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Are we in a kind of Twilight Zone? After years of shortages of Wii and demand outrageous for the game console during the holidays, suddenly Walmart has to offer a discount of $ 50 to sell this year? It turns out that this is not the Twilight Zone. This is reality.

Walmart has a lot of 5 to December 12 December. Anyone buying a Wii during this period will receive a gift card for $ 50 at Walmart. The card can not be used elsewhere, but still a great reduction. With the value of the gift card, it is essentially holiday shoppers can get a Wii for $ 150.

The operation is only available in stores and while the stock (although this type of sale indicates that there must be a sufficient supply). In addition, the gift card to use at the next purchase made at Wal-Mart, then you can not use the same purchase when you pick up the console.

This holiday sales of Wii will be much quieter than in past holiday “simply because the demand for Wii has been greatly reduced in recent months, causing a 50 percent drop in profits. Nintendo has returned to production scale Wii, that might create another Wii shortage for the few people who does not have one, but the lack of demand, is also much better for us. If you did not fight the way the Wii in a store again, this could be the season to do so.

Like the players on Xbox Live will update panel that allows them to use Facebook on the Xbox 360, Sony has created a teaser video showing the integration with Facebook coming in the latest PlayStation 3 firmware update (version 3.10).

Do not get too excited, this is not a complete integration. Basically, the Facebook application will send updated information on PlayStation Network purchases, achievements and trophies in the game servers synchronize PlayStation account. It is true that you are essentially making your Facebook account available to Sony for advertising ad hoc.

Although you will not be able to write your own status updates, Sony says this is only the beginning of integration, so you can see this feature in the future.

According to a leak at the site of Sony Poland, 3.10 firmware update coming November 19th. If you want to spam your friends with all your Facebook activities PS3, just wait two more days!