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Retailers breaking street date for Pokemon Diamond & Pearl?

Posted Apr 19th 2007 3:00PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Rumors

Reader blutrane wrote in to us to tell of his local game retail spot, GameBuzz, selling him a copy of Pokemon Pearl early. The store, which is located in Montreal, is apparently breaking the street date on the game, however upon checking their website, you can see the game is only available for pre-order. Also, without blutrane providing any pictures, we understand if you, fine reader, aren't willing to swallow all of this.

Have any of you seen a retailer breaking street date on Pokemon Diamond & Pearl? Have you seen them break street date on another game? Be sure to let us know!

Tags: diamond, ds, dslite, lite, nintendo, nintendods, nintendodslite, pearl, pokemon, pokemondiamondpearl

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1. From what I've heard from online friends, it seems that the "early release" is mostly occuring in Canada, although I haven't the slightest idea why this is prominently occurring in that area.

Posted at 3:45PM on Apr 19th 2007 by DJScythe17

2. Kinda makes me want to go in and bug the Gamestop manager who knows me by name. See what he knows, see if he can hook me up.

That, though, make me think maybe I should go to Gamestop less often.

Posted at 4:08PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Phil

3. So what are my odds of getting it tonight? I've got one game pre-ordered at Toys 'R Us, the other at an EBGames, in the land of bagged milk (Canada to the rest of you).

Posted at 4:16PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Donald

4. I heard of quite a few places breaking the date from friends.

I had mine on pre-order from an import site as I live in the UK and they sent mine out yesterday though it still won't arrive till like wednesday

Posted at 4:51PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Pris

5. My store said they are getting it like on a shipment Saturday night or so.

Posted at 4:58PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Tristan

6. I live in Toronto and can confirm some retailers are breaking street date. Just not EB, had to cancel my pre-order and get it from loblaws.

Posted at 5:05PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Vas

7. Play-Asia.com said they shipped my copies yesterday also.

I love it when this happens.

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 19th 2007 by robotama

8. My GameStop has them in but we aren't selling them, I just have my copy of Pearl already since I work there.

Posted at 6:00PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Steve

9. My favorite mom & pop store in NYC started selling them today. Woot! Think 6th St. and do some research.

Posted at 8:19PM on Apr 19th 2007 by a.j.

10. wow you could have asked for pictures like Gonintendo

http://gonintendo.com/?p=16455

i like the snide remarks here but not when its at my expense :S

Posted at 8:34PM on Apr 19th 2007 by blutrane

11. when I worked at Best Buy a few years back, I remember a friend and coworker accidentally broke a street date on a movie. best buy was fined 10k or something like that. My buddy was not fired but got a stern talking to. Breaking street dates happen sometimes.

Posted at 10:31PM on Apr 19th 2007 by The Phil

12. Some guy in South Carolina got one, too.
http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-forum-member-snags-pok-mon-pearl-early-31098.phtml

Posted at 11:15PM on Apr 19th 2007 by Chris

13. It seems there are always a handful of stores breaking street on every major release, but none of them are ever anywhere near me. :(

Posted at 8:08AM on Apr 20th 2007 by Brandon

14. I went to my local walmart (in Idaho) this morning and they were already selling it. They had loads of copies and I just walked up and bought one. Even though their was a sign in another part of the store that said it was coming on the 22nd! Sweet!!

Posted at 1:13PM on Apr 20th 2007 by mb3

15. I do'nt think it's technically breaking street date, but I'm playing the American version of Diamond right now. I ordered it from Buy.com about a month ago, and they just shipped it to me today.

Fun so far, can't wait to find some wifi folks to trade with!

Posted at 11:36PM on Apr 20th 2007 by KanedaX

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