Look, the basic fact is that Walmart is givng you $100 for every Arcade model they sell (at regular price). Walmart buys its Arcades from MS at a certain margin (and Walmart has very high volume but very low margins on anything, that's their business model). If you use your $100 giftcard to buy $100 of potatoes, Walmart does not get a single cent for the potatoes, they lose $(100-margin of their potatoes), or probably around $90-$95 for every Arcade sold.

Reportedly in this thread, Walmart gets more shipments in of Arcades every following day so I seriously doubt that MS does not play along in this firesale (MS knows they can cash in later on way overpriced accessories - apart from stock allocation considerations). There is a limit of money Walmart can throw out the window. And I still think this firesale is partially preempting Xmas period sales.

Does anyone know how long this deal goes on for for a fact?. Is it the whole of the holidays.

You sound like a defeated man to me, get a grip, no-one is trolling in this thread except the 2 people smashed quoted.

That's funny... I could have swornthat when they did this for the blu-ray players there were threads going up "But how can sony do this! How can they lose this much money?!?!"

And this type of threads is just why this generation is, sometimes, pure crap.

Anyway, if the 360 does those number, congratulations are in order, if they don't then it will be very close, at that price there will be a huge quantity of people buying them.
Just leave the friggin PS3 and 360 bashing alone, both of the sides.

You want me to dig through a years worth of threads to come up with a couple? Good luck with that. Just know there were threads. Maybe not threads specifically about it. Maybe people just stating it in a thread dedicated to the walmart deal and causeing a shit fest. But I aint going to look for a thread from June of '08.

Didn't PS3 have a similar Walmart deal multiple times? I think it was last year but don't quote me that.

Anyways, they didn't have a huge effect on PS3 sales if I am not mistaken. Just curious as to why this time people think it will cause a 100-150k boost for the week.

Wouldn't anyone who was going to buy it from Target, Gamestop, Bestbuy, etc... just be giving those sales to Walmart instead?

Yes, one for June and one for November. and yes, I think its more likely that all these "Sell out" accounts we have are leveled out by if they went to gamespot or target they'd have extra ones then they'd normally have for the week

Regardless of the outcome, I will be tabbing this thread and coming back in a weeks time with a giant plate of crow for people. It might even be for myself.

Microsoft and Walmart made some type of a deal. If you can show me proof of microsoft saying they have made no agreements with walmart then ill believe you. But as a guy that owns two business I WOULD NEVER SELL A PRODUCT TO WERE I LOSE $100 DOLLARS. Sony did the same thing when they were trying to sell blu-ray players. Sony also and the same deal with walmart and target last year for a 100 dollar gift card and Sony was apart of it 2.

@letsdance
I remember the articles you are talking about but good luck finding them.

Im not trolling and not bashing the 360 or ps3. All im trying to say is Microsoft working with Walmart. I hope the 360 sells will and ill buy one but my fiance already owns one.