite promises to crank up production.A quick snoop around the usual online suspects found Argos, Play.com, Game and Amazon all sold out and awaiting stock. As we write, online checkers wii-consoles.co.uk are reporting that stock fresh in at Amazon this morning and GameStation last night have all already gone.Our moles tell us that there are plenty to be had on the continent, though Amazon.fr wouldn’t ship to Stuff Towers here in the UK. Perhaps you could pick one up on your pre-Christmas booze cruise. Beats a bottle of novelty liqueur anyway.Essentials Nintendo Wii Price: £180 On sale: Now Contact: Nintendo Related stories: Gadget of the Day: Wii Shaft Discuss: Nintendo kills the NES Wii Sports hits home run at games BAFTAs

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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