Sonic Origins Plus Is Getting A Numbered Physical Edition Through Pix'n Love

Complete on cart or just extra gumpf?

A whole 1200 physical copies, how very nice of them.

I'm glad I'm not really very interested in this release because heck if I would be able to secure one lol. Good luck to everyone who's going to try though!

The DLC better be on the cart for that price.

I have got one of their collector's editions and they are really good and definitely worth picking up. The art books are fantastic quality.

@Yosher Their releases aren't really that hard to pick up to be honest. They don't sell out anywhere nearly as quickly as, for example, a large company like LRG's would a few years back before they did open pre-orders. I can't imagine this release will be any different, since Sonic Origins Plus already has a physical release.

@Reprise I'll be honest this made me think there wasn't a physical release already. That makes this a whole lot better and more manageable.

This just feels like extra stock Sega had laying around and thought the best way to get rid of it would be to try and get collectors to buy the game again for the third time

That Megadrive style game box is lovely. I've considered making my own, just for the shelf, both for Mania and Origins Plus. I'll probably do one for Superstars as well.

That said, other than that, nothing else about this set makes me want it. It looks quite basic/stock... If the artwork on the lithographs, cover of the book etc were original art, similar to the IDW cover variants, I'd be ALL over this. I'd probably pay twice the askign price. Instead, its the same handful of official press kit images printed on a million other things. Very nice images, but I don't see any specific value in yet another printing of them on random bits of cardboard.

Obviously, if there hadn't already been a nice physical edition, I'd be queing up for this at any price. But as it is, you can pick up the physical copy with reversable retro sleeve and a nice little artbook for £20-25 very easily. A bargain, I'd say.

With that in mind, I'm not sure what the appeal in this set is, unless the exclusive book contains new stuff we haven't seen before in the mirriad other books already released - but that example page showing the standard cover art and a screenshot doesn't give me much hope of that.

@Fighting_Game_Loser I haven't bought it once, lol. If this is all on the cart then maybe...

Following up on my above post, I slightly retract my dismissal of the exclusive art book. Checking out their website, I've realised that they are a very well established videogame book publisher that has published many books in France, several of which I own, and they are excellent quality, usually contain proper journalism with unique research and interviews, and are worth the money.

Suddenly I'm slightly more interested in this package... but I'm still skeptical there will be anything new in the book I don't already own in the million other official Sonic books I have bought over the past years. If it was a unique/interesting book - why use such commonly used stock assets on the cover and on the example pages? I'd need to see more to know if I want it. But I can at least vouch that it will be very high quality printing, bounding, and design.

@RupeeClock @LikelySatan @DogDetective @GrailUK Judging by the pictures I'm willing to bet pretty much any amount of money that this is the standard retail cart and packaging, and is a way to easily shift extra stock for a larger profit than the discounted copies other retailers are selling. I see no reason that they'd make a whole new run of cartridges, and if they did, they'd make damn sure to put that selling point front and center for collectors to have a reason to buy.

So what was the point of the actual physical release for this if it was just gonna be base game + dlc code if they could have done this from the start?

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us."

I don't think this Collector's Edition will have the Plus contents on the cartridge. And if it does, shame on you SEGA.

Leave it to them to mess up what could've been an easy win since the game launched in 2022.

Origins + has a severe bug with Tails in Sonic 1 that should be made public, yet almost nobody talks about it.

@RupeeClock Yet SEGA doesn't acknowledge it and is doing nothing. Not even a post about it.

I am not buying this.

@MirrorFate2 @RupeeClock I wasn't aware of that until you both mentioned it (I've played a tonne of Origins Plus on Switch and PC, but mostly as Sonic or Amy) but yeah that is a serious and obvious issue and they need to fix it. I don't think it happens when you have Tails as a partner character? I often have my lil fox buddy follow me around as I play. I'm sure Sega are aware of this, they keep a very close eye on socials (shout to Katie!) and though they are very slow with updates, they've fixed the issues that I personally was most annoyed with, so I'm pretty hopeful they pay attention to bug reports and complaints on social media and will work on improving it over time. I wish it was faster / higher priority but I'm happy with the updates so far, especially now they've finally added proper pixel scaling, which admitedly should have been there from the start... but hey, great that they fixed my #1 complaint.

Perhaps ironic or just "weird the way the world works" coincidence, but today I've been working on my Sonic fangame / collection ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTiAmOH8MM ) and literally a few hours ago today discovered a bug that crashes when Tails enters water in 8bit style levels. My engine has 9 characters (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Ray & the Chaotix) and supports both 8 and 16bit style levels and sprites, but they all share the same programing for controls, physics, partner ai, collisions etc regardless of whether 8 or 16bit. It hadn't even slightly occured to me that Tails is the only character that can swim, but 8bit Tails doesn't has never had a swim sprite. I'm going to have to make a custom one 😅

It's a hard pass. I got myself a japanese edition of the last physical release so I'm good.

@LikelySatan My guess is probably not considering that it seems that they're just putting the normal retail edition inside a box with all of these extra bonuses. Although I'm not 100% sure. Maybe it would be a good idea to ask Pix'n Love or Sega of Europe support to get the answer

Neat! Maybe the next thing it can get is the still-long laundry list of bug fixes, missing features, and optimizations that should've been addressed before the game ever released.

Rofl not at that price I won't even bother trying to snag one. I'm happy with my normal physical copy for 1/3 of the price lol.

I already got the existing physical edition of Sonic Origins w/ Plus digital download code, plus digital versions of the base game and DLC for various systems. I'll pass.

Still waiting for that CRT mode though. I don't really expect it to happen, but who knows... Sega has surprised me a few times already with this game.

@RupeeClock Thanks for confirming, I was pretty sure it was fine for Tails as a partner. Very curious, I wonder why this happens... its definitely because Tails can swim, so its something in the Sonic 1 specific retro engine code. Being that it works fine in the other games it should be a simple enough fix... fingers crossed.

@Fighting_Game_Loser probably 100% right.

So is this gonna be just Sonic Origins with download code for Plus contents with a bunch of garbage included or will it be the full physical package with all contents on the cart?

Unless all the DLC including the Game Gear Games are included, there is no point for just extra crap to take up space in the house.

Woo artificial scarcity!

Okay guys so my brother Lee who just recently purchased Souldier from them had sent Pix'n a message about the Sonic Origins Plus: Collector's Edition and here's what they had to say.

It looks like it'll just be like the retail version but with a bunch of crap bundle along with it. The DLC are still offer through download code.