EB Down Under Sells Super Mario 3D Land Early

Ask and thy shall receive

by James Newton Mon 21st Nov 2011

Australia's release delay woes have been well documented, but retailer EBGames is doing its best to take the sting out of it by selling Super Mario 3D Land early.

While the game is down for an official release in Australia this Thursday, Vooks reports that branches of the retailer will sell the game as soon as it arrives in store: indeed, several stores have already sold the game to eager Aussies.

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[source vooks.net]

James started his career in video games as News Editor on Nintendo Life. Since leaving in 2012 to join Nintendo of Europe, James has risen through the ranks to become NoE's Senior Product PR & Corporate Communications Manager.

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Aviator
Mon 21st Nov 2011

Gametraders was the first to start selling early actually, though they didn't order their stock locally.

Because Nintendo doesn't support gametraders, they import their Nintendo products and everyone follows suite.

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FantasiaWHT
Mon 21st Nov 2011

EB Games? I thought Gamestop bought EB and rebranded every store to a GS.

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Aviator
Mon 21st Nov 2011

Australia Fantasia.

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RedYoshi999
Mon 21st Nov 2011

@2 Not in Australia they didn't. Maybe one day they will change to Gamestop but for now there aren't any. Anyway I hope my pre order comes in early, I didn't get it from EB Games though so all the other retailers have to follow suit for me to get mine.

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Bankai
Mon 21st Nov 2011

Breaking street dates. Stay classy, guys. You know what they say about biting the hand that feeds you.

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Robeson64
Mon 21st Nov 2011

The game should of been released in Aus earlier. Thanks Eb / Gametraders for speeding up the process

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skywake
Mon 21st Nov 2011

Oh wow, I was at EBs today (hunting for streetpasses) and was kinda tempted to ask about Super Mario 3D Land. Knew Gametraders had broken release which also happened for OoT 3D and EB was fairly quick to follow.

I guess I'm not that annoyed, I wasn't planning on getting it at launch...... if it was Skyward Sword I'd be annoyed....

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BenAV
Mon 21st Nov 2011

Got a text message from EB Games today saying that I can go and pick up the copy that I preordered.
Would have done it today if I had the money, but unfortunately it has to wait until the morning.
Now only if I could pick up Skyward Sword early too...

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StarDust4Ever
Mon 21st Nov 2011

I thought there were laws against doing this. The reason stores recueve stock early is to prevent unforseen delays to ensure everywhere they have the games in on time.

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Aviator
Mon 21st Nov 2011

But when one company isn't sold stock locally, how is that fair for them?

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timp29
Mon 21st Nov 2011

This pretty much comes down to Gametraders importing from UK and selling early. They did the same thing for Ocarina of Time, which allowed me to pick up an early copy. On the flip side, you could say Nintendo brings this on themselves, by having release dates that are 7 days later than other regions.

I actually rang gametraders and specifically asked about Skyward Sword, to see if I could hurry up my preorder from JB Hifi. The guy on the other end said something along the lines of 'no I didn't get stock form the UK, really wish I had'

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Aqueous
Mon 21st Nov 2011

@FantasiaWHT - They are still eb games in Canada though I saw one labelled as gamestop and eb games

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lex0plex
Tue 22nd Nov 2011

There are still some with out the abbreviation, just "Electronic Boutique"!

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rolLTheDice
Tue 22nd Nov 2011

I only hope this shows Ninty that Australian gamers at least deserve to get games the same day they are released in Europe.

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Thwiidscube
Wed 23rd Nov 2011

I thought it was illegal to sell games early. I know when I went to a midnight launch of the 3DS in March at a GameStop, they said they couldn't sell the system before 11:59:59 PM...