The whole "so many pre-orders you may not get a copy" line is so BS.

GameStop ships to each store enough copies to cover 1.5x the number of pre-orders.  So if they have 10 pre-orders, they get shipped 15 copies.  20 pre-orders?  30 copies.  It's a formula that they always follow, except for the biggest of games that they know will have extra long legs, then they'll ship even MORE copies (particularly Madden - that's a heavy walk0in title).  So if they have a lot of pre-orders, you're MORE likely to get a copy if you haven't pre-ordered.

Now, for niche games like Atlus's stuff, you probably wanna reserve.  But even then, I remember our store got in like 6 copies of record of Agarest War (the big box with the mouse pad and everythign) despite having maybe one reserve.  We couldn't find a way to sell 'em all.

Reserves are totally unnecessary these days.  I only do it for the free shit.

makes sense to me unless your getting some really cool crap with the preorder but even then you could probably wait it out

Cliff is always honest.