Editorial: If Game Is Ready, Why Not Sell It?

Jeff Rubinstein of the Orlando Sentinel has a radical idea, while musing on the minor controversy of stores selling BioShock a week early. If the game is ready, why not sell it?

If a video game is complete and ready to go, shouldn't gamers be able to play it? The whole idea of "street dates" was thrown into disarray last Tuesday, as certain stores began to selling the highly anticipated game BioShock a week early. The news quickly spread via Digg.