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Xenoblade Chronicles X: NA Special Edition announced.

That is so damn cool. It's been a while since Nintendo did a CE as good as this. Hope they don't just make like 10 copies and becomes impossible to get later on as most Nintendo things nowadays.
 
Had to preorder on Amazon even though I have nowhere near this much to spend for it.

That big box and art book are just too alluring.

EDIT: Anyone know if Best Buy charges for pre-orders before shipping?

Best Buy does a pre-authorization on your card when you pre-order. It usually goes away after a day days, and then they do not charge until the item ships. Just make sure you have the money on that card or the debit/bank account when you pre-order.
 
Just for reference, since people are saying there's a difference, what's in the EU Special Edition?
Here you go:
original
 
Preordered it on impulse. I'm not even sure if I want this game when it comes out so I might cancel if it looks like they're like widely available.
 
Just for reference, since people are saying there's a difference, what's in the EU Special Edition?

The EU Limited Edtion has the game, the artbook (not sure if it's the same as the one in the NoA SE), a map, double sided poster, and steelbook.
 
Not if you want to install the four data packs to remove load times and improve textures and whatnot. You can play from the disc without installing the packs, which take up 16GB.

You can, but it's important to note that there are data packs that they're going to make available for people who buy the disc version to help improve the streaming performance of the game, which isn't a factor if you go digital.

Damn. I'm only looking at 3 games total for the system, but I guess there's no way around having an external hanging off it.
 
Best Buy does a pre-authorization on your card when you pre-order. It usually goes away after a day days, and then they do not charge until the item ships. Just make sure you have the money on that card or the debit/bank account when you pre-order.

Gross. $20 difference is pretty significant but c'est la vie
 
Only 10 tracks? For 90 bucks they should've just tossed in the whole thing instead of just a sampler. Atlus gives those out with art books for free on most of their games!
 
Only 10 tracks? For 90 bucks they should've just tossed in the whole thing instead of just a sampler. Atlus gives those out with art books for free on most of their games!

full ost = 4.2k yen
typical artbook = ~3k yen

let's see if you can give them just like that in CE that is not $100 or more

edit: and lol atlus with free art book.... those rarely a lot of pages... and of course don't forget about atlus tax :^)
 
Only 10 tracks? For 90 bucks they should've just tossed in the whole thing instead of just a sampler. Atlus gives those out with art books for free on most of their games!

Atlus doesn't give out free soundtracks. They do the same thing, a 10 song sampler with a very small art book of like 25 pages.
 
full ost = 4.2k yen
typical artbook = ~3k yen

let's see if you can give them just like that in CE that is not $100 or more

edit: and lol atlus with free art book.... those rarely a lot of pages... and of course don't forget about atlus tax :^)

Atlus doesn't give out free soundtracks. They do the same thing, a 10 song sampler with a very small art book of like 25 pages.

That's what I'm saying this is similar to Atlus's CD Samplers. It's on a fancy USB, but ehh.

The art book is the one thing that one ups most other art books by being a substance amount of pages, but I wish it could be in a better format. It's cool that NA finally got something that isn't NWS exclusive though. They were just mean.
 
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Aw the map would've been kinda cool to have, I could've framed it (I've developed a weird obsession for video game maps lately). But having an art book and soundtrack are usually my baseline requests for special editions, so I'm good.
 
Surprised NoA is doing anything for this game. Don't care for the LE myself, but it's nice they are doing something for what's basically a B-tier game (i.e., not Mario/Zelda/etc).
 
Order placed. If it goes live at GameStop I might very well cancel and preorder it there. Also depending on when Amazon ships this out as I'd rather be playing that weekend.

I accidentally activated a Free Trial for Amazon Prime as well. Oh well but at least I can put in some orders while I can. Anyone know if the free two day shipping on preorders stays even if you cancel your members right?
 
I'll get it from Bestbuy GCU

You say that... but then it sells through its pre-orders in minutes.

Hopefully someone catches it and posts it here fast.

They seem slow in getting new items on their site though.

I guess when you are selling most of your stock at 20% below all of your competitors there really is no incentive to be timely.

Why amazon, gamestop, toys r us, target, walmart or pretty much anywhere else is not trying to compete with GCU is still curious to me. They probably assume they don't need to because BB can only get so much stock so everyone else has to buy somewhere else anyway.
 
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