Xbox 360 screws up Wal-Mart

BY: BRIAN ROBBINS  |  Game Industry

I normally wouldn’t even post about this sort of thing if I hadn’t heard it from my Mom first. Yes that’s right, my Mom actually broke the news of this before I managed to see it on any websites
Apparently the new Xbox 360 kiosks that are being setup at Wal-Marts are messing up their inventory systems. My Mom is a manager of Electronics at a Wal-Mart and apparently once the Microsoft rep setup the new kiosk their Telxon wireless printers could no longer print anywhere near the electronics department. (These are the machines that print out all the price labels).

Apparently they figured out some workaround before the MS people could get back to fix it, but not until they had called around other local stores, and even the Arkansas store support desk to figure out what was going on.

In the end I’m sure this won’t even register as a tiny blip on the 360 launch, but it’s a bit interesting to note that even with all the hoopla surrounding the new console launch, many stores had to shut off the kiosk to allow them to keep working.