Metal Gear Solid Ultimate HD Collection Zavvi World Exclusive only 4000 worldwide

[Twisted]

i seriously doubt these are as strictly limited as zavvi says, mayber zavvi was sincere at that time to keep this at low numbers, but from konami/zavvi/ebgames aus business point, why would they refuse profit and sales?...especially in a down economy?..i bet there's way more than 10,000 worldwide or 4,000, this has been on sale well over a month with no sell outs in sight anywhere...even in AUS, with it's supposed only 1,000 to 3,000 copies or something like that...definitely feel, they've ramped up production and it's gonna be a big run, similiar to other collector editions just like the so-called only 12,000 sonic generations collectors worldwide, where even today some 3 months later, it's still available for sale on amazon.de although amazingly the xbox360 version sold out in matter of days whereas where 3 months out and ps3 is still for sale.

[goonergaz]

Originally Posted by Twisted

i seriously doubt these are as strictly limited as zavvi says, mayber zavvi was sincere at that time to keep this at low numbers, but from konami/zavvi/ebgames aus business point, why would they refuse profit and sales?...especially in a down economy?..i bet there's way more than 10,000 worldwide or 4,000, this has been on sale well over a month with no sell outs in sight anywhere...even in AUS, with it's supposed only 1,000 to 3,000 copies or something like that...definitely feel, they've ramped up production and it's gonna be a big run, similiar to other collector editions just like the so-called only 12,000 sonic generations collectors worldwide, where even today some 3 months later, it's still available for sale on amazon.de although amazingly the xbox360 version sold out in matter of days whereas where 3 months out and ps3 is still for sale.

I do wonder about the general knowledge of this product though, it was zavvi exclusive and sold out - maybe folk are just out the loop...if I didn't know about this site I'd think it's sold out, I even sent emails asking if they had cancelled stock but said sorry - sold out.

[Prometheus]

Originally Posted by Twisted

i seriously doubt these are as strictly limited as zavvi says, mayber zavvi was sincere at that time to keep this at low numbers, but from konami/zavvi/ebgames aus business point, why would they refuse profit and sales?...especially in a down economy?..i bet there's way more than 10,000 worldwide or 4,000, this has been on sale well over a month with no sell outs in sight anywhere...even in AUS, with it's supposed only 1,000 to 3,000 copies or something like that...definitely feel, they've ramped up production and it's gonna be a big run, similiar to other collector editions just like the so-called only 12,000 sonic generations collectors worldwide, where even today some 3 months later, it's still available for sale on amazon.de although amazingly the xbox360 version sold out in matter of days whereas where 3 months out and ps3 is still for sale.

Hi, I've been following CE.org for a while now, have read what some have been saying on this thread and have to agree that it's probably not as limited as they'd like you to believe.

The references to numbers made are not on the Zavvi website, and given that these new 'supposed' numbers are still low(ish), you would expect an e-tailer, with 'supposed' exclusive rights to advertise about how many were available?

I had also previously pre-ordered the original 'Ultimate' version, with strong reservations as I have ordered 4 times from Zavvi in the past, and I have only ever received one of those items, and this was 6 weeks after release (it was damaged as well!).

You may ask why I ordered with them again and the answer is simply that they had the cheapest offer on two occasions and the others were exclusives.

As a collector, despite there being so many Collector Editions last year, I actually think it was one of the worst years. Simple because the Publishers have gotten very wise to the psyche of a typical Collector and they are now frequently ripping us off. The only Collector Edition I bought last year (and I stupidly bought many) that wasn't still available well after it's release or reduced to an amount that made me think I should have waited was the Uncharted 3 Explorer Edition.

I can only put that down to A. Sony seem to do the best CEs, B. It was exclusive to few suppliers, C. It was exclusive to one console platform, and D. They didn't make millions of them! Every other one went down in price Gears Epic £100 - £40, Skyrym £130 - £70, Deus Ex, Space Marine etc.

I've cancelled my order, I'm not saying this for any one to do the same, as I know that as a collector of these types of merchandise, it's sometimes very hard. Just saying that we ourselves are part of the problem as we will all moan about the quality or value of these CE but like me last year just keep buying them. I just don't see how a steel tin, t-shirt and book can be justified at the price they want when it's not even limited or numbered? I got that limited Avatar blu-ray box that came out on play a while back, not great value but at least it was limited to 1000 and it was numbered.

sorry for the rant