A question many are wanting to know

[Nikali3990]

I have always wonder why games can't be sold early if a store has it in stock and i have been wondering this for a very long time....so if anyone could seriously help me....it would be much appreciated

[ThePaska]

Simply because they have a certain release/sell date. They get the games a week or two early so that they will definately have them by that date and can stock the shelves.

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[Nikali3990]

Simply because they have a certain release/sell date. They get the games a week or two early so that they will definately have them by that date and can stock the shelves.


But if they had them tho....why do the companies make stores pay a fee if they sell early.....why would it matter.......

[Eman311]

It's really just a standard. Say a game like Two Worlds got released early at certain stores. Word would've spread that it sucked huge amounts of suckage, and it would've hurt overall sales. Now a game like Halo 3 obviously won't be getting much bad press, so there is much less to worry about, but you can't have double standards across the industry. Plkus what The Paska said.

[DShiz1029]

Its all contract...no excuses. Its stupid, I know, but still. You sign a contract for a specific date and you cannot break that contract.

[Nikali3990]

I would like to teabag to whoever signed that damn contract....lol

[holyground]

It's not just video games that have release dates: it's any media. Companies have release dates for a variety of reasons, not just bad ones. look at it this way: when do movies "usually" come out? Friday.

When do dvds and games come out? Tuesday. It used to be because of shipping requirements, but now, with multinational shipping corporations, it's kind of just tradition. But there are still street dates for a variety of reasons, uniformity is the biggest one. Companies like to track their sales and it's much simpler for them to say, "hey my stuff went on sale the 20th and we can track sales from that day on"

They're not trying to screw us over by making us wait. If anything, it's the internet that's messed us over: because we have so much information, we're so excited and want the thing now: I remember back in the day being surprised when I walked into a babbages. Now I only go to the store to pick up a pre-order or some other game I knew was out.

It's an interesting delema.

on a side note: does anyone browse through a game store anymore?

[DShiz1029]

It's not just video games that have release dates: it's any media. Companies have release dates for a variety of reasons, not just bad ones. look at it this way: when do movies "usually" come out? Friday.

When do dvds and games come out? Tuesday. It used to be because of shipping requirements, but now, with multinational shipping corporations, it's kind of just tradition. But there are still street dates for a variety of reasons, uniformity is the biggest one. Companies like to track their sales and it's much simpler for them to say, "hey my stuff went on sale the 20th and we can track sales from that day on"

They're not trying to screw us over by making us wait. If anything, it's the internet that's messed us over: because we have so much information, we're so excited and want the thing now: I remember back in the day being surprised when I walked into a babbages. Now I only go to the store to pick up a pre-order or some other game I knew was out.

It's an interesting delema.

on a side note: does anyone browse through a game store anymore?

I do! :D

I will spend 30 minutes to an hour just hanging out in my local Gamestop, chatting with my buddies who work there and just lookin around at the games.

[McDeezy]

I do! :D

I will spend 30 minutes to an hour just hanging out in my local Gamestop, chatting with my buddies who work there and just lookin around at the games.

That's what I did and the hired me. I was like WOOT

[DShiz1029]

I wouldnt want to work for Gamestop though. I did however used to work for an independent game retailer. We went out of buisness, but it was a fun job.

[Rock_Starman]

But someone always manages to get one early,then it ends up on the internet,then companies complain and other people complain too because they can't have it when someone else does.

[Rock_Starman]

Case in point: http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/11/10/k-mart-lets-mass-effect-slip-ten-days-early/

I should take this article to Futureshop. They advertise "Get it first".