I mean, pre-order bonuses for the remake of Ocarina of Time (on Switch 2) vary on region: Japan gets bonus art cards, stickers and a paper stand while both the UK and some EU countries gives buyers spiritual stones (France has a wallet) & Canada gets a N64 slipcover for the game. The only thing “universal” for pre-order bonuses is the textured foil cover, other than that: the USA doesn’t have anything unique given to people there.
Japan getting bonuses has been a thing for a long time and not exclusive to video games. I remember having to use less than legal ways to get exclusive songs off CD releases from some of my favorite musical artists because only Japan got those exclusives. And they didn’t hide it either. The CD literally said “Japanese exclusive”.
The only reason I’ve found is that it’s to encourage Japanese customers to buy the merchandise in their region and not buy outside of it. I’ve heard it had to do with a weaker currency’s valuation in the Yen and so giving them exclusives made it less likely they’d buy from another country to save cash by getting the exact same product. That’s also partly why region locks are a thing to prevent people from buying in a cheaper region.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Get used to it, You fucked the entire world economy for your stupid orange buffoon. You’re getting the short end of the stick from here on out.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
i mean this is it. there are so many tarriffs and weird finacial penalties, its just easier not to.
and i never had to do this before but these times call for it. get out and vote. someone here on lemmy said “voter polls are psyops” and i agree. people say, “no way trump csn win i dont need to vote”. “the voter polls say democrats will take over congress, i am not worried, i dont need to vote”… it only works uf we all vote. so please pleas, next month… vote.
again, being thus pushy us not normal for ne but hopefully everyone here can appreciate why.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As an American, I wholeheartedly agree. I’m tired of voting against and protesting this shit and the people who push it seeing no consequences.
Fuck our shit up, world. We deserve it.