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Nintendo ships games on Mondays
Locutus Zero
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How come Nintendo ships its games on Mondays but you can never find a store willing to sell you a new game on Monday? Best Buy and Walmart say it goes on sale tomorrow and Target wants me to wait till Thursday.
wtf?
wtf?
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If it's shipping, doesn't it take time to get to the store?
I really doubt they are shipping all their games one day before they go retail.
You're wrong
Because that's exactly what happens many times. When you see a ship-date (which is clearly different from a release date) you can expect to usually find the game in EBStop the next day when their shipment comes in.
I miss that thread.
Dunno why, sure, but with games release date usually translates to ship date which usually means, for a monday date, games won't show til late/midday tuesday, might not get shelved til Wed.
Shouldn't be surprising.
Because the stores have to pay for shipping and they're not going to pay for same day. And Nintendo actually ships LATER then they could, most companies would have had it out the week before.
Pokemon D/P is shipping on the 16th but there's a street day of the 22nd for it, too. Nintendo has much shittier shipping then other places.
Not if they use the transporter.
I. Hate. You.
That's because they're referring to a street date. Most places get CDs and DVDs in several days before they can actually sell them. Most video games don't have street dates, just shipping dates.
Again, if they pay for next day shipping. They're really cutting back on that recently. Any budget titles or "not hot" titles get regular shipping so you have to wait a week or more for them to get in.
For whatever reason the CD and DVD industries have set a universal date (Tuesday) that new product is released. The product is actually shipped to the store days, sometimes even weeks before hand.
The video game industry is different, since they ship out their stuff whenever they feel like it (usually early in the week), but when it arrives is anyone's guess.
Well that answers that conundrum.
That's pretty fucked up. Make the game industry look like the minor leagues compared to the record industry. Hell, comic books might get pushed back all the time, but at least they have a standard street date.
That's what I said, silly head!
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Is it tho? That means (sort of) the games get out as soon as the store gets them whereas with CD's etc it's a few days after.
Games get rock star shipping.
I blame EbStop/Best Buy/etc... for listing a ship date on their websites. They should just list a release date, which is when the game will actually be in stores or hypothetically arrive if you ordered via the internet. That's what the movie and CD industry does.
EDIT: Gosh, I'm late.
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I'd rather wait a week or so longer and KNOW when I can go get it instead of playing a damn guessing game until I find it.
And on some big releases (Halo 2), they arrive in time for a specified release, so it's not like it CAN'T be done...
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Games: We ship it out the day we say we will, so you can buy it as soon as it gets to the store.
I like the games version more. Popular games use the everything else policy of shipping things a week or two early then holding them until release date. then shit happens where people sell them early then everyone gets pissed and in trouble.
Haven't many stores already recieved their initial allotment of Pokemon games, for at least a week now?
I want my papery waggle, damn it!
I remember when about every single store jumped the date for Super Mario Advance 4 (Mario 3). Must have pissed them off.
And you'd think that SPM might be released BEFORE Easter, so people would buy it to play over the long weekend, rather than after, when... they won't.
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Games usually come out Tuesday. Often they are shipped the day before. Sometimes they're shipped much earlier and stores hang onto them for a week or so. Who the fuck cares?
So this thread is just a summary of 'lack of patience'?
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Because they're not always available on Tuesday. Since games are shipped so late, the tiniest hiccup in the shipping process can delay it.