Tried asking my local walmart if they had any X's the other day and they looked at me like i had two heads and said you could only get it online; so good luck to anyone else trying that, seems very hit or miss
Late last evening a store close to me in Roanoke Rapids NC was showing 6+ XSX consoles in Brickseek. I decided to head over this morning and I got there at 6:15 after the doors opened at 6. At that time there were already 20+ people in line in electronics. I couldn't believe it. I spoke to a woman in front me and apparently the word was that the PS5 was going to be in stock and everyone was lined up for that. Check Brickseek and sure enough it was showing 6+ PS5.
I found only a couple of people I spoke to wanted to the XSX and supposedly they had 20+ PS5's and 10+ XSX's. Rumor was that they were checking everyone out at 7am and going through the line.I figure I'm already there might was well wait.
7am comes and goes. Then 7:15am. Eventually someone from Walmart comes out and says that the truck didn't arrive yet and they would take everyone's names and call them when the truck got there for pickup. Surprisingly most people stayed pretty calm and everyone starts writing their names down. I thought for sure there was going to be a bunch of expletives flying around but nope, people were pretty chill.
I get to the desk and I tell the staff there I was only wanting an XSX not a PS5 and they looked at me surprised. Low and behold the guy behind the register says "I got two right here my manager said to bring them out for a couple customers". I got the second of those two consoles and several people behind me started buying them up as well after he went to get another box of 2. Not sure how many they had but I saw at least 4 and they definitely sold them in-person at the store.
So long story short, I got the XSX as a gift for my son for XMAS by just showing up at Walmart at open based on what I saw on Brickseek.
Also do not under-estimate the demand for the PS5 or the XSX. Prior to the announcement about the truck not showing there were probably 20+ people in front of me and probably 30+ people behind me in line. And this was based on nothing more than Brickseek data and word of mouth for a delivery that hadn't even arrived yet. That is crazy to me the demand for these things.
As a side note I had planed on waiting at Gamestop on Thanksgiving night/Black Friday. I went out at 10pm and the 3 different Gamestops around the 20miles of my house already had at least 25+ people lines up for the PSX/XSX and most stores had less than 10 total. Was turned away then but not today.
If you've made it this far thanks for reading about my experience. A little sad the search is over since it was like a challenge. But at least XMAS is going to definitely be baller status this year.
