The Last of Us: Survival, Post-Pandemic Edition coming to North America & Joel & Ellie Edition for Europe + One Special Edition - Page 22

SwiftDeath · #1 02-05-2013, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Twisted

it is now Feb 5th..and this edition is still available...limited to perhaps one million?

..let's get real..we once again almost fell for the limited edition marketing gimmick...this one is being made in the thousands..just like the US NTSC Uncharted 3 edition.

I would be happy if this was only going to be made in the "thousands"

Most CE releases are in the 10's of thousands

Borderlands 2 was 50000.....just for north america

Problem I have with this though is where the info is coming from

I don't trust game journalists or ign when they tell me "Hey there going to make less Halo 4 LE's than originally thought, it's going to be a mad rush on it!"

And then there's 600,000 hmmmm Bad journalists

With this one though the production size is being suggested by individuals personally connected with Naughty dog which I thought would be better information

Not really sure on that now though of course (not their fault of course)

Here's what I think actually happened:

- Naughty Dog wants to make pandemic for true collectors
- So limited production run of less than 8000 decided on
- ND makes deal with gamestop for rights to said edition
- Original Pre-order goes crazy
- Gamestop pressures sony or ND to increase production size to make the moolahs
- Someone gives in and production size is increased tenfold
- Kids in china get a couple more days of work....

Madigan · #2 02-05-2013, 07:23 AM

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The Post-Pandemic Edition will only be available at GameStop for $159.99. It?s very limited,

Very limited for them is not very limited for us. This is not numbered so they can do whatever they want. Produce more, or produce less.

I agree with Swift's theory.

It sold out a couple of days after the pre orders, but now it's still available, I really don't know what to think. It's really weird.

stavie33 · #3 02-05-2013, 08:10 AM

well the only thing I think is weird is if they produced more, then why are pre orders still sold out in stores. It's ONLY available online, no store is taking pre orders. If they really wanted to cash in, and really wanted to make a ton of these (or tenfold as you say), then I'm sure they would be available again in stores.

At the same time, I have no clue WTF is going on because they have been up again for a LOOOONG time. I have no clue what's going on and I"m worried, I might end up cancelling all of my orders, and I recommended friends buy a copy as a collectors item because it would be huge, as their first CE game. I'd hate to tell them 'sorry guys it's mass produced'

SwiftDeath · #4 02-05-2013, 08:22 AM

I will say that we can all pretty much agree that this is very strange whatever the reason

No one has given a truly satisfactory explanation that accounts for what's happened thus far

It's just strange....

NaughtyDogJames · #5 02-05-2013, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by SwiftDeath

I would be happy if this was only going to be made in the "thousands"

Most CE releases are in the 10's of thousands

Borderlands 2 was 50000.....just for north america

Problem I have with this though is where the info is coming from

I don't trust game journalists or ign when they tell me "Hey there going to make less Halo 4 LE's than originally thought, it's going to be a mad rush on it!"

And then there's 600,000 hmmmm Bad journalists

With this one though the production size is being suggested by individuals personally connected with Naughty dog which I thought would be better information

Not really sure on that now though of course (not their fault of course)

Here's what I think actually happened:

- Naughty Dog wants to make pandemic for true collectors
- So limited production run of less than 8000 decided on
- ND makes deal with gamestop for rights to said edition
- Original Pre-order goes crazy
- Gamestop pressures sony or ND to increase production size to make the moolahs
- Someone gives in and production size is increased tenfold
- Kids in china get a couple more days of work....

Hmm I still think it's just cancelled orders. I mean how long did the Dead Space 3 Dev edition take to sell out and that's with no limit on preorders so if Gamestop do cancel orders of more than 3 then clearly it's not going to sell out rapidly.

As a statue noob what would be the best this could reasonably be (I know what it's made of just not if it's any good or not lol)?

If it's a decent statue then I doubt the profit margins are massive as between a 12" statue with 2 figures, Steel and a comic then the margins won't be much larger than a regular game.

stavie33 · #6 02-05-2013, 04:45 PM

I was thinking about the dead space edition too. That was up for almost a month iirc, I pre ordered it day 1 and had to wait at least 3, if not 4 weeks for it to sell out, even with no limit. And it's true, most people aren't even aware of this game's announcement or what it's about, or at least the collectors edition. I'm hoping it'll sell out again, it's just this was a bit weird, but signs seem to say cancelled orders. Once more, I think the greatest evidence is it's not available in stores anymore, which if they made more, I have no clue why they'd restrict it to online only.

Robalvarez2010 · #7 02-05-2013, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by stavie33

I was thinking about the dead space edition too. That was up for almost a month iirc, I pre ordered it day 1 and had to wait at least 3, if not 4 weeks for it to sell out, even with no limit. And it's true, most people aren't even aware of this game's announcement or what it's about, or at least the collectors edition. I'm hoping it'll sell out again, it's just this was a bit weird, but signs seem to say cancelled orders. Once more, I think the greatest evidence is it's not available in stores anymore, which if they made more, I have no clue why they'd restrict it to online only.

What every one has to understand is that dead space is for all consoles when the last of us is just ps3 exclusive. So yeah that's another reason why dead space sold out quicker then the last of us, also because like I said what was told to me by numerous individuals at naughty dog is that a bunch of orders online were canceled because they exceeded the limit or because they put wrong information, why do you guys think it's only being sold online and not in store. It has been sold out in store for over a week. Like I said before from what I was told there is less pandemic edition then there is GameStop stores worldwide and also take into consideration that this is exclusive to only GameStop stores and not all retailers, if they really wanted to cash in they would have distributed this worldwide.