| Bodhesatva said: Ah ha ha ha! What an absurd post. Why would Wal Mart lose money here? Because, according to you, "Wal mart can afford it." Yes, that's how big business works! They're willing to lose millions of dollars to help out other companies, just cause they have tons of money and don't know what else to do with it. Next up: Google will provide their services for free to assist the Wii. Nvidia will provide the Xbox720 with its GPU for free next time. NVidia is incredibly wealthy, they can afford it. So why not? There is absolutely no way that Wal Mart is shouldering the burden here. That isn't how these deals work. Wal Mart is not in the business of helping Sony or Nintendo or Microsoft; if Sony dies, Wal Mart just makes more room for Microsoft and Nintendo games. Simple as that. When these sorts of sales go down, the manufacturer of the product on sale shoulders most of the burden. Always. Retailers have very little to gain from promoting a single product, especially when the retailer is as big as Wal Mart.
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So you are telling me when a convience store has a sale on gas its the gas companies taking the hit?
Or when they have a sale on the soft drinks buy one get one free its the soda companies? Pizza hut - buy a pizza recieve a free 2 liter... I can tell you for a fact after it leaves Coke or Pepsi's hands its all on Pizza Hut.
