Astral Chain discussion thread

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Nuvendil said:

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My brother tried to buy it but it was sold out at every retailer in our local area, so he had to get a copy from ebay. That tends to happen with non-megaton games on Nintendo systems around here, they always under-ship. I remember when I picked up Crash Team Racing they had like 3 copies at the store, all of which were spoken for. If you don't preorder, good luck getting any game in the first few weeks unless it's something big like Mario.

On an unrelated note, I still wonder if the reason they haven't shown Bayonetta 3 yet was cos they didn't want to steal Astral Chain's thunder, as Bayo is the more well known IP.

Shoot, that's three more copies than my local Best Buy had for Ys VIII.  It felt like they sent 1 or 2 to every game stop for the first shipment and that was it.

And yeah, probably.  Astral Chain's surprise appearance and rapid hype cycle could have been derailed if all the media outlets started jabbering about Bayonetta from E3 onwards.  And they really couldn't afford that with the release schedule being so crowded.  Shoot, that's another thing to consider: Nintendo probably didn't want too much talk going on about the future releases when they have literally a month or less over the summer to hype up each of their *six* releases coming out in the season.  

Yeah that's a good point too. I just really hope we see it soon, I am so, so sick and tired of waiting for it.