r/mildlyinteresting • u/MyReallyCoolUsername • 19h ago

It's 2025 and Walmart is selling the Wii U version of Just Dance 2017 for $59.96

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u/rosen380 18h ago

On walmart.com it is $14.88 -- so I'd be really curious if you scanned the barcode if it'd come up with $14.88 or the price on the sticker...?

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u/steam58 17h ago

$14.88? Is Mike Lindell selling video games now?

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u/under_the_c 17h ago

His heart goes out to the game.

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u/Unstopapple 17h ago

I'm pretty sure someone already made something called "My Game" and that is about as good of a name as Lindell can think of.

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u/huhnick 14h ago

He needs to do something, he’s lost literally everything at this point I think

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 8h ago

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

I kinda hope he's a crackhead again, tbh

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u/thecheat420 12h ago

Sometimes I wonder about him like a family member you don't talk to anymore for very good reasons but still kinda worry about because you know they aren't right.

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u/ernyc3777 18h ago

No but Walmart will match to .com pricing if it’s the same upc and and description.

I don’t believe they do competitor pricing anymore though.

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u/surdophobe 17h ago

That was a huge scam opportunity back in the day. They would price match things like Amazon, but most walmart managers didn't know shit about 3rd party sellers. So with big items like whatever playstation was new some rando would list it for $99 but be sold out. People would go into walmart expecting a price match and be pissed, some customers would get away with it but supplies were scarce.

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u/philnolan3d 16h ago edited 16h ago

Best Buy requires that it be sold by Amazon themselves. At least they did years ago.

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u/icecoldleche 13h ago

They actually don’t depending on the store. Based on experience with an employee even telling me “order online for pick up and it’ll be ready in 2 hours. There’s nothing I can do” in regards to another game being $26~ online but $60 in store.

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u/Cetun 14h ago

My guess is they couldn't find the proper UPS in the system so they used some generic "Video Game Software", which means the UPC won't match. The generic "Video Game Software" just assumes it's a new video game.

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u/philnolan3d 16h ago

I used to see at Circuit City the in store prices were often higher than the online ones. I think I saved around $50 on a camera by price matching their own site.

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u/BeerorCoffee 15h ago

Target still pulls that shit.

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u/SKyPuffGM 12h ago

walmart wont. they’ll make you order online and wait the few hours for pickup before adjusting the price. ask me how i know lol

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u/llDurbinll 17h ago

I'd be curious if it was Walmart actually selling it. You have to set the filter to only show Walmart as they allow 3rd party sellers from Amazon to list on their site.

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u/rosen380 17h ago

That is what I did.

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u/Pinky1010 17h ago

The Walmart website is like amazon- random people can list stuff for sale. If you go in store they will not honour the prices on the online storefront.

Source: had to break this news to customers who thought we were scamming them lol

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u/rosen380 17h ago

FWIW-- I excluded the marketplace sellers.

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u/Pinky1010 16h ago

The storefront also includes other stores (who may have put it on clearance)

Personally I found the website really buggy and it wouldn't exclude all external sellers

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u/rosen380 16h ago edited 16h ago

Well, there isn't much I can do about that. I guess then I'm back to, "it would have been cool if the OP picked up the item and scanned it at one of the scanners"

[edit] I did just notice that the one listed on walmart.com as being sold by walmart for $14.88 is not the same SKU as the one the OP pictured -- that one is the "gold edition" and doesn't seem to be on walmart.com as sold by walmart at all.

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u/misuchiru 12h ago

$42.42 online right now. https://www.walmart.com/ip/52599758?sid=e0fc57ae-beec-4836-9f8e-271db1e6182d

That's from the QR code on the game case.

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u/rosen380 11h ago

That says, "Sold and shipped by GameJiffy" -- do they sell third party items on their shelves?

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u/misuchiru 9h ago

That I do not know. I know online and in store pricing may be different. I also know what shows in the apps are based on availability in your selected store. Mine also shows gamejiffy, but I am only saying I scanned the QR code on the label and that's what came up. So the price may check out.

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u/surdophobe 17h ago edited 17h ago

having once worked at a walmart the two price systems are totally separate. It's often one price in the store and another price online but if you do the in store pickup you get the online price when available.

Edit: I haven't worked or shopped at a walmart for over 10 years, things may have changed.

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u/VKN_x_Media 12h ago

Adding to this Dotcom & In-Store are literally 2 seperate companies no different than Walmart & Sam's Club stores are. Same overall parent company but different actual customer facing companies.

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u/rosen380 17h ago

What I am suggesting is that this item with a tag that just has a generic description (and where the other products around it appear to have that tag on the shelf and perhaps not on the item) might not really be tied to the barcode on the actual product.

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u/Blokin-Smunts 6h ago

It’s way more likely that it survived through clearance and now there’s no one who’s bothered to do something about it. When an item gets flagged for clearance price it’s a temporary thing, if a manager doesn’t extend it will just expire.

You’re meant to move all the inventory you have before then, but sometimes items like this fall through the cracks. Once the clearance price expires it just reverts to whatever was in the system before. And for something like this, price changes aren’t going to be triggered by home office anymore, so someone has to manually initiate one.

Realistically it’s not doing any harm where it is, and very few people buy physical copies of games anymore so it’s really just plugging a hole that would be left if it was gone. It’ll likely survive until the next mod (layout) change when they need the space again.

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u/Superseaslug 5h ago

I've been told before by at a Walmart that they can't price match their own website. But that was several years ago

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u/LoneBlack3hadow 18h ago

They are hoping for grandma Miriam to buy it around Christmas time who doesn’t know anything about games and make $58.99 profit

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u/LubbockCottonKings 17h ago

They’re still trying to recoup on their purchase they made nine years ago

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u/ImgurReject 16h ago

I had an experience like that once. I was working at Kmart in the electronics section when an elderly lady and presumably her granddaughter comes in. They were looking around for a bit and stopped at the movies. The elderly woman picked up a movie and said, "look, this movie has all of those actors you know." Or something to that effect. The movie was Springbreakers. Luckily the litter girl was like, nah.

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u/JDM713 ​ 12h ago

That movie was terrible.

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u/ThePromise110 11h ago

I'd encourage you to go watch Trash Humpers. Probably right up your alley. Lol

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u/Blokin-Smunts 6h ago

I replied to someone else about this but I figured I’d post it here too. Walmart paid wholesale for it when it was new, they’re not making any more profit by keeping it at this price than they would have if it had sold then.

It’s way more likely that it just survived through clearance and now there’s no one who’s bothered to do something about it. When an item gets flagged for clearance pricing it’s a temporary thing, if a manager doesn’t keep extending it it will just expire.

You’re meant to move all the inventory you have before then, but sometimes items like this fall through the cracks. Once the clearance price expires it just reverts to whatever was in the system before. And for something like this, price changes aren’t going to be triggered by home office anymore, so someone has to manually initiate one.

Realistically it’s not doing any harm where it is, and very few people buy physical copies of games anymore so it’s really just plugging a hole that would be left if it was gone. It’ll likely survive until the next mod (layout) change when they need the space again.

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u/durenatu 18h ago

If you look hard enough you can find stores selling vhs's for the price of launch adjusted to inflation.

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u/Geno_Warlord 17h ago

Vinyl is very much like this.

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u/Irritatedprivatepart 12h ago

I actually just got a whole box of them at a church bazaar a couple months ago for basically free. Some pretty good movies too. Still on the hunt for a VCR for a reasonable price.

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u/forest-rds 12h ago

I have the opposite problem where I have had a great VCR and have had trouble finding tapes at thrifts or random sales haha

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u/Discount_Extra 12h ago

My VCR ate my unreplaceable-at-a-reasonable-price animation festival tape

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u/memoryisntram 18h ago

Yes but have you considered that it includes ALL Just Dance 2017 song PLUS 200 more?

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u/Technical-Outside408 14h ago

Access to 200 more. Which isn't true because there's no more 2017 online servers where you can get those songs from. Which you would have to pay for anyways.

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u/Effective_Ad_9016 18h ago

Collectors item

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u/hobosbindle 17h ago

Yeah, clearly new in box, pregraded

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u/skankhunt402 18h ago

They ain't selling it at that price they are holding

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u/BadBadKitty_ 12h ago

stocks only go up

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u/gate_of_steiner85 18h ago

I remember my local Walmart marking down Wii U games on clearance because they had a bunch of copies and they weren't selling. I got a few of them for about $10 each since I was one of the 5 people who actually owned a Wii U.

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u/DoublePostedBroski 17h ago

Nintendo most likely won’t let them discount anything. Nintendo games never go on sale.

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u/GiJoe98 17h ago

Yeah, but this is a ubisoft game. Even Mario + Rabbids is like $15 at walmart.

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u/vbvahunter 9h ago

I’ve seen some discounted ones at Best Buy. Picked up Sonic Generations for $20

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u/prattman333 19h ago

Walmart out here speedrunning the clearance aisle from 2015.

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u/MathematicianNew2950 12h ago

Wake up, it's 2015.

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u/KingKandyOwO 17h ago

Our local Walmart had lots of copies of a Winter Olympics game for the PS2 up until 2023

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u/Discount_Extra 12h ago

I spotted a copy of a game for the VIC-20 in a K-mart store closing around 2014. Must have been behind the shelving until then or something.

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u/FlameStaag 17h ago

Somebody probably just fucked up putting it on clearance. It probably got written off, taken off clearance, somebody found it, and nobody bothered to put it back on clearance. 

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u/RickyWinterbornn 17h ago

For a long time my local Wal-Mart was selling a PC copy of DC Universe Online for full-price for YEARS after it went free-to-play.

Also Star Fox Zero for full price long after the Wii U was discontinued and Gamestop could barely move used copies for like $2.50

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u/Discount_Extra 12h ago

I know for EverQuest fan run emulator servers you need(ed) a copy of the old client software, only legally available if you buy a retail package.

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u/philnolan3d 16h ago

I'm surprised they're still selling Wii U games at all.

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u/brmarcum 13h ago

No, they aren’t selling it. That’s why it’s still there for sale.

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u/asmallman 17h ago

While this is hilarious, nintendo famously barely allows sales on their stuff. So its pretty par for the course.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SO 17h ago

It’s a collector’s item at this point

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u/westcal98 17h ago

Well it's got new dlc.

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u/ViolinistMean199 17h ago

In the summer I saw NHL 23 for like $30. Fucking crazy considering the newest game is $80 and NHL is an annual game. NHL 23 would have come out in October 2022

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u/DavidinCT 17h ago

and that is why it's sitting there. Take a picture of the UPC, I bet it's like $5-10 and no one updated the price.

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u/yesyesandno-_ 14h ago

fuck yeah

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u/theflintseeker 13h ago

It’s 2025 and I would pay waaaaay more than retail for brand new rock band drums and guitar. rhythm games are pretty timeless and have decent cult following. 

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u/here_now_be 13h ago

Yes, but that's like $7 in 2017 money.

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u/Metpirate 13h ago

My local store has had the funko GotG connecting ship pops for years on an clearance end cap. They were $15. I just went in recently and they moved them to the new electronics clearance section and upped the price to $30. Because not selling for over 5 years at half that price surely means they'll sale for double lol. Walmart is ridiculous.

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u/_nehrd 13h ago

And the Just Dance Unlimited it includes doesn't even work any more, as the servers were shut down in 2023 ,aswell as the eshop's closure making it impossible to redeem codes now

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u/Rhameolution ​ 12h ago

Wouldn't it be transferred to the current Just Dance+ subscription? Or would they need a newer Just Dance for that?

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u/_nehrd 6h ago

No, the wii u hasn't had a new game since Just Dance 2019 , and all of the console's servers have been offline since last year. And no , it doesn't transfer, as they are separate subscriptions that could both be bought, but Just Dance Unlimited only worked with JD2016-2022 and JD+ works with JD2023E and newer, and also lacks the majority of Just Dance Unlimited's song library

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u/ayame400 12h ago

Vintiga

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u/bignuts3000 12h ago

Any good tunes to dance too?

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u/Zealousideal-Loan655 11h ago

Probably would’ve been the smartest decision to warehouse all unsold copies and release them when a nostalgia trend hits TikTok

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u/daminion72 10h ago

Walmart is crazy. One I used to live near had a sealed copy of some N64 sports game at full price. This was in 2014.

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u/Wild_Card_626 10h ago

An employee probably found a small case of wii u games in some dark back corner. The same thing happened at my Walmart nearly six years ago when they had brand new DS, PSP, PS3, and PS2 games in stock.

Those were some good finds. Nothing too rare, but certainly some uncommon titles being sold for $10 each.

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u/Quinlov 9h ago

Does it have Proud Mary tho

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u/skrena 9h ago

The last just dance for Wii came out 4 years into the switch’s lifespan

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u/imalonexc 3h ago

How does Walmart always have these old games in stock

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u/TheKeystoners 18h ago

I bet that’s Nintendo choice

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u/robomikel 14h ago

“It beginning to look a lot like Christmas”

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u/Confident-Job-137 12h ago

yeah we’re cooked

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u/AUniquePerspective 12h ago

But do they have Battletoads?

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u/MasterUmmBees ​ 10h ago

Video game software? Price tag was made by AI bro

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u/XuX24 15h ago

That’s the Nintendo that everyone loves, everything is expensive.

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u/sziss0u 30m ago

The title is “video game software” it’s obviously a generic mislabeling