I just returned from my local GameStop and had a very interesting conversation with the manager; apparently 95% of the Killzone 2 midnight launches have been cancelled, surprisingly the late-night openings for Halo Wars are still on. His guess at why this was happening was that there just weren't enough pre-orders to justify most of the stores opening. I live in a city of 250,000 and there is only one GameStop store in the area still doing a midnight launch for Killzone 2, apparently around 10 were originally planned.
This whole situation comes as a bit of a surprise considering all the talk by Playstation 3 fans about the huge pre-order numbers that the upcoming Sony exclusive is supposedly producing. I understand that times are tough financially and GameStop corporate has to cut things that aren't making financial sense, is Killzone 2's success one of those unneeded things? Considering GS is the largest video game retailer in the country this could definitely have an impact on the game's sales, especially when the same company is doing a midnight launch for the Xbox 360 exclusive less than a week later. What's the story at your local GameStop, is this something that is happening all over the country? Let us know in the comments or by sounding off in our forums (click here).
