I grew up with going to these midnight releases and I always looked forward to going to them, celebrating with others and playing my favorite game till the wee hours of the morning. Gaming companies are even starting to make consoles that do not even have a disc tray to insert the game.
This all started with the current generation gaming consoles, but the next generation of gaming consoles will also have versions that are only allowed to have digital games on it with no disc trays. You will have a choice if you want the console with the disc tray or an all-digital version.
While it may seem like it makes getting games a whole lot easier, I will still always be more of a fan of having the physical copy of the game. It is kind of unfortunate that midnight releases are slowly being phased out. Kids today or in the future are never going to know the feeling of going out late at night and waiting in line with dozens, sometimes hundreds of others, to pick up your game.
The camaraderie formed during these times — being able to celebrate with others — will be lost. One of the most exciting parts of pre-ordering a video game is going to pick it up before any of your friends get it. You were able to hold onto those bragging rights over your friends that you got to play it first.
If everyone is pre-ordering the game digitally, then it is taking away from the excitement of venturing out into the night just to go get a video game. It is getting to the point where you either pre-order the game digitally or order the game off of Amazon and wait for it to arrive or go to your local retail store.
Regardless, a majority of retail stores do not let you pick the game up at midnight because chances are the store is closed at that point and even if the store is open they do not always put out the games at that hour of the night. If you are like me then you will still continue to try and get the physical copy of the game, at least for AAA titles. However, as technology improves digital gaming may take over the gaming industry one day. Madden Predicting the 99 Club members by Liam Gambon.
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It isnt standard at gamestop to do a 9pm release. In most cases midnight is still the standard. These items are no longer in production, so working copies become more valuable over time.
If you happen to have something relatively uncommon, then it will be worth even more. Gamestop cant take unopened games. Company policy. They had a problem with people stealing games from other stores and trading them in right away. For some reason, they think the extra step of having to open the game will make it so people wont do this. GameStop plans to continue to sell PSP games through its website.
Over time publishers became more and more reliant on sales figures. Today, one of the biggest causes why media is still being released on Tuesdays, is that the SoundScan sales data. They measure the number of weekly sales starting on Tuesday through to the following Monday, because that is the industry standard. Movies are released on Thursday in hopes of beating the Friday rush. This is to boost weekend Box Office numbers; boosting a movies ratings!
More money equals more reason for people to watch this movie! The video game industry is continually moving toward an all-digital landscape, but just a few short years ago, midnight releases were one of my favorite parts of being a gamer. When I was younger, my mom was never to keen on letting me attend midnight releases, as they usually fell on school nights. As such, I was often forced to wait until 3 p. However, once I had a car and a little bit more freedom, I would always go to midnight launches, usually at the mess of a company that is now GameStop.
When you went to a midnight launch, you were in good company. Every other person in that building was there for the same reason, they cared about whatever game you were picking up just as much as you did.
Nothing says brand new video game like a destroyed sleep schedule! One of the midnight releases that I look back most fondly upon is the Nintendo Switch launch. This one was a little weird. You had to lineup the day that the pre-orders came out to even get one I was there three hours ahead of opening time because I grossly misjudged how not difficult it would be to secure a pre-order , and then come back on launch day to get a number assigned to you which my mom had to do for me, I was working, shout out to her for that , and THEN come back that night to actually get the Switch.
My mom got me No. I really made my mother stand in a line with a bunch of nerdy adult men for no reason, huh? Back then, I was still running my little YouTube channel that no one cared about, so I made an unboxing video of the Switch and my special edition Breath of the Wild box for a whole three people to watch. Only then did I actually play the game non-stop while filming my let's play, of course until 4 a.
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