Would You Pay $1,300 For The Resident Evil 6 Premium Edition?
See Full ImageThat's what Capcom wants to know, so they're asking.
The publisher will release a ridiculously pricey special edition of Resident Evil 6 in Japan this fall: It comes with "a faithful replica of Leon's leather jacket" along with four tablet covers, and it'll retail for 105,000 yen, or nearly $1,300.
...that's a lot of money, even for the hardcore franchise followers. It definitely seems like something that would probably remain in Japan, but Capcom is asking North American gamers if it's something they'd possibly purchase. The poll is up over at the Capcom-Unity website and as of right now, the split is 75/25 in favor of "No way. Not interested." That's hardly surprising, but perhaps it's mildly interesting to note that 1/4 of voters really would pay that much money for this collector's edition. That jacket must be pretty high quality, wouldn't you say?
Anyway, feel free to vote. The chances of me paying $1,300 for a video game, regardless of the extra stuff, is pretty damn slim...the "extra stuff" would have to be an ounce of gold or something.
Related Game(s): Resident Evil 6
Tags: re6, resident evil 6, re6 premium edition, premium edition poll, capcom
5/11/2012 9:42:05 AM Ben Dutka
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556pineapple
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 10:17:14 AM
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Geobaldi
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 10:25:38 AM
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jimmyhandsome
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 10:27:20 AM
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rogers71
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 11:15:14 AM
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The way that crapcom has crapped all over the RE series the last 2 installments, they will be lucky if I pay 59.99 for the game much less drop 1300 for some more bull****!!!!! What are these developers thinking?
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coverton341
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 11:18:24 AM
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Mind you, I was looking for very expensive tablet covers and jackets. I honestly don't believe that for a video game bundle they are going to go with top of the line items, especially considering that they contracting out to a couple of manufacturers who are just going to slam out the requisite amount of items.
Seems like a money grab by exploiting people's desire of "swag".
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CH1N00K
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 11:27:22 AM
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It's 4526 7628 BLOW ME!!....(New Visa's have weird numbers....) I want to see what this jacket looks like though so if I ever see someone who has one, I can run up to them, point and laugh and steal their wallet as they clearly have more money then brains...
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CanadianGuy420
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 11:27:54 AM
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Clamedeus
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 12:44:34 PM
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daus26
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 1:01:55 PM
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Oyashiro
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 1:18:12 PM
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Ninja_WafflesXD
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 1:19:30 PM
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Maybe they could also throw in Wesker's affinity for dodging well-placed headshots, for good measure ;)
Otherwise, I think that I just may have to pass on this one :/
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gumbi
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 1:43:03 PM
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And lets be realistic, the majority of that 25% that voted for it are bluffing. They're voting for it because they think it's cool, but I'll bet less than 1/4 of that 1/4 would actually cough up $1300 for it.
But I guess, considering what it likely costs to produce, Capcom probably doesn't need to sell a ton of these for it to be profitable...
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Clamedeus
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 1:52:38 PM
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slugga_status
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 2:43:15 PM
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CrusaderForever
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 2:47:21 PM
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JLB1
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 2:55:55 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 3:08:35 PM
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rogers71
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 3:57:19 PM
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CONTRABAND
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 4:44:14 PM
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BikerSaint
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 5:04:42 PM
Hey, you can take the whole family of 10 to New Jersey's "Zombie Survival Course" for only a few dollars than Crapcom wants.....
Sign up now.....
http://www.zombiesurvivalcourse.com/
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souljah92
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 4:58:03 PM
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BikerSaint
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 4:58:04 PM
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But if they decide to throw in a working flamethrower too, I'll be all over it.
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JackDillinger89
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 7:40:01 PM
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Geobaldi
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 8:50:54 PM
But yeah, a typical leather jacket is priced far less then this one is. And as far as zombie games go, The Indie Stone has made the best zombie video game to date, and it's still in alpha for the most part.
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Robochic
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 7:43:30 PM
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AcHiLLiA
Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 7:43:34 PM
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Coffeya
Saturday, May 12, 2012 @ 12:51:48 AM
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matt99
Saturday, May 12, 2012 @ 1:38:26 AM
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___________
Saturday, May 12, 2012 @ 5:50:15 AM
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my poltix leather jacket who are the rolls royce of leather jackets only cost me 900!
50 bucks says the leather jacket in this wont even be real leather, just synthetic vynel or something else made to feel like leather.
if it was made by a italian craftsman then ok i could justify that price, but 50 bucks says it wont be, it will be a 200 dollar jacket there charging you 1000+ for!
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Rogueagent01
Saturday, May 12, 2012 @ 5:53:41 AM
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However I would only consider paying that kind of money if it was a truely limited edition. Had I been working when Kingdoms of Amalur came out I absolutey would have bought there special edition that was something like $275 or $375. But if I remember correctly they only made 300 of them, so I would have bought it and never opened it up, it would have drove me nuts not knowing who signed the statue.
I love REAL collectors editions. Not the ones that most game companies release where they make tens of thousands of them, those I pass on unless it is something that really interests me. I miss the good old days of getting cool swag with the games, not like today where most of the games just give you a code to redeem some DLC, or a flimsy piece of paper that has the world map printed on it. In a way you can absolutely call me a sucker, but since I like collecting and I don't open the stuff up(I'll usually buy 2 copies) 30 years from now I'll be the one saying ha...look at that bid on Ebay! I can retire off this one item, lol(hopefully). And if not at least my grandkids will have an awesome collection to either sell or show off to there friends.
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Oxvial
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Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 9:57:11 AM