Earlier this week we shared the rather pleasing news that GAME would be offering a musical chest with pre-orders of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, a rather nifty little collectible that plays the famous "Ta-da-da-daaa" sound when opened. That was announced by Nintendo UK, yet GAME has now rather strangely announced — via Twitter, of course — that it won't be offering the extra with pre-orders.
Here's what the retailer had to say:
We'd still hope that the musical chest will be available, whether as a small item to purchase or an incentive elsewhere, perhaps the official Nintendo store.
A rather surprising turn of events, nevertheless; we've approached Nintendo for comment.
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[source eurogamer.net]
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boo!
I would pre-order now if the bonus was a working Bombos Medallion
Umm, is Nintendo and GAME's partnership falling apart? Maybe because of the fact they released X and Y early? Oh well, I'm just speculating here.
Why not put the chest on Club Nintendo worldwide?
@Squashie It's especially weird considering the gift was announced as a GAME exclusive...
Surely this is just building up for GAME to turn around and announce it themselves in a few days time. People are hyped for that bonus and GAME generally do get the Nintendo pre-order goods over other retailers. If they're not getting it I really need to know who is so I can obtain that lovely chest.
@skyluigi2 Oh, hello stranger! Yeah, I agree with you there, I smell something fishy going on...
I was in GAME last night about 6 and the guy said they were getting the chest, gonna pop in after work and double check will let u know
I hope it is on the Nintendo store instead, since GAME does not ship UK pre-order bonuses to Ireland.
To make up for the lack of a pre-order bonus, they will be selling the game prior to the release date!!! Yay, spoilers! Sorry, Nintendo!
Hm, I've tweaked the headline after considering the context of the tweets again. We'll see what happens!
Either Nintendo let slip and it's actually meant as part of a special edition or Nintendo has decided to keep it for themselves for their online store. As cool as it is, it's not worth the extra £5 Nintendo will charge for the game (they charge rrp which is daft). Maybe Nintendo is bitter about the early release Game did (while wrong Nintendo should have just released X and Y and the 2ds on the Friday) and decided against it and kept it for themselves. I remember getting the spirit tracks tin three days early since it was near christmas and Game sent it really early.
Problem is now tha Nintendo has their own store they won't want others to have stuff like this to take away custom. If it's a choice between getting the game for £5 less and getting the game at full rrp and having a bonus, it'll all depend on the bonus item. If it's a nice figure then yes but if it's only a poster or a keyring then they can sod off. Looks like people will have to choose between a cheaper game or free gift from now on.
The only other explination is that it'll be an exclusive item to those who bought the game and register it with club Nintendo. I hope it's that but i have a feeling Nintendo are going to use it as a pre order exclusive on their store. Sad.....
Could be something as simple as not being able to get the shipment out in time. If this was really due to the "deteriorating" relationship between Game and Nintendo I doubt Nintendo would have announced this in the first place.
All of a sudden, they realized a Zelda game would sell regardless, and giving away physical pre-order bonuses costs a lot more money than practically free digital "bonuses".
I miss the days when everyone gave away physical preorder bonuses. Now almost all preorder "bonuses" are crappy DLC that was developed with the game and costs nothing to manufacture.
Well, GAME are saying that they're finalising something else instead that they'll announce soon...
it been on nintendo uk and zelda uk page i guess we'll here soon
nintendo will keep their word glad nintendolife is looking into it thank you guys
What the heck? Why did Nintendo lie?! :S
Wow, this seems a little cruel.
Grumble grumble.
@SirMime indeed i cant see Nintendo making a announcement like that only to retract it that a illegal under consumer law in united kingdom doubt nintendo would do that
@Squashie No. Nintendo announced the preorder item subsequent to X/Y.
Agh. I was hoping this was coming to America but looks like now even the UK isn't getting that chest. It looks so cool
Must...have...this....dzz
Odd turn of events. I guess Nintendo changed their minds and wish to sell the item elsewhere?
they cant not by consumer law in united kingdom but hey let wait till we here from Nintendo uk and game fyi
the post is still on their twitter account and facebook i think they got rid of by now if had been other wise still looks good i wonder what the issue is
https://www.facebook.com/LegendofZeldaUK?fref=ts
Consumer law wouldnt really have anything to do with it, game never advertised it
Well this is certainly a drag. On the one hand it sounds like they're giving away either one of or both Oracle of games, (which would be nice, as I'm not sure I can find my old copies, and I never finished them). On the other hand, I only made the preorder with game as I wanted the chest…
So Nintendo UK said this, but they indended the game on the Nintendo Online Store or a deal with GAME, with a company with that name you never know what to think. They could have wrote "game" in all caps for a typo for what we know.
I can't possibly believe that GAME will be Bhurt because they themself made a mistake by releasing the game one week early and breaking the launch day by a mile. It would be insane.
It would be a good reason to not trust retailers, thus why everybody should go digital if retailers think they own such power.
As i said, insane.
they advertised it, that is why consumer law applies and yes nintendo mentioned game specificity here the tweet.
https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/389794122418364417
@Sionyn - no cosumer law applies as far as I'm aware - they can retract their offer or amend it as Game has not mentioned it when pre-ordering it through their website - there has to be offer and acceptance for a legal transaction to take place and seeing as Game hasn't offered it, we can't have it =0p Let's wait and see what happens with regards to bonus offers etc
It's coming to Australia exclusive to EB Games so something must be afoot.
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