by RMGreen
From what I have understood by listening to Colby talk about it on the podcast, once the games enter the country they are first sent to the fulfillment company. PHG pre-orders will be shipped out directly to customers from there.Non-PHG pre-orders (or, everything destined for retail) are then shipped out to various distributors. Those distributors then process the games and send them out to individual retailers. Finally the retailers can then process their games and put them on shelves and send them out to customers. So in the end, the PHG pre-order deal skips two shipping and processing steps, which I would think would add up to a non-trivial amount of time.