a lot of people are put off from placing pre orders for games as many stores now charge to pre order and the current economic climate is still not as secure as it was when the previous gen started, as i've seen plenty of times the big supermarkets have discounts on new games compared to game specific stores, when the 360 launched many games cost £50 yet ASDA (part of walmart in the UK) were charging less than £40 and no doubt it will be the same situation with many supermarkets offering games at lower than RRP prices which these game specific stores wont be able to do.
i still dont get how a game is considered poor due to low pre orders, all pre orders give is a rough estimate of how well the game could sell however when a game launches and it turns out to be good word of mouth soon spreads and the game starts flying off the shelf but even then is that still an indication of a good game just because its popular, many fantastic games get over shadowed by the more popular games.
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