This is extremely funny. Kotaku has posted up a rumor about how Best Buy is repositioning its store around to make the customer have a very easy time picking up his/her PS3/Wii along with accessories. The launches will be days apart, but the routine will be the same. Basically, this is how it'll go.
1. Customer enters store
2. Customer reaches front of line queue
3-5. Customer seeks end to end solution
Software table - All PS3/Wii software titles
Accessories table - All PS3/Wii accessories
Services table - Geek Squad, PRP, GamePro, GameFly
6. Customer trades ticket for hardware unit
7. Customer pays for everything
8. Customer exits
Funny. Personally, I don't like launches of any kind because it requires too much effort to get something that, in a few weeks, won't mean so much to me. That, and the prices are not low enough for me to justify buying anything. I like to wait.
I'd say it's not really a rumor, they did almost exactly the same thing for the 360 launch, IIRC.
Does anyone have any experience with this "rumor?" I just read on someone's blog that GameFly was giving away a Wii everyday to new customers. Check it out, "http://www.gamefly.com/wiigiveaway/." I have been a happy GF customer, and this only makes them look ever better to me.
Also, has anyone touched the Wii yet?
As a former Best Buy employee, it's very very possibly true.
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