Do You Pre-Order?
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You hear it all the time, it’s practically crammed down your throat when you hit up Gamestop. How often do you actually pre-order a game that’s coming out and you plan on getting? Do you only do it for the one’s you NEED to play the second it’s out or just any game in general that way you know you’ll have a copy. There’s also the other side on which you get free stuff and have the need to pre-order a game that you’re not that interested in.
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I’ll totally pre-order a game if there’s a cool pre-order gift with it. Other than that, the only reason I’d have to pre-order a game is if it’s an obscure niche title because most retailers won’t stock games like that unless at least one person pre-orders one.
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Thats exactly what I do, I only do it for the little gifts but games really aren’t hard to find.
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There’s a lot of game stores in my area and I even worked at one. I’m a huge fan of niche stuff like R-Type and Guilty Gear games. I remember I went to a store and I was trying to see if they were getting Guilty Gear for the PSP and they were straight up like, “Nope”.
They said it was because game stores don’t usually get smaller titles like that unless someone pre-orders. Then, if at least one person pre-orders, the store might get 4 or 5 copies. Whereas if NO ONE pre-orders, they don’t get ANY copies. I thought they were just pulling my chain to try and get me to pre-order, so I didn’t. I went to the store the week that Guilty Gear for the PSP dropped, and they totally didn’t get it.
I wound up working for that game store later and, yes, it TOTALLY works that way. The only reason we got Odin Sphere and Persona 3 in stock was because a kid pre-ordered them. Same kid for each game, but without that one kid we wouldn’t have cool games in stock to recommend to people over crap like Madden and Cabella’s Deer Hunting.
Moral of the story: help the niche market and pre-order something.
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I don’t preorder, anything I want I can actually pick up at my local Super Wal*mart at midnight, that is if the person in that department actually has the 2 brain cells to click together. It worked for me for SSBB, Mario Kart Wii, GTA IV, and it will work for WiiFit as well. I know they have crappy service, but it is worth it to not be harassed by the chuds at the counter.
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haha you’re buying wiifit at midnight
Why do gamestores try so hard to push preorders anyways? It doesn’t really boost their numbers too much
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If the ratio of pre-orders to people who pick up their copy duringthe first week of the game’s release is good, then yeh.. it helps the numbers. Ever gamestop, eb, and gamecrazy gets their games from a shipping warehouse owned by their company. if a particular EB store in sioux falls idaho doesn’t get a lot of pre-orders, they don’t get a lot of games. less games = empty shelves = no money from customers. On the other hand, if an EB store in Seattle Washington gets a lot of pre-orders and the people actually pick up their copies of the game during release week, that stores gonna get more copies of that publisher’s next release.
the end.
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I pre-order thing if I think I am going to have a hard time getting them.
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