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Tombor · 08-09-2002, 11:37 PM

A friend of mine I used to work with at EB said they got their demo in today. I think its because EB has a "Vendor of the Month" thing with Nintendo next month and they got one with Sega this month (hence Beach Spikers also being on the disc). They have to sell so many units of new Sega or Nintendo products. This month is Sega and they have to sell VF4, Beach Spikers, NFL 2k3, NCAA 2k3, Crazy Taxi 3, and Sega Tennis. So if an EB saleman bumrushes you with Sega product now you know. They've also been given varying chain wide targets for Star Fox and Mario Sunshine. The store he's at has to sell 83 Marios and 100 total Sega games.

I don't want to start a fight or anything, but where I live and from my time working there I can't remember more than 10 people actually owning cubes. And the ones who did owned Xboxes and PS2s and only had Cubes for Resident Evil and after a month or so we got a ****load of REs and Cubes traded in. I guess they've been selling again thanks to Sunshine's looming release though.

I also wouldn't want to stray to much further from topic, Dan I think vaguely remembers how I used to be at CS, but DAMN Nintendo screwed us over when it came to promotional stuff. My last full month there, June, the big N was Vendor of the month because of the Platnium Advance and ED. We barely made quota but without the help of Nintendo promotional materials. In the end we didn't sell many EDs. Maybe 20. Mostly GBAs. And mostly because DBZ came out. Anyway all Nintendo sent us was an ED standee and a demo with Wresltemania X8 and some video footage of Timesplitters 2. In comparisson Microsoft during Xbox Vendor of the Month in July offered free copies of Halo and Xboxes and gobs of other games to stores that did well, a Halo sticky thing for our window doors (its a strip store), Payton Bobble Heads for Fever 2003 pre-orders, a ****load of promo boxes for Xbox stuff like Buffy and Knights of the Old Republic, and a demo for our Kiosk. All before the promotional stuff started.

Anyway.... every EB should have the demo disk. If you live in the Miamisburg/Centerville Ohio area and go to the EB around the corner at K-Mart Ronnie probably left it in the system.

08-09-2002, 11:37 PM	#7
Tombor Xbox Writer Tombor is offline Location: Ohio Now Playing: Red Dead Revolver Posts: 200	Don't mind me A friend of mine I used to work with at EB said they got their demo in today. I think its because EB has a "Vendor of the Month" thing with Nintendo next month and they got one with Sega this month (hence Beach Spikers also being on the disc). They have to sell so many units of new Sega or Nintendo products. This month is Sega and they have to sell VF4, Beach Spikers, NFL 2k3, NCAA 2k3, Crazy Taxi 3, and Sega Tennis. So if an EB saleman bumrushes you with Sega product now you know. They've also been given varying chain wide targets for Star Fox and Mario Sunshine. The store he's at has to sell 83 Marios and 100 total Sega games. I don't want to start a fight or anything, but where I live and from my time working there I can't remember more than 10 people actually owning cubes. And the ones who did owned Xboxes and PS2s and only had Cubes for Resident Evil and after a month or so we got a **load of REs and Cubes traded in. I guess they've been selling again thanks to Sunshine's looming release though. I also wouldn't want to stray to much further from topic, Dan I think vaguely remembers how I used to be at CS, but DAMN Nintendo screwed us over when it came to promotional stuff. My last full month there, June, the big N was Vendor of the month because of the Platnium Advance and ED. We barely made quota but without the help of Nintendo promotional materials. In the end we didn't sell many EDs. Maybe 20. Mostly GBAs. And mostly because DBZ came out. Anyway all Nintendo sent us was an ED standee and a demo with Wresltemania X8 and some video footage of Timesplitters 2. In comparisson Microsoft during Xbox Vendor of the Month in July offered free copies of Halo and Xboxes and gobs of other games to stores that did well, a Halo sticky thing for our window doors (its a strip store), Payton Bobble Heads for Fever 2003 pre-orders, a **load of promo boxes for Xbox stuff like Buffy and Knights of the Old Republic, and a demo for our Kiosk. All before the promotional stuff started. Anyway.... every EB should have the demo disk. If you live in the Miamisburg/Centerville Ohio area and go to the EB around the corner at K-Mart Ronnie probably left it in the system.