Princess Peach: Showtime! Best Buy Pre-Order Revealed (North America)

That is cute but I have nowhere to put it. Looking forward to the game though. Perhaps I will be done rewiring my av setup by then.

cries in corner

This is surprising coming from a company that will stop selling physical media

I am so looking forward to this game and have already pre ordered this from my nintendo where I'll be getting a pin badge and a notebook.

That's actually some pretty cool swag.

tempted

I'm going to have to wait on this one. I think it will be good, but I see having some "Nintendo Easy" buyer's remorse at full price. Like most Kirby and Yoshi game. I love those game, just not @ $60.

I've seen the previews and still don't really know what this game is. I think I'll wait for reviews and more information to go on. On a different note I wish Nintendo would add optional hard modes for their easier games. They seem to add easy modes to games so I don't see why they can't add expert modes. I really enjoyed "dread mode" in metroid and it was an optional expert mode for experienced players. The new prince of persia has many difficulty options with sliders. Heck the original Doom and Wolfenstein had 4 or 5 options.

As a special pre-order bonus, they send you an e-mail letting you know what genre the game is.

@HeadPirate Personally, the mix of genres seems very intriguing and unique, not just a straight platformer.

Dunno if this is a day 1 game for me, but keeping an eye on it, gonna wait for reviews/previews and stuff first.

I'm still not even sure if I "get" what the game is. So far it looks like it'll be a collection of different "mini games" in the sense that each outfit /stage seems to focus on one - fairly simplistic looking - gameplay style.

I'm curious if this will actually be larger than that or if you can even use outfits in multiple scenarios at all to shake things up within one stage.

This one REALLY needs another showcase in a direct to sell me. Altho I doubt I'm hopping on board day one either way because Square and Capcom are dropping my two most anticipated games of the... Decade, really, back to back this and next month.

@HeadPirate That comment deserves more likes

I remember the days when pre-order bonusses where cool. This, however, looks like something you find in a Happy Meal. You look at it once and then throw it in the bin adding more (plastic) waste to the ever growing plastic waste problem.

@tonyp1987 That's only movies.

@EVIL-C

Sure. That's a genre in itself! But thinking that's what this game is would be a completely unfounded assumption. All her "classes" could play the exact same for all we know.

That's my point. There is no clear information, no extended gameplay, and no clear genre based on the released footage. They are just like "BUY IT! IT'S PEACH! IT'S NINTENDO!"

Which ... ya know, I'm totally going to do. But still!

@Synecdoche

All true artists go unappreciated in their time.

Stand looks neat but maaaan this game needs an extended gameplay trailer. They've still really just advertised it with bread crumbs where you kind of have to piece together how this game maybe plays.

It's a game where I have a voucher I might use on it if they make it look good, but so far they haven't really made it look anything.

Here, standie standie, come to Europe

@tonyp1987 Best Buy discontinued selling physical copies of music years ago, and stopped selling physical copies of movies and TV shows last year (although they were long in the process of phasing those out in the months or years prior, with their selection steadily shrinking to just a couple of displays). They still plan on selling physical copies of video games for the foreseeable future, though.

Heck, I remember when they used to have such a huge selection of anime for sale (this being about 15 years ago). A huge double-sided shelving unit filled to the brim on both sides with all sorts of various anime titles (even ones that were obscure or long since gone off the air, such as Lost Universe and Neon Genesis Evangelion). But in the last few years, all you could really find were the really popular titles like My Hero Academia, One Piece, and Naruto sandwiched in with other cartoons like Transformers and Disney stuff. And now, they got rid of it entirely.

A shame, really.

I'm tempted to pre-order this game again just for that acrylic stand but at the same time I'm hesitant because Best Buy has screwed me over with pre-order bonuses before. So, I don't know...

I'll almost certainly wait for some reviews before even considering picking this up — while it certainly looks like fun, I've become pretty much immune to preordering anything anymore.

Interesting. This is still on my radar. Just sitting there.

As a heads up, Play Asia has a sale going where you can get 3 games for $100 with free shipping. It doesn't include all games but the list is large. I pre-ordered Peach from there along with 2 xenoblade games I had been wanting.
I had a few reward points with them and ended up getting all 3 games for $90 - not a bad deal! Boxes will have some japanese on them but the games are all in english

Okay, deal, I'll cancel my Amazon preorder and change it to Best Buy to get the cute acrylic stand, like they gave out with Sonic Superstars. I miss Best Buy giving out plushies with each new Disney movie release though...and soon I guess I'll miss them selling physical media at all.

@HeadPirate Yeah fair enough. I re-watched the debut trailer and it does raise questions. Nintendo could've communicated the specifics a little better of what the seemingly non-platforming levels will be like. What's the level progression like? Will some of these, like the Patisserie Peach game, be a mini-game or an entire level? I've no doubt it'll be a fun game, but Nintendo should've given more details about it by now.

Just a heads up, it's $42 on playasia if you don't mind a japanese rating on the box. Even with shipping, it's cheaper than $60, at least to the US.