Love/hate this site. Only popped home for lunch and I've spent about 130 on this, Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy X. And I'll probably never play any of them.

So Nintendo essentially sells physical DLC which can be used in multiple games and it's a scam? How do other publishers sell their DLC? Is it by any chance by digital only, losing any possible resale rights, that only works for the game it was purchased for.

You are a barrel of fun. Are you going through some sort of emo phase or something where you hate and rag on everything? Find another hobby if you hate everything like this.

If you have a Wii U this is a no brainer really...

Extremely likely to hold its value and its star fox....

what more do you want....

The Bayonetta First print edition barely goes for 2 times the price and that is a very good collector's edition, this isnt, gotta be coold for me

"Barely goes for 2 times the price"... still seems like a solid investment to me for a video game... most games lose their value almost the instant you buy it..

Thanks OP. Got an email from Nintendo a couple of week back and when I got home to try preorder it was all sold out so, glad to see this at GAME for the same price as nintendo.

Thanks,

Waiting for others to follow now.

GAME are dirt and this is overpriced. I still have my doubts whether this game is any good. And Star Fox Guard is a tacked on demo. It looks boring as hell in all the preview videos.

"This package is also the only way to get a physical copy of Star Fox Guard."

what is a 'first print edition'? Do you get an amiibo?

ty ordered

3.5% Quidco at the moment.
;-)

Thanks ordered , will look nice on my shelf with others :smiley:

So Nintendo essentially sells physical DLC which can be used in multiple games and it's a scam? How do other publishers sell their DLC? Is it by any chance by digital only, losing any possible resale rights, that only works for the game it was purchased for.

does this come with free tati ?

C'mon, the amiibo unlocks are mostly garbage.

Don't let the first print name fool you, it's more similar to the Bayonetta 1+2 double pack.

i've still ordered it because it's Star fox but the low amount of stock at the Nintendo Store worries me, almost as though they've only produced small quantities because the game isn't great. Had a lot of issues during development

No you get a lame demo that will only be available on disc in this bundle and for that privilege Nintendo will rob you blind. There's also a steel book that isn't very special looking. The Xenoblade Chronicles X steel book, now that was nice.

Thanks - Not sure why it is in a box then, that's why i assumed an amibo. what's the pont in putting a steelbox in a bigger box? :smiley:

That's like saying would you like to die by drowning or would you like to die in a fire. They're both wrong. Just because Nintendo's is less scammy doesn't change the fact that it's a scam. You've day 1 content on the disc locked behind a paywall. Therefore it's a scam. Scammy scam SCamiibo!

And yet Nintendo operates in the same environment as these other publishers, how do you think they are to survive if they continue to ignore revenue streams that other publishers have been exploiting for almost a decade now?

Here's an idea, concentrate on making games. It's a bit like tumbleweed blowing through town with the amount of games coming out right now.

Oh come on, it's just a bit of harmless fun. It appeals to children and collectors alike. Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning??

You can buy something for 84p online at Game and they'll email you a £5 voucher to be used on anything £50 and over.

For the steel box and for Starfox Guard which is based on a tech demo from pre Wii U launch (Now a full game) which this version you get on disc :smiley: They announced and showed Guard in the most recent Direct and the Nintendo UK youtube channel shows some footage if you'd like to see if it's your sort of thing!

There was plans for a Starfox Amiibo but they wanted a transforming Arwing. Rather than just lock a design when they ran into production issues getting it how they wanted and still pass strict laws regarding toys (Joints in particular if I remember right), it was shelved.

​star fox guard is not a demo. It's not a big game but it's not a demo. stop lying to others here.

Love/hate this site. Only popped home for lunch and I've spent about 130 on this, Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy X. And I'll probably never play any of them.

Nintendo missed a trick here... Star fox adventures on gamecube had the makings of a good game. Then they go and release this. The graphics look SO bland on the grass textures. I was expecting so much more from the Wii-U. I just can't buy one :disappointed: Going to wait until the next console comes out.

Considering most special editions give you crappy art books, or a plastic figure, I'd say a whole extra game is pretty bloody good!

Still not sold on how good Star Fox will be, otherwise I'd be all over this!

Mmn. I think I'll keep my 26 notes with The Game Collection.

Game isn't dispatched until the 22nd anyway?

yes but you have to preorder now as its likely to sell out

Really, the grass textures are what you choose to pick out? It's predominantly a flying game, I'm not sure the grass textures are particularly detrimental to the gameplay.

In regards to this deal, I would like the first print edition but this doesn't seem like a good deal to me. GAME never let you use account credit on preorders, I'm not aware of any current preorder discounts, and the exact same price would have gotten you a cool looking T-shirt from the nintendo store's listing. I know that listing is sold out and time machine blah blah, but surely this is the standard price for an edition which, as far as I know, should be available at numerous better retailers. Isn't that so?

That's unfortunate, thanks for posting though, I won't bother trying to get the voucher.
At least you'll have a voucher for the future, there'll be something to buy then too no doubt! :smiley:

will the 5 pound off offer work on pre order

That's absolutely what i'd pick out. It's like Fifa having 2D cardboard cut outs in the stadium, or having a DiRT game with 2D trees that have been cut and paste alongside the track. I'm sorry but there's no excusing it whether you're a Ninty, Sony, Xbox or PC gamer. It's lazy and it makes me wonder what else they've skipped.

yea hopefully although now I'll have 2 vouchers and I don't usually buy from game as they aren't the best on prices. Still it might not sell out and I can reorder with the voucher so there is still hope

Never heard of Star Fox but if its anything like those old games Starwing and Lylat Wars it should be awesome.

TO be honest Game could offer this for £25 and I still would not order from them.

This is utter BS
You get Star Fox Zero + Star Fox Guard with this. Both on a physical disc each. Both of those are full games, not demos of any kind.

And this is even the only way to get a physical disc with Star Fox Guard on it. It will get sold digitally and the retail box will have a digital download code in it. This is the only way to get it physically.

Wouldn't order a collectors edition from them again. Their insistence in seemingly vacuum packing everything in bubble wrap is crazy. You can practically guarantee it will arrive smashed to heck.

Case in point... I ordered the collectors edition of Xenoblade Chronicles X from them (looks the very same dimensions as this) and it arrived in a sorry state due to the bubble wrap. I wouldn't have thought it was a difficult decision to get right. Collectors edition (check). Expensive (check). Pack in a box!

But it isn't a rethread of Starfox 64. It's Nintendo's version of a reboot.

Nintendo's version of a reboot looks awfully similar to a rehash then.

You've told me nothing I don't already know. Star Fox Guard looks like it's nothing more than a demo. It should have been a mini game on the Star Fox Zero disc. But then Nintendo have to try and swindle us out of money to get this as a physical release by having a limited first print edition.

Why I'm hesitant about this game:
-Lack of dog fight couch multiplayer
-Rehashing 64s story which was in itself a rehash of original Star Fox
-No online space battles (even Command had this)
-Completely missed the opportunity to expand on Assault.

You'll get this for around 20 quid come the second half of June once Ninty have announced the exact release details for the NX at E3, mark my words.

And no I'm not a hater, I got a Wii U and love nearly every game I have bought for it but I'm not buying another title full price because I'm sick of they have gone about this whole sorry episode.

They will drop all support for Wii U like a stone within six months of the NX launching, like seriously what's the point of buying anything full price for this console any more?

Sure, I wouldn't call SFG a 'full game'. Sure, you could call it a 'small game', a spinoff, a side game, a minigame, or even just a bonus. However, your insistence on the word demo is nonsensical. If it's a demo, what exactly is it a demo to?

There was an advance demo of Bayonetta 2 and there was pretty much no way it could be bad anyway, especially with a copy of the original game in the package. This game however is much more of a risk?

Star Fox Guard is not a demo. It's an actual game. And it's a typical 15 EUR digital game, just like for example Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars is. Calling it a demo implies, that you can buy the "full game" later, but you don't. You get the actual game on disc, which is actually quite a surprise, because Tipping Stars never received a physical release.

btw. it was developed by Nintendo + Platinum games as well.

If YOU don't want Star Fox Guard, then that's okay. Just buy the regular stand alone Star Fox Zero. Or rather buy nothing at all. I don't care. For people, who actually want to get both games, this is quite a nice deal. And for people, who prefer physical copies, this is actually THE only way to get them both on physical disc. And you get a steelbook on top of that.

Your posts on that matter are simply misleading.



When Nintendo call something "Limited" or "First Print", they actually mean exactly that. They are not Ubisoft.
You may surely get Star Fox Zero cheaper at some point. You may get a digital copy of Star Fox Guard cheaper too. But this right here? Will be sold out and gone.

Yes it's wrong to call it a demo. What Miyamoto presented was a demo but when it releases it'll cease to be a demo and will now be a "game".

Wanting this from Amazon. When is it going to be available? :disappointed:

Because the price drop never happened for the big first party games on the Wii when the Wii U was announced and subsequently launched.

picked it up as I had £19.02 on my rewards card, nice one for the tip :smiley:

Thank you cancelled my £59.99 coolshop order for this one. Heat added

I think the main game will drop heavily in price, but a lot of the Limited Editions have not. Who ultimately knows, but I think you'll be able to pick up Star Fox on it's own for around £20 in a few months.

I'm surprised at the amount of grief the deal has caused!

​Me too!

The 'first print' bundle with the Guard disc won't drop like a stone sadly, but I can totally see the main game on its own going down like a Lego game. Splatoon had a cheaper price to begin with and I wouldn't consider £30 for Mario Kart 8 much of a price drop (which is insane compared to what buying games for PS4 and XB1 is like).

Interesting, when I went to bed I could have sworn imdurc had accused me of hate speech because I called fan boys/girls 'fan babies' and because he/she didn't even know there was a youtuber called the crapgamer. All the more inexplicable seeing 'crappy' came to global prominence by having a twitter spat with Phil Spencer a couple of months ago but I digress sorry :smirk:

Then here we are later on in the day yet all his/her bunny at me and my consequent responses demonstrating his/her obvious total lack of knowledge of a subject he/she chose to stick his/her oar in on by making wild and totallly ignorant accusations at me have vanished.

Well I never :man:

Give it a rest please. The name calling was unwarranted and out of place considering the tone and wording of my earlier response. The mods have clearly deleted the posts to try to steer the thread back on topic. As yes, I know crappygamer is a streamer not a derogatory name. I don't see myself in that way.

Blimey, wish I had never posted this, so much vitriol towards each other :disappointed:

Frankly I don't actually care what way you see yourself, I see you are totally Nintendo nuts and I see you started digging me out for suggesting this game will be in the bargain basket at shops like Game in no time at all.

You're well within your rights to have that opinion, as am I to have mine. You most likely still think I'm anti ninty which you couldn't be more wrong with, let me show you a pic of my 'brat bin' here in Austria from a couple of months ago. Because I'm in the middle of moving back to blighty all my gaming gear is packed away in boxes already.



Sad as xxxx for someone who was getting deported from other countries for ASBO antics twenty odd years ago but yeah I do collect the Amiibo and have been playing Nintendo games since nigh on single figure age in the 80's.

So please don't have me down as a hater because I'm far from that, I'm just not a blind fan either. As for the crapgamer matter, it was that imdurc who accused me of 'hate speech' for mentioning him, not you. In fact it was that imdurc who started digging me out for all sorts of reasons when he/she clearly ain't got a clue about anything I was saying. When you're labeling the use of the term 'fan boy/girl/baby' hate speech and then go even further by insisting talking about the crapgamer is hate speech then you're sure as eggs are eggs piping up in the wrong debate.

No hard feelings from me to you, or even from me to him/her but I just have my views and I stick to them.

I've seen worse from far more innocuous deals :disappointed:

Sadly, that's not the impression you're currently making. Now, let the thread get back to the deal, please.

And what impression should I make?

Having put thousands upon thousands of pounds in to Nintendo products over decades I think I have every right to criticise what I and many many others consider is wrong with how they go about things.

This thread has always been about the deal, I just dared to point out the Wii U is dead so this specific title is little more than a token farewell to the system and will be going stupid cheap in no time at all.

You chose to take this thread away from the deal by accusing me of all sorts of off quay things because one: you disagreed with my sentiment on the deal and more to the point two: you were totally oblivious to the existence of arguably the most divisive outspoken gaming related youtuber out there at the moment.

So please don't put that on me, yeah I came back at you about it but who wouldn't? Even now you're STILL attempting to accuse me of hating Nintendo because I refuse to show blind unconditional devotion to the brand that you and others in this debate seem to.

I said nothing offensive at all, your lack of basic general knowledge of current gaming media took the thread away from the deal. The bottom line is you actually confirmed me questioning fan boy/girl/baby wisdom and mentioning CrapgamerReviews was hate speech in your eyes before it got wiped #genius

For those that think the first print edition is overpriced, you can get a standalone physical copy of the game for £26 online.

I can't believe you turned, "let the thread get back to the deal, please." into,
If you want to argue, fine. But, you'll get no more from any of us with any sense. #Toxic

Funny you should mention that because 'toxic' me just spoke to the matey in PlayTime at the precinct here in town when I popped down to Merkur and he reckons he'll be knocking it out at €35 at launch and yet he's still only got three pre-orders which is around 27 quid give or take at current rates.

I ain't ever even said it's overpriced, merely stated the obvious which is it will drop rapido because of circumstances. I'm not even convinced this 'first print' issue will sell like hot cakes as some are suggesting, let alone the standard edition.

Even Amazon Deutschland who tend to keep ninty prices high on pre-order and then drop in the last couple of days before release have got it at €45 and that Guard add on for €15

http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=star+fox

No dramas though, Millwall Chas the toxic ASBO is just tearing up for the sake of it eh :smirk:

I think the point was that this edition won't drop in price too much. Star Fox itself is already pretty cheap for a new release. I'm sure it'll get sub £20 in the not too distant.

The individual Star Fox Guard games being sold are download codes though. So this physical version may well be somewhat limited and you know what Nintendo collectors can be like, and rarish games can fetch quite a price.

Well... I just wen't and bought it for £45 :smiley: I missed the Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water Edition so I didn't want to miss this one (if it sells out)

Where did you find it for £45?

GAME with the £5 off £50 code.

I have a £5 voucher as well, but it didn't work.

Thats because the game is £49.99 and you need to add something to make it over £50, so I just added a £1.99 used game that I wanted :smiley:

Yep totally "sold out and gone" at around a fiver less if you use the 11% discount code active till tomorrow night FOUR MONTHS down the line :smirk:

http://www.thegamecollection.net/star-fox-zero-first-print-edition-wii-u.html