Tears of the Kingdom – Collector's Edition Announced

Before we're getting into the new trailer, let's first talk about the additional announcements around Tears of the Kingdom. As you can expect with this sort of release, the game will receive a limited Collector's Edition – take a look here. It will come with the following five items:

• Gamecard (with clean cover)
• Steelbook
• Hardcover artbook
  
• ICONART Steel Poster
• Pin set with four pins

It's exactly the type of Limited Edition that I personally like to have, where we were getting similar ones in the recent years, for games like Metroid Dread, Fire Emblem Engage, and so on. So, I certainly won't make an exception here, even though the price point is higher this time with around 130€ (apparently), where Nintendo seemingly wants to make the most out of Tears of the Kingdom after its five years of development. The game itself will be at 70€, which is also higher than the normal price for a Nintendo Switch game, but it's the same price as for Breath of the Wild and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

I personally don't mind the price, but I will agree with anyone who says that these items are probably not worth the extra 60€. Even though the artbook looks like it's in premium quality, it could turn out to be redundant, should they decide to release a follow-up to the Creating a Champion book in the furutee. And they could have skipped those pins, if you ask me, but I have never found a real use for them... Maybe there are people who really love those?

Now, all I have to do is to get one of these Collector's Editions, which is easier said than done these days. I hope that they will make an overabundance of them, because with Fire Emblem Engage earlier this year I was just insanely lucky to look at the My Nintendo Store at the right time...

Strangely enough, the Tears of the Kingdom Edition of the Nintendo Switch OLED has yet to appear. If this turns out to be a fake after all, then hats off to the guy or gal who made it, because it had me 100% convinced that this is real. Of course Nintendo could still announce it at a later point, where maybe they didn't want to overwhelm the customers with too many nice / expensive things at once. Like the Splatoon 3 Edition, it probably won't come with the game anyway.

Update: The tear symbol on the pin box is exactly the same one as on the Joy-Cons and to my knowledge we didn't see this symbol before the leak. Also, the symbols on the back of the Joy-Cons seem very similar to those pins. This makes it very much authentic and Nintendo simply might announce it later.