Amazon.com announced today a program to ship games for arrival on their release date. You can now sneer at those folks who waited in line at GameStop for almost 20 minutes to receive the latest gaming industry created rogue rip-off or YAFPS (Yet Another First Person Shooter – thanks Cavtroop) while you slave away at work and watch UPS repeatedly try to deliver a game to your empty home via their tracking site. It’s only good on a couple of games right now, but expect more publishers to jump on board soon.
If you’re willing to pay an additional $5.98 in shipping, all this an dmore can be yours. Here’s the release from the big A itself.
Gamers have been asking for it and Amazon has answered the call. Amazon.com Inc. today announced that it will offer release-date delivery for “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09,” “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed,” “Fable 2” and “Gears of War 2.” For $5.98, Amazon customers can upgrade their shipping option for guaranteed delivery of these titles on the first day of availability to all addresses within the continental United States. Additionally, Amazon Prime customers will receive release-date delivery for free.
“We are excited to delight Amazon customers by offering guaranteed release-date delivery of these new video game titles so that the games can arrive at their doors the first day they’re available,” said Greg Hart, vice president of video games and software at Amazon.com. “This means that thousands of gamers across the country can start playing the games they love on the day they’re released without having to stand in long lines or stay up all night to do it.”
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June 29th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
It just seems completely unrealistic.
December 3rd, 2011 at 2:46 am
good post.s