From personal experience.....any store manager can actually hold a midnight launch for any game. Case in point I'll use demon soul's. Almost no one preordered it but the Manager put up a midnight launch. Only 2 people showed up and a few employees grabbed there own copy and he handed them out, grabbed his own personal copy and left. I happen to be friends with him and he said pretty that if there is a game he wants he'll do a mini 10 or 15 minute midnight launch grab it and go.
Don't know if they're actually allowed to do it, but the district manager was there XD so I'll take that as a yes.
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