GameCube Players Choice + Bonus Ugly Logos...Why?

[lordnikon]

I am going to start off this thread on a high note. I was at Fry's electronics a few weeks back, and they had copies of StarFox Assault in stock. They had both the Players Choice release, and a few regular releases. I had just spent a LOT of money on games recently. So I decided to hold back and not get the game. So last night I decided to swing back over to Fry's, realising what a grave mistake I had made.

I stroll over to the GameCube aisle, and what do a find? One last remaining copy of StarFox Assault, and it was the NON-players choice version.

YES!!!

I snatched it up without hesitation, and was very glad I made the detour to Fry's.

You might be asking: "I don't get it. What is the big deal?"

For some reason Nintendo decided to make their Players Choice releases look even worse. The Yellow banding on the cover art wasn't enough. They are now plastering terrible logos all over the Players Choice releases. One of the more widespread logos is a huge amateur photoshop emblem that says "Best Seller!" In addition to this they are adding other logos like Resident Evil 4's "Winner at Spike TV's game awards".....ughhh.

Well the Players Choice release of StarFox Assault has the Best Seller logo, as well as some other logo which I can't remember. So you have the Players Choice Yellow, and then TWO horrible logos on the front covering up more of the artwork.

How do you feel about this? Copies of Zelda Wind Waker, Kirby Air Ride, Super Smash Brothers and many other great Nintendo Games are getting their covers ruined with ugly unecessary logos. It is great to get a game at a cheaper price, but to have the cover destroyed with garbage like this really stinks.

[Darren870]

a best seller doesn't mean its a players choice FYI

[lordnikon]

Yea I am well aware they added the logos to both players choice and non-players choice releases.

[FantasiaWHT]

Pikmin 2 had a "Best Seller" logo on it right from the start... how silly.

[Mayhem]

So did Mario Tennis and Paper Mario to name but two others. They do come in non-Best Seller versions too, as I have them in my collection. I believe it's to do with pre-sales reservations, it's used for a certain level of selling now.

[opitekk]

i think the artwork on the boxes for these games suck anyway.

[DigitalSpace]

My non-Player's Choice copy of Pikmin 2 doesn't have a Best Seller logo at all.

Anyways, the Best Seller thing has been around for a while. I think the first time I spotted it was when Wind Waker became a Player's Choice title. Personally, it doesn't bother me at all, but then again, neither does the Player's Choice packaging (or any GH packaging for that matter).

[lordnikon]

The first time I spotted it was on Kirby Air Ride. I don't like the best seller logo, but if I have no other option and the price is right on a sealed version of the game, then I guess I would have to get it.

In this specific case with StarFox, it is pretty bad. The entire lower part of the game cover is covered up with the best seller logo and another one. I wish I could find a picture of it on the net.

I have question for all of you gamecube collectors out there: Are you buying every cover variant?

[Mayhem]

No LOL

Certainly not in terms of:

- US or Canada (just US, I don't like the dual language)
- Best Seller (just the "original" version)
- Player's Choice (ditto)

I do have both covers for Midway Treasures 1, and all three covers for Star Wars Bounty Hunter. Plus both versions of Metroid Prime (with and without the Prime 2 bonus disc).

Speaking of the whole dual language thing, has anyone ever seen pure English (non French) versions of Donkey Konga and Digimon World 4? I only ever see dual language versions of both, suggesting that's the only way they were released.

[Vectorman0]

I have a feeling Donkey Konga is indeed only bi(tri?)lingual. Every one I have seen has been this way. I'm note sure about Digimon though.

[suckerpunch5]

I'm kind of, slightly, maybe sure I have a Super Smash Bros N64 cart that has a "Best Seller" badge on the cart label. I'll have to look when I get home, but I think it is there. Anyways, it might be older than you think.

[Xizer]

Bah, more versions of games I have to avoid.

Why does everyone have to make it so complicated these days? Now I have to avoid Player's Choice, Best Seller, Platinum Hits, Greatest Hits, Best of Platinum Hits...

ARGH!

I hate PC/GH/PH, because it always makes me have to buy games used. No stores have any non-PC games left that are factory sealed so I have to rummage through the used pile. Often times I can't find a used version without player's choice either, so I can't buy the game. Sometimes I have to resort to eBay, which is also annoying because stupid sellers never specify whether it's the original or budget release. I have to ask every seller what version it is before I buy it on a lot of games, which just further delays purchase.

I will NOT give in to the monster that is Player's Choice/Greatest Hits/Platinum Hits! I refuse to. The only exception I've ever made are versions that come with a lot of expanded content. I don't care about bugs. I have Fable: The Lost Chapter hidden away in a corner in my game collection.

[suckerpunch5]

Alright, I checked and the star says "Player's Choice Million Seller." So there you go.

[lordnikon]

Sometimes I have to resort to eBay, which is also annoying because stupid sellers never specify whether it's the original or budget release. I have to ask every seller what version it is before I buy it on a lot of games, which just further delays purchase.
This is exactly why I was so excited to score the Star Fox Assault original version. Once you can't find them in stores, you are relegated to hounding sellers online, asking them to take pictures of the game. Since all of them just use the same stockart cover they grabbed off google.


I will NOT give in to the monster that is Player's Choice/Greatest Hits/Platinum Hits! I refuse to. The only exception I've ever made are versions that come with a lot of expanded content. I don't care about bugs. I have Fable: The Lost Chapter hidden away in a corner in my game collection.
It is hard to avoid on the GameCube. A good amount of my sonic releases on cube are all players choice. So far I have managed to dodge the dredded Best Seller / Marketing Logos.

I was able to not own a PS2 GH's game for the longest time. THe only ones I did own were special releases like VF4:EVO, Twisted Metal Black with the online disc packed in, and Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition REMIX. I owned about 75 PS2 releases. Then I was at a store and saw Maximo for 9.99. It was brand new sealed. For 10 dollars I couldn't pass that up. I also knew I was going to be getting Jak II soon, and I would have a hard time finding that sealed non-GH.

[Promophile]

As much as I hate PC/GH/PH/ect versions of games I would rather buy a new PC/GH/PH game over a used original version.

[lordnikon]

As much as I hate PC/GH/PH/ect versions of games I would rather buy a new PC/GH/PH game over a used original version.
Yea I do this as well. I would rather get something brand new. I did have to get a used copy of the original version of Devil May Cry 3, since they fixed the difficulty level in the GH's release. I wanted the really hard release. (I was dissapointed though because the game was not as hard as people trumpeted it to be. Players are getting soft these days.)

[vincewy]

I have about 20 sealed GC games that are original version which I don't plan to open them at all, don't ask me why, I just feel they're worth something. If I ever want to play them, I might just go get another copy cheap.

The trick is, watch the store stock very carefully, if you spot a game that's been announced by Nintendo as PC, get the original one at $20 while you can.

[Frica89]

I got Paper Mario:TTYD when it first came out and it had the best seller logo on it. WTF. I guess Nintendo just assumes their big franchises are going to sell, which they do. It kinda bothers me though.

[GarrettCRW]

If the game is good, who really cares about the cover art?

[FantasiaWHT]

I got Paper Mario:TTYD when it first came out and it had the best seller logo on it. WTF. I guess Nintendo just assumes their big franchises are going to sell, which they do. It kinda bothers me though.

Were they Best Sellers in Japan? (My Pikmin 2 was a release-day copy with that too). That's what I thought the justification was.

[Mayhem]

The way it works, so I've been told, is on shop pre-orders and then post release prints. Nintendo start printing the normal inlays, and then when the number of prints gets over a certain number (500k I think) then they start adding the "Best Seller" logo to it for the rest of the prints.

If the number of pre-orders goes over 500k before release, then that explains why you see "Best Seller" already on some when the game hits the shops.

[NintenDk]

The way it works, so I've been told, is on shop pre-orders and then post release prints. Nintendo start printing the normal inlays, and then when the number of prints gets over a certain number (500k I think) then they start adding the "Best Seller" logo to it for the rest of the prints.

If the number of pre-orders goes over 500k before release, then that explains why you see "Best Seller" already on some when the game hits the shops.

thats what I had pieced together from earlier posts as too :D

[AMG]

I'm not a big fan of the ugly yellow color Nintendo has on their Gamecube best sellers, but it won't stop me from buying a game.

[JPeeples]

I don't mind the yellow as much as Sony's red garbage because a simple Sharpie will remedy that problem. The PC logo itself only cuts off a very minor amount of cover art, and you can also Sharpie over the yellow spine bar - which won't match as well as it does for the front cover, but is still better than looking at a garish yellow bar on the side of the case.

[NintenDk]

I don't mind the yellow as much as Sony's red garbage because a simple Sharpie will remedy that problem. The PC logo itself only cuts off a very minor amount of cover art, and you can also Sharpie over the yellow spine bar - which won't match as well as it does for the front cover, but is still better than looking at a garish yellow bar on the side of the case.

O_O sharpie on a cd case for sony games or on the boxart? well it is just player choice but you know... :hmm: