Yeah, you worked in corprate doing what? Taking phone calls for guest relations? Just because someone works in corporate doesn't mean they know everything that's going on. Even high level corprate figures don't have a hand in everything... hard to believe I know...

While this has been true in the various retailers near me for the most part of the gen... its more of an awesome pat on the back for MS and the 360 than anything else.

360 is one console and shares the same amount of space as Nintendo gets for 2 or currently, 4 consoles. Which is twice that of Sony and its 2 consoles.

Additionally you have to see the actual placement of each console area. At the beginning of the gen, Sony had the prime location right off the main walkway, with MS next and then Nintendo in the rear. By 2008, that had completely reversed with it being Nintendo, then MS, then Sony. Then by 2010, it changed again to be MS, then Nintendo, then Sony.

Sony is d0med, confirmed?

You're honestly talking about 36 - 4' long (x 8' tall) sections of glassed in shelving?  So, 144 linear feet of retail space:

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I've never seen that in a big box retailer.  Even the largest showcase gaming area at this particular retailer isn't that large, and I don't even think that exists anymore.  Never have I seen that much linear footage in gaming except at GameStop or Play-n-Trade.

One of the people I used to work with now appears to be working at the retail side of things, he may be involved in scoping out the competition, I'll have to ask him where his employer stands in terms of shelf space.  However, from what I've seen locally, they are on par with the competition.

btw...you aren't referring to 4' wide x 4' tall shelving units are you?  That'd still be a lot of retail space and more than I've ever seen that I recall.

I don't know exactly how tall they are but most of them are eye level to me so probably around 6 feet (the stores I've seen got rid of the sliding glass doors which were probably 8 feet and replaced them with each shelf having it's own glass door).

Anyway, each section in the aisles at Target are 4 feet wide. In every Target I've been in the last year the set up is the same. One aisle for PS products that have 6 sections (that was aisle F14 at my old store. However, the new one has the books on the opposite side of the games which push it back a few aisles... so maybe F16 - F18). On the front end cap of this aisle are accessories for cameras being that F13 has the camera displays. The back end cap (which is also 4 feet but case takes a lot of that space away) is the PS3 kiosk with the PS3 case under it.

F15 is a 4 sided shelving unit (These might be 3 feet I'm not sure. Never set these). The front is for all new 360/ps3 releases so right now it has Halo and BLOPS. The back is for 360 games. One side has the PS Vita kiosk and its case under it. The other side is ps360 accessories... Then F16 is in the same aisle the 4 sided F15 is in but has a gap between them (obviously). It only has 4 sections because of the 4 side. These are where the 360 games are. The front end cap is of a display and is where the walkthroughs are held. The back end cap is of the 360 kiosk and 360 case. Then F17 is back to back with F16 so it only has 4 sections also. This is where most of the Wii games are held. F18 is another 4 side. The front is the Wii/3ds new releases. One side is all the Ps360 PSN/gold subscription cards. The back side is of all the 3ds accessories. And the other side is of the 3ds/ds games. F19 is in the same aisle as the 4 side so it is also only 4 sections long. The first 2 sections are for the skylanders games. The other 2 are more wii games. Front end cap is 3ds kiosk with it's case and the back end cap is Wii kiosk and case. F20 is back to back with F19 and is 4 sections of 3ds/ds games. F21 is again a full aisle so has 6 sections. First section are budget games for Wii/DS. Second for the 360 and 3rd for the Ps3. The other 3 sections are the computer software. The endcaps are for printers I think since the next aisle are printers... or external hard drives maybe

Not in Spain, I bought a Vaio in a Sony Store in 2006. That store closed in 2010.

That's just Iceland tho. :P

IT, systems administrator.  I've worked on mainframe, Unix, and Windows systems.  The servers that the retail units utilized for their daily information, were my responsibility.  I worked directly with the developers in planning and testing systems, as well as support to ensure their operation.  Despite what you think, information was actually fairly easily shared down the pipe.  Often in team meetings. 

That's beside the point.  Information of this type rarely has value to anyone outside of the vendor.  A competitor isn't going to increase retail space for a product that isn't selling or doesn't sell as well as another.  Have you ever looked at the shelves of a Wal-Mart?  They're only lined with name-brand products that turn-over quickly or Wal-Marts house brand.  So I sincerely doubt Wal-Mart is going to double its 8' of glass showcase for Sony products because a competitor is reducing theirs by 4'.  If they do they're only going to shoot themselves in the foot.

I'm not going to divulge how I get my information or particularly from whom.  Unless you work for them, it wouldn't matter, but don't attempt to discount who I know or what information I have access to.  As I said before, no retailer here has the amount of linear footage dedicated to games, except Play-n-Trade and GameStop.  If in your market it is 144 linear feet, that is a huge amount and is quite amazing. 

I honestly have never seen that much retail space dedicated to gaming in a big-box retailer.  Most of the stores I'm referring to are 2 acres or less in area, including the retailer themselves and their competition.  How they're dedicating that much linear footage to gaming is beyond me.  Though you did indicate some of those stores are 2 floors. 

You seem to want to argue what I know.  You can doubt it all you want, but I know what I know.  The retailer isn't important.  Who within the company I talked to, isn't important, as there would be several sources for this information if I chose to ask depending on where within the company I wanted to ask.  If I can find out when Wii U shipments will be hitting the stores, I can certainly find out where in the fucking stores they're going to putting them.

If its like the stores around here they will have a lot of ps2/psp space to cut.

OP, where do you live? Which retailer exactly is doing this?

I went to a local Target recently and noticed that the Vita section is really small. It's understandable.
But the PS3 section is just as big as the 360 and Wii sections. Why would a retailer take it out on the PS3? It's selling well pretty much everywhere.