GameStop Breaks LittleBigPlanet Vita Street Date

<p>Have you been waiting on the edge of your seat to play <em>LittleBigPlanet<&sol;em> for the Vita&quest; Can&&num;8217&semi;t wait a second more and just have to have it now&quest; Are you American&quest; Well&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re in luck as American games retailer GameStop have broken the street date for the title and are selling it now&period; As in&comma; right now&period; This very second&period; Two whole weeks before its official release date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How is this possible&quest; Well&comma; according to a Gamestop employee questioned by The Escapist&comma; the game never had a street date to begin with&period; There wasn&&num;8217&semi;t one in the store computer and this allowed the store to start selling it immediately&period; This was backed up by a statement that Sony gave to Game Informer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Production on <em>LittleBigPlanet<&sol;em> PlayStation Vita was completed earlier than expected and due to the excitement from our retail partners&comma; we have moved from a street date to a launch date&comma; which means that retailers can sell the game once they receive product&period; However&comma; please rest assured that <em>LittleBigPlanet<&sol;em> PlayStation Vita will be available at all retailers on September 25&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; none of the servers for the game&comma; as of writing&comma; are actually online and operational&period; Meaning that users can&&num;8217&semi;t play levels with their friends&comma; access their friend&&num;8217&semi;s created levels or upload any of their own&comma; and basically miss out on half of the game for a bit&period; The interesting part&comma; now&comma; will be seeing if any other retailers follow GameStop&&num;8217&semi;s lead and just release the game when they get their shipments&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s an interesting strategy on the part of Sony and GameStop so I&&num;8217&semi;m intrigued to see if it&&num;8217&semi;ll pay off&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the meantime&comma; <em>LittleBigPlanet<&sol;em> Vita is available to buy at US GameStop stores now&period; Just saying&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;escapistmagazine&period;com&sol;news&sol;view&sol;119611-GameStop-Selling-LittleBigPlanet-Vita-Now" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">The Escapist<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theverge&period;com&sol;gaming&sol;2012&sol;9&sol;14&sol;3333594&sol;littlebigplanet-ps-vita-available-today-at-gamestop" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Polygon<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gameinformer&period;com&sol;b&sol;news&sol;archive&sol;2012&sol;09&sol;14&sol;littlebigplanet-vita-street-date-lifted&period;aspx" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Game Informer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;