Nov 7 2008IGN Names Wal-Mart #1 Video Game Retailer

FRIST WHOO HOO!

actually Wal mart is 1st, those evil, souless, kitten-hating bastards!!

I buy my games from a guy who sells them from his trunk in the walmart parking lot at a fraction of the cosr. Best value ever!!!! He also selld DVDS before there release. How can you go wrong.

Down with Wal-Mart! Support your small local retailer! Not everything in life comes down to nickels and dimes , and if you want to grumble about spending an extra $5, maybe you shouldn't be buying video games in the first place.

They gheyest thing about this site (by a landslide) is these readers who sit around hitting refresh so they can be the 1st to comment. Honestly.....

This is why game shops should be a combo gamer/porno store. That store would KICK WAL-MART'S ASS!

@5 - Almost gheyer than the person who bitches on every post about the "FR1STERS", ALMOST.

I genuinely fear the subhuman, flesh eating troglodytes that haunt the gamey aisles of Wal Mart, *shudder*. Seriously, there's a real "purgotory" vibe there. Too many 18 year olds with 8 kids... who totally put out, huzzah.

Ugh. Walmart?

Hell no. They dont even -cary- mac games.

Up with amazon, down with Walmart.

@9.

Macintosh games?

Games...for MACINTOSH?

As if.

Wal-mart, my second home.

I buy at Frys. They're less likely to rip you off than GameStop and have a better selection than Walmart. :)

Just no used games.

i just bought a new game for my MACINTOSH called MAVIS BEACON. its AWESOME!!!

well, I live in the walmart-free UK. f***socks. fortunately... I R HAS TEH STEAM LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLZ

ASDA MOTHERF***ERS. ASDA.

@4 you have a locally owned game retailer?
And no i'm not trying to be sarcastic. I'm actually curious. I've never seen one and i've lived a shit-ton of places.

Man Walmart wiped out alot of great stores up here in Canada. Go home Walmart we don't want you and your inbreeding ways!!!

I dunno - EB is the place for me. Knowledgeable and friendly staff that you can actually find and much better prices.

I think the only reason Walmart has succeeded is because they ALWAYS have the games in stock. I have around 3 or 4 Gamestops within a 2 mile radius of my house (no clue why), and every time I have gone to purchase a game, it's always out of stock. All the other department stores...out of stock. Who just happens to have the game in stock? Walmart. I hate supporting them but I live in reasonably sized metro area and NONE of them ever have shit in stock.

The GAYEST thing about Known @ 5 is a toss up.

He's afraid to spell gay correctly as it may offend his life partner?

He complains about someone posting, yet posts himself with no relevance?

In the theater, he wouldn't give be a blowjob, only a handjob. And his excuse was he didn't want to miss any of Richard Gere's performance in Nights in Rodanthe.

Now the relavant part. I don't shop at Wal-Mart becuase of the politics and how they aim to put out the litle guy. And video games make no significance there, Most games now are fixed around 49.99 and they'll mark them down to 49.93 Whats the point

Pew pew pew on (un)known!

I work at Wal-Mart and don't doubt it... when f***ing WiiFit came out, there were 40 people lined up at the door waiting to get in... at 8AM on a Saturday morning. I was half-asleep and barely able to locate my department, and these people were RUNNING down to electronics.

when I actually go to a store it's normally hmv or game or gamestation

What would be interesting is to bee a breakdown of the titles and platform they sold to. I'd bet money that they're the top seller of great titles like "Cabella's Big game hunter" and "Big Mutha Truckers" I would also wager that their sales lean heavily towards the consoles and away from the computer titles.

I short, I have a feeling a lot of welfare money is spent on the lowest common denominator games there.

And no, mac boy, your games don't count, I said COMPUTER games. I'd rather play on a Nokia N-Gage than a Mac.

Right click FTW!!

@9 All Mac fanboys are to report to the "Gizmodo" blog. You are at the wrong blog. We keep the i-whining to a minimum here.

FAKE!!!!

This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its fake, the shadows are all wrong.

It looks like the scene in the movie Never Back Down, where Max and Baja lived for a week in the 24 hour Wal-Mart.

Daisy, wasn't that a Married With Children episode?

Why does this make me so sad? Ugh....everyone complains about losing their jobs to outsourcing, yet continues to give their money to the ones that took away those jobs in the first place. Boycott wal-mart!

Hooray, everyone hates a realist. ^-^

Nah Amy, we don't hate realists, we just mock them here. :)

The broken part of the equation is that if you're aware of the damage they cause and smart enough to know it's a problem, chances are good you already don't shop there.

@16: Actually I do, it's called Imaginus, and it specializes not just in video games but other geeky shit too. I also go to Microplay, not exactly an independent retailer, but a small franchise nevertheless

Wal-Mart in almost every case employs more people total than the local stores they replaced. The working conditions are better, they hire the handicapped, and the prices are lower.

Wal-Mart is a scapegoat because they swoop in where the local businesses are already failing, because they are perceived as the cause, rather than the solution to the problem.

In my experience, Wal-Marts that aren't supercenters are probably the dirtiest and most disgusting places of business.

Actually no, #30:Wal-Mart Shill.

They may employ more people, but a large part of that is so that very few employees are given enough hours to qualify for full-time employment and thus be eligible for benefits.

They also pay poorly and combined with few working hours, this encourages employees to only shop in their store to receive their discount.

Often the local stores aren't failing until wal-mart opens, then the new stores operate at a substantial loss that is subsidized by wal-mart corporate offering many of their choice goods at less than wholesale prices that no single business can match and a huge selection. In essence they are giving away corporate HQ's money until the local stores are forced to close down.

Once the local businesses are gone, the selection dries up to more corporate "approved" materials. I don't remember the specific examples, but I remember a number of books were removed from one that opened here that were controversial to Christian religious groups.

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's just good business for them, but not something I can endorse overall.

Actually yes #32 - communist.

You can't spell ignorant without IGN.

@14: "F***socks"....?

@7: Yes almost

It's not hard to be the world's largest retailer when you do not pay taxes, get your stores built in small towns practically for free through grants and then run all of the small-businesses out of business and encourage employees to use welfare and medicaid for services they should be providing. Dumb f***ers don't understand that even though it looks like they pay a small amounts for items at Wal-Mart, they are paying extra for it in the end through their taxes.

how is it no one points out the fact that wal-mart sucks for game distrobution because they don't carry games that are rated M... no fallout 3? THEY SUCK.

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