The other night, Lono and I had to make a late night run to Walmart to get some medicine for his daughter, and while he was searching for the right medicinal concoction, this caught my eye.
Can you guess what it is you are looking at? Here’s a closer shot of the hilarity, after the jump.
Obviously Microsoft is paying big money for these endcap displays, and I can’t help but feel they might have a problem with this. Alex and I have decided that at least one misguided parent or relative, is going to see the Xbox logo, and pick up a controller for the wrong system.
Given the sales numbers for the PS3, I can’t guess I blame Walmart for doing ANYTHING to unload all of those extra Sixaxis Controllers.
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47 responses so far ↓
1 hentai2021 // Jan 1, 2008 at 11:34 pm
haha…this is too good to be true…hahaha. somehow i can sense a walmart rant coming on…hahaha….i am sure microsoft sent it that way…LOL, ha tricked you.
2 Eric // Jan 2, 2008 at 12:16 am
They sent it that way so that PS3 doesn’t die completely, and Microsoft isn’t considered a monopoly that way, lol.
3 Pablos102030 // Jan 2, 2008 at 12:17 am
They do this at my Costco all the time.
4 AblativMeatshld // Jan 2, 2008 at 12:17 am
“It would be like asking a homeless person for their opinion on adjustable rate mortgages.”
That is one of the greatest analogies I have ever heard…
5 Dmoney! // Jan 2, 2008 at 1:10 am
please check
vgchratz.com
you will clearly see the PS3 sales compared to the 360’s ones.
6 clstirens // Jan 2, 2008 at 1:35 am
I love walmart. They have such “high Standards” when it comes to employees.
7 clstirens // Jan 2, 2008 at 1:40 am
Let me restate that!
I know some good people who work at walmart. It is just their hiring standards are so low.
8 Sean "rothbart" Workman // Jan 2, 2008 at 1:46 am
*takes a shot*
9 commander121 // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:01 am
wow you know there getting desperate when they try to sell there stock under there competeters name
10 commander121 // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:02 am
if i were you i would check if it was the right medicine
11 Khalos // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:45 am
That picture just made my day. I wish I had seen it in real life.
Isn’t it wonderful how well informed and knowledgeable Wal-Mart employees are?
12 heavyfire grunt // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:59 am
clasic
13 Deetex // Jan 2, 2008 at 6:20 am
what… the…. hell….
14 thomas logic // Jan 2, 2008 at 7:24 am
Beauty. PS3 dominates 360 corner displays! Score 1 for Sony!
15 Serran // Jan 2, 2008 at 8:24 am
Cant you Thomas logic understand that the controllers are there just to sell better cuz’ teh xbox 360 is a better product ? Score 1 for M$
16 Artemis // Jan 2, 2008 at 10:02 am
PS3 dominates!?? Those are sixaxis is a 360 box!
Microsoft is trying to help sony but putting a 360 logo on it!
17 Kanbei // Jan 2, 2008 at 10:08 am
now I need a new controller
Walmart here I come!
18 M // Jan 2, 2008 at 10:43 am
Look at the boxes to the left in the first picture. This is obviously during restocking time (after store hours). Stupid…
19 Austin // Jan 2, 2008 at 11:11 am
Those that aren’t familiar with the industry may think MS pays for those displays. Honestly, those displays are paid for by distributors. These are middle men who supply the displays to move product they purchase from MS themselves.
In addition, as one person pointed out, this is a joke by an employee as the image was taken during restocking hours.
20 cg1991 // Jan 2, 2008 at 11:57 am
Blasphemy to the 360 lol
21 Gavinius // Jan 2, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Yeah you could be right about it being the joke of an employee, but thats a really horrible thing to do, that\\\’s a copywrite infraction, and this looks like exactly the sort of thing Microsoft would pounce on with a lawsuit. Dumb thing for an employee to do because no doubt he\\\’ll be fired for this. Also there is absolutely no way the display \\
22 Spy // Jan 2, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hey M…aren’t most walmarts 24/7?? how can it be AFTER store hours?
23 Doc // Jan 2, 2008 at 1:03 pm
@ Austin
Not a joke. I took the image myself. It was about 2 am when we went to Wally World, because Lono’s kiddo needed some medicine, and so I drove him to the store to get it. (He and Alex were visiting this weekend). The employee who we pointed it out to acted like we were from Mars.
We are, but still. 100% authentic photo.
24 Nobody // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Hey, this story was on kotaku who got it off of digital battle, who has the EXACT SAME PICTURE as the one here.
And they didn’t say “From sarcasticgamer.com” or anything.
Just so you know.
25 Taryth // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I work at Walmart and they do treat me very good as a cashier, but I\\\’ve seen CSMs that hate their jobs there.
As for their customer service HAHAHA what a JOKE! They suck with customers at my Walmart.
My Walmart\\\’s a 24 hour store and our electronics employees , some are ok but most are stupid as hell.
26 Taryth // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Oh and by the way I found this image hilarious LMAO 1 point for Microsoft XD
If this was planned by Sony it’s yet another one of their pathetic lies *hides from the fanboys I see running for the attack* 0__0
27 andyg8180 // Jan 2, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I’m guessing the price was supposed to be 42.99?
This is not a prank by WalMart employees, this is Microsoft letting people know they dont need to buy a new controller for the MGS launch :-O
28 Lono // Jan 2, 2008 at 3:04 pm
beep
29 DeejayTai // Jan 2, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Question. If these PS3 controllers are in the xbox stand, where the hell are the xbox controllers?
30 Jsaint // Jan 2, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Bahh, no surprise here, but gotta tell you I worked in a walmart and they didn’t value anyone who had any skills in customer support. If you had more knowlage than a supervisor about ANY subject expect to be singled out and removed. They like them stupid or at least spineless at walmart.
31 dfsf // Jan 2, 2008 at 8:51 pm
To whoever said it was “during restocking hours” most Wal Marts are 24hr. I consistently see boxes being restocked WHILE I shop at the three stores we have around here. Boxes just mean it’s restocking time, not that the store is closed.
32 Dave Myers // Jan 2, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Wow, they were doing this at my Wal-mart in North Carolina yesterday when I went shopping. I just assumed they were out of room. Some of these PS3 controllers were in the Wii accessories end caps too.
33 carlos // Jan 2, 2008 at 10:35 pm
PS3 taking over. I dont think they are trying to get rtid of these. Of cousre they want to sell them but i haven’t seen sony put any of these tands anywhere here in phoenix. these things are suppose to sell for themselves and they probably will in a few months.
34 PS3HasGoodExclusives // Jan 2, 2008 at 11:47 pm
lol @ anyone who thinks the 360 is actually a decent system. Have fun playing generic FPS garbage for the next 4 years.
35 ILaughAtStupidPeople // Jan 3, 2008 at 12:05 am
*laughs at all the 360 and PS3 defenders bite each others dicks off*
36 Tyler // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:21 am
I still can’t believe controllers are $50 dollars now.
37 mel // Jan 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm
explain why this is in the produce section???
38 Guy Leaving // Jan 3, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Lame f_ucking watermark…jesus christ.
39 Doc // Jan 3, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Those are greeting cards, not lettuce.
40 Former Wally-world Slave // Jan 4, 2008 at 10:06 am
Even the Wal-marts that close begin stocking about two to three hours before customers are ushered out in the evening and they don’t finish until two to three hours after the doors open for customers to stampede in.
41 Rob // Jan 7, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I imagine that there are, actually, quite a few (now) homeless people with opinions on ARMs…
42 Alecsander_C // Jan 7, 2008 at 4:23 pm
AWESOME
Sony is THAT cheap too???
43 T-Wich-E // Jan 8, 2008 at 3:28 pm
OOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! that is lllloooowwww
44 Tanker9111 // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:55 am
yea, i work at a wal-mart where i live as a assistant manager, i fired someone about a week ago that tried todo just this because we got a warning from microsoft because he did this. im personally am a sony fan and i dont want this to sound like im bitching at 360 but heres how our store setup is for games.
1 case PS3, 1 case wii, and 2 cases for 360. BUT PS3 and Wii are always sold out, we get in around 40 systems in a week (PS3 / Wii) we get in maybe 3 xboxs every 2 weeks and we have a storage room with almost 200 xboxs in it that will never sell, all the PS3 games and wii games are always sold out before i can get them.
as for the controllers… half a isle of PS3 Controllers and 1/4 wiis controllers and 1/4 360s controllers, guess what?! theres always no PS3 / Wii controllers. and more then 3/4s the 360 controllers are still there.
lately i think most walmarts have been told to (atleast mine has) been told to get rid of as many Sixxaxis controllers as possible since Sony will be releasing the new controllers soon (or are supposed to and if they dont well Sony fans will have to wait for them to come out to get a new controller)
45 Tanker9111 // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:59 am
Edit: as i said i dont hate Xbox, i own 1 of them with halo 3 and GoW so that should atleast say im not dissing Xbox
46 Free Xbox 360 Elite // Mar 22, 2008 at 4:32 am
Well, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to get rid of the controllers, even if it means selling them under your competitions brand name. Of course, I could see a unaware mom picking up the controller thinking it was an xbox controller. I know my mom would.
47 International freebies // Aug 26, 2008 at 10:23 am
I had seen it in real life
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