Poll of the Day > Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition is sold out for pre-orders

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WTF is the point of pre-orders then?

Yeah. They sold out like immediately Probably mostly scalpers most have already put up sales for them on eBay I honestly hope that any scalpers who bought it gets stuck with it

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

WTF is the point of pre-orders then?

To ensure that there's a copy available for you on launch day. As it happens, it looks like there wouldn't have been a copy either way, but that's still the main idea.

For real, though, I don't recommend getting your hopes up for any collectors' editions of Nintendo games. They tend to dramatically under-produce them and often run into technical issues dealing with the volume of orders (Xenoblade 3's was particularly bad for this), such that actually getting one is pretty hard. That's not to say you shouldn't try if you're interested, but you'll be best off expecting to fail.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

WTF is the point of pre-orders then?

im not surprised this is beyond your grasp

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

WTF is the point of pre-orders then?

maybe you get it, maybe you don't. it's luck and timing. it's a video game, who really cares. still sad there're so many robo-scalpers - that should actually be illegal. it really fucks up everything, from video game pre-sales to concert tickets.

ReturnOfFa posted...

maybe you get it, maybe you don't. it's luck and timing. it's a video game, who really cares. still sad there're so many robo-scalpers - that should actually be illegal. it really fucks up everything, from video game pre-sales to concert tickets.

It kind of sucks to miss out on cool collectibles

LinkPizza posted...

It kind of sucks to miss out on cool collectibles

it actually makes them have some value if they're more difficult to obtain

i'm being more flippant because i don't have much attachments to game-stuff, even though I do like to have a few fun collectibles. it's fair that other people care more.

ReturnOfFa posted...

it actually makes them have some value if they're more difficult to obtain

i'm being more flippant because i don't have much attachments to game-stuff, even though I do like to have a few fun collectibles. it's fair that other people care more.

Personally, I dont even care about the value. Id just like to have it. Like to look through it and stuff Sucks that scalpers want to ruin it for other people And then act like theyre doing us a favor I hope the ones that get it get stuck with them

DirtBasedSoap posted...

im not surprised this is beyond your grasp

I feel like everyone else who has responded to this topic got what I was saying about it.

ReturnOfFa posted...

it actually makes them have some value if they're more difficult to obtain

That would be true if it were a limited edition where the intent is to only make so many. But for a collector's edition I don't see why they can't make as many as are ordered.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

WTF is the point of pre-orders then?

ya, i still don't get this... the point of pre-orders is so that makers know how many to order from the factory

aight, fair points all around

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

That would be true if it were a limited edition where the intent is to only make so many. But for a collector's edition I don't see why they can't make as many as are ordered.

"Limited edition" and "collector's edition" tend to be more or less synonymous in typical speech. Both terms serve to increase the apparent value of the extra items by implying that they'll be hard to find if you don't buy it now, driving up demand. I can see why you might think there's a difference if you take each term literally (that is, "limited edition" covers any edition that is limited, while "collector's edition" provides extras that people interested in collecting merchandise might want), but the concept of "collectibles" colloquially implies some degree of rarity and uniqueness that is somewhat at odds with mass production.

Lokarin posted...

ya, i still don't get this... the point of pre-orders is so that makers know how many to order from the factory

Yes and no. Pre-orders are indeed useful for that reason, taking some of the guesswork out of manufacturing, but there's still inevitably going to be an upper limit on what they're willing to produce, and if pre-orders reach that limit, they aren't necessarily gong to produce more. Whether because they underestimated demand and weren't able to satisfy it or because they're deliberately limiting supply to artificially inflate demand (a very real possibility with Nintendo and any sort of collectible item), selling out of pre-orders is perfectly plausible.