Why games released on tuesdays

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Popular on BI. Latest Stories. Having said that, their releases usually arrive on a truck the week before. Wait, are you asking what was released on tuesdays? Games are released in the UK on Fridays which is nice because then you have the whole weekend to play the game. The only problem is that is that people in the US get the games on Tuesday and they're playing while we just have to wait around. PenguinDust : Not really Stores usually have a game in stock days usually the Friday before it comes out before its actually out which is the reason why many people end up having games before its out.

I remember the backroom stocked Final Fantasy 13 2 weeks before it came out. Please Log In to post. Bring back the main forum list. Use your keyboard! But Sonic 2sday implemented a method to the madness. But the point of the global launch wasn't to dazzle with concept; the point was that the concept created connection. Normally, with games released at different stores on different days, customers couldn't help but feel like these things sort of fell out of thin air.

But to know the exact date that something would be arriving, to have it circled on the calendar ahead of time, gave the gift of anticipation. It was a marketing ploy, yes, but it worked in the same self-fulfilling way as a blockbuster film did. They're not called "blockbusters" just because of their budgets; rather, it's because of the event-like, don't-be-left-out way that they are marketed, which makes people rush to the theater for the opening weekend, which then makes more people rush to the theater when they hear how big that opening weekend was.

The art of the blockbuster is that it popularizes something before it even exists, and though Sonic 2 was still months away from completion, Sonic 2sday gave [former Sega North America CEO Tom Kalinske] and company an opportunity to unleash the biggest blockbuster the videogame world had ever seen. Releasing games on Tuesday is now the industry standard in the US, all thanks to a little video game punnery.

But it's not the only industry to do so. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.