Wal-Mart, not MS, PAID FOR $100 gift card with Xbox 360 Arcades

[Dark Chaos]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Dark Chaos said:

Then why did Amazon offer it as well??? Isnt the 360 up YOY?? Walmart did this on their own. I wouldnt be surprised if more stores do this on black friday

Amazon did it to match Wal-Mart and get customers in their door.  Again, with a product that had surplus units to burn.  Yeah, wal-mart did it on their own...I didn't say otherwise.

For any product that will sell through all its units anyway, we probably won't see huge discounts on that product on Black Friday.  So I agree with you that 360's will be the target of discounts.  PS3s may not be to the same degree, because I think PS3s will end up selling through all the units produced for the holiday season without the discounts.

Then how come last holidays the PS3 barely got discounts when it was doing so poorly in the holidays and yet the 360 got the most discounts??