A Happy Tuesday is any Tuesday that a new video game hits the store shelves. For years they (whoever they happened to be) have trained us video gamers that new games come out on Tuesday, and for the most part games would be on the shelf sometime late Tuesday morning or afternoon (depending on when the UPS truck delivered to the store). On rare occasion one store wouldn't get a game until Wednesday but ever other store in the area would have it.
Lately the last couple times I've tried to purchase a game on release day the clerk looks at me funny and says something to the effect of "You fool, we don't get that till tomorrow." I then mutter something about "Games are suppose to come out on Tuesdays" and they are like "No, games ship on Tuesday." So now they must be trying to re-train me. I don't know how well that's going to work.
Gears of War should have been out yesterday. I didn't even try to get it, figuring it's such a big release that there will be copies everywhere today(Wednesday). So at lunch I head over to a strip mall near work where there is an EB games and a sub shop. I swing into EB and ask the guy behind the counter if he has Gears. The clerk just about broke down into tears. I don't think anyone has said anything to that guy today other then "Do you have Gears of War?"
Well suppliers, distributors, publishers and the UPS truck driver, we want our new releases on Tuesday. So I suggest that you do what it takes to make sure the actual disks are in the store Monday night when they lock up. So come Tuesday morning I have something to look forward to instead of calling all the EB/Gamestop/Best Buy/Circuit City within 20 miles to find out where the UPS truck has been.