| zorg1000 said: You dont think the CEO of one of the largest video game retailers gets release info before consumers do? |
I would say so in the vast majority of cases ...
Just because you're head of the largest chain in just a single region doesn't mean that in the eyes of the publishers that your establishments will be more privileged compared to the other running chains ... (Heck, why would the likes of Nintendo share internal schedule with just the top brass at Gamestop or even divulge any specific plans to anyone else before the public knows ?)
Only the developer or publisher know when the game will go exactly gold or not so it's not as if game retailers will know before hand that a game will be delayed compared to the rest of the customers ...
The line get's even blurrier between retailers and individual customers when publishers themselves are retailing digital copies so at that point there's hardly any difference between the two when the physical retailer is just reselling ...
