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Hawk269 · Oct 9, 2013

I posted the information in another thread, but figured this was enough to start a new thread now that I have pictures showing what Best Buy has set up as of today.

Below is an image of the main aisle as you walk into the Best Buy Media area where Best Buy plans to promote in-store for the Xbox One. The first image is the main (1st) aisle in the games section, this is the one that faces guests as they enter the store, at least in my local store. Speaking with the Supervisor of the department, in this section which is 12' long, they will be receiving an interactive set up for people to play the unit and this will be set up in the center of the 12'. On the left/right side (4' each) they plan to have additional items.

In this other shot, this is a 8' section they dedicated in the software aisle, they will have a separate software, accessories, consoles in this section as well.

According the Media Supervisor, they should be receiving interactive displays for the Xbox One shortly, but he had not time table as to what that meant.

Iacobellis · Oct 9, 2013

Oh my fuck. Hopefully PS4 is soon to follow.

NateDrake · Oct 9, 2013

My local BB have had these up for several weeks now. Also have a PS4 display that loops a video of PS4 and PS3 games.

SuperPac · Oct 9, 2013

They did that for the Kinect launch in 2010 at about the same time of the year - just laid empty until there were things to fill the shelf space area with.

Guevara · Oct 9, 2013

I don't know why, but I love this stuff. I'm not planning on getting the console, and I rarely shop at BB.

(I don't like the green they've chosen; thought it was darker?)

hawk2025 · Oct 9, 2013

Iacobellis said:
Oh my fuck. Hopefully PS4 is soon to follow.

The Best Buy I went to had that set-up on one side, and the exact same size set up on the opposite side in blue for the PS4.

Ramma2 · Oct 9, 2013

Iacobellis said:
Oh my fuck. Hopefully PS4 is soon to follow.

Yes our local BB had a similar section with PS4 graphics, and a flat screen TV in place ready to go. No system yet though.

maplelord93 · Oct 9, 2013

ms have been doing allot better and faster job at getting their console into consumer hands.

UNCMark · Oct 9, 2013

Yuck, they'd be much better served by using the black Day One boxes. Those green ones are atrocious.

Chance Hale · Oct 9, 2013

Our best buy has a similar area for the PS4 and One close together, no boxes or units to play yet though. I have both pre-ordered but I'm still pretty excited to try them, I remember playing Motorstorm at best buy prior to the launch.

Fracas · Oct 9, 2013

Is there a list anywhere that shows which stores will have next gen kiosks? I'd really like to mess around with the PS4/XB1 controllers.

LQX · Oct 9, 2013

What the fuck? They changed the cool black box for all green? WHY?

SuperSonic1305 · Oct 9, 2013

Only Xbox One has games that look and feel like real life.

Wynnebeck · Oct 9, 2013

maplelord93 said:
ms have been doing allot better and faster job at getting their console into consumer hands.

At this point, MS is doing all they can to gain back some consumer goodwill before launch as they basically pissed it all away from E3 to now, even after the 180.

T.O.P · Oct 9, 2013

UNCMark said:
Yuck, they'd be much better served by using the black Day One boxes. Those green ones are atrocious.

yeah the D1 box is 100x times better, such a classy and sophisticated look

Hawk269 · Oct 9, 2013

On the back side of the first photo is where the PS4 is going. I did not get a photo of this since it was incomplete, all they had was blue posters with the PS4 picture and that was it. They had a cart with stuff in the way or I would of taken that picture as well. He said they plan to receive an interactive as well, but that there display space was the 12' section for all PS4 stuff including the interactive, vs. the 20' they were told to set up for the Xbox One. He said more than likely, they would have more footage in the same aisle where PS3 stuff is, but they had no planograms for that as of yet.

Guevara · Oct 9, 2013

LQX said:
What the fuck? They changed the cool black box for all green? WHY?

I'm guessing these are empty display boxes meant to last a long time. Black is limited to DAYONE right?

Edit yep:

Day One:

Standard Edition:

Steverulez · Oct 9, 2013

LQX said:
What the fuck? They changed the cool black box for all green? WHY?

Black box is day on edition, green is regular, I think?

Ridley327 · Oct 9, 2013

Those areas are getting set up in our store, well. The PS4 area is a bit more elaborate, since it has empty boxes for the accessories, as well as pegs with PS4 game pre-orders.

Can't wait to have the demos come in!

Ryhian · Oct 9, 2013

I like the picture of kinect sports rivals as part of the coming November 2013 lineup.

Hawk269 · Oct 9, 2013

LQX said:
What the fuck? They changed the cool black box for all green? WHY?

The all Green one is the standard edition, which will be the main one after launch. The black one is the Day One edition of the console. But I agree with you, they should of kept the black one even for the standard and perhaps put something on the Day One to make it different.

Iacobellis · Oct 9, 2013

UNCMark said:
Yuck, they'd be much better served by using the black Day One boxes. Those green ones are atrocious.

LQX said:
What the fuck? They changed the cool black box for all green? WHY?

Tard Pack 2.0.

EnVy_CaLiBeR · Oct 9, 2013

Cool.

But like others have said, I really wish black was the standard color on all of the boxes. That green looks ugly.

Bsigg12 · Oct 9, 2013

Certain Walmarts will have their displays up in 3 weeks so maybe Bestbuy will either be a week ahead or at the same time.

bringingthethunder · Oct 9, 2013

Didn't Kinect Sports get delayed to next year?

SeanR1221 · Oct 9, 2013

Iacobellis said:
Tard Pack 2.0.

Really?

Ridley327 · Oct 9, 2013

Bsigg12 said:
Certain Walmarts will have their displays up in 3 weeks so maybe Bestbuy will either be a week ahead or at the same time.

I imagine that both MS and Sony are going to coordinate their displays to hit every retailer at the same time.

Magwik · Oct 9, 2013

bringingthethunder said:
Didn't Kinect Sports get delayed to next year?

Apparently someone at Best Buy/MS didn't get that memo

Ridley327 · Oct 9, 2013

SeanR1221 said:
Really?

Were you not around during the pre-launch buildup for the 360? The Tard Pack moniker even managed to get picked up by a major news magazine for an article on the system. It was quite popular.

Avallon · Oct 9, 2013

nevermind.

Bsigg12 · Oct 9, 2013

Ridley327 said:
I imagine that both MS and Sony are going to coordinate their displays to hit every retailer at the same time.

That's what I'm assuming. I've seen what Walmarts are getting and the Xbox One will have the Kinect at all displays. The PS4 didn't have the camera in the display that I saw a month ago but the guys I talked to said they were still talking to Sony about it.

T.O.P · Oct 9, 2013

Iacobellis said:
Tard Pack 2.0.

dafuq

Hawk269 · Oct 9, 2013

Ridley327 said:
Were you not around during the pre-launch buildup for the 360? The Tard Pack moniker even managed to get picked up by a major news magazine for an article on the system. It was quite popular.

I remember that. But funny thing is, it still sold out just as fast as the ones with hard drives. Granted, most customers that had a choice went with the hard drive one, but I remember being at a store that had just received stock of both and some preferred the one without the hard drive.

Pimpbaa · Oct 9, 2013

Games that look and feel like real life only on xbox one? PS4 to get only games with kiddy graphics confirmed. Seriously though, why would they put such a stupid line on their display? They really can't afford to have advertising as bad as their PR at the moment.

Ridley327 · Oct 9, 2013

Bsigg12 said:
That's what I'm assuming. I've seen what Walmarts are getting and the Xbox One will have the Kinect at all displays in Walmarts. The PS4 didn't have the camera in the display that I saw a month ago but the guys I talked to said they were still talking to Sony about it.

A functional Kinect, though? I can't imagine that they're going to put any games in there that use it, but that might get a bit tricky, since two of the three MS-published games are M-rated, which is a no-no at retail.

UNCMark · Oct 9, 2013

SeanR1221 said:
Really?

An unfortunate phrase coined during the early days of the Xbox 360 applied to the version of the console that had no HD. That stupid decision to offer a version with no HD negatively impacted a lot of things 360-related this gen.

U2NUMB · Oct 9, 2013

NateDrake said:
My local BB have had these up for several weeks now. Also have a PS4 display that loops a video of PS4 and PS3 games.

Same here for at least a couple weeks... they both look very similar just one green and one blue.

Miles Quaritch · Oct 9, 2013

Rivals was delayed. You'd think they'd change that to something else, maybe a digital game like Crimson Dragon, D4; Ep1 or Killer Instinct.

model13 · Oct 9, 2013

I'm surprised at the size of that display. Is this normal for Best Buy? I rarely go in there.

Bsigg12 · Oct 9, 2013

Ridley327 said:
A functional Kinect, though? I can't imagine that they're going to put any games in there that use it, but that might get a bit tricky, since two of the three MS-published games are M-rated, which is a no-no at retail.

It's a long term display. We update them with a disk to add new content on a pretty regular basis so building in the Kinect, which will work, is thinking long term so they're not redesigning the display in a year or two.

Miles Quaritch said:
Rivals was delayed. You'd think they'd change that to something else, maybe a digital game like Crimson Dragon, D4; Ep1 or Killer Instinct.

That signing was probably printed 3-5 months ago.

Domino792 · Oct 9, 2013

A bestbuy employee put these on the PS4 subreddit. Looks like the PS4 display is going up as well.

Bgamer90 · Oct 9, 2013

Miles Quaritch said:
Rivals was delayed. You'd think they'd change that to something else, maybe a digital game like Crimson Dragon, D4; Ep1 or Killer Instinct.

Agreed. Think Killer Instinct would be the best replacement since that seems to have more hype than the other games you mentioned.

Sub_Level · Oct 9, 2013

Is Best Buy going to be offering Geek Squad Console Set Up services this time around?

It's gonna be tough figuring out how to connect my consoles to the TV and power. And this time around they're pushing online hard too so I'll have to worry about internet too.

Chris R · Oct 9, 2013

hawk2025 said:
The Best Buy I went to had that set-up on one side, and the exact same size set up on the opposite side in blue for the PS4.

My local BB didn't have anything PS4 related setup. The Xbox One section was smaller than the Infinity/Skylanders section though :|

hawk2025 · Oct 9, 2013

I don't know why, this kind of thing makes me so damn excited about the next generation

We're like... almost a month away from the start. Amazing.

Bgamer90 · Oct 9, 2013

Domino792 said:
A bestbuy employee put these on the PS4 reddit. Looks like the PS4 display is going up as well.

Nice. My next gen hype is rising!

Edit:

hawk2025 said:
I don't know why, this kind of thing makes me so damn excited about the next generation

Haha, I just said the same thing.

Salvor.Hardin · Oct 9, 2013

Domino792 said:
A bestbuy employee put these on the PS4 reddit. Looks like the PS4 display is going up as well.

'Greatness Awaits' is a pretty badass tagline.

Tsundere · Oct 9, 2013

Domino792 said:
A bestbuy employee put these on the PS4 subreddit. Looks like the PS4 display is going up as well.

New thread! Or title change to include both. lol

Chamber · Oct 9, 2013

Hype levels rising.

Wynnebeck · Oct 9, 2013

Salvor.Hardin said:
'Greatness Awaits' is a pretty badass tagline.

Wait, what is Xbone's? "Jump forward" or something like that?

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