{"id":118176,"date":"2020-09-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/random_super_mario_3d_all-stars_cartridge_is_rubbing_people_up_the_wrong_way"},"modified":"2020-09-18T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:00:00","slug":"random-super-mario-3d-all-stars-cartridge-is-rubbing-people-up-the-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/random-super-mario-3d-all-stars-cartridge-is-rubbing-people-up-the-wrong-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Super Mario 3D All-Stars&#8217; Cartridge Is Rubbing People Up The Wrong Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f755a6876de99\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f755a6876de99\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Super Mario 3D All-Stars Cart - Cropped\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f755a6876de99\/super-mario-3d-all-stars-cart-cropped.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f755a6876de99\/super-mario-3d-all-stars-cart-cropped.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Super Mario 3D All-Stars Cart - Cropped\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_3d_all-stars\">Super Mario 3D All-Stars<\/a><\/strong> is out today and as we said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_3d_all-stars\">our review<\/a>, it&#8217;s a ruddy good time and well worth picking up. But it seems that not everyone is happy, at least when it comes to the limited edition physical release of the game in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ahmad, Senior Analyst at Niko Partners, has posted a comparison between the Hong Kong version of the cartridge, and the one available in North America. As you might imagine, plenty of people aren&#8217;t best pleased, with some calling the cart &#8220;disgusting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We must admit, it&#8217;s not the best design placement we&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The chad Hong Kong SKU vs the virgin North America SKU <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IX6m2Eq9ai\">pic.twitter.com\/IX6m2Eq9ai<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/1306568582214672387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Thankfully the PAL version is much nicer than the North American hatchet job, as our video man Alex Olney&#8217;s photo demonstrates:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Super Mario 3D All-Stars Cart - Alex Olney's PAL edition looks nice\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/88c9df28017e2\/super-mario-3d-all-stars-cart-alex-olneys-pal-edition-looks-nice.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 675'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/88c9df28017e2\/super-mario-3d-all-stars-cart-alex-olneys-pal-edition-looks-nice.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Mario 3D All-Stars Cart - Alex Olney's PAL edition looks nice\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Super Mario 3D All-Stars Cart &#8211; Alex Olney&#8217;s PAL edition looks nice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let us know if you picked up Super Mario 3D All-Stars digitally or boxed. What do you think of all this cart label malarky?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario 3D All-Stars is out today and as we said in our review, it&#8217;s a ruddy good time and well worth picking up. But it seems that not everyone is happy, at least when it comes to the limited edition physical release of the game in North America. Daniel Ahmad, Senior Analyst at Niko [&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-118176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118176","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=118176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}