For shooter fans (who happen to buy their games at Target?) looking for something else besides Modern Warfare 2, this might pose a tough choice, else be the opportunity you were waiting for. Or maybe mom/dad doing holiday shopping will finally give in to their kid's demands...
Next wee see three price price drops in one image. First, UFC 2009 seems to have "gone on sale" dropping $20. Another THQ title in the lower right corner of the same image is the brand new MX Reflex, is also on sale but only discounted by $10. UFC is a
great and very popular game, so maybe THQ/Target was looking for a large unit boost with the price drop. But MX Reflex already dropping to by $10 doesn't bode well, especially after mediocre reviews. Compare that to the "temporary price cut" on NBA Live 10 in the same image. Interesting.Keeping up with the THQ theme, Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 was on a temporary price cut by $10. (See below). That's a lot of THQ titles "on sale" or on a temporary discount. Curious if this was THQ's channel management at work or Target's. Probably TH
Q's. Now it's not the biggest deal that several of THQ's titles are all on sale or a price cut but it just caught my eye while blitzing through the video game section. Hmm.....I'll leave some white space for you to think about that.So now I will bridge beefy men in spandex to Tiger Woods via the next image below. As for the b.s. about him on every news channel 24/7, I don't care even if it's all true. Why? Because I have been under the assumption for years that most/all male professional golfers have mistresses in cities all over the country. Right? You mean they don't and Tiger is somehow unique? In this respect? Or is it just that Tiger has so many more mistresses than other pro golfers due to his billions of dollars and stranglehold on the #1 golf ranking in the world? Or is it just the bizarre way this came out? Hmm. I'd still watch him play golf...
Anyway, I actually received Tiger Woods 10 on Wii with the super awesome motion control plus attachment as a gift back over the summer. The game is the best golf game I've ever played. Tiger's current situation doesn't change that for me, though interesting it's on a temporary price cut at Target:
And last but not least, let's not forget Wii New Super Mario Bros. Wii...on Wii. As much as I enjoyed TW10 over the summer, WNSMBW...OW is my current Wii game of choice. Actually it's my wife's choice. It's the only game she'll play other than Wii Sports when we have friends over and she's actually way better at it than I am. She was a pro on the old SNES version which is somewhere in our house stuffed in a box in a closet. Her decades old skill at the SNES version translated very well, a much better match for her than Super Mario Galaxy which she found cute but too difficult. Anyway this game will probably have huge retail legs, regardless of whatever Yahtzee says in his generally accurate review which, as usual, is more entertaining second per second than the game itself.
But if the red box isn't enough to get it to scream off the Wii shelf at Target, the red tag "as advertised price" of the MSRP of $49.99 is there to remind you to simply look at this game and take notice, thereby getting it onto your purchase consideration set. Keep in
mind this isn't a sale price, just a big fat flashing (not actually flashing) red neon sign (nor is neon) to get you to recall that Nintendo makes the best games on Nintendo platforms and if you have a Wii and you don't buy this game, you're going to to be stupid because it's probably the best Wii game of the holiday.
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