Any stores planning a midnight launch?

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I'm planning to attend Amazon's midnight launch. I'll be sitting in front of my PC from midnight and will be refreshing the screen every minute to track the tracking number all the way until UPS drops it off at my doorstep. I already have a huge cake waiting for the driver. Wooo, go GT5!!!
 
My local EBgames aren't having a midnight launch due to lack of pre-orders, only 30+ copies had been ordered mixed with standard, collectors and signature, they told me "Last time we had a midnight launch, only five people showed up!". Wouldn't hurt waiting a couple more hours though.
 
I just got back from my local EBGames, who also won't be having a midnight launch as there are a few less than 50 pre-orders. Apparently they do the midnight launch if there are more than 100 preorders.
 
dbarrade
I just got back from my local EBGames, who also won't be having a midnight launch as there are a few less than 50 pre-orders. Apparently they do the midnight launch if there are more than 100 preorders.
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I asked a few EB`s in sydney and got the same answer as yours 👎 Harass Harvey Norman,my local store said there is nothing confirmed but its 95% certain they will do a midnight launch 👍
 
wow, I'm kind of surprised that GT5 isn't getting as much preorders as I thought it would have! None of the Gamestops in my area are doing it because they all have less than 50 orders also!
 
have there been any commercials on tv for GT5 yet? (in the states i'm asking; I think Japan's got that "we love cars" bit)

I haven't watched any live TV (gotta love DVR) in a while so i don't know. i'm sure once those roll out a lot of folks will be pre-ordering. unless PD's waiting for us suckers to work out the glitches and start their mass-marketing around christmas :)
 
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I pre-ordered the standard edition of GT5 from newegg, I hope i will receive my copy on release date which is November 2nd or earlier. I hope they dont ship it on release day. Then I'll probably receive it Nov 5th or so.
 
From what im reading GT5 aint selling well thats odd because in my local game stop the CE has been sold out for months.

What do you guys think. =/

Yes my game stop has midnight release for GT5
 
I'm basing this on nothing at all.

But I'm guessing that pre-orders will almost double between now and launch. The hype has not started outside of the hardcore fans.

Edit: I guess I'll base it on something... GT5P is the 2nd best selling game in PS3 history with 4.56 million copies sold. Modern Warfare 2 is the only one that is higher at 4.77 million.
 
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Not that I know of in my area. Anyways why have these last few months taken so long? At least it's only two more days till it's released in Australia!
EDIT: Sorry, I meant its released in 1month 2days.
 
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Not that I know of in my area. Anyways why have these last few weeks taken so long? At least it's only two more days till it's released in Australia!
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You know its released in November and not October, so there's like 30+ days still.
 
Wal-Mart for me too...CE is useless for me, I just want the game.

Wal-Mart is quick, painless, and the closest store to my house that has GT5, a no brainer.
 
Zero_angel
From what im reading GT5 aint selling well thats odd because in my local game stop the CE has been sold out for months.

What do you guys think. =/

Yes my game stop has midnight release for GT5
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I guess its just all based on demographics. In my area, not many people play GT5 (that I know of) but play mostly Halo and whatever. The gamestop here had a midnight launch for Halo Reach, but not for GT5
 
Well my local GAME store should have a midnight launch as they do with EVERY big game.

However, I will pre-order as I pre-ordered FIFA 11 and got it a day earlier, whilst most of my friends set off at 10pm that SAME day planning to get there before midnight, whilst I was in my gameseat relaxing, drinking hot chocolate and playing....

Lets hope Im lucky as well this time round :sly:
 
there will be 1 in Brisbane that will do Midnight launch, they are still deciding which one it will be, they are all in big shopping centers, except there are a few that are not. 1 is Sunnybank area I think its called that will most likely be the one for midnight release
 
Pre-Ordered mine from Axel, they say they will be going by the proper release date of 3rd November, posting a couple of days before this, I had an order with Amazon.co.uk, but they put the release back like all the other UK retailers so screw them.

I have a per-order with my local game though, just incase that bloody volcanoe blows up again !
 
Hah! Lucky me! I called my local Gamestop, and got the manager. He said he'll probably do a midnight launch regardless of how many preorders there are (there's around 30 right now,) because he's been waiting on it himself, and he doesn't wanna wait to take home his own copy.

Sweet!
 
Teh_Loserer
Hah! Lucky me! I called my local Gamestop, and got the manager. He said he'll probably do a midnight launch regardless of how many preorders there are (there's around 30 right now,) because he's been waiting on it himself, and he doesn't wanna wait to take home his own copy.

Sweet!
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:lol: That is awesome.
 
Teh_Loserer
Hah! Lucky me! I called my local Gamestop, and got the manager. He said he'll probably do a midnight launch regardless of how many preorders there are (there's around 30 right now,) because he's been waiting on it himself, and he doesn't wanna wait to take home his own copy.

Sweet!
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Boo! the manager @ my local EB games doesn't want to have a midnight launch, although there's most likely 40+ since I pre-ordered... I'll wait till morning :)
 
I thing stores and midnight launches will be come a thing of the past in the not too distant future for two reasons.

1. The cost of the games from people like Amazon and Play.com is cheaper than the stores price

2. If, like me, you order from Amazon, there is more than a good chance you will get the game the day before official launch date. It happened to me with battlefield 2 and, more recently, F12010.
 
Talked to the guy at Gamestop tonight after work, ask him the golden question since I took that Tuesday off. He said most likely, but he won't know until corporate says. The bit of info that made me happy is he said there was a midnight launch for Dead Rising 2 and they only had about 30 copies reserved.
 
Amazon is offering release date delivery, so I did that. I have to work anyway, so hopefully it's waiting for me. (I'm feeling a cold coming on the 3rd and 4th....cough, cough). ;)
 
Oh dang, if Amazon is doing release date delivery, it might be worth buying from them instead of going out of my way to GameStop for store pick up.
 
My local EB isn't doing it. Their excuse: It's too close to Cod Black Ops and we want to do a midnight release for that instead :grumpy:👎
 
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Confirmation from any of the 5 area GameStops for a midnight release as of yet. There is always WalMart...
 

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