Do you preorder games?

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Joelcool7 said:

Alright I am a major pre-order fanatic. But this happened gradually. I remember during the GameCube era I would show up to EBGames the day a game was coming out just to hear it was out of stock. I would spend a whole day trying to track the game down usually Walmart or Zellers would have the game in but sometimes I wouldn't find the game anywhere. Example Animal Crossing and HarvestMoon:AWonderfulLife both games I never got for about two weeks because they were always out of stock.

If that's the case wouldn't it just make sense to start at Wal-Mart or some other place?

I'm not trying to critisize, but Gamestop/EB orders only 1-2 extra copies of a game to make your preorder so they will run out.  Every other store doesn't do that so it would be pretty rare that you wouldn't be able to find a new game anywhere else.

I understand ordering a system or special edition, but most any normal game, there isn't much of a point.