We just got the e-mail today. My store, as well as four others in the New Orleans region (making 5 out of 15) will be doing a midnight launch.
Here are the store numbers:
3880 - Mine on Veterans in Metairie.
0158 - The one in Lakeside Mall (the busiest in our region).
2870 - The one in Elmwood in front of the Super Wal-mart (second busiest).
2916 - No idea where this one is.
5853 - No idea either.
As usual, any store with over 100 pre-orders is doing a midnight release, and any store that doesn't have over 100 reserves but is near a store from a competing chain that will be doing a midnight release will also be doing a midnight release.
In our specific case, we're near a Best Buy. Our store is less than a year old, and doesn't have the customer base to get near 100 reserves on ANY game, let alone this. But the Best Buy is doing a midnight launch, thus we are as well.
And I'm laughing out loud at all the people that made threads and/or posted multiple times about how employees at their GameStop said there would be no release at any store. I said the entire time that this is done by a case-by-case basis, and is usually announced closer to release.
