Today Rockstar Games presented Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection, a Collector Special Edition for GTA VI at the price of $399.99 that does not include the game. Here is the official description from the Rockstar Games Store: An exclusive box containing everything you need to relax and enjoy, inspired by Macca the Alligator – the successful TV series that is conquering Leonida. The collection includes: - 15 cm statuette of Macca the Alligator with storage compartment - Oakley® FrogskinsTM sunglasses in Prizm Sapphire glass matt black for GTA VI - New Era® 9FORTY A-Frame Hat with decorations Vice City and Leonida - Magnetic mirror Macca l'Alligatore - Cucchiaio di cocktail Vice City - Razor-shaped keyring Vice City - Handbags Leonida Keys - Boccale Chunkee the Manatee - Set of enamel pins Leonida in a custom metal case - Premium stickers in a glove bag - Double-sided poster showing the entire landscape of Leonida Dimensions/Dimensions: Approximately 48,26 cm x 34,29 cm x 31,75 cm. Preorders are now available for the launch of 19 November, although only for North America and Europe. Learn how to pre-order the collector's edition will be shared soon; Rockstar also anticipated the imminent arrival of additional clothing and collectors in the store GTA VI. Collectable boxes without game are not new, and Rockstar has inaugurated this practice. The Collector’s Box for Red Dead Redemption 2 cost $99.99 and was devoid of the game, with Rockstar explaining that it was not a game edition, but a separate accessory package that players could match the physical or digital version they wanted. Blizzard followed the same logic. The Limited Collector’s Box for Diablo IV cost $96.66 and was free to copy the game, not even in-game codes, which were instead connected to digital purchases. Blizzard also promoted this option as a way for players to match the desired digital edition with physical merchandising, and the box did not arrive until June 30, more than three weeks after the game was launched. EA further developed this trend with Mass Effect Legendary Cache, which was released along with the legendary edition in May 2021: its focal point was a 1:1 scale reproduction of the Shepard helmet, and included a steel case for the game but no copy of the game, not even a downloadable code. Considering these previous practices, the GTA VI box follows a familiar formula, but on a very different scale: the Vice City collection costs about four times as much as the Red Dead Redemption 2 box or Diablo IV; it is also more expensive than collector editions released by Sony for its recent blockbuster, which had a cost of $230-250 and included at least one digital copy of the game. Going back to a generation, the contrast is even more evident: the Collector edition for Grand Theft Auto V debuted at only $149.99 in 2013, and that included the game. VERDETTO: CRITICO La decisione di Rockstar Games di lanciare la “Vice City Leonida” Collection a $399.99, escludendo il gioco stesso, è un affare che lascia perplessi. L'analogia con le Collector’s Box per Red Dead Redemption 2 e Diablo IV – entrambe prive di gioco e focalizzate su merchandising – suggerisce una strategia consolidata nel mercato dei videogiochi, ma la cifra richiesta per questa collezione rimane spaventosamente alta rispetto al prezzo di GTA VI stesso (presumibilmente inferiore). La scelta di Macca l’Alligatore come ispirazione principale, con un focus esplicito sulla serie TV “Leonida”, rappresenta una scelta di branding decisamente specifica e potenzialmente limitata nel suo appeal verso il pubblico generale. Mentre la collezione offre elementi di merchandising attraenti per i fan più incalliti del franchise, la sua esclusione dal gioco eleva in modo eccessivo il costo, creando un prodotto che sembra progettato principalmente per i collezionisti più appassionati piuttosto che per una base di giocatori ampia. La somiglianza con le pratiche di Blizzard ed EA dimostra una tendenza del settore, ma non giustifica il prezzo elevato e l’esclusione fondamentale dell'oggetto desiderato: un gioco di Grand Theft Auto VI.
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