Why Shrink A Gold Mine

I was in Best Buy the other day and wandered into the game section, it’s where I always end up even when I know nothing I want is out. I saw an abundance of 360 titles, and accessories next to all the Xbox1 stuff. A ginormous PS2 section and even a decent GameCube/Wii section. And then I came across the saddest looking section in the whole store. The PS3 section.

Not only where there no PS3’s, there were no peripherals either! (controllers, cables, memory units, third party devices) It was a tiny rack, and it didn’t even have real games on it. They were empty PS2 theft prevention boxes with the cover art printed out on a crappy printer and just slid in there.



The piece of paper on the top right lists the titles available and the price. What’s even better is that there are 11 games on the shelf, and 15 games on the list… so not only did Best Buy put terrible printouts on the shelf, they didn’t even print the cover to all the games in their inventory? Seriously?

I saw a similar but not nearly as sad scene at Circuit City. They at least had the real games out, all of the ones they had, but no PS3 peripherals either. With still no PS3’s showing up in either store I guess they don’t feel the need to shrink their PS2 section. It is still getting new games, and I’ll bet both big box companies sell more PS2 games and accessories then they do for any other system. Why shrink a gold mine, epically to replace that valuable shelf space with games nobody can play because the system cannot be found… although there are reports of them being spotted by the dozen in some stores that is not the case as far as I’ve seen here in New York.

I know Sony has no control over the placement of their products and they certainly can’t force a retailer to purchase peripherals so this isn’t their fault. I know I pick on them a lot but just look at that image… it’s just so sad…

[Editors Note: This totally would have been up yesterday but my internet wouldn’t let me post for some reason… I liked it better when it wrote itself…]