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Scalpers are selling preorders of Super Mario 3D All-Stars for up to £200

entremet

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Scalpers are selling preorders of Super Mario 3D All-Stars for up to £200

The "limited release" of Super Mario 3D All-Stars has already seen scalpers chancing their luck on auction sites, with …
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Nintendo, friends of scalpers everywhere lol.

Gonna be wild once US pre-orders of Mario Game and Watch happens.

The "limited release" of Super Mario 3D All-Stars has already seen scalpers chancing their luck on auction sites, with copies of the £50/$60 game selling for as much as £200/$265.

As Tom reported at the time, Nintendo lifted the lid on its celebrations for Super Mario Bros.' 35th anniversary a few days back via a Nintendo Direct broadcast. Headlining the announcements was the re-release of Mario's three 3D platforming classics: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy. The Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection will arrive on 18th September, but will be removed from sale at the end of next March.
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NotLiquid

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If Mario All-Stars Wii was of any indication I somehow don't think scalpers will be that big of a problem in the long term.
 
Dr. Collins

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Are pre-orders unavailable or something? I just checked Amazon again and they're still open. Like where are pre-orders sold out?

Nintendo's gonna print millions and millions of copies. I don't see the big deal?
 

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Weird time for scalpers to start listing things at stupid prices considering the physical game is still available to pre-order with no signs of it being sold out...
 
Iron Eddie

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They could make physical copies useless if you need to download a patch to play the game. Isn't there other Switch games that are too big for the cartridge?
 
AyaisMUsikWhore

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Hard to trust pre-orders when they have a new trend of being cancelled after the fact and sometimes close to launch. They are preparing themselves for that possibility
 
ghostcrew

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This is scalpers trying to set the market value. It is not what the game is worth at the moment because you can still just buy it for RRP everywhere.

Until the game is sold out and people are actually paying this then it's totally hypothetical.
 
dock

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Top eBay sold prices are around half that price, and eurogamer took down the article.

Nevertheless, it sucks.
 
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ghostcrew said:
This is scalpers trying to set the market value. It is not what the game is worth at the moment because you can still just buy it for RRP everywhere.

Until the game is sold out and people are actually paying this then it's totally hypothetical.
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Are the Sold items on eBay from fake accounts?
 
Dizzy Ukulele

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Nintendo said it would be on sale until March 2021, not September 2020. But whatever, I don't care about scalpers or anyone dumb enough to deal with them when the rest of us are capable of securing a copy with ease.
 
FrakEarth

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Disgusting that people try and take advantage of others like this but more fool anyone willing to pay anything near that...
If you want a piece of history buy the original games for a fraction of the price.

It's only a matter of time before a game like Mario 64 gets a true remake as well IMO.
 
Spork4000

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It's still up for pre-order on Amazon. It'll be a normal run game, they'll just stop delivering copies in April.
 
TGR Sean

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I mean, when you look at MMOs people sell stuff on auction houses that you can easily buy at a vendor, and they list it for 10-1000x the price and every now and then people buy it.
 
Dizzy Ukulele

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It also makes Nintendo's decision to limit the digital release more questionable but I guess they'll be doing their own price hikes for individual releases after March anyway so this works for them in a mean anti-consumer kind of way.
 
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This game will be readily available for the next 6 months without a doubt. I guess some people just try to take advantage of people that are jumping to conclusions. It's also probably gonna sell more than 5 million copies physically so I doubt there aftermarket prices will ever be all that high.
 
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Amazon (US/UK) is not shipping this item internationally and I don't see pre-orders anywhere where I live... These sellers know exactly how things work
 
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NotLiquid said:
If Mario All-Stars Wii was of any indication I somehow don't think scalpers will be that big of a problem in the long term.
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It's not indication. That was Mario All Stars. This is a new, long waited collection that has been hyped for months and is the first time these games will be available in HD (or any format since launch, in Sunshine's case).

The prices are going to be ridiculous after the gates are closed.
 
thecaseace

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Yeah a bit too early for this from the scalpers, pre-order numbers will already be informing the number of physical copies Nintendo are going to print upto Christmas so I doubt this will be in short enough supply until to warrant a high resell value
 
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USF said:
Amazon (US/UK) is not shipping this item internationally and I don't see pre-orders anywhere where I live... These sellers know exactly how things work
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Yeah, I was surprised that I can't order it from Amazon for whatever reason. Shopto is also sold out.
 
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USF said:
Amazon (US/UK) is not shipping this item internationally and I don't see pre-orders anywhere where I live... These sellers know exactly how things work
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Exactly. In my country we only find Ring Fit for a crazy price.

But at least this collection is available digitally.
 
Tali'Zorah

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I'm not sure why people are saying that it's a limited time instead of limited copies, the digital edition is time limited but the Nintendo website specifically says that it is a "limited-run retail edition". Once this sells out physical copies of this game are gonna go for crazy amounts, I'm not surprised that it's already started to go that way
 
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Hopefully all the scalpers are out of luck when Nintendo actually manages to stock this adequately.

I guess after April they'll do better.
 
PAFenix

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Just checked and as others have said, preorders are still up on Amazon. If someone isn't aware of this, spread the word. Make scalpers regret attempting this.
 
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I'm not sure why people are saying that it's a limited time instead of limited copies, the digital edition is time limited but the Nintendo website specifically says that it is a "limited-run retail edition". Once this sells out physical copies of this game are gonna go for crazy amounts, I'm not surprised that it's already started to go that way
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That limited run is still something like 10 million copies, probably.
 
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Has the game and watch been on preorder yet in the US? I want to get one for my dad for Xmas as he had a bunch of them back in the 80s...
 
ShinobiBk

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If people are that impatient and that stupid to buy a pre-order for a such a premium, then that's fine by me.

Limited time release =/= limited release
These things will be as rare as the Halo 2 Collectors Edition with the steelbook
 

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They could make physical copies useless if you need to download a patch to play the game. Isn't there other Switch games that are too big for the cartridge?
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Those 3 titles in their original form amount to less than 5GB. I'd be very surprised if the maxed out the of a switch cartridge putting them all on there. Also, what exactly would they need to patch on 10+ year old games.
 
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Lewpy said:
Those 3 titles in their original form amount to less than 5GB. I'd be very surprised if the maxed out the of a switch cartridge putting them all on there. Also, what exactly would they need to patch on 10+ year old games.
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I'm just wondering how far Nintendo is willing to go to keep these limited? Sounds so dumb they will only sell it for a certain time. Before some had concerns with Disney was would they ever be able to lock away the movies you bought digitally in their Diamond or vault collection? Of course if you own the physical copy they can't do anything about it.
 
Etrian Darkness

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I was about to make sure I had my preorder but preorders are still open.

Yeah this may be a limited run but I highly doubt there won't be enough stock for people who want it.
 
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