If you dont know Wal Mart has buy the Arcade for $199 get a $100 gift card deal today, (they also have great deals on a few TV's etc, almost a mini black friday that people are lining up for) effectively making a $99 360. It is also available through Wal Mart.com

Amazon just announced they are price matching the deal today at 9AM and 3PM, in something they call a lightning deal or something (these sell out in minutes also) with a $100 off promo code on 360 Arcade.

I believe Wal Mart gaurenteed 10 Xbox 360's per store minimum, I'm not sure, but I think I read that somewhere.

But there are people at cheapassgamer.com already in line, one said his store got a pallet of 50 Xbox's for the deal and another said 30. Those where the only two who mentioned a quantity.

I looked it up and there are about 3500 Wal Mart stores in the USA, so if they average 30 per store for this deal, it's 105,000 360's! If it's average 40, 140,000. If it's 50, 175,000.

Then throw in however much Amazon and Wal Mart.com sell!

So it's going to be a big day for sold 360's!

Is this a harbinger of things to come? Will a future permanent $99 Xbox 360 Arcade fly off the shelves for Microsoft? I believe so. Microsoft did not price cut this year (not really) so you better believe they will lop at least $50 off next year. Meanwhile with Sony reporting large losses in the gaming division I dont expect them to cut price in 2010.

Edit: Just read a third stock report of a store with only 12 in stock. Still, that keeps the average at 12+50+30/3=32 per store. Plus the .com sales.

Edit2: a 4th report of 33 stock. Edit 3 a 5th report of 7 stock. Edit 4 new reports of 25 and 13.

More reports: 2 and 18. also word that it's supposed to be a minimum 10 per store, even though the one store supposedly had 2.

LOL wow @ the sony part......was that necesary? seem to me ppl are really not comfortable with ps3 outselling xbox.

anyways pretty sweet if you telling the truth.

I only care because if the Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 for a week I can giggle for 10 seconds about the people who said it would never happen.

This would have to move 90k additional units to bring it to the PS3 volume. Limited stock in the deal will probably prevent that. I agree that the Arcade needs another price cut, but I don't think MS wants to make this an annual occurrence.

it didnt do much for the ps3 what makes you think itll work for the 360? People who were gonna buy one at gamestop will just go to wal-mart now.

Great deal! That means 2 years free online! ...Oh, wait, crap, Wii and PS3 already have free online, and more than just 2 years...

Yeah, and the PS3 will also play pretty much every multiplatform game for you in worse quality than the 360 version. But lets not talk about that...we dont talk about that.

Also has worse online.

Squilliam said: I only care because if the Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 for a week I can giggle for 10 seconds about the people who said it would never happen.

Y u r always excited for 360 to outsell ps3.will u get some reward if it beats ps3 lol i have seen that ur most threads contain same thing.dont worry if it beats ps3 it will not  be good for you and if not then even not bad for ya in any how.

How is it a worthless attacking Sony statement? Such pro-PS3 things are posted practically every post around here and nobody minds.

And it's not attacking Sony, just my views. I dont think Sony will price drop and they're losing a lot of money. And the Arcade will definitely be $99 before the PS3 is.

This is my supposed "troll":

 

Is this a harbinger of things to come? Will a future permanent $99 Xbox 360 Arcade fly off the shelves for Microsoft? I believe so. Microsoft did not price cut this year (not really) so you better believe they will lop at least $50 off next year. Meanwhile with Sony reporting large losses in the gaming division I dont expect them to cut price in 2010.

LOL some troll when every post on the front page is about how PS3 will outsell 360 forever and nobody calls that trolling, thats considered normal.

jedians said: Squilliam said: I only care because if the Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 for a week I can giggle for 10 seconds about the people who said it would never happen. Y u r always excited for 360 to outsell ps3.will u get some reward if it beats ps3 lol i have seen that ur most threads contain same thing.dont worry if it beats ps3 it will not  be good for you and if not then even not bad for ya in any how.

Huh???

Are you SERIOUS?

Every post on this board is someone wanting PS3 desperatly to outsell 360 and you notice ME???????????????????? The ONE guy who wants it the other way?

Wow, just wow dude.

LOL I looked at your posts and theyre all about the PS3 (clearly you own one) too. What a surprise.