Max King of the Wild said:
Adinnieken said:
Max King of the Wild said:
I can not see how your source is greater than a manager... considering you don't know how to spell shelf or these... Is english your first language? Because I can't see corporate level employees associating themselves and leaking information like this to random people such as yourself.
Anyway, I know it isn't Target for a fact since 360 has 16 feet of shelf space compared to Sony's 20 feet and Wiis 20 feet.
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Consider for a second I live in the city where the company is headquartered. At one time, I worked there (both retail and corporate), I have friends that still work there.
Try and wrap your head around that concept for just ONE second. Don't hurt yourself!
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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...
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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.