So they're just going ahead and sending discounted standard copies out to customers!? That's not good enough!! >.< Fortunately I have no interest in this game or CE, so am unaffected, but still a discounted standard copy is no substitute for the CE. If people wanted the standard copy, they would have ordered it instead of the CE. I understand that this is a very exceptional circumstance, but I don't think they have the right to be telling customers what they "will be happy with"...
Let me put it this way, when I have ordered from Nintendo UK Store, if for whatever reason my game does not arrive with me on release day, due to no fault of my own, Nintendo have "compensated me for the inconvenience" with a digital copy of said title. Due to this being an issue completely being out of the customer's hand, why are GAME UK not doing more with Nintendo to make sure that fans aren't disappointed!? It seems to me that the only real loser here is the customer.