Did u notice "Best Seller" is on the front of the Paper Mario box?

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does the early versions say that or is it already been there. its weird cause it just came out and it already saying Best Seller.
 
I noticed that at Best Buy, I have a copy I bought from Fry's and the price tag is covering that region so I don't know if it says it as well. I'm pretty sure it will. I pointed out to my GF that it was kinda lame to put "Best Seller" on a brand new game. Maybe I'll break down and open my Fry's copy (I'm not ready to play it yet) and see if it has the tag.
 
It doesn't take Nostradamus to predict a Mario game to be a bestseller... but that is an interesting thing to put on the box right off the bat.

I don't have a copy yet so I can't confirm this.
 
I managed to pull the price tag out of the way on my copy and there is no "Best Seller" written on the box.

Had I known better I would have a bought a few copies and sold them on eBay as "rare, limited editions" of Paper Mario 2 ;)
 
[quote name='slidecage']my copy has it wooo is so RARE :)[/quote]

1.) You've got no proof at all that there are more copies with "Best Seller" than without.
2.) I'd bet that all of the future copies will say "Best Seller," which means that if that version is rare now, it won't be for much longer.
 
[quote name='Gothic_Walrus'][quote name='slidecage']my copy has it wooo is so RARE :)[/quote]

1.) You've got no proof at all that there are more copies with "Best Seller" than without.
2.) I'd bet that all of the future copies will say "Best Seller," which means that if that version is rare now, it won't be for much longer.[/quote]

it was mostly meant as a joke there are probally thousands if not millions of the game out there
 
Maybe the best seller copies were the last ones pressed and by that time there were enough preorders to warrant the best seller tag
 
well...

living in NYC...

I've been to multitudes of stores checking this out...

and i can say that its a bout a 50/50 split...

even stores like TRU and EB have BOTH versions on the shelf...
its interesting... my guess is that they pressed a bunch of them without it... then when they repressed the new Players Choice games like Wind Waker which now bears the BEST SELLER seal.... they decided to press Paper Mario with it too... seeing as how the first was only sleeper hit and its hard for that title to shake its kiddie image.

call it slimy on Nintendo's part... but no.. it didnt sell that many in presales to call it a best seller... its just a visual incentive to the uninformed consumer... AND uninformed retailer.

if anything... I'd say that... having a copy without the seal is more to smile over... but nothing to brag about.... considering all furture presses of the game will likely bear the seal... one without it will become harder to find on the shelves.
 
That really wierd that a game that just came out would have a best seller on the box. Maybe Microsoft should put something like that on the Halo 2 box, and Vavle should put something like that on the Half Life 2 box.
 
Seeing as it sold like hotcakes in Japan, of corse they're going to put Best Seller on the package.

I'm truly surprised that there were people who even cared :)
 
Man, I must just be really anal, but this REALLY pisses me off, I got a copy from the TRU as part of the buy 2 deal (I asked my TRU and they said I could get what I wanted early, and get a price adjustment later) and sure enough it has that lame seal on it, I noticed it when I bought it but I just assumed all of them had it. Now that I find out some don't, I'm not even sure I want the damn game if I can't get a copy without the seal. I can promise you that in 5-10 years the version without the seal will be worth much more then the version with it (assuming all future versions will have the seal which I think is very likely), yet both are selling for the same price right now and I do not want to be stuck with the inferior one later on down the line.

I'm debating just taking the game back and swapping it for GTA when that comes out and getting the one with the better packaging on ebay.
 
I am pretty sure the best seller seal is on second shipment of the title. My gf and I saw this when we got the game and both opted for the best sellerless copies.
 
Maybe Nintendo made like x00,000 regular ones and after that number it just starts printing on the box because Nintendo thinks that numbe ris a best seller.
 
[quote name='guyver2077']man who the hell cares about a seal. its just a damn seal. same game.[/quote]

Well not for a collector, the version without the seal will end up being more rare and sought after in the long run, which really sucks if you are a collector and happened to get unlucky with a copy that does have the seal.
 
[quote name='SteveMcQ']Haven't seen that on PMs around here.

So is this on the shrink wrap or on the actual insert?[/quote]


Sadly it's on the insert :(
 
And it is a second pressing that has the "Best Seller" seal. It was not a half with it or some without or anything, it was added during the second pressing. And all (and only) the second pressing have that seal. Otherwise the first and second pressing are identical in every way.
 
same remarks i had with my friends... we pick this up at gamerush first thing on Tues of its relese.. we thougth it was a good ploy to trick parent to buy this for their kid though.. hey cute mario and BEST SELLER must be okay for our kid.. anyhow... i think it's okay either of them is fine... haven' play it yet.. but probably fun
 
[quote name='dental_regurgitation']It doesn't take Nostradamus to predict a Mario game to be a bestseller... but that is an interesting thing to put on the box right off the bat.

I don't have a copy yet so I can't confirm this.[/quote]

I actually heard Nostradamus is now working for Nintendo
 
I actually posted this topic in the other paper mario thread. The day I got the game (release day) it had "best seller" stamped on it.
 
[quote name='valor19']And it is a second pressing that has the "Best Seller" seal. It was not a half with it or some without or anything, it was added during the second pressing. And all (and only) the second pressing have that seal. Otherwise the first and second pressing are identical in every way.[/quote]

So, will every copy made from now on have the seal? I'm trying to determine which is the version that will have the least amount produced.
 
i would imagine they will all have the seal from now on, whats odd is our (gamestop in davis) first shipment all had the bestseller seal on it, we didnt even get the non ones, otherwise i would have picked it up... those will certainly be worth more money down the road
 
[quote name='mtxbass1']I actually posted this topic in the other paper mario thread. The day I got the game (release day) it had "best seller" stamped on it.[/quote]

Yeah, we got in a shipment with no seal one day before it could go out to the sales floor so in sat in back. Then the next day we got in another shipment (while marking the ones from the previous day) with the "Best Seller" logo. Maybe they did an intial run and then realized that they would need more for launch and did another run, only this time with seal. Or maybe the initial printing was done somewhere else? Regardless, there are more copies with the seal now available and Nintendo only currently ships to retailers the one with the seal. So, it would seem that the case with no seal would be more rare. However, it is only a little seal. I would not go out of my way to look for the one without the seal unless I had some sort of compulsive disorder.


However, I do have a copy of one without a seal hidden at work. :twisted:
 
jimbodan, check out the Sacramento Fry's and you'll probably find copies of the game without the stamp on them. It'd be worth a shot if it's that important to you.
 
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[quote name='oxidative']jimbodan, check out the Sacramento Fry's and you'll probably find copies of the game without the stamp on them. It'd be worth a shot if it's that important to you.[/quote]

Oh yeah, I imagine it won't be too hard to track down a copy without it. I'm just mad that I can't get it as part of the TRU sale since all there copies have it.

Now however, I'd like some confirmation on whether every copy made now will have the seal? I know the first printing doesn't have it, and second printing does it, but someone here said that ONLY the second printing will have it. So now I don't know which version is the one to have? I'd find it hard to believe that it would only be the second printing, so it looks like I'll exchange my sealed copy with the seal somewhere for a sealed copy without it.
 
[quote name='judyjudyjudy']I don't know, but somebody apparently is trying to ripoff ebayers by mentioning the seal...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8139164477

Personally, regardless of which one becomes more rare, I'd rather have one without the seal.[/quote]

I'm glad nobody bought it, the guy is a damn bastard for doing that.

Anyway if, I have a best seller version, but I don't really care about it much.
 
If you really want to switch out your unopened Best Seller with the Regular cover, just find a store that has the regular cover and buy it since they both have the same bar code number and just return your Best seller copy in its place.
 
While I don't like the "player's choice" bar at the top of player's choice games, I do like the best seller version better of paper mario. its supposed to look like how they put "best seller" on books. It fits the theme of paper mario being a story book etc. I would say that for rarity, the one without the seal is probably more rare
 
[quote name='Bergley']While I don't like the "player's choice" bar at the top of player's choice games, I do like the best seller version better of paper mario. its supposed to look like how they put "best seller" on books. It fits the theme of paper mario being a story book etc. I would say that for rarity, the one without the seal is probably more rare[/quote]

Never thought of it that way, but it'd be nicer if it was that embossed foil seal.
 
Interesting, indeed maybe they put it on their to mimic the best-seller seal on books. Also, I was in japan when the game came out and I had to walk like 10 miles for a week in a row before I found a copy where I lived. So it would warrant a best-seller in my book.
 
[quote name='trunks982']does the early versions say that or is it already been there. its weird cause it just came out and it already saying Best Seller.[/quote]

It came out in July in Japan and was, in fact, a Best Seller there.
 
Well, My TRU only had bestseller copies, and my gamestop only had non-best seller copies. So I now have one of each, please help me decide which to keep. I'm thinking the non-best seller is probably the one to keep, but what does everyone else think? I just hope the bestseller logo is a permenant addition and not just something they are doing for the second printing.
 
I would consider myself a collector, I like to have the non-pc/ph/gh version of games, but the little best seller logo doesn't bother me. I don't really collect for the money aspect, that money would be better invested somewhere else. I just enjoy collecting games.
 
[quote name='guyver2077']well i just came from eb and all the copied they had did not have the best seller on em[/quote]

this is what confuses me too, every single copy at my gamestop didn't have the logo. so is the best seller thing only for certain stores? I'm having a really hard time deciding which cover is rare.
 
jimbodan, why not keep'em both. it's beginning to sound like baseball cards here.....

on the best seller tag; take LoZ:WW and slap on both PC and BS makes it unattractive to collectors.

original = best.
error = rare, possible high collectibility value.
re-issues, 2nd prints = not much going for it.
 
[quote name='Mospeada_21']jimbodan, why not keep'em both. it's beginning to sound like baseball cards here.....

on the best seller tag; take LoZ:WW and slap on both PC and BS makes it unattractive to collectors.

original = best.
error = rare, possible high collectibility value.
re-issues, 2nd prints = not much going for it.[/quote]

There is no way I am going to keep both, I like to collect, but I'm not quite that hardcore, I'd just like to get the rare one now, since I basically have my pick and they are both the same price. I'd just hate to give back the bestseller one only to learn later that it was an error, or it was only on a certain printing. Same thing goes with the one W/O bestseller, I don't want to give that back only to find out every version of Paper Mario from now on will have it.

I have 30 days to return one of them to Gamestop, so far it seems it would be best to take back the bestseller one, but does anyone have any information on rarity?
 
[quote name='jimbodan'][quote name='Mospeada_21']jimbodan, why not keep'em both. it's beginning to sound like baseball cards here.....

on the best seller tag; take LoZ:WW and slap on both PC and BS makes it unattractive to collectors.

original = best.
error = rare, possible high collectibility value.
re-issues, 2nd prints = not much going for it.[/quote]

There is no way I am going to keep both, I like to collect, but I'm not quite that hardcore, I'd just like to get the rare one now, since I basically have my pick and they are both the same price. I'd just hate to give back the bestseller one only to learn later that it was an error, or it was only on a certain printing. Same thing goes with the one W/O bestseller, I don't want to give that back only to find out every version of Paper Mario from now on will have it.

I have 30 days to return one of them to Gamestop, so far it seems it would be best to take back the bestseller one, but does anyone have any information on rarity?[/quote]

I'm going to say that the non-best seller copy will be worth more. If they are printing copies with the seal this early in the game's life, they will probably print many more games, also containing the seal. All of those first pressed versions will be the more collectible versions, IMO.
 
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