Alongside the reveal of multiple GRIS physical editions for Nintendo Switch yesterday, Special Reserve Games also sent out an email to customers who pre-ordered hard copies of The Messenger and Minit - providing them with an update about when these games would be shipped.
The unfortunate news is The Messenger's estimated shipping date has been delayed until the last two weeks of July due to cartridge production issues and the decision to redo "a few elements" related to the printed assets. The game was originally scheduled to be sent out to customers in June. At this point in time, Minit is still on track for a late July release. Here's the full rundown from the company's CEO, Jeff Smith:
We produce everything with an immense amount of passion and detail and there is hardly ever a component of our Reserves that isn’t as close to perfect as we can get.
During the manufacturing process for The Messenger specifically, I made a call to reject and redo a few elements related to the printed assets. At the same time, all of the Switch cartridges come from Japan and the good/bad news is, Nintendo is quite busy producing great games on physical carts and production timelines slipped a bit for us.
In order to deliver these high quality finished games, I will be moving the estimated shipping date-range for THE MESSENGER (PS4 & Switch) to the last 2-weeks of July.
Some of the same production issues hit Minit but with Switch cartridges already on order from Japan and a delivery date in early July for those, I feel confident in stating Minit is still on track for shipping in late-July.
Have you pre-ordered either of these games from SRG? Tell us down in the comments.
[source specialreservegames.com]
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Hopefully they can get everything sorted out in time.
Yes and you heard it from me first in the Gris article from yesterday.
Preordered The Messenger and received the email. I'm fine with the wait. Still got tons of other games to get through anyways.
I preordered both, and I give SRG plenty of credit — I honestly don't mind delays for special-edition games like this, as long as the publisher is up-front and communicative.
I pre-ordered The Messenger from Limited Run Games back in March. My order confirmation (from March 19th) said it would ship in July.
What am I missing here? Are there two different companies producing physical copies of this game? Or is one specific to a different region?
I've always expected it to be coming in July.
@GrizzledVeteran
What probably REALLY happened is that they figured out a single big shipment would be cheaper than two shipments.
The Messenger was split into Limited Run Games batch and Special Reserve Games batch on preorders. Kind of connected to one another in some weird business way though; the Limited Run Games batch seems to be derived ftom the Special Reserve Games order. That may be why Special Reserve Games had it listed as June and LRG listed as July.
Now they got offered to wait for their batch to be delivered with LRG's and pay less. Profit yay.
@gamekill Hey thanks for the detailed explanation. I appreciate it!
Just started playing and it is a great game. Surprised at how good actually.
Got both of them pre-ordered and I'm okay with waiting a little bit longer. Besides Super Rare you gotta wait months at a time to get em anyway so I'm used to waiting. Wish they could all be like Super Rare tbh... Crazy cuz I live in the states and I get their games faster than I do the ones near me. And yea yea I know open pre-orders affect the timeframe. Just saying. I always look forward to a Super Rare release cuz I get it in my hands a whole heckuva lot sooner.
I don’t mind the delay, I just wished they hadn’t waited until the last week of June to tell us. They must’ve known for a while that it wasn’t going to hit the June release window, but it has been crickets until yesterday.
I went with LRG version as the artwork was far superior.
@BacklogBlues And i put it on the Messenger Physical post yesterday morning:
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/the_messenger_physical
Come on Nintendo Life, this is over a day old.
Hi guys.
Anyone know if there is a way to order a physical copy of the Messenger or if there will be in the future?
Missed the opportunity to preorder
Thanks!
@steizgr8
Special Reserve Games says "a small batch of games (PS4 & Switch) will be put on sale the day after we begin shipping pre-orders."
Quote taken right from their site.
@shock_trooper
Whopper, thank you kind sir!
@Joekun completely agree they should have informed us sooner, all this "update to come" for weeks was stupid, I paid for the product back in March for a June release, if there's any delays we need to know about them before June not the last week of June. Must admit it puts me off buying from them again, keeping customers up to date about current orders is as important as getting new orders in for other games, just wish that a UK company were distributing it as well for tax/duty reasons, both 365games and Base have kept me well up to date with delays on Guacamelle and Hollow Knight
So is this a Ninja gaiden clone? Isn't there a different but similar game coming out?
All good. My GameFly is ready whenever. Gotta make this push to wrap up Ys VIII now-- it's been too long!
@Vectorman Super Rare Games is another video game publisher specializing in limited run games. I was just saying that I enjoy the experience of purchasing through them more so than Limited Run Games or Special Reserve Games because you get the product a lot faster.
Does that answer your question?
Hmmm...last two weeks of July came and went. Still no Messenger.
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