Back in late July it was confirmed that Nintendo of Europe would be releasing both FAST Racing NEO and the SteamWorld Collection as Wii U disc games under the 'Nintendo eShop Selects' banner, both due on 30th September. It's certainly an exciting development for Shin'en Multimedia and Image & Form, seeing their eShop games published by the big N in stores.
These offerings have now gone up for pre-order on the Official Nintendo UK Store, both hitting the same prices as the equivalent retail Nintendo Selects Range.
This pricing has also been the case on Amazon UK for a little while, with both FAST Racing NEO and SteamWorld Collection available for pre-order from the retail giant. The cost in European Amazon pre-orders is €24.99.
The pricing is interesting, as Nintendo of Europe is evidently approaching these titles as premium prints, in a sense, rather like the occasion when a standalone New Super Luigi U cost more on disc to account for overheads like production and distribution.
The SteamWorld Collection is a pretty decent price, to be fair - on the eShop SteamWorld Dig costs £6.99 and SteamWorld Heist costs £14.99, with The Outside DLC an extra £4.49 (with Heist we're referencing the 3DS eShop prices). With all of that in mind the disc is arguably a discount bundle.
FAST Racing NEO, on the other hand, costs £11.99 on the eShop, and the disc will include the NEO Future Pack DLC of eight extra tracks. The DLC hasn't been priced yet, but it seems this disc will be a premium offering in the Nintendo eShop Selects range.
In any case, let us know whether you're tempted by these disc versions.
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I hope this comes to the U.S. too!
Great news, two excellent games!!!!
We know that a console is dying when the "Selects" comes,
That said, Fast Racing Neo deserves a physical version, it's probably one of the best racing games since F-Zero GX.
Wow, those titles become retail version ?
Gosh...
But unfortunately, not interested by both of them.
Brilliant news although it'd be great if they could do this for the 3DS too. The Steamworld games, Ace Attorney Trilogy, Zero Time Dilemma, the Pullblox games, Mighty Switch Force...
Day one. Three great games at a very reasonable price.
Now... can we get physical Duck Tales and Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero in europe too? ...pweetty pwease?
@Frank90 yep a dying system still getting games
@Frank90 Agreed. I'll pay a premium for "Fast Racing" physical, as it was underpriced to begin with.
The Steam World Collection can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com (US) for $29.99; the saving grace there being the 20% pre-order discount (and free shipping) for Prime members.
Fast Racing has been on my radar for a while now. This may be my moment. Although I'm sure Shopto and the like will selling them closer to £15 before long.
Want Fast Racing Neo (maybe also other one) but will get them from my local indie on the high street. They'll probably go for £20-£22.
That's cool, but these Selects don't appeal to me. I've already got the digital version of FRN, and I'm not interested in SteamWorld
Not a fan on the line on the bottom on the box, Something about the orange tint is bothering me. But for being able to get these games digitally I'll get them!
@SanderEvers he is obviously talking about the selects line. Nintendo only puts it out at the end of a cycle.
I do love how they acknowledge physical copies need to be a little more expensive to cover the considerable extra cost in producing and distributing them, but when anyone asks why digital games without those costs are not cheaper, Nintendo seems puzzled as to why they would be.
I've already got fast racing neo but I'll gladly double dip since the dlc is included on the disc.
Now if I could get Shantae Risky's Revenge DX, Pirate's Curse and Half-Genie Hero on a disc...
I love how they pretend the first Steamworld game (Tower Defense) never existed
So...is there any chance of a North American physical release for Fast Racing Neo or is that just not happening?
If it did I would buy it day one.
@SanderEvers lol. Miss the boat
Too slow Nintendo, already pre-ordered on Amazon.
Now where's the Freedom Planet physical release?
@-SD- I would jump at a Freedom Planet release!
I own all of these already so won't be picking them up but I highly recommend them for anyone who hasn't yet. Hope a few other indies get the same treatment like a Guachamelee & Severed bundle
I'm tempted to play Steamworld Heist on the big screen, but I'll wait to see its solo price on the eshop first.
Be interesting to see if other eShop games get the physical treatment. We never did get the disc version of NES Remix for Wii U plus that Mario Vs DK Tipping Stars has a physical version in Japan after all.....
@Angelic_Lapras_King We got NES Remix Pack, which has both NES Remix games on one disc
@Davidiam007
"I hope this comes to the U.S. too!"
SteamWorld Collection is coming:
https://twitter.com/ImageForm/status/768143144076636160
@whiffy5 Not in the UK we didnt. The only Physical version we got was Ultimate NES Remix on 3DS, which was only a selection of challenges and games from the 2 downloads.
@Angelic_Lapras_King I didn't know that. I'm sorry to hear about that.
Just preordered the Steamworld Collection and Super Mario 3D World. Thanks for the reminder!
I wonder how big the print runs are.
And about which audiences might be exposed to the games now.
Not sold on any of those games.
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