{"id":102799,"date":"2019-10-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/early_digital_pokemon_sword_and_shield_pre-orders_also_include_a_steelbook_for_some_reason"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:30:00","slug":"early-digital-pokemon-sword-and-shield-pre-orders-also-include-a-steelbook-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/early-digital-pokemon-sword-and-shield-pre-orders-also-include-a-steelbook-for-some-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Digital Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Pre-Orders Also Include A Steelbook, For Some Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd2723e73ffb7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd2723e73ffb7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Screen Shot 2019 10 30 At 11.22.24\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd2723e73ffb7\/screen-shot-2019-10-30-at-11-22-24.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd2723e73ffb7\/screen-shot-2019-10-30-at-11-22-24.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2019 10 30 At 11.22.24\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask us why, but Nintendo of Europe has revealed that it&#8217;ll be giving away physical steelbook cases with early digital pre-orders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The games are now available to pre-order from the Nintendo Switch eShop, and Nintendo has announced that fact alongside an early-purchase incentive. The problem is, of course, that anyone buying the game from the eShop won&#8217;t have a cartridge to place inside their fancy steelbook case, so we&#8217;re struggling to see why such a deal would exist in the first place.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PokemonSwordShield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PokemonSwordShield<\/a> are now available to pre-order from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eShop?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eShop<\/a>! While stocks last, early purchasers can get a free SteelBook\u00ae case! <\/p>\n<p>Pre-order Pok\u00e9mon Sword \u2694: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQdGGqGNvV\">https:\/\/t.co\/lQdGGqGNvV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pre-order Pok\u00e9mon Shield \ud83d\udee1: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Of3apdz6uR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Of3apdz6uR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E9eonN8Iko\">pic.twitter.com\/E9eonN8Iko<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoEurope\/status\/1189498992226385920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You can also get your hands on a steelbook case by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/guide_where_to_pre-order_pokemon_sword_and_shield_on_nintendo_switch\">pre-ordering a physical copy<\/a>, which actually makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>You know that GIF of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/video_ryan_reynolds_shares_comical_look_at_his_detective_pikachu_role_new_trailer_tomorrow\">Mr. Detective Pikachu<\/a> (aka Ryan Reynolds) saying &#8216;<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/why-ryan-reynolds-1M9fmo1WAFVK0\">but why<\/a>&#8216;? <em>That.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ask us why, but Nintendo of Europe has revealed that it&#8217;ll be giving away physical steelbook cases with early digital pre-orders of Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield. The games are now available to pre-order from the Nintendo Switch eShop, and Nintendo has announced that fact alongside an early-purchase incentive. The problem is, of course, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}