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So, you want to buy a Nintendo Wii Console game for the family for Christmas, and as typical of this time of year, you are having one blitzen of a time finding one, much less at a price that you feel is affordable. You can pour through circulars on Sunday morning, put all of your friends on alert to keep eyes and ears peeled for you, or you can do what everyone in this day and age does – hit the internet !

In a stroke of modern day hilarity, there is actually a series of websites called WiiTracker.com. I don’t know who hosts these websites, or why they would want to, but the sites are up and running for the benefit of those frantic shoppers in search of the holy grail of gaming systems: the Wii Console. The websites typically have the prefix of WiiTracker, then their personal domain name, then the dot com. If you Google Wii Tracker, you will come up with a list of several to choose from. Some are more closely monitored and more routinely updated than others, so while a site such as this does not prevent the shopper from having to compare notes, it does cut down on much of the legwork.

The premise of Nintendo Wii Tracker is that there is continuously a shortage of Wii consoles at the holiday time of the year, so these websites are set up to aid the shopper in finding a Wii locally, in stock, and at the best price possible. Most Wii Tracker sites include links to Amazon.com, Ebay.com and NintendoShopper.com. NintendoShopper.com is useful in itself, as it is a blog site where gamers post alerts on the latest gaming rumormill news, and generally help each other out with issues regarding gaming.

Nintendo Wii Tracker is really useful during the holiday season, in particular, when Nintendo is making public announcements that it has fallen short, once again, in production demands. The Wii Tracker websites contain postings of which local retail stores have a Wii Console in stock, and also where you purchase online. A word of caution: some of the sites do not include dates of last update. In one case I had to read almost the entire tirade against Nintendo posted by the website host before I could really tell if the site was referring to this Christmas season or last Christmas season.

Hopefully, with resources like Wii Tracker available, Santa will manage to make everyone on his “nice” list happy this season. Happy hunting!