Welcome to UncleBob's Wal*Mart and Wii thread!
As some of you know, I have the misfortune of working at Wal*Mart. I know many of you have a love-hate relationship with Wal*Mart, but, hey, be kind to us Wal*Mart workers. You may have to deal with the occasional sales clerk who knows nothing about video games, but we have to deal with stupid people all the time (Question I was asked today "Does XBox Live play Nintendo games?").
Anywhoo, keep in mind that all the infomation I'm about to post doesn't necessarly apply to every store - each store will have their own plans and policies regarding Wii stuff.
Okay, according to paperwork I've been looking over, my store is getting 20 units in for the launch (For reference, we got 4 $400 360's and 2 $300 360's). However, these systems are not showing up in the system as being on order, so this could change. Now, you can call your Wal*Mart to see how many they are getting in, but be warned - most employees won't know what you're talking about. If, per chance, they do, they probably won't know how many the store is getting (I know because I did the right amount of digging). If they do know how many they're getting, they probably won't tell you since, typically, we're not supposed to give out inventory information.
As far as games and accessories go, the only things I can find in the system at this time is the Nunchuck ($20), Classic Controller ($20) and Controller ($40). I have not found quantites for these items yet.
What's odd is that I cannot seem to find much PS3 info. I have what is supposed to be the item numbers for both the 20 and 60 Gig PS3, but when I punch the the item number for the 20 Gig in, the 60 Gig comes up... and looking by supplier, the 60 Gig is all it shows.
Today, launch guides dropped on our internal network ("The Wire") for both Wii and PS3. It's interesting, these guides reveal both a "Wii Buyer's Guide" and a PS3 "Ultimate Launch Guide". We're supposed to get the Wii guides by the 6th - when they should be set out for anyone to pick up. Each store is supposed to get 250 of these guides. Now, on the 17th, we're supposed to pull and throw away Wii guides and replace them with the PS3 guides (which we're also supposed to get 250 of). Strange.
From the Playbook:
You must not sell before 12:01 AM on 11/19/06
You will have crowds waiting, and you will NOT have enough products for everyone.
Our goal is to sell 3 additional items for every hardware piece.
Software and Accessories are not street dated, you can put those out upon receipt.
Now, although the Playbook says that everything but the system can be sold before the 19th, do not count on your store selling this stuff early. Many Department Managers won't see the sense in taking up already limited floor space for products that people "can't use". Do not try to argue with a Wal*Mart employee that they can sell the stuff early - if they say they can't, then they can't.
A picture that comes with the guide seems to show that Wii Sports will be coming in a cardboard sleeve.
Wal*Mart EveryDay Low Price: $249.24
The guide also says when product should arrive in stores. I'm not going to post that, since y'all don't need to know but to anyone who thinks their Wal*Mart will be hoarding pallets of Wiis in their backroom for a month before launch, No. The arrival date is measured in days before the launch.
And, slightly related, because I know y'all will love this:
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From: Sony PS 3 Playbook
What if the Blu-ray format doesn't take off in Hollywood?
Blu-Ray has already been adopted by seven of the top studies in Hollywood, not to mention more than 208 companies developing games for the PS3. The launch of the PS3 will efectively place more than 2 million Blu-ray players in the hands of consumers, with that number increasing to 6 million by the end of March 2007. An installed base such as that is something no entertainment company could logically ignore.
So... what's the installed base for UMD?
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