Limited Edition of Doom Includes Game Box That, Itself, Plays Doom (engadget.com) 20
Limited Run Games is releasing physical editions of Doom and Doom II, including a $666 "Will it Run Edition" that features a literal game box capable of playing Doom. Engadget reports: It costs $666, which is a nod to the devilish source material, and is being kept to a limited run of 666 copies. It comes with the aforementioned screen-enabled game box that runs Doom, but that's just the beginning. The combo pack ships with the soundtrack on cassette, a certificate of authenticity and a trading card park with five cards.
It comes with a couple of toys based on one of the franchise's most iconic enemies. There's a detailed three-inch Cacodemon that connects to a five-inch base, which looks pretty nifty. There's a smaller handheld Cacodemon that, you'll never guess, also runs Doom. This edition is available for Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. The PC version, however, ships with a download code and not physical copies of both games. Preorders start on April 18 and end on May 18, with a release sometime after that.
It comes with a couple of toys based on one of the franchise's most iconic enemies. There's a detailed three-inch Cacodemon that connects to a five-inch base, which looks pretty nifty. There's a smaller handheld Cacodemon that, you'll never guess, also runs Doom. This edition is available for Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. The PC version, however, ships with a download code and not physical copies of both games. Preorders start on April 18 and end on May 18, with a release sometime after that.
Yeah (Score:2)
No.
There is nothing here worth that price
Re: Yeah (Score:3)
You can see into the future of what a collectable will be worth later on?
No one is arguing the materials that make up the special edition and the IP included are worth $666.
Re: Yeah (Score:2)
Absence of mass-production (Score:2)
There is nothing here worth that price
Given the extremely small-scale production, the actual worth of the content of box isn't what's driving the price high.
Yes, there are mass-produced retro-handhelds that can play Doom for very cheap.
But companies selling them usually push multiple thousands of units.
They can basically sell the devices close to material costs, with very thin margins, and thanks to the big numbers of units sold, they'll still recoup the investment that went into designing the handheld and fixed costs setting up the production
Artificially limited editions (Score:2)
will never gain my interest.
Even as nifty as it all sounds, price tag excluded.
Limitation from hardware (Score:2)
artificially limited editions
In this specific case, it would be sort of justified.
Keep in mind Limited Run games are note merely just printing a few thousands more of the same box' covers and sleeves (something which would be constant across their entire catalog).
- the limited edition has a few specific goodies (the toys/figurines)
- some have custom electronics (the box that can run Doom itself, the Cacodemon figurine that can also run Doom)
The goodies are custom and require custom specific production chains.
And (as regularly (re-)disc
Plays Doom, huh? (Score:3)
*ducks*
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I haven't seen that phrase here in years!
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Even if you want it (Score:2)
It will probably take Limited Run 666 months to ship it...
It's a bit of a meme. (Score:2)
I am also not a big fan of some of their business practises, as they will try and dark pattern you into buying box or shipping insurance.
I've regressed back to the philos
You ALSO Get.... (Score:2)
...a cassette???
Low bar to play Doom (Score:3)
The hardware requirements to play Doom are incredibly low. A $5 ESP32 microcontroller (which even includes bluetooth and wifi) can easily run Doom.
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Custom hardware (Score:2)
A $5 ESP32 microcontroller {...} can easily run Doom.
...except that this is just the raw component.
But Limited Run Game is not just reselling a mere microcontroller. They are making a custom box, and a custom figurine, each of which can play Doom.
Which means that the cheap microcontroller or cheap SoC has to go onto a custom board, that has to be mounted on some custom contraption for the box, or requires a custom shell that has the shape of a cacodemon figurine.
And I doubt there's market for hundreds of thousands of people dreaming to acquire those. (Yes, I
Tried collecting things (Score:3)
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You don't understand the target market - Gen Xers who peaked in High School, playing Doom at LAN parties with their friends. Now they're 50 and have made decent money but have no family or friends, just money and nostalgia.