I'm going to ramble thru a buying scenario here:
OK...so for starters...I will Not buy a second Dark Edition (also known as "repeat buy half the items"). I just can't justify that for, in essence, art-deco variants.
Next...Assuming that the 3DS and Wii games are exactly the same and involve racing...I think playing on the bigger screen trumps the 3DS..so...again, assuming the 3DS and Wii are the same game...We will SKIP the 3DS this time.
So that means we will purchase starter packs for the WiiU and the Wii. And
Skip the 3DS.
My son likes the colorful Donkey Kong so the standard WiiU Starter Pack looks to be the choice. That 'de facto' makes the Dark Edition choice the Wii Dark Edition.
Now...TRU ran a Buy 1 starter pack get the second Half price from midnight to 2 am on release day last time.
Does anyone know if they did this for any of the other releases?
And does anyone remember when they announced this deal?
(I'm getting a sinking feeling that Im gonna have to wait until the last week to finalize our choices
!!)
If TRU is the only choice for the Dark Wii Starter pack, I may have to pick up our standard WiiU Starter Pack there as well to capture the discount.
So this means we SKIP 3DS standard and Dark Packs all together, the Dark Edition WiiU, the Standard Wii Starter and All of the other platform standard and Dark Edition Starter Packs. It really is too bad...I like Dark Sea Shadow but ohh well...!
This release almost seems to be deliberately designed to break their 'completionist' fans! Who can afford to go all in this time?
We have a WiiU, a 3DS and a Wii. The people who own all three systems are getting no benefit from being the most dedicated to Nintendo.
I'm also thinking about the merits of avoiding single pack purchases and restricting purchases to the 2 Pack and racing pack combo's.
Any comments or observations on the above is welcome!