I Predict 1st Wk Sales for EA Sports Active > Punch Out + Boom Blox Party

[Zucas]

FreeTalkLive said:

Zucas said:

dahuman said:
I guess it's EA then =_=

No it's the retailer's fault.  They order how many they want to put in their stores and warehouses.  EA, like all publishers/distributors, will sell them to the retailers and they will have them in their warehouses.  Then the retailers put them out on the designated "street dates".  Not EA's fault as they probably shipped them the game to their warehouses at least a few days ago.  More than likely the retailers haven't gotten them out of their warehouses and sent to the stores or the regional stores haven't put them on the shelves (highly unlikely). 

Majority of the time, publishers/distributors aren't going to miss their shipments.  Usually it's the retailer's fault if the game is not on shelves at the designated street date.

 

The release date is only meant for big games.  Regular games are usually in stops 1-2 days after release dates.  Punch Out!! is a big enough game to be on store shelves on the actual release date.  Boom Box isn't.

 

NO.  Just no.  Publishers/Distributors sell the games to retailers.  They ship it to them before their proposed release dates.  After that it's up to the retailer to get it from warehouses to the shelves.  If you think about it, it's detrimental for a publishers/distributor to not have it in retailer hands before the release date. 

It is almost never going to be teh publisher/distributors fault that a game is late.  Now a retailer might not have it out there by the time of the release date for something like you said but usually it's not because of the size or magnitude of the release. Usually just something messed up between warehouse to retailer or the retailer managers not getting it on the shelves.