Amazon opens preorders for physical version of Minecraft: Wii U Edition, reveals box art

Amazon has opened preorders for the physical version of Minecraft: Wii U Edition, revealing the box art.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Rather than that, I wish Mojang and Micro would lower the price to the same as other versions.
That's not going to go over well...

[LOL_WUT]

There's no need to. They know that WiiU owners have been itching for Minecraft to be released on the WiiU. They went out of their way to throw in some Mario themed stuff, therefore, the price is justified. If anything we should just be glad it even released for the system. ;)

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Mario themed stuff which Nintendo probably had to help them make.
You wouldn't be making these excuses for an excessive price tag if it were happening to anyone but Nintendo, and you know it.
The game's years old; you and others complain constantly about Nintendo not lowering the price of their own first party games, but suddenly now that someone else is doing it, that's okay, huh?
Whatever; I'll get it once the price goes down to a reasonable level.
Until then I can always play it on PC.

@ Monster.
I can understand that logic.
What I can't understand, is why they'd think it's fair, let alone that it would WORK.
How could they reasonably expect that a new Mario skin pack would make a higher price feel OKAY to consumers that know just how old this game is?
As a business, this just shows that they don't respect the intelligence of the consumers they're trying to sell to.

The truth of the matter is that they're trying to price gouge Wii U owners by just slapping Mario into it.
It's the exact same spirit of mistake that third parties made when they thought they could lead off the Wii U's first year with nothing but old ports at higher prices.
They assumed that Wii U owners were desperate for their games, and gullible enough to accept higher prices and lesser content.
If it didn't work back then, I highly doubt that it's going to work now, and I honestly feel it's quite shameless of Mojang and Microsoft to pull this greedy BS on fans that they haven't honestly given a damn about up to this point.
I can understand why they'd lack confidence, given the abject failure of other third parties to make their games compelling enough to sell on the Wii U during its first year, but it doesn't excuse making a bad pricing decision that is more likely to drive sales AWAY than bring them in, when considering the age of the game and the price of it elsewhere.

Besides, it's not like offering it at the same price as others would hurt them anyways, ya know?
They've already made more money than they can possibly spend off of its sales elsewhere; using price parity for the Wii U version wouldn't even dent their earnings reports, and would probably make the game more attractive and sell better on the Wii U, to boot.

[Monster_Tard]

I think it's more that Microsoft wasn't confident in it selling too well on the Wii U, so they bundled it with some skin packs and are charging a higher price to make the investment more worthwhile.

@monkeyman

I can see your point, it's not really fair to Wii U owners. It's even worse that the Wii U edition of this game has a much smaller map size and isn't on par with the PS4 and Xbox One versions, it's a higher price but has less in it.

[gamingpro]

Lol you just got served boiiii. d;o) lol

[jimmydonegood]

Microsoft raking in that Minecraft money. Only game to sell over 1 million on Vita too.

[Blastoise]

No it's not lol

[Eonjay]

Uncharted sold over 1 million as well as top rated Persona 4 among others.
Edit: joined 1 hour ago... for goodness sakes.