{"id":32516,"date":"2018-07-13T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_will_get_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_ultimate_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:35:00","slug":"japan-will-get-physical-boxes-of-smash-bros-ultimate-and-pokemon-lets-go-with-digital-codes-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/japan-will-get-physical-boxes-of-smash-bros-ultimate-and-pokemon-lets-go-with-digital-codes-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Will Get Physical Boxes Of Smash Bros. Ultimate And Pok\u00e9mon Let&#8217;s Go With Digital Codes Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_will_get_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_ultimate_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_will_get_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_ultimate_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"smashpokemon.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_is_getting_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_is_getting_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"smashpokemon.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you like having physical boxes of games to add to your ever-growing, beautiful collection of joy, but also like the convenience of having your games stored within your Switch&#8217;s internal memory for quick and easy access, you&#8217;ll likely be pretty jealous of Nintendo&#8217;s latest offerings in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>On the official Japanese Nintendo store, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash\u00a0Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/strong><\/a> have a couple of different listings: one that is simply a case with a cartridge inside as usual; and one that gives you the case with a digital code to redeem inside instead. Each copy costs exactly the same price, regardless of whether you&#8217;re getting a physical card or not, but the option is there nonetheless.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_is_getting_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/japan_is_getting_physical_boxes_of_smash_bros_and_pokemon_lets_go_with_digital_codes_inside\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"smashpokejpn.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On the one hand, selling what is essentially an empty box seems absolutely bonkers, but it&#8217;s actually quite a smart idea on Nintendo&#8217;s part; we imagine there are many who do indeed fall into the exact category we described above and the production costs will be lower if there is no cartridge inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether a similar deal will make it over to North America or Europe remains to be seen, but could this be a new trend for major Nintendo releases?<\/p>\n<p><em>Let us know if you&#8217;d pick up one of these digital code boxes given the chance with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like having physical boxes of games to add to your ever-growing, beautiful collection of joy, but also like the convenience of having your games stored within your Switch&#8217;s internal memory for quick and easy access, you&#8217;ll likely be pretty jealous of Nintendo&#8217;s latest offerings in Japan. On the official Japanese Nintendo store, Super [&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-32516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516","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=32516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}