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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.

My cousin (jmbarnes101 on this forum) didn't see them. I did.

When he called me that night about something else I mentioned it to him in passing and told him if his store didn't have any he should come up here.

mjmjr25 wrote:My cousin (jmbarnes101 on this forum) didn't see them. I did.

When he called me that night about something else I mentioned it to him in passing and told him if his store didn't have any he should come up here.

Did the cases that only had a back sticker have that R?

No "R" on the sticker or on the inner ring on the disc which I've seen before. No disc resurfacing marks either.

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I'd imagine that it would cost more to remake the Prime games for the Wii U specifically than just reprinting the Wii game.

Same for Xenoblade I suppose no?

Did anyone ever come up with a good reason as to why MPT was suddenly and without explanation out of print? It was a popular game that was stll selling well at the time, as I recall, not a niche outing like Xenoblade.

It reminds me of the time Nintendo released The Lost Levels on Virtual Console for like a week only.

Did they have some problem with making money?

CRTGAMER wrote:I suspected your copy was not the original case, during the Metroid Trilogy and Xeonoblade buyback last summer all copies went to the Refurbish Center. Gamestop tossed out the scratched tin cases, the idiots!

That doesn't add up. Where do you propose the new cases are from?

It'd have been copyright infringement for Gamestop to print the cover art and pass it off as Nintendo's.

mjmjr25 wrote:My cousin (jmbarnes101 on this forum) didn't see them. I did.

When he called me that night about something else I mentioned it to him in passing and told him if his store didn't have any he should come up here.

Yep, I completely remember the conversation and I was amazed but I've seen copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy and Xenoblade Chronicles at almost every Gamestop and now I'm seeing smatterings of the Mario Bros game which I hadn't been seeing. Either a bunch of people are trading their stuff in for pennies on the dollar or their was an unannounced reprinting of various Wii titles. Considering the condition I'm going with the second scenario.

Though there isn't any hard proof I'm sure Nintendo provided the cover art. As for the cases Nintendo does sell them. Also the manuals can be purchased. For the volume of discs that are out there at the moment, all of the items that make a physical game release have been reprinted. It just makes sense.

They are two huge and successful Companies. If there was any copyright infringement the gaming community would catch it.