PS3 to drop to $299.99 this Saturday. Sort of...

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SamuelRSmith said:

dougsdad0629 said:

tombi123 said:
We don't track Wal-Mart, so it will make no difference to our numbers.

 

 That never made any sense to me.  How can you even hope to be accurate when you don't include the nation's biggest retailer?

 

 It's not that VGC doesn't want to track Walmart, Walmart just doesn't release their numbers.... to anyone.

 

   Actually Walmart releases highly detailed numbers broken down in tons of ways and very easily searchable.  Of course, they only release those numbers to vendors (I worked for a vendor that made cheap chinese crap for Walmart to my everlasting shame) but those numbers do exist both externally and internally within Walmart's vendor system.

   That lack of Walmart helps explain how a spike in sales didn't show up the last time they did this.