Pre-Orders For Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition Open Now (US)

UK's probably getting another vinyl.. worth the wait, I'd say!

@tomasu Unfortunately our collectors edition is worse this time, same as the US one but with a softcover artbook instead.

I'm conflicted with how I feel about them limiting pre-orders to my nintendo, and only two per account. Isn't it pretty easy to make an account? If they check for bots, then that might help, and it's more than Amazon or GameStop do, but I'm wondering how effective this will be at stopping scalpers from buying their entire stock, especially when they can't even keep their N64 controllers stocked for more than 10 minutes, and those are locked behind their NSO subscription.

Good to know! Not the most elaborate special edition but I'm totally getting this.

@Olliemar28 thanks for this, I was getting so annoyed checking the store all the time with no clue when pre-orders would go live. Weird how they're leaving pre-orders in the UK so late, hopefully this won't impact when we'll get the actual game!

Wow that is… underwhelming

Probably will be skipping this special edition purely because it is limited to Nintendo's shop (which is still non-functional for me) and also how they are shipping the items separately. Will be a shame too as I have the special editions for 2 and 1 Def Edition.

Still haven't played 2 to be fair. Got to chapter 3 and gave up because I wasn't enjoying the combat (never really understood it, even after watching videos recommended to me) and the story hadn't grabbed me.

Xenoblade is my favorite series... So I'll probably be getting this.

@MS7000 hey I know we've both had issues with the My Nintendo Store but I've ordered some stuff lately and it's been totally fine, have you checked with them to see if the issues are resolved? I even had a pre-order go through fine so they must have resolved some of their issues... and if not I would be happy to order 2 copies and post one out to you haha
As for XC2 you really do need to push through those initial chapters, it heats up in late game and is just so so good!

Well, at least it's limited to two per account and not just...a limited print run. Anyone who wants one should be able to get one. Assuming everyone who wants one is aware it's a Nintendo store exclusive.

@Otoemetry I tried buying some amiibo through them a couple of weeks ago, but the payment portal kept on glitching no matter what I did. They also wiped an order I had with them previously, then a few months after the order was due (April), tried charging my card multiple times for the full order, which my bank stopped, but consequently also ending up freezing my bank for a couple of days whilst the bank confirmed that it was indeed me who had tried to make a purchase originally.

I do remember you having issues with the Loftwing amiibo previously. Good to know you have had a good experience recently at least. =)

@MS7000 yes all the trouble I had with pre-orders and failed payments was presumably as a result of their systems being unable to handle the quirk of my address not being held within their lookup system, it refused to include my flat number so even if a payment was successful the delivery would fail when it arrived... it was a preposterous situation but thankfully I've ordered a few things successfully now.
Sorry to hear you're still having issues, perhaps you'll have to get a family member (or a friend) to order it for you? That's what I had to do before they'd managed to fix the issue, I just gave my sister the money and she had it delivered to her address.

Nintendo servers down in T-minus...

B-But the game is due Late July NOE! How am I meant to wait till then to wonder if I'll get an order in or not?

A date listed with no time is still infuriatingly limited information, Nintendo. Do better.

Does anyone know at what time tomorrow?

I already hearted it over on the site, and I will pre-order it. I mean, I DID luck out by getting the Special Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 AFTER buying Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Definitive Edition.

@YoshiAngemon It's hilarious to me, my local (at the time) Target had the XC2 Special Edition in stock for like two years after it came out collecting dust, then suddenly everyone wanted it and it skyrocketed.

The title had me so happy! Until I read the subtitle.
So much emotions, in such a short time.
I was really feeling it!

Has the price been announced? If not, how much did the other two collector's editions cost?

(I already have a pre-order, but I could be convinced to cancel it for this.)

@MS7000 If you have played Xenoblade, the combat is roughly the same. If you haven't played the first game I recommend that you do. It took me a while to wrap my head around the combat also. Basically you want to try to get the monster stunned and then it can't attack and it takes more damage etc. You do this by using certain attacks that get the monster ready to be stunned. Then once he's ready to be stunned you use an attack that can actually put him in the stun. It's all color coded, I think green attacks might get the monster towards the stun state and maybe yellow stun it once it can be stunned. I forget. Also I don't think the game calls it stun.

@kennykenny not much help cause I forget the price of the others, but I think it was 100 or less for the others. 89 maybe?

@arrmixer they usually go by pacific time, but I'm checking at midnight eastern just in case. Possibly 3am eastern if they wait until midnight pacific time. It will probably be a weird time, like 11am. And I will miss it.

@tylerryan79 I've played the entirety of Xenoblade 1. Got close to beating on New 3DS, then completely finished it on Switch. Played through Future Connect as well. Honestly, the combat felt quite different between 1 and 2, but I am aware break, topple, daze etc are in the sequel, I just couldn't get as invested.

I remember enjoying the combat for X, but I have not really touched it since my initial playthrough when it launched back in 2015.

@tylerryan79 I was thinking the same thing. Thank you.

Also opening pre-orders in Australia on the Nintendo store tomorrow.

Of course nintendo uk messes it up and just says late july.

There is no way that is true. The game comes out then.
Why can't they be like NOA and just state the day.

Well now that I know it's "Late July" for pre-orders, I can stop checking Nintendo Store's website every hour, every day since it was announced. That's more information than they usually give us.

still says tbd on the site.

@tylerryan79 last 2 games special editions were priced at $79.99

People are actually using the My Nintendo Store, I'd say Nintendo got what they wanted. Lol

@zen1990 The special edition hasn't got a confirmed release date because it won't be available in Europe until fall 2022. Nintendo has already stated they will only be shipping the game separately for release.

This is a disaster! I was there pretty much as soon as it went live and the site locked down into a permanent refresh mode. I couldn't even begin to put in my preorder.

Why did preorders have to go live while I was driving? 😢

Waiting room. Fail...

I had it in my cart but it kept logging me out....this was an absolute ***** show

pre-purchase is grayed out. Nice

Booted out of the site right wen it dropped…waited and got in and tried to add to the cart and it said limit reached 🥲🙃🙃🙃🙃 before I even bought it or was able to actually add it to the cart

Now showing as being in my cart...but my cart is grayed out...wow...really Nintendo?

The handling of this is piss-poor as expected if you/re only going to make it available directly on the My Nintendo Store.

I watched the page go live for preorders, and within seconds, it already said Item Limit Reached and signed almost anyone out who tried to preorder. This has been a disaster, even if you were there the moment it went live, you couldn't secure a preorder.

I got in right after they dropped. The site kept logging me out, I was hitting prepurchase repeatedly after getting out of the loading loop (finally), and...it wouldn't show in my cart and kept saying "limit reached" when I only selected one. Now the prepurchase option is grayed out, as is my cart.

Screw. This.

Welp...looks like I won't be getting one of these

I can't pre-purchase because it is grayed out, and shows item limit reached. What do I do!?

It even says I got something in my grayed out cart. BUT WHAT???

Site is having issues sense the begining, went up around 11:30, I struggled and struggled to get it in my cart and stay logged finally did. Got to check out, then their payment system was done. Disappeared from Cart, site then put me in a queuing line. Then the queueing line brings back to the page and now it says

The My Nintendo Store is currently undergoing maintenance. Please check back soon, and thank you for your understanding.
Item limit reached

@Jeremazing Same

This sux. Hope it all gets worked out....Wario is a butthead.

Good news I haven't seen anything go up on eBay yet, soooo doesn't appear scalpers are to blame (yet) knocks on wood

I had something in my cart so says Google I went to cart and it said I didn't have anything in it.

Item limit reached is now showing for me. Something is probably up since no one has said they got their order in. Probably bots. Look for it on ebay $299 in the coming days.

So I was logged in for an hour beforehand, waited 30min in the online queue, finally was able to add to cart and then I had to login AGAIN and at that point my cart gets deleted, the login fails, the My Nintendo store crashes, all hell breaks loose, and the store goes down for maintenance. On Twitter I see a lot of angry people have the same problem & the whole time I'm thinking anyone with half a brain cvould foresee this would happen. Someone at Nintendo should be fired because this happens every single time. Nintendo should adopt the Limited Run Games approach of limit 1-2 per account and run the preorder for X number of weeks and then after produce the amount needed. Yeah it'll take a while longer but anything is better than the absolute terrible customer experience these Rhode Scholar Treehouse employees seem to push time and time again that keeps failing. If anybody at Nintendo doubted how popular this would be and not recognize their online store couldn't handle the traffic, they should get FIRED.

It's giving me the "Hang in there... we'll be with you soon!" message again.

The only special editions I've ever bought were for Skyward Sword, which was fantastic, and Halo 4, which was...not. I do regret a lot of the art books I've missed out on, but I don't think I'm ever going to buy another special edition unless it's a remaster of a game I already love or it's so cool that it's worth the price even without the game. I do hope they release the soundtrack separately again. If it's as good as the others, then I'll buy it in a heartbeat.

@horobita YES! I just had went through the same scenario as you did! This is so infuriating!

@TequilaUK i know, its the same situation worldwide. They get the game separately on release date then the actual special edition contents at a later date. Every region is the exact same.
So its no excuse that every other region can handle it better than the UK store. USA, Japan and Australia have had preorders go live for it, yet we get a vague "late july".

@DarthFoxMcCloud
Isn't there a limit for 2 per account already? Nonetheless. Shocker. Welcome to covid-life.

So I wasn't the only person who could'nt pre-order Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition from the My Nintendo Store after all... THIS in my opinion, is anti-consumer on Nintendo's behalf.

Item limit reached message and site won't even let me login. Scalpers deserve cancer.

I have been spending my time listening to this While I wait:
https://youtu.be/mJfyATbqBNQ
good waiting music

@DrDoctor That's not what I meant. Right now Nintendo has however many they're going to make in the pipeline already. I'm saying don't actually make them until the pre-order period closes and then make based on the number of ordwers received. Still limit people to only ordering 1-2 but run the preorder for days/weeks before closing. Nintendo never does that but it would have been a better experience instead of the nightmare we're currently experiencing. I want someone at Nintendo to get fired for their continued incompetence. It's 2022, there's no more excuses if they want to be the exclusive home of these special editions from now on.

Havent heard one place where anyones got one...

I think they fixing it, the login problem has gone away, my cart, while greyed out still, shows 1 item in it. Plus Xenoblade is not the only thing you can't buy, all physical items can't be bought right now.

Sat through the waiting room again for no reason, it seems.

Welll two seconds ago I saw it in my cart, I think. But, then it signed me out right after. SO INFURIATING!!

Here we go again.....red screen of b.s. again.

Logged in now and "item limit reached" message disappeared, but "Pre-Purchase" is greyed out for no reason.

well that was a mess

Been trying to get this for my Brother, but I still have no luck and its driving me up the wall

But not really.

Anyone actually get one???

@oats-81 no

I don't think a single purchase managed to go through. The whole site is down for purchases, so there may yet be hope.

All I know is if I somehow miss out because of this insanity, I'll be willing to buy secondhand through eBay. Not about to miss out on the special edition to display next to the other two games' special editions.

@Browny ah xenoblade special edition collector, I see

Nintendo put buyers on waiting and waiting.....I had two in cart and got maintenance block....

@Star_Seer
Been a fan since I went into the original expecting Xenogears/Xenosaga levels of fail, but came out happy enough to label it a Top 5 Favorite. I have the special editions for the first two games; never owned a Wii U so I never bought X, but my brother has it, so someday I might just buy it off him to have it, if nothing else.

am I the only one here sick of clicking the reload button and then having to sign back in? And seeing Wario's stupid face?

@Star_Seer
Might not have to. I see myself get signed out and back in automatically every few page refreshes. I think the site is just losing its marbles as they work to fix it.

They should have made it only for created accounts older than a month like steam tried to do...that would have helped with the scalpers

This was a complete and total disaster this morning. Unbelievable, Nintendo... 🤦‍♂️

This is worse than losing Metroid Dread special edition to scalpers the instant that went live. At least with that it was over and done with. Now, I’ll be sitting here like an idiot for the rest of the day refreshing and trying to get in. Very disappointing with the logouts and such as well. They made such a big deal about this being a Nintendo store exclusive, I really had high hopes that it would be managed better. Oh well.

This is a hsitload here.,.....

I just keep staring at my wallet, Nintendo.
.....

Good News, none on Ebay yet. Bad News, there's been enough time for Bots to be program to buy these. No Human is getting one. we lose....again

@Synplex You really think so?

@Synplex The High traffic is definitely Bots.

Waiting in line for a special edition you may or may not be able to get when you get to the front. They really have brought the brick and mortar experience to our homes.

I definetly have something in my Cart, I just need it to load corectly that's all.

@Pak-Man At least if it was GameStop exclusive we could get one at least.

Buncha Sons of Submariners!

@Waka_the_Prophet it's probably too much to hope they are somehow filtering and deleting all suspicious orders in favor of saving legitimate orders and cart additions...

I cant even add it to my cart.

My Nintendo Store is currently undergoing maintenance. Too many clicks flooded the store, probably a lot of bots too.

100th message

Site is somewhat back, I'm in the waiting room again

I'm back in the wretched waiting Room again. AGAIN!!

By the time the site loaded, they'd all gone. Still an extra $30 for a pretty tin and a book of screenshots? Think I'd rather buy a real book, a pizza and some beer with that money.

I on,y feel obligated to get this because I also have the CE Steelbook for XC2 (which was so easy to just order off Amazon). I've had the Nintendo Astor's page open in my browser for weeks, checking every day. And now... yeah, I kinda doubt they'll have any stock left by the time the web store is functional again. What a mess.

@Waka_the_Prophet I hate to say it but that positivity doesn't exist in a world where almost 2 years later, people still can't find a PlayStation 5. Thanks to bots. They're now so many bots that are easily downloaded and set up as web plugins that an amateur can start to use them in 10 minutes or less.

This is leaving me with a really bad taste in my mouth and is wasting my time. There's a very limited stock of this special edition according to sources and that's why Nintendo is selling it directly from their website. At least with other special editions, they had a chance of showing up later on and in multiple places (I was able to get the Metroid Dread special edition 2 months after the game launched at Gamestop and I saw them on sale at my local Best Buy too). I'm really dreading having to do this again when the Pyra/Mythra amiibo go on sale.

@YorkshireNed what would you expecting? Short of maybe a hardcover book, I don't think you know what collector Edition of Nintendo games bring in the US 🤣

Honestly, with Nintendo knowing how limited the stock were for these, I'm upset that they allowed everyone to even buy 2. I know people are complaining that that's not enough but personally I think it should just be one per account to give everyone a chance. Why buy two? So you can buy your friend (eBay) one? Too bad your friend has to wait with the rest of us. We're all trying here.

I just realized the thing that randomly keeps showing up in my cart is the smash ultimate invitation from the mynintendo rewards page. 😢

My biggest question being. What is it doing in my cart when I never put it in there?

-I think I figured out how to get out of the waiting room, just click go to nintendo home then scroll down and click the offer.- scratch that, when you reload the site you get sent back to the waiting room.

Yeah, I can tell this is gonna run out before I pre-order it. I'll just make my own "Special" edition, with unique items bundled with the Standard Edition.

Why doesn't nobody call their Standard Editions "Special Editions" due to the fact that they have no choice but to cherish it with all the love they can give? Why can't THAT be deemed a "Special" Edition?

I blame Wario.

@oats-81 Wario is the problem to this, get rid of him and the problem goes away. Sounds logical.

I'm starting to get an application error when I reload my cart.

I still have 2 in cart whenever it let's me back but then no option to finish purchase..

Still waiting. If I don't get the chance to pre-order (and it is likely that I won't), then today will basically be the worst day for me, this week! First, I had to suffer bad RNG in Mega Man X DiVE's DiVE Fest Banner, then the side of the basement we will NEVER get the chance to use flooded again, then this would happen! I remember having to pay scalpers for Summer Isabelle and Summer Tom Nook. Only reason I wanted them was for them to be naked! Besides, I don't wanna ruin the clothes.

@Thoughts I'm thinking(hope) they just blaming Wario the fictional character and not the Wario64 Twitter account

I can smell the greed and garlic farts....

This was an epic failure on Nintendo's part...just embarrassing

You know what? I don't need this! I can just save $45 and get a Standard Edition at GameStop with $5 off thanks to the Power Up Rewards Pro Benefits. What's "Special" is that I will save money on it! Plus, I can give it Grandma's Kisses!

Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic!

The only way this nonsense gets stopped is if both customers and the media just boycott the industry.

They could've just had a normal preorder window, and then made enough for those that preordered.

They should've done the preorders by invite first in waves or something. This just sucks.

Haha. Normal. I wish-

Hey guys! Check this out:
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-3-special-edition-switch/

It says TBD on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo

So now the Hang in there message is happening on the cart.

The cart link is active finally, but it sent me back to The Waiting Room.

I got the same thing back and forth....telling me waiting in line...

I was on the site 3 minutes after the news that preorders were live and I got a whole range of problems, logged me out, said my limit was reached, even though I hadn’t added anything yet, got put in a waiting room, then you couldn’t log back in at all. Man, what a disaster this was.

I never got one, don’t expect I will at this point.

"Thanks for playing!"

I seen scalpers on eBay already thanks to Bots doing this for everyone else.

Any news yet on anyone successfully preordering? My GF just sitting at home watching the store for me while i'm at work lol

I'm on teh page but it's not letting me log in to pre-order.

NOA's management is incompetent. Unforced error after unforced error.

Any reason they couldnt keep it like they used to do it with pre orders?

You know us being able to do preorders at GameStop Best buy and such?

Cause they dropped the ball with doing it this way

@SwitchForce Then it's done. #nicetryhumans ☹

Wow. Site is even more messed up than before. Sheeeesh...

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Now its back to TBD. Too Bad Dorks. Damn this stinks.

AAAAAND it's gone, not like I had the money to spend anyway.

Yeah I've pretty much given up on this it's been a huge mess all day. I never managed to even get it in the cart.

Finally got it in the cart. Item page seems to be delisted and can't access cart.

On the plus side, the My Nintendo Store is actually retaining my login info.

On the minus side:
1. The site is undergoing maintenance
2. It originally showed my pre-order made it into the cart, but now it's disabled
3. They appear to have delisted the SE for the time being. All I get is a page with Wario that says "Whoops! The info you're looking for can't be found! You might want to try searching again or explore one of the links below."

It does seem to be acting different. Hope its a good sign.

The level of gross incompetence on display by Nintendo of America is truly sickening. The "Store Team" needs to be replaced.

@Tyranexx The Wario Oops banner is a real sign that Nintendo has ZERO respect for it's customers. They are a company without honor.

@MedusaMadman77 I fully agree this situation could have been handled a LOT better.

Now its almost time for bed. Can't hit F5 in my sleep.....Wish I could have my cat sit in for me.

@Synplex a soundtrack for starters