My past experience suggests that it seems often the title itself makes a difference.
Take something like a big hit Star Wars title or Battlefront. These games are actaully in the stores, on the shelves on release day. In the US this is invariably a Tuesday. Any big movie or music CD is also avaliable on the day they say it is.
By contrast, my beloved sims like IL-2, any and all sub games I've ever purchased and any other game that seems to be not as well known tends to be held back for days. Some of the local stores don't get it in till a week after it was "released". (IL-2 46 was one of the worst, incidentally, with the US shipments coming in far later than expected for those few online stores offering in the US) I've never really understood why it tends to go this way. Maybe the bigger games have more money to spread for shipping to stores, or maybe the stores themselves spend more money to ship it overnight so that they will have it, knowing a lot of sales will be lost if they don't have it on the first day. But for our little niche, they don't really feel it's a big loss (how many times I walk in and say "Do you have x sim?" and they reply "Um...what's that?").
Anyway, Amazon still has not sent me confirmation of shipping. Can't blame Neal, don't blame Neal, happy to support Neal, but you'd think such a large store as that would get it in the mail today. There's still time left. I cross my fingers. (any lucky traditions in the navy that can be performed at home that would get this here faster? Apeasements to Neptune? Anything?)
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