Walmart Corporate Video Game Buyer Interview

[CheapyD]

An interesting read...
You think gaming media get their asses kissed by developers and publishers, this guy's ass must be wet with saliva.
Gamasutra brought questions to Steve Perry of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Perry is a busy video game buyer for the Bentonville, Arkansas retail giant, traveling to suppliers around the globe looking at new games and accessories. Our interview covered everything from the future of PSP UMD movies, in-store Wii demo units to the Xbox 360/Wal-Mart appearance on the NBC network reality show "The Apprentice".

http://gamasutra.com/features/20061005/andersen_01.shtml

[VanillaGorilla]

Steve Perry works for Wal Mart now!? How the mighty have fallen. 20 years ago, he was belting out "Don't Stop Believing", now he's in Arkansas purchasing bulk quantities of The Suite Life of Zach and Cody GBA games.

[Roufuss]

What the hell is up with that picture of GC / DS / GBA games? No Wal-Mart looks like that.



GS: Have you found that customers are taking advantage of taking demo disks, using the DS download stations, and downloading Xbox 360 demos from Wal-Mart? Has this been in-demand?

SP: It absolutely has, the response has been phenomenal, and we're pleased with how responsive the customers have been to these features.



Every 360 I've ever seen in Wal-Mart is dead, because they set it up retardedly and it overheats.