Exclusive: Shelter Generations Is Getting A Wild New Physical Edition On Nintendo Switch

Super Rare Games should be called "Scalper Factory".
What's the point of releasing such limited games?

@Rhaoulos Because games tend to be manufactured in 1000s so they need to make sure that all that they manufacture get sold.

Otherwise they'd order 10,000 and only 3,000 get sold. It may be limited, but at least they'll know all their copies get sold.

No thanks Super Scalper Games! I'm not going to buy bad games just because they are limited! We should stand up to this practice as consumers and stop feeding companies that thrive by preying on compulsive collectors.

@Grandpa_Pixel But why not just do what Limited Run Games does and take preorders? Limited Run makes sure ALL the fans who want a game can get it and there is no risk they get buried under stock no one wants!

@Equinox Probably bought up by all the scalpers already!

@Rhaoulos @VoiceOfReason20X I ordered both The Flame in the Flood and Human Fall Flat from them physically with no issues. And it's not like I was waiting for the sale to go live or waiting for a release announcement - so it's not that hard to get them if you actually want them. I've had a much harder time getting products directly from Nintendo as of late.

@Equinox Says its sold out

https://superraregames.com/collections/products/products/srg-3-shelter-generations-switch

@VoiceOfReason20X @Bunkerneath @Equinox
According to the email I got from SRG it should be up in a few hours.

@Rhaoulos Their older games has not sold out yet? (Atleast not one or two weeks ago) it makes sense you don't want to sit on thousands of unsold copies when you are such a small publisher. And they only sell them from their own store.

@Rhaoulos you can still buy both of their previous versions.....

@Bunkerneath its coming soon its on sale at 5pm GMT

@VoiceOfReason20X @Bunkerneath @Equinox @tobibra I just got my order in! You need to go to their site and then to the store section. There you will see the game.

EDIT: Oh.. And its gone.. But i even got an email that my order is in..

EDIT: Just asked them on Twitter it seems they had put it on there for 5 seconds by accident.. And it seems i got lucky haha!

@roadrunner343 But they've said each has sold 4,000 copies already and yet they've knocked the print run for this bad game down to 3,000 copies. They claim they don't care about selling out but clearly they do, otherwise this would have been 5,000 copies like the last two games. They made a decision here to cater to the scalpers and do a really low print run so they could prey on compulsive collectors and force them to buy a pretty objectively bad game that they're pawning off as "critically acclaimed". Since when is a 63 on Metacritic critically acclaimed?

@VoiceOfReason20X No publisher caters to scalpers. Do you honestly believe anyone would base their decisions on someone else's ability to profit?

@Equinox received an email in advance, it would be announced right here, and I believe it will be available 2 hours later.

Edit: nevermind, yu've seen the timer already ^^ and my memory served me badly.

I dunno at all about this game but that's a really nice looking cover, shame about the obnoxious red logo at the bottom that kinda ruins it.

@VoiceOfReason20X I don't even know how to reply to such a nonsensical comment. It's only made better by the fact that your username is "VoiceOfReason"

First, you're completely out of touch if you think companies (Any of them) make a conscious effort to target scalpers. Scalpers do not benefit the sellers in anyway. There's something to be said for intentionally limiting stock to build the perception of a hotly demanded title, but that is ultimately a business strategy to sell more products to more consumers in the future. There's no benefit to be had from resellers, and if you do purchase an outrageously priced copy from a scalper, you're the problem, not the reseller. Resellers don't set the prices, stupid buyers on eBay do.

"...they've said each has sold 4,000 copies..."
So their previous games, which were more popular and received better than this game, had a run of 5,000 copies yet only sold 4,000, and you're struggling to understand why they would limit this run a bit further? Sitting on 2,000 copies of unsold "limited" editions isn't a great business strategy either.

@roadrunner343 how dare you use common sense and business logic to reply to people without a clue.

@roadrunner343

Couldn’t have said it better myself, nice job.

Final price for USA is:
$46.29 with shipping... Not sure I want it at that price...

These companies are stupid. If your game can sell 8000 just presell the 8000 then build the game. Nintendo forces companies to build a minimum of 4000 of any title so they will be holding back 1000 to sell on amazon at a later date when they are going for 80USD.

Limited run games is the same crap except they are picking way too many odd games just to make a buck.

Whats the point in collecting games now when they only make 4000 of a title a completionist will never get everygame due to these rare sites.

@Nintendudesid Except, as has been pointed out a few times already, these have been simple to get so far - they're simply low demand titles. You don't make 8,000 of something if you can only sell 4,000. The first two games are still available for purchase from their website, and they've been up for a couple months now. What other limited or special edition game has been available for that long? Safe to say, if you truly are a collector, you'll have no issues getting these.