CRTGAMER wrote:I do not buy into the Reprint guesstimate. Now if Gamestop Corporate (not a local Manager) or Nintendo themselves (not some blog site) posts hard data proof then maybe it might be true. Show me pictures of the supposed reprint production at the factory, Gaaah, I wish there was a way to decipher the date stamp etched on every Wii disc to settle this.
The article I linked was quoting a Gamestop shareholder's meeting. I'm not sure why it's so hard to believe considering, again, that Gamestop was instrumental in getting the U.S. version of Xenoblade (particularly) printed in the first place. Logically, they have the ear of the right people at Nintendo to get stuff like that done.
Also consider that, if Gamestop wants you to line up to pay $90 for a used copy of a game, the "trade in campaign" they ran is perfect marketing to get you to do that. They could have gotten ten copies nationwide, but the advertising explained why all of a sudden they had the games on the shelf. Better snag it quick!
They have featured trade-in items all the time. Yet, those games are the ones they have 5-10 copies of in the drawer, at every location near me, all in the same mint condition. One location out of three has a used copy of Skyward Sword (which is one of their current featured trade-ins), every single one has a stack of Xenoblade and Prime Trilogy.
In most situations, if you saw a sudden consistent supply like that, you'd say reprint. They're not that uncommon. So why not with these? They can't be a reprint because they ran an ad? Most other reprints aren't advertised either, they just kinda show up.
Discs I've seen are new-new. Not resurfaced, where the inner ring still tends to show signs of it even if the data surface is great.
