After time spent tracking down the trilogy copy and getting it at normal retail price from Tesco a few years back, I'm not upset about it coming to the Wii U for the £8.99 price. Day 1 purchase for my Wii U any day of the week and would still buy the HD remastered copy thereafter if they ever made it.

Boo hoo for the ebay/Amazon Marketplace profiteers

Bugger - Only wanted Ness - stupid meeting, by the time I saw the email (less than 2 hours after receipt) he's sold out for pre-order already

@PinkSpider I was wondering the same this morning, having sent mine up last night for the first time... Anyone else noticed the same?

Mental, just mental... I could think of far more interesting things to spend that much money on...

Slightly off-topic but still Amiibo related.
I'm not sure whether intentional or a mess up but despite the 2nd wave of Amiibo's still showing a 19th December release here in the UK, I've just spotted the entire 2nd wave range to buy in the Westfield Stratford branch of Game... I'd have bought one or two but some of them are on my Christmas list so will just have to wait and see what Santa brings

Splat!!!

I love my Link Amiibo and plan on picking up several more for both play and collecting, but I am concerned about how well it'll sell here in the UK. I popped into a branch of Game at the weekend and spotted that they had a large double-sided Nintendo poster in the shop window, showing Amiibo and Smash Bros. So far so good, except upon walking into the branch, I found the large Skylanders and Infinity displays opposite each other as soon as you walk in the store, but no Amiibo. I then asked a member of staff whether they had any Amiibo, to which I get a blank expression and a request to state the product name again. Another attempt to say Amiibo is equally met with confusion. Only after pointing at the poster do I get a positive response advising that they're behind the tills at the back of the store...

Of course as an informed gamer I'm in a position to make an informed buy from elsewhere, but there's plenty of parents / kids who rely on the supposed knowledge of dedicated video games stores such as Game and if the staff there don't even know what Amiibo is (or maybe how to pronounce it - it was in Dartford after all) it's no surprise that Nintendo sometimes struggle to sell there products...

Of course it also doesn't help when the Stratford City Westfield Game branch doesn't even have a working Wii U demo model, while the other consoles all work perfectly well...

God, I do hate Game at times but certainly view them as a nescesary evil, as they often carry the limited edition versions of the games, which Amazon dont often have...

Happy to be in the UK for once

No hesitation - ordered it as soon as I saw it on Friday...

@Frapp You don't have to wait until December for the rip off merchants - GamesPot have already got it listed on Amazon.co.uk Marketplace for £199.99 + £4.08 delivery - I so hope everyone ignores that ******'s listing, no matter how desperate they may feel to get the now sold out on both Game and Nintendo Store First Print edition (as you might be able to tell from my tone I also missed out on the First Print - C'est la vie).
Instead have ordered the £31.85 pre order price from Amazon as it's still showing that it includes Bayonetta 1 - so if it turns out down the line it doesn't I can always cancel and order the Special Edition anyway... Ho Hum

@ThistleAndWeeds
Hey Thistle, Considering what I was told by Yodel today, I don't know how or why, but my copy just turned up. So hopefully yours might be winging its way to you as I type this... Enjoy

@ThistleAndWeeds
Not good - I hope they manage to sort it out for you for tomorrow... (Equally I hope for myself that they are true to their word for delviery pre12 tomorrow, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting...)