The price of that collector's edition is pretty tough to swallow, but it's a pretty lovely looking kit that really captures the beauty of exploring Hawk Peak.
Curve Digital will be offering Autonauts physically.
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Retail release for New Tales from the Borderlands in Murica.
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Switch Physical Collection - 1,247 games (as of April 15th, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
Switch Physical Collection - 1,247 games (as of April 15th, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Short Hike has gone on sale at Super Rare Games, almost 75% of the initial batch of standard copies (4500) after 25 minutes. They are printing upto an additional 4000 copies for shipment in October.
Why don't you re-print games once they have sold out?
We operate in the world of Super Rare physical releases, where careful consideration is given to the number of games we produce. We believe that the typical release run of 4,000 or 5,000 games is appropriate for the rare print market and our customers, many of whom are collectors of indie games and value the rarity of the games they have in their collection.
They haven't explicitly said they will never do a re-print, like LRG has.
I guess SRG probably talked this over with the developers and agreed having more copies would be great for the people that want to cherish a copy, over its value as a rare collectable.
10k units is still rare all things considering.
@RupeeClock they announced the increased print run before it went on sale so their position is it's not a re-print and I think what they are doing is fine, it will keep prices down on ebay hopefully.
Coffee Crisis and Coffee Talk both have had physical releases in Europe, Necrobarista is the best guess.
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The BotW + Expansion bundle will be back in stock at P-A this week, but P-A will be grifting customers by asking for $133 per copy. Which, if you love the game (I do not), you'll pay it because this version is difficult to obtain outside of Japan. I think it's fair to assume it's one of those few retail releases that'll only go up in value over time.
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@Magician - Shockingly enough, I just bought that elsewhere at 100 even. Guess I lucked out in terms of FOMO now that I paid the lower end of the asking price now.
@Magician
Isn't that preposterous, though?
The idea of that a multi-million-seller first party Nintendo title has a reprint that includes the expansion pass content at cost, was only printed in a limited quantity in Japan only and has to be sold at such a high mark-up?
It's absolutely forced scarcity, and Nintendo are being antithetical to game preservation if they don't print copies of games like Splatoon 2, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe etc as content complete with their respective DLCs.
The only other game I'm aware of that got this expansion pass physical bundle treatment is Pokémon Sword and Shield.
@MarioBrickLayer
From Nintendo's business prospective, there's probably not much profit to be had from producing physical copies versus digital copies, even more-so for "expansion pass" scenarios.
Conventional expansion pass content can't be resold on a secondary market, the only place to get it is their digital store-front.
That said, I wouldn't rule out an international print of BotW with its expansion pass in the run up to the sequel to BotW, in the same way that Nintendo are reprinting Bayonetta 1 and 2 for the upcoming release of Bayonetta 3.
I remembered that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 actually had a separate physical print for their add-on story; Torna The Golden Country. That was great because it preserved what was essentially a separate smaller scale game, the box included a download code for the expansion content in the main game.
The caveat there though was that the expansion content for XBC2 like new characters, quests, and gameplay modes does not exist preserved in any physical form.
In the case for Pokémon Sword and Shield, there's absolutely a business incentive to produce physical copies with the DLC bundled. Pokémon games have to maintain a means of transporting Pokémon all the way from older systems to current systems, and physical copies mean that no content becomes inaccessible in the event of a digital storefront closure.
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