Super Mario All-Stars is getting (another) NA release (this time on Wii)

[Zing]

This is in stock at Best Buy Canada. $35 with free shipping.

I considered picking up a few, but at $160 (after tax) for four of them, I don't want to get stuck trying to dump them later for only a few dollars profit.

[Zing]

Then I'm definitely going to buy two. I'm sure these will go pretty quickly and once again end up on ebay for atleast twice the retail price.

If you are so sure about this, then why not buy four, or ten? If they will double in value, why not spend every spare dollar you have buying these and reselling? 100% return on investment.

[The 1 2 P]

I might grab more, provided I can get them at Best Buy. As a rewards member there all my purchase dollars go to certificates to use on future game(or other stuff) purchases. So that plus the money I'll make is a win-win.

[tubeway]

I saw four copies at my local Target and picked up three of them. Brand new on Amazon they're going for as little as $38 a copy right now, which is barely enough to get back your money after seller fees.

Thankfully, I picked mine up for a couple local friends so they can save some cash, and also add one to my own library.

[The 1 2 P]

You might have to hold on to them for a few weeks before the price goes back up. That should be enough time for this batch to sell out.

[InsaneDavid]

This just did not move this time around. I think we only sold like two copies to date. There's plenty in the stockroom so I'm in no hurry until prices pick up.

[tubeway]

This just did not move this time around. I think we only sold like two copies to date. There's plenty in the stockroom so I'm in no hurry until prices pick up.

Which store do you work at?

[megasdkirby]

I'm surprised Sears did not bring in this for sale. Last time it had it in stock (release date), it sold QUITE well, in probably less than one hour. Brining in more would almost guarantee and easy sale...and quick.

[PapaStu]

Which store do you work at?

He works at a TRU

[Lady Jaye]

Question for whoever had bought it (and actually opened it): is the booklet worth it or not? That really would be the determining factor between getting it or not.

[jaekwon15]

The market is officially flooded. There are over 130 copies for sale on Amazon, and the cheapest New copy is 35 dollars (plus tax and shipping.)

[The 1 2 P]

I'm just going to sit on my extra copies. They'll go back up eventually.

[Leo_A]

Question for whoever had bought it (and actually opened it): is the booklet worth it or not? That really would be the determining factor between getting it or not.

The booklet is poor and the music CD is so limited in scope that I doubt anyone will give more than a single look to either of them.

The meat of this product is the game itself. Only get this if you want to be able to play the game on your Wii or want to collect it. It's not worth it for the bonuses.

[Lady Jaye]

That's too bad.

[swlovinist]

Got very lucky today. I called a local Gamestop(in which I have very good business relationship with), and I was asking if there were any Mario All Star Wii games in stock. The manager was opening a restock box as I was talking to him...they got only one in. Needless to say I was very happy and felt lucky to score one. For me I plan to eventually play this one, I still feel that its worth it for the ability to play these games in crisp component on the Wii.

[Rev. Link]

That's too bad.

I'm amazed that Nintendo, a company that made some of the very best games of all time, can be so bad at doing special or collector's editions. Their bonuses are always so lackluster. Even the game itself is a bit disappointing. A straight port of the SNES game? They couldn't have added in a few of the more recent 2D Mario games? Oh, wait, of course not, because they had to use games that could be played with only two buttons using a Wii remote.

Oh how I wish all Wiis came bundled with a classic controller. If next year Nintendo celebrates the Zelda anniversary by redoing the same cheap collection we saw on GameCube, I'm going to be upset.

[Leo_A]

They're selling those on the Virtual Console which was why they weren't there. But let's not start that one up again.

They could always toss in a nunchuck/wiimote control combination for something like Super Mario World (I believe NSMBWii can use both, for an example of how they could've met the button requirement with stock controllers). So I don't think that was the roadblock to including it on the disc.

I'm hoping we'll get some real treats with the Zelda collection, assuming that's the route they're going to go to celebrate the anniversary. Reworkings of the Satilliteview games would be an excellent way to celebrate the series and give us something new and worthwhile.

And perhaps the real Ura Zelda (The N64 DD expansion for Ocarina of Time). It seems to be a common feeling that what we got on the GameCube was just a portion of the project, or even just a recent hack at the time to give us a second quest that was then portrayed to us as that lost project.

In interviews and such in the 90's, Ura Zelda was supposed to include such things as the following list of elements. Yet, it was little more than edits to the dungeons that some 3rd party modder could've achieved. Heck, it didn't even need the 4MB expansion pack to run and was the same size as the standard Ocarina of Time, as people have discovered that have extracted the Master Quest rom.

-Persistent world
-Additional areas
-Additional dungeons
-Changed locations for existing dungeons
-New enemies

Would be neat to get the real deal someday (Was supposedly all but finished according to outlets like IGN at the time of cancellation), assuming what we got on the GameCube wasn't the real deal.

Maybe those lost elements are the new additions they've hinted at for Ocarina of Time 3D.

[Leo_A]

Through data mining of the Wii U's eShop, an entry for this title has been located which suggests an upcoming release.

If it happens, it will be interesting to see what form its 2nd rerelease takes. Will it be an $8 Virtual Console download like many thought it should've originally been five years ago? Or will Nintendo have the nerve to sell it as a $20 Wii download, thanks to this earlier retail rerelease?

The old economics problem remains. Do they risk some of their profit by selling an enhanced compilation of four classics for $8, that cost $20 in their original form as downloads? Or will the Wii retail angle be utilized to allow for an equivalent $20 download price?

[Tanooki]

Good question. If I were betting, even though I never do, I'd put it at $20. Nintendo thanks to the WiiU is hurting financially and also in game quantity too. A release like this being a Mario history package of the 2D early era would be easy money. They'd rationalize the fact you could buy them individually for $5/ea as NES titles so it's a fair deal with the upgrades. I mean there was no reason since they own it, but they went for $10 vs $8 on Earthbound and I think that NES proto they finally release was higher too. They'll milk it.