Midnight Sale for ToHeart2 AD etc: The Number of Customers Got Highest! (AkibaBlog)

0am on February 29, eroge (ToHeart2 AnotherDays, Beat Blade Haruka, etc) midnight sale was held in Akihabara. About 800 customers lined up at Sofmap AM Branch right before the midnight, and at midnight, the number of customers became little less than 900. Total of 2,000 customers came to the midnight sale in Akihabara, and probably, the number of the customers was the highest in the history.

Eroge (ToHeart2 AnotherDays etc) Midnight Sale at 6 Stores in Akihabara
Sofmap AM Branch Had the Longest Line (About 900 Customers)

Probably, the Total of 2,000 Customers Came to the Midnight Sale
One of the Stores Let Customers Pay First and at Midnight Sale,
They Just Get the Game

At midnight (0am) on February 29, eroge (ToHeart2 AnotherDays, Beat Blade Haruka, etc) midnight sale was held in Akihabara. Eroge, ToHeart2 AnotherDays, was shipped more than a hundred thousand, by the way.

Among stores that did midnight sales, Sofmap AM Branch had the longest line of customers: about 800 customers lined up at Sofmap AM Branch right before the midnight, and at midnight, the number of customers became little less than 900. there were about 400 customers at Sofmap PC Game Anime Branch. Including those customers and others who were at Toranoana Main Branch, Asobit Game City, Messe Sanoh, and Gamers Main Branch, the total of about 2,000 customers came to the midnight sale in Akihabara.

The number of customers was a lot more than the midnight sale of Fate/Hollow (October 2005) and ToHeart2 Xrated (December 2005). Probably, the number of the customers this time was the highest in the history (among eroge midnight sales).

At "eroge midnight sale" on February 29, Asobit Game City announced the "pay first" system first, and later, Sofmap and Toranoana followed the system in order to shorten the time to exchange the games. It maybe because of the system, a lot more customers joined the midnight sale this time.

Pictures below show what was going on at midnight sale on February 29, 2008.

Sofmap AM Branch