PSA: It Looks Like Copies Of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Are Out In The Wild

I don't get what the point of selling those on ebay is. Until this game arrives by the buyer the game has already been officially released anyway

Anyway it's annoying that we have be cautious of spoilers just because some people can't wait a few days...

Kingdom Hearts 3 leaked months before release. This will be a cakewalk.

I wish I got it a week in advance

@CorePrideX I remember trying to avoid kingdom hearts 3 spoilers , thankfully the secret ending and epilogue were patched in day 1 so they wouldn’t leak

How do we even know that these are legit? The image above is of low quality (great for disguising fakes), with half the cover obscured.

Where are the images of the inner artwork? The cartridge? Hell, what of the back cover?

Any idiot could have pulled off a hoax like this.

@Silly_G There is already gameplay and story leaks on reddit and Twitter. Even a youtube thumbnail that spoiled an important part of the story. So its real.

I remember in the Wii U days Nintendo UK themselves shipped Starfox Zero and Captain Toad around 2 weeks before the release date.

@CorePrideX : I was questioning the legitimacy of the leaking of a physical item, not the game in and of itself.

@Silly_G Its most likely real. There are no roms of the game online yet so even in illegal ways you can't play the game yet.

i remember buying a game before it was suppose to be officially released some stores sell them early..

I'm gonna need Ultra Instinct level skills to dodge Pokémon and Xenoblade Chronicles spoilers at the same time. 😤

Thank you for telling me. ...I think. Now I feel like you're gonna share random story beats like "UH OH, Person Finished Xenoblade 3", then share literal SCREENSHOTS (maybe, who knows?) while blurring them out like how people caught the legendaries in BDSP and you had to report it (which, now that I think about it, the ending is probably something WAY better to blur than say, a few Pokémon in the Pokédex).

@johnedwin yeah i did that too, i remember going to different shops when a game like Zelda or a new 3d mario game came out, to see if they already sold em. Couldn't wait haha

Maybe I'm getting old, but to pay $100 to a shady guy on eBay to get a game - presumbly, a great game, but still - a week earlier? Not even a week, shipping also takes up a few days, so it's 4-5 days earlier... Stop the Earth, I'm getting off.

Not sure why this is news when it happens with every single major release? It's just how dealing with physical items works..

Just checked and nobody is streaming it on Twitch yet, so they're either afraid of Nintendough or not all that many copies out yet.

@Silly_G I mean yeah, I printed covers for every Wii game I downloaded, but seems more likely people just got their hands on copies since it always happens. What, do you think stores get all the copies delivered early the day it goes on sale or something?

The logic of putting up a game listing on eBay a week in advance before release, for $100, just to get the game MAYBE a few days earlier (depending on shipping + carrier), does not compute. Waste of money to me.

@Silly_G I received around a thousand copies of this game at work Monday. I had to walk away from the pallet briefly and made sure to count them again when I came back. We have security and camera cover is heavy but yeah theft is entirely possible. Theft might be more common at stores than at the warehouse level. At the warehouse we are overpaid and our benefits are great.

I'm on the side of if it's finished, just make it available there and then; not wait for an arbitrary date while they sit in the back room for a month.

nintendo will make sure that youtube will delete any videos of it so no one gets spoiled.

Well most will wait worse for those like Xeno3 SE buyers...waiting for the rest.

@RiasGremory So true they don't think much that Nintendo will do that just like what they did with Arceus leaked videos.

I imagine it has been dumped as well.