Player's Choice
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- This article is about the series of video games, for the retail chain see Player's Choice Video Games.
A Player's Choice game is a video game released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, or Nintendo GameCube that has sold many copies (For all but GameCube, over a million copies, though GameCube games only need 250,000 copies to be included [1]).
When a game becomes a Player's Choice title, it is sold at a lower price, which, at current recommended retail prices, is £19.99 in the United Kingdom, $19.99 in the United States, $29.99 in Canada, $49.95 in Australia and €29.99 throughout the Eurozone. The Player's Choice range concept has been borrowed to create the "Greatest Hits" line (known as the Platinum range in Europe) on Sony consoles and the "Platinum Hits" (Xbox Classics in Europe) line on the Xbox.
American NTSC Player's Choice games can be identified on the Nintendo 64 by the yellow background of the N64 logo in the upper right corner of the game box. On the GameCube, games are marked in a yellow box on the top of the case. PAL Player's Choice games have boxes that are coloured silver or platinum with Player's Choice markings on right hand side of a Nintendo 64 box or on the top of a GameCube box.
The Player's Choice line was introduced for GameCube titles in January of 2003.[2] The first titles were Super Smash Bros. Melee, Pikmin, and Luigi's Mansion, and they each retailed for $29.99. Later in the year, when 6 new titles were added, Nintendo split the pricing for different sets of GCN games, so that some titles would enter in or stay at $29.99 while others would be reduced immediately to $19.99.[3]
It is rumoured that Nintendo may be phasing out the Player's Choice designation altogether; recent printings of successful games (including some titles on this list) no longer carry the Player's Choice label, but are instead marked on the box as simply being "Best Sellers".[citation needed] This "Best Sellers" label may also be unrelated to the Player's Choice designation because they appear on first party titles even on its intial printing (before any sales data is possible). This tends to show that the "Best Sellers" label may mearly be a marketing tool.
There have been rumors for Player's Choice titles for the Nintendo DS by 2008.[citation needed]
In April 2006, the Player's Choice was applied to Game Boy Advance games and, in the United States, sell for $19.99.[4]
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[edit] Player's Choice titles
Note: Not all titles are available in all regions, not all titles are on Player's Choice in all regions.
[edit] Nintendo GameCube
[edit] Nintendo 64
Due to the use of a more expensive cartridge-based format, all N64 Player's Choice titles retailed for $39.99 each stateside, roughly double the price of comparable Greatest Hits releases for the original Sony Playstation at $19.99 each.
[edit] Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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[edit] Game Boy
[edit] Game Boy Advance
[edit] See also
- Sony Greatest Hits and Platinum titles, a similar distinction for Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games in the U.S. and PAL markets, respectively
- Platinum Hits, the best-selling and reduced retail Xbox games
- Classic NES Series, another Nintendo label established for republishing NES games on the Game Boy Advance
