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darthdevidem01 on 21 November 2010

UK Retailer Dedicates All Employees to Handle GT5 Orders

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UK retailer ShopTo.net tells INC Gamers they’re bringing in all warehouse employees over the weekend to handle what they’ve described as possibly their “biggest ever pre-order”:

“We are very confident that we can fulfill all orders for release day. All our warehouse staff are coming in over the weekend and working double shifts. [...] Over the weekend they will only be working on GT5.”

If you haven’t pre-ordered the game yet and want to add to ShopTo’s workload (I’m sure they won’t mind!), do it now and you’ll be eligible towin their “Supreme Supercar Experience” giveaway.

http://www.gtplanet.net/uk-retailer-dedicates-all-employees-to-handle-gt5-orders/

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I felt it being their "Biggest ever pre-order" was more significant than all staff JUST handling GT5 orders over the weekend.

Either way without ZERO marketing in the UK so far...it seems GT5 will still be huge if shopto is anything to go by (shopto.net had become extremely popular in recent years)...lets hope its a similar scene across retailers in the UK.



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RageBot on 21 November 2010


Bet with Dr.A.Peter.Nintendo that Super Mario Galaxy 2 won't sell 15 million copies up to six months after it's release, the winner will get Avatar control for a week and signature control for a month.

Scruff7 on 21 November 2010
darthdevidem01 said:

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I felt it being their "Biggest ever pre-order" was more significant than all staff JUST handling GT5 orders over the weekend.

Either way without ZERO marketing in the UK so far...it seems GT5 will still be huge if shopto is anything to go by (shopto.net had become extremely popular in recent years)...lets hope its a similar scene across retailers in the UK.

that is so true. I haven't seen anything on TV or elsewhere and it's released next week!



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Attoyou on 21 November 2010

Not bad for a Dead Franchise/Dead genre On a system where exclusives cant possibly outdo their predecessors.



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darthdevidem01 on 21 November 2010
Scruff7 said:
darthdevidem01 said:

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I felt it being their "Biggest ever pre-order" was more significant than all staff JUST handling GT5 orders over the weekend.

Either way without ZERO marketing in the UK so far...it seems GT5 will still be huge if shopto is anything to go by (shopto.net had become extremely popular in recent years)...lets hope its a similar scene across retailers in the UK.

 

that is so true. I haven't seen anything on TV or elsewhere and it's released next week!

It is absolutely SHAMEFUL of SONY to do this to GT5....but oh well....



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dunno001 on 21 November 2010

My guess is that because of the car giveaway, preorders are going to be heavily skewed toward ShopTo. Not to say that other retailers aren't going to be working their butts off too, but I think the prospect of winning a new car sounds pretty good...



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darthdevidem01 on 21 November 2010
CGI-Quality said:
Attoyou said:

Not bad for a Dead Franchise/Dead genre On a system where exclusives cant possibly outdo their predecessors.

I hear ya, but Sony really does need to up the marketing. I'm thinking they will just after launch, but that seems like a lackluster decision. They should be pushing this like Nintendo pushes the next Mario/Microsoft pushes the next Halo.

I still expect an enormous opening in EMEAA first week though.

Maybe they expect GT5 to be a slow burner

I mean I think SONY might amp up marketing in december so GT5 has a steady run to the end of the year



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snakenobi on 21 November 2010

hope it is

this game deserves them

 

Sony will market this game entire holidays,don't worry

 

it will be their Gift of the season thing

 

everybody will be buying it in december



Chairman-Mao on 21 November 2010

Awesome! I hope more stores are like this to prove the GT skeptics/haters wrong.



snakenobi on 21 November 2010
dunno001 said:

My guess is that because of the car giveaway, preorders are going to be heavily skewed toward ShopTo. Not to say that other retailers aren't going to be working their butts off too, but I think the prospect of winning a new car sounds pretty good...


what car giveaway?

 

they have a raceday experience

 

the SLS AMG giveaway is for everybody with a signature editions all over the world not just shopto.net