Amazon Promises Release Day Delivery
Starting this week, with the release of EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour '09, Amazon.com is promising that videogames will be delivered to customers on the same day that they hit stores. This, they hope, will help to take some sales away from retail stores like GameStop and Wal-Mart. I know I always used to love it when my DVDs would arrive at my stoop on the actual release date.
"Amazon has always strived to deliver pre-ordered products to our customers as close as possible to the release date, if not on the release date," company spokeswoman Tammy Hovey said. "Customers have been asking for this option."
Well of course people want this option. Who wants to wait to play the game all their friends picked up at the store days ago? Not all videogames are going to be guaranteed for delivery on the release date, but the list of titles does include heavy-hitters like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Fable 2 and Gears of War 2. Oh, and the privilege does come at a cost. $5.98 shipping, to be exact. And don't forget — if you want to give this a shot, why not shop through the GayGamer.net store?
Amazon To Provide Game Titles On Release Date [Video Business]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 27 August 2008
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Name: Dave
Ok that is awesomeness! yays!!
Double extra awesomeness: it's free for Amazon Prime members. Too bad Spore isn't on the list.
Though I've never understood that if they can have this for books, CDs, DVDs, why not games? I mean, sometimes the brick-and-mortar stores don't even get them until a day or two after the release date. Shouldn't a release date be just that?