What if thirty journalists had gotten copies three weeks before the sales date?
Many analysts had factored in a 2011 launch for the United States, but were taken aback by the late Japan sales date, set for late February.
Do you think this will have a big impact on sales and the success of '4'? SASHA FRERE-JONES: I don't understand why labels don't simply push up the digital sales date after a leak.
This Time magazine piece from three years ago points to bigger and smaller artists whose albums didn't suffer commercially when leaked early, sometimes months before the official sales date.
The new Pentium 4, a 4-gigahertz microprocessor, had already slipped off schedule, with its original sales date shifted from the end of this year to some time in early 2005.
Here's an item from a recent posting: 2xx5 TWIN FALLS DR, Henderson – Solera, NV 89044 Listing Date: 6/6/05 Listing Price: $599,000 Last Sales Date: 12/2004 Last Sales Price: $525,418 Our brave EF is down $2250/month and has been since a year ago.
Porsche is readying its Mission E for launch, with a 2019 target sales date.
But that didn't happen for reasons unknown, and Fujitsu pushed back the sales date of the device indefinitely.
