She's starting to shimmy...

She's starting to shake...

funniest damn movie ever. period. 

Goodbye Diomedes, you've been warned before and proven wrong before. 1 week ban.

Since you just go all quiet and stop posting whenever you're proven wrong anyway (like in this thread) then just making you be quiet for a week by banning you saves us all a lot of headaches. ;>

yeah, probably the price has nothing to do with that... =))

like 300$ vs 600$, yeah, not big deal.

Many people complain about price, but when it comes to sales, yeah, price doesn`t matter, only sold consoles matters.

That was my point. =)

I do have opinions about that -- however, such opinions are SO biased and editorial that I'd prefer not to state them in this thread, where I'm trying to be as impartial as possible :p

Also, to those who care: yes, we recieve shpiments of consoles even if we're not selling them -- to a point. We had those 16 PS3s, if you recall: we went down to 4 systems left 3 weeks ago. 10 days ago, we got two more PS3s; two days after that, we got two more. We now have a total of eight.

Diomedes, and to anyone who (for whatever reason) is suspicious of my experiences: please call up my Toys R Us. You can do it right now! The phone number is (314) 909-8788 (need to use the US region code if you're out of country of course). Just ask for a Manager in "R" zone (that's the name for our electronics department) and ask about sales. We have 0 Wiis, 8 PS3s, 4 Xbox360s. Ask them about our sales trends, if you'd like, to confirm that we really are selling these systems at the pace I'm suggesting. If you have any other questions, please just ask! 

I an 100% sure that the main reason why PS3 isn't selling faster than Wii and xbox360 is the price, I just wanted to state that it isn't correct to compare PS3 against PS2 WW because the PS2 had at this point not even launched in EU.

 @Thread now back to topic...

Had several people come in and ask me about Forza 2 today.

We sold 2 360s today. I think it's fair to say that we've seen a slight increase in 360 sales over the course of the last 3-4 weeks in comparison to the earlier parts of the year. Nothing huge: maybe 1-2 more systems a week, which represents a 10-20 percent increase in system sales. Still, a noticable increase. I didn't sell a PS3 again today, which means our PS3 sales continue to decline. Our monthly sales went from 5 in February, 4 in March, 3 in April, and now 0 in May.

The PotCaribbean game is REALLY not selling well. I've sold one copy, and no one even asks about it, despite the fact that we have a big display set up to advertise it.  On all consoles.

I noticed that the Transformers movie will not have a GBA tie in game. DS/PS3/Wii/360/PS2 are all supported. This is the first time I've noted a movie game would not be on the GBA. 

Bodhesatva... what are the odds?!  I live in St. Louis, and I bought my Wii from your very Toys R Us store the night they came out!  What a coincidence.

Two possible reasons:

Everyone is still recovering from getting burned by Spiderman 3

Nobody really knows what you would do in a POTC game. Run around? Attack ships maybe? Swim? I would be wary.

So we might see an increased hardware period for xbox360 in may, intressting. Xbox360 combined with Wii seems to hurt PS3 a lot (fo course combined with the high price). I have a question here, is Toys R Us holding any kind of bundle for any system? The question I ask is because here in Sweden some shops is going with bundles for all systems. Some good some less good but I just wonder.

I am also very happy to see that PoTCaribbean game doesn't sell, because honestly I don't like movie games.

So GBA is finally starting to die, do you still sell GBA and if you do which version?

Hi guys! Back from my shift today.

I sold another Xbox360. Absolutely certain now that sales have picked up a tad over the last 2 weeks.

I still haven't sold a PS3. Absolutely certain that our sales have continued to slow down.

I sold one DS as well.

We're sold out of Mario Party 8 and Forza 2 still.

I had a guy come in today to buy Madden 07 for his PS2. He clearly a very casual player: he wasn't even sure if that was the name of the game, and also wasn't sure if Madden 08 was out yet or not. He asked me about the PS3 price, and when he heard it, clearly was not interested; however, when I mentioned that the 360 also has Madden 07, he was clearly even less interested in that. He didn't like Xbox he said. Never been a fan. This guy was clearly willing to keep playing his PS2 until the PS3 was cheap enough, then he'd buy that.

I get the feeling that I'm getting a very, very large shipment of Wiis on Sunday. I don't really have any substantial evidence to back this up, but I'll let you guys know if my hunch is correct.