Stores are starting to put DDR on display.

paraparafreak · Trick Member Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Location: Jacksonville

Stores are starting to put DDR on display. I went to Best Buy Saturday and they had DDRMAX on display with that 100 dollar ignition pad to try out. Man i was playin that ddr display for about 40 mins and the people were lovin watchin me play. There were some other ddr player there they were pretty good but not as good as me

. R they starting to do this in other stores or wut?

myuglybunny · Trick Member Joined: 14 Oct 2004

yup. they had EX at my bestbuy... they had a madcatz pad tho.. and I am the worlds worst bar raper... so i didnt try

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den15 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Location: Australia

SOund pretty cool to me
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DjSolstice98 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Location: Orlando

Yeah, Actually wait...I know that Best Buy...It's in Regency, we live in the same city!

I know the supervisor for that department, I used to be his boss.

I've seen more stores do it recently, the Circuit City next door has the eyetoy games running from DDR extreme.

LazyKenny · Trick Member Joined: 25 May 2005

Free DDR? All I can say is, awesome

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phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

A few months back, the local EB games had DDR Ultramix on display w/ Red Octane ignition pads. By the time my friend made his purchase, there was a crowd of about 30 people watching me.
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Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

Welcome to nearly 2 years ago, around when MAX2 came out. =\

I hope Fry's put up ITG now.

CHUCK BASS · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004

All the Best Buy's are beginning to do this, most have Red Octane Ignitions. Mine also has Donkey Konga!

Synaesthesia · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:49 am Post subject:

It seems like a very good idea to me. Think about it... you'll probably attract more attention (if nothing else, by sheer movement) than if you were playing the Metroid Prime demo. In addition to that, you'll attract the attention of the "impulse buyers," who see someone playing the game, think it's neat, see a price tage of $30-40, and decide that they might as well give it a shot. Now, if these stores offered some incentive for people to demo their games ("Hey, DDR-person, I'll give you this coupon if you come play some easy songs, but act like you're having lots of fun."), then you might have a winning marketing strategy right there.

EDIT: Note, I speak in hypothetical terms about this because no local store has set up demos like this, to the best of my knowledge.
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phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

Too bad they wouldn't hire you to like come in and do a demo like once a week to attract new buyers. that would be awesome, playing ddr and getting paid.
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Zonic · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

FuturamaFreak2999 · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:

My BestBuy had Extreme when it came out. Didn't get to play it though. But yes, Getting Paid to play ddr is the perfect job.

Ghettoman-DDR · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:11 am Post subject:

Well the DDR game is now starting to build up their popularity being talked about on the news alot so yes it will be cool to have DDR demos in the Toys R Us stores
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E-Prime · Trick Member Joined: 08 May 2005

It seems like a stupid idea to me.Picture yourself in the shoes of a manager or employee at best buy or circuit city: having to deal with these little DDR obsessed wankers coming into the store with NO intent to buy anything whatsoever, only to mooch off of a free DDR opportunity. Talk about annoying.

Synaesthesia · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject:

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RedComet · Basic Member Joined: 08 Apr 2005

My local Best Buy has probably had a DDR pad and game on display to be played for at least a year by now.

Agent J · Trick Member Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: Dimension X

I think pretty much all the Best Buys around me have DDR demos set up now. The first time I saw it, it was Max2 with two Mad Catz Beat Pads.

Now that Best Buy has EX with just 1 Ignition 3.0 The Fry's just up the street from that same Best Buy also has DDR, but they rotate Max, Max2, and EX on it, and it was on a huge HDTV last time I saw it. I hope they add ITG into that rotation as well.