Amazon starting release date delivery on certain games

Flay · 08-26-08, 03:47 PM

Saw a blurb about this at 1up. Good to know for those that like their games immediately. It costs $6, strangely cheaper than two-day or overnight shipping. It's "free" for Amazon Prime peeps. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169582

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Amazon has announced that they will now be offering release day delivery for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Fable 2, and Gears of War 2. During checkout, customers can choose to upgrade their shipping to 'Release-Date Delivery' for $5.98 to guarantee that they get the game on the day it comes out, while Amazon Prime customers will receive the upgrade for free.

For those looking to order a new release from the web and play it the day it's released, this is the best deal we've seen. In comparison, ground shipping (three-plus days) from GameStop is $5.99, two-day is $6.99, and overnight is $9.99. The other options for Amazon customers are the free super saver shiipping (five to nine days), standard shipping for $4.49 (five business days), two-day shipping for $8.98, and one-day shipping for $15.48.

Fable 2 LE is on sale right now at Amazon for $66.99 for those that purchase LEs.

MJG87 · 08-26-08, 03:59 PM

Oh how I love Prime! Too bad with the NYC tax though still.

fumanstan · 08-26-08, 03:59 PM

I imagine they must have done really well with the Madden release being delivered "day of" which probably inspired them to do this for other games.

Liver&Onions · 08-26-08, 04:00 PM

i'll keep my super saver and see how much difference in speed there is

fujishig · 08-26-08, 04:03 PM

They've actually been doing this for a while. Besides Madden, I think there's at least a couple of other "release date" games that they offered (Soul Calibur IV maybe?)

bunkaroo · 08-26-08, 04:42 PM

Hmmm - this could be a nice change from the usual, which is the game hasn't even shipped on release day.

Seriously, I don't know if it's my region or not, but I've had to cancel many pre-ordered games from Amazon as they had not even entered Shipping Soon on the day of release. And these are pre-orders I had in for months and months.

At least it sounds like this won't be the case with TFU.

Michael Corvin · 08-26-08, 04:45 PM

I'm going to take the glass is half empty stance. The regular shipping isn't that bad. I can see them getting into a situation where they start holding orders that don't pay for this 'upgrade.'

Groucho · 08-26-08, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Flay

Fable 2 LE is on sale right now at Amazon for $66.99 for those that purchase LEs.

Wow...I was originally going to get the regular edition, but for only 7 bucks more -- why not?

buckee1 · 08-27-08, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by MJG87

Oh how I love Prime! .

Same here. I went in for the DOR shipping for STFU and can't wait to get my hands on the whole game! I have it coming on PS2/PS3 & PSP so, the kids & I will be busy for a minute or two! Before you ask, the kids play on the PS2 and the PSP and the PS3 are solely my domain.

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bunkaroo DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 11,867	Hmmm - this could be a nice change from the usual, which is the game hasn't even shipped on release day. Seriously, I don't know if it's my region or not, but I've had to cancel many pre-ordered games from Amazon as they had not even entered Shipping Soon on the day of release. And these are pre-orders I had in for months and months. At least it sounds like this won't be the case with TFU.