Earlier this month, Metroid Prime Remastered was introduced and launched digitally on Nintendo Change. It’s superb and an ideal instance of find out how to remaster an outdated sport. Nonetheless, it wasn’t accessible bodily till yesterday, February 22. And uh, properly, it’s nonetheless form of not accessible bodily, as individuals are reporting that shops are promoting out of copies of Metroid Prime Remastered virtually immediately.
On February 8, 2023, Nintendo lastly (after years of rumors) introduced after which instantly launched a completely remastered model of Metroid Prime, which initially launched again in 2002 on the GameCube. This new port consists of improved textures, fashions, and trendy management choices. Nonetheless, whereas this new model of the sport was critically praised, it was solely accessible digitally on the Nintendo Change eShop for $40 till yesterday. Now, in idea, you must have the ability to purchase a replica from a retailer or Amazon. Nonetheless…
As noticed by IGN, some individuals who pre-ordered the sport by way of on-line shops like Amazon reported on February 22 that their copies have been all of the sudden delayed till March and even April. On-line and bodily shops like Goal and Greatest Purchase have additionally shortly bought out of copies, too. Wanting on-line, I discovered most shops didn’t have any copies of Metroid Prime Remastered in inventory to select up. Even Wario64—the web’s favourite online game deal-finder—can’t appear to assist individuals get their fingers on the sport. And over on Reddit, individuals are sharing tales of simply how laborious it’s to discover a copy of Prime anyplace.
Nintendo limiting what number of copies of Metroid Prime you should purchase
Kotaku senior editor Alyssa Mercante, well-known for her protection of The Witcher 3’s Labiagate, trekked out to the NYC Nintendo Retailer to see if she may snap a replica for herself. Apparently, the place was pretty busy—as you may anticipate—and she or he was solely allowed to purchase one copy of the sport. When she requested the workers on the retailer what number of copies that they had left, they informed her they have been “not allowed to reveal” that info.
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Kotaku has reached out to Nintendo concerning the present scarcity.
In the meantime, as Metroid Prime Remastered continues to be laborious to purchase bodily through traditional retailers, people on eBay are already making an attempt to flip copies of the sport for greater than $40. Many are promoting it for $70 to $90, nonetheless, some are asking greater than that, with at the very least a number of listings making an attempt to promote the sport for $100 or extra. I even noticed at the very least one itemizing that was asking for $400. Evidently in lower than 48 hours, the bodily copy of Metroid Prime Remastered has grow to be a collector’s merchandise.
I feel it is a good time to remind those who Metroid Prime Remastered is on the market for $40 digitally on the Change. If you happen to actually wish to play the sport, that’s the perfect (and form of solely) strategy to go proper now—at the very least till issues quiet down and Nintendo (hopefully) re-stocks shops with extra copies of its implausible remake.