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Editorial: If Game Is Ready, Why Not Sell It?

Jeff Rubinstein of the Orlando Sentinel has a radical idea, while musing on the minor controversy of stores selling BioShock a week early. If the game is ready, why not sell it?

If a video game is complete and ready to go, shouldn't gamers be able to play it? The whole idea of "street dates" was thrown into disarray last Tuesday, as certain stores began to selling the highly anticipated game BioShock a week early. The news quickly spread via Digg.

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Published: 862 days 5 hours ago | News | Xbox 360 | Gaming | PC

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alexander22rednaxela - 862 days 5 hours ago

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Retailers like predictability.

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xbox360elitegamer - 862 days 5 hours ago

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I agree with the article, if the game is ready they should release it so people can buy it, so people don't have to wait long.

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crck - 862 days 4 hours ago

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3 - Stupid article

Its to make sure all retailers have them in stock at the same time. It wouldn't be fair and I'm sure companies would hear plenty of complaints if store chain A routinely got their stock first before store chain B. A big Duh... goes to the writer.

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PS360WiiRocks - 862 days 4 hours ago

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Yep. You're dead on. Although I wish I could get it now rather than later.

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Seraphim - 862 days 4 hours ago

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Even with a firm street date NOT ALL retailers have games in stock on release day. Where I live all to often games aren't on shelves until Wed-Fri of that week. And in the case of smaller published titles like those of NIS, Atlus, and even some Capcom, Konami, etc games it takes even longer than that to get them on retail shelves often.

In general I think the distribution process and street dates for gaming is already broken enough. So why not ship the game for release whenever it actually reaches retailers? If the games ready and there they might as well put it on retail shelves and sell it...

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Nicosia - 862 days 4 hours ago

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One thing that they should keep it on the original date is that THEY NEED TO PROMOTE THE HECK OUT OF IT.

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Waffle-boy - 862 days 2 hours ago

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...true. They need to create hype and want for it. If people are already playing that gets harder, in a way... I guess... :p

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ElementX - 862 days 3 hours ago

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Retailers have ads printed in advance, along with in-store displays which state a specific release date.

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bishop-br - 862 days ago

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It's not a question of the games getting ready or no... If devs have free will to launch a game once he thinks it's good enough, maybe the games would get even more time... I don't remember if was a dev from Ratchet And Clank or from Heavenly Sword, or Lair or whatever (it was a PS3 game as far as I remember), but some guy say a few days "you just never have enough time to get out all the bugs or to refine the gameplay"...

I mostly agree with this guy. Many games out there, in fact most games, always have some issue, something if you go to a dev and ask him what he would change in his game he'll have a immediate answer. I think we just don't wait even more because developers have dates to reach, even needing to delay those dates sometimes.

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