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Originally Posted by scourdx
I believe developer did it big in an attempt to justify the $150 to 200 price tag. They know how consumer is thinking. Bigger it is the bigger the price tag. Developer is forgetting that retailer don't have the shelf space to store all this. If they don't sell it quickly, they are losing profit.
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I agree. We have seen far too many big CE's crash in price shortly after release as retailers just don't have the room to store them. For example, the space that one Crysis 2 Nano Edition takes up could be used to store between 100-200 standard releases! Just storing 50 Nano Editions would be a huge drain on warehouse storage space. If you consider the value per metre, it's actually more profitable for retailers to sell 100 standard releases than it would be to sell just one Nano Edition. The same also applies for the biggest Guitar Hero / Rock Band bundles. Not only that, but they're more expensive to ship as well!
It's nice to believe that these factors would mean lower print runs, but that's not always the case. Also, if a huge CE doesn't sell on pre-orders, then chances are nobody else is going to be willing to pay the asking price two or three weeks after the game has had its 15 minutes in the limelight (READ: Before the next flavour-of-the-week game is released). When interest wanes, then that's when the retailers drop their prices to get rid of them before they get caught holding the hot potato
Personally, I think the smaller CE's are ample. Both Gears Of War 1 & 2 and Mass Effect 1 & 2 have proven that small perfectly formed CE's are more desireable than the huge ones which most collectors find difficult to store and display. Anything which can be stored in-line with standard games is ideal.
CE's don't need to come with some crappy figure or statue to be desired by the fans - All they want is something extra which has had a lot of effort put into it solely for them. I would say the likes of Alan Wake and Fable 3 are probably the largest I would say is wanted by fans, and you can fit a hell of a lot of nice things in a package that size if they used their imagination!