Just as a side note...The company I work for is a very large seller on the Amazon Marketplace and Amazon requires us to not charge until we ship also. So that isn't just an Amazon thing.
Uncharted 2 and FFXIII have completely different styles of graphics. I think they are both pure sex just in different ways. Sorta like a '68 Camaro SS/RS and Meghan Fox.
I swear RDD stuff doesn't ship until late the night before or the day of for me...and they use some weird delivery service to send it to me...it's not fedex or UPS...hell, with MW2 it was some guy in a van...LOL...on the plus side I do always get it on release day.