Will Duke Nukem Forever be SHIPPED TO STORES in 2008?

@swat - How is this different than: http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/When_will_Duke_Nukem_Forever_be_released_86/view

Is the the release of the game and the shipping of the game not the same thing? I won't suspend in case I'm not understanding something.

shouldn't the other one be settled on the announcement of the release date?

jenniandboys, you have unwittingly stumbled upon the greatest stupidity of gaming.

a release date is a release date, that is the day a game will be shipped. This is not, however, a street date. That means if a game is released monday then it ships monday and hits stores tuesday. When I go to a gaming store they tell me that the street date is the following day and act like im stupid for coming to the store on the advertised release date, instead of the industry being stupid for not being able to have a game in stores when they said it will be "released".

As for they guy who wrote this question, don't be smug jerk. If you were an expert you would know there is 0% chance of this game actually hitting stores this year. It's been in development since before i could read, and doesn't even have a projected release date yet. When a date if finally announced it will be for next year most likely, and theres still the likely hood that it will be pushed back more than once. We're still not going to see this game anytime soon.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/02/04/daily17.html
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51163
http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showpost.php?p=654680&postcount=127

Interesting Krujis. If this question is based on that first link than it's certainly not good, as 3D realms basically retraced it completely:

"While we have internal targets, dates and goals, like every developer, we are not ready to share them. What's amazing about this is that the DBJ must have assumed that we'd actually announce a date to them, and not gaming press, and that even in the light of Scott's quote of "We can't make an official announcement.", the DBJ effectively did that. Lesson learned.

The release date is still 'when it's done', and will be until the appropriate moment. Platforms have not been finalized or announced. You can rest assured that we are moving toward a goal and that the recently released teaser trailer is the start of that process and seeing more of the game, sooner than later."

From all the years I've been reading about games "when it's done" is industry code for "Not anytime soon, that's for sure".

"before holidays"

guess when I had my last holidays ...

@Jenniandboys: There is a huge difference between this and the other question. A game can be assigned a release date that has absolutely no bearing to reality. DNF could be assigned a release date of next week, and get pushed back a dozen times. Look at Daikatana back in the day. Release dates exist to get pushed back.

Ship date, however, means the game has gone gold master, and the trucks leave the warehouse with the game. That can't be pushed back at all.

See the difference? It's not semantic at all.

I do not have any $H in this market.

I'm leaning in swatjester's direction, but, I've not made up my mind yet whether or not 'SHIP' and 'RELEASE' means the same thing in the gaming industry. Seems to me though that it is possible that release means 'released to the CD manufacturer for burning the CD's from the Gold Master'.

But in normal business speak, "released" means "released to the general public for immediate consumption", or words to that effect.

@swatjester
can you provide a link that describes the gaming industry jargon. That would help alot.

@all HD's..i know nothing on the subject. seems like swatjester and ironman know something about it. if ironman is correct in saying theres no way it gets to the stores this year...then theres a small fortune to be made or it needs voided. i'm guessing if it gets voided swatjester will not be very happy. goodluck all betters and admin.

p.s. nigel made the question jenni is referring to. maybe he can look into this one.

Is there even a slight chance of this happening?

no. easy money.

@cognos: "release date" means that the manufacturer has announced that this is the date that they expect to release the game. So for instance, if I were a publisher, I could announce a release date of January 15, 2015, tomorrow. That would mean that as of tomorrow, the game has a release date. However, that date can and probably will change a dozen times.

The "ship date" is the date that the final boxes are shipped to stores.