If you want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry cause it's going fast. Rumors about the purported release of Super Mario Galaxy are scorching the internet tonight like a California wildfire. In particular, the GameFaqs' thread on the cosmically inclined plumber's new adventure is poppa loppin' with hot tips on where you can pick up your own copy, today. Best Buy seems to be your best bet at the moment with beleaguered retail foot soldiers neither caring about nor understanding the policy of street dates on high profile titles.
Unfounded rumors like this happen every time a big game slouches toward the Bethlehem of our entertainment centers. But I do recall an incident in recent memory in which Toys "R" Us let some copies of Bioshock trickle out early to meandering misanthropes with the insistence and skill to properly badger their employees. I'm tempted myself to stay up all night and go blow my Christmas shopping money just so I can snag a copy. Sorry, family. Looks like coal in your stockings again this year. You know I love you, right? Who can blame me when there's a new Mario game to play ... in outer space!
What do you think? Is all the hullabaloo true? Are you going to assault your local electronic stores in droves when they open this morning, or are you too busy with your nose to the grindstone inside the aperturistic delights of The Orange Box? If you succeed, please share your triumph with us. Pics or it didn't happen.
[Via GoNintendo]
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5:22 AM on 11.08.2007
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Because people in the UK are BRITISH. They LOVE rules.
:D
If the game is done and Nintendo wanted it to be in stores, hence shipping it, and if the store wants to sell it to me, hence they being called "stores", and I want to buy it, hence me being a fan of past Mario games, why should a "street date" get in the way of all that?
If Nintendo didn't want me to buy it yet, then why did they send it to the store already? Why is it better for me to wait until the 12th to play this game if I could be playing it now? Does Nintendo think for some reason that selling the game a few days earlier will result it poorer sales?
If Best Buy is selling early, it's their failing as a distributor and they need to answer for it.
Besides, sesame street sucked. 3-2-1 Contact was the real deal.
So. Walk in casual. Ask if they have some in the back. hope that they don't understand street dates in your area.
Wal/K Marts might be a safer bet. Just considering the concept.
hack the planet.
"Street dates = mindless rules at their worst."
No. No. Fail. I would like to know when the game is coming out and have a fair chance at getting the game just like everyone else. Stores receive the game ahead of time so there aren't any problems with having it in stock for the release date.
"Oh noes! Why can't I has my game? Oh, the game was shipped at the very last minute and there was a problem (car crash, snakes, terrorists, zombies, etc)."
Employees in retail such as Wal-mart, Target, Gamestop and wherever else have to wait until the street-date just like everyone else. And they are the ones who should feel teased anyway.
Work in retail, my friend.
Anyhow, I think I'll stop by Best Buy on my way home from work today. I don't own a Wii (and am not that into Mario) but this would be a hell of a surprise present for my younger bro.
I'm sure the game is cool, but I'm also sure that Mass Effect will be teh awesomer (truthiness!)
So this definitely isn't Best Buy flexing its muscles and letting the game go early. This is one or two ignorant media associates who randomly see a new game in the back and put it out on shelves.
Like in this case, people hear that Best Buy is selling the game early, so everyone goes and buys it there, and then there's no one left for the other stores to sell the game to when the date comes. Everyone else is sitting on stock they can't move and shaking their fists at Best Buy.
Imagine the Olympics letting runners start the race as soon as they show up to the track. It would be over by the time the last guy got there. Why should he not have the same chance to win because his truck was late? That's why they start races (and game releases, if you're not following my metaphor) like they do. Street dates are the commercial starting gun.
I'm also with the camp of "if they have it, they should sell it." Waiting to sell a game until some magical date and time is just dumb IMO. I really don't understand what it helps or hurts. Perhaps it creates... hype or buzz? Bah to that.