Trust me that's not exclusive to game shops. Even an open source project (but that is run by a for-profit organisation) I've been involved in for the last year

Trust me that's not exclusive to game shops. Even an open source project (but that is run by a for-profit organisation) I've been involved in for the last year and a half has been similar, even though anyone could surely see 6 months ago it wasn't shipping any time soon. They're still staying 2 months away (I reckon 4 minimum now).