Assassin's Creed III

[Matrix6]

Originally Posted by Vikingo82

And the medallion? Or is it a pendant with the ac symbol...

So many stuff around this edition...

The Medallion is official as it's been announced by Ubisoft, as for the pendant...well, it's never been officially confirmed by Ubisoft But who knows what will become of it??

[LiquidEffect]

Man this one needs to come to NA. If that is a metal case I'd like it.

[Twisted]

there will be NO collectors edition for the US...US instead received "exclusive limited edition steelcase" with pre-order..as our exclusive incentive..the ACBRO collectors edition was a FAIL in the US for Ubisoft..taking losses on it all around..they won't repeat that same mistake again, of a full blown out collectors editions.

[v1sav1s]

Ubisoft US Forum Manager, black_widow9, already confirmed that there will be a LE/CE of some kind for NA. No specifics yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they unveiled something around E3 or July 4.

[Matrix6]

Originally Posted by Twisted

there will be NO collectors edition for the US...US instead received "exclusive limited edition steelcase" with pre-order..as our exclusive incentive..the ACBRO collectors edition was a FAIL in the US for Ubisoft..taking losses on it all around..they won't repeat that same mistake again, of a full blown out collectors editions.

You know, you should really state that as your very own opinion as it's not fact not a true analysis because your have no evidential proof to back it with.

IMHO, the NA LE/CE will be the biggest one to be released for AC3! But I'm just found by trend and of course hype

I'm already willing to give Forever flash a copy of the ' Freedom Edition' if NA gets snobbed of a CE...I'm very confident the US will be spoilt with one

[Twisted]

i SPECIFICALLY remember last fall reading a transcript of a call placed by Gamestop to it's shareholders, talking about as to why there only releasing ACR "Siganture" Disk Pre-Order bonus DLC, instead of a full blown out collectors edition, ...gamestop said..they LOST money on AC BRO JACK IN THE BOX exclusive..sales were BELOW expectations, and they were actually WELL BELOW Expectations, so they will decline in the future any proper collectors edition from Ubisoft, because of shelfspace issue and sales issues..same thing Toys R Us said, they will pressure Ubisoft to NOT issue Assassins Creed Collectors due to incurring loses on the sales....so as of FALL 2011..TOYS R US AND GAMESTOP SAID THEY WILL ACTIVELY DISCOURAGE UBISOFT FROM BRINGING TO MARKET ASSASSINS CREED COLLECTORS BOXES...but maybe they had a change of heart?..i still believe it's NOT happening...but it's ONLY MY OPINION AND WHAT I READ FROM FINANCE REPORTS IN RESPECT TO SHAREHOLDERS/INVESTORS ETC.

[Matrix6]

Good. You have your opinion/prediction, Gamestop/ToysRUs have theirs, stockholders are pessimistic and I have my own...and in the end, it's really up to Ubisoft.

The Driver San Francisco CE bombed, Far Cry 2 CE didn't do great either, so I see no reason why they should skip one for AC3 when this is supposedly the finale of the "trilogy"/series

Publishers such as SEGA seem to churn out many crap and unnecessary CEs for games such as Alien vs Predator which seem to do very badly on the market [albeit also crap quality imo]. I don't know who's backing them but SEGA obviously have their own decisions made.

At least someone has already claimed that they've seen a comment posted by some official Ubisoft rep stating that there will be a CE for AC3 for the US, that to me is a good indication.

[Twisted]

yes, again,,.it's only my OPINION and "Hear say"..but what i forgot to mention was, that UBISOFT DID WANT TO RELEASE A US COLLECTORS EDITION FOR ASSASSINS CREED REVELATIONS FOR THE US, but there was FIERCE RESISTANCE from GAMESTOP and TOYS R US,..even threatening NOT to stock it..that's why UBISOFT was "pressured" to back down from offering a true collectors edition, so to appease the fans, they came up with a "signature edition"..which takes no shelfspace..GAMESTOP and TOYS R US were fuming,..they still had majority of inventory of ACBRO, and ubisoft wanted to push another 1 on them, meaning no one would want the older one, even though they still had tons of of them in warehouses..the hype did'nt live up to expectations in the US, again UBISOFT WAS GOING TO RELEASE A US VERSION OF ACR COLLECTORS, But major retailers thru a big fit.

[Matrix6]

Was it anything to do with the actual game? I haven't played it

imo, I thought the Codex Edition was lacklustre, it's made of cheap plastic and the coloring wasn't authentic looking, ala God of War 3 Pandora's Box. I don't even remember what was included inside, but many of my peers were far more interested in the Jack in a Box editions you guys got and most of us had imported one. I thought it had more entertainment than a plastic codex box.

I'm really hoping for a huge AC3 LE for the US, I'm anticipating it and would like to get hold of one please

[Pielord]

Originally Posted by Matrix6

Good. You have your opinion/prediction, Gamestop/ToysRUs have theirs, stockholders are pessimistic and I have my own...and in the end, it's really up to Ubisoft.

The Driver San Francisco CE bombed, Far Cry 2 CE didn't do great either, so I see no reason why they should skip one for AC3 when this is supposedly the finale of the "trilogy"/series

Publishers such as SEGA seem to churn out many crap and unnecessary CEs for games such as Alien vs Predator which seem to do very badly on the market [albeit also crap quality imo]. I don't know who's backing them but SEGA obviously have their own decisions made.

At least someone has already claimed that they've seen a comment posted by some official Ubisoft rep stating that there will be a CE for AC3 for the US, that to me is a good indication.

This "was" meant to be the last AC but not anymore. The AC series became so much of a cash cow that they are just going to keep going with it. The final one was meant to be with just Desmond but I wouldn't be expecting that for a while yet.
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