Xenoblade Chronicles X For Nintendo Wii U Now Available For Pre-Order
For roughly two years now, Nintendo has been essentially carrying its Nintendo Wii U console single-handedly. Although some smaller games are released for the console from other developers, nearly all of the major games available for Wii U come directly from Nintendo or one of its subsidiaries. As a result, there is usually a considerable amount of time between the release of major titles for the Wii U console. Xenoblade Chronicles X, which was developed by Monolith Soft (a Nintendo subsidiary) and Nintendo SPD, is now available for pre-order and may be the most heavily anticipated game release this year for the Wii U console.
In many ways, Xenoblade Chronicles X can be seen as Nintendo's response to Fallout 4. The game doesn't take place in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland (Fallout 4 break), but it is a massive open world set in the future. It is the successor to the original Xenoblade Chronicles game, which was released for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS.
The game will be available for purchase in three different packages. Users who want the game as early as possible, can snag it from the Nintendo eShop. The game is rather large, however, especially for a Wii U game; users will need to have 21 GB of free space in order to download it. This version is priced at $59.99.
There will also be a retail version, which is the basic game case and optical disc, which will be priced the same as the digital copy. A special edition will be sold for $89.99 that includes a game case with a custom reversible game cover, a Xenoblade style light-up USB flash drive that is pre-loaded with music from the game, a 100+ page book of concept art, and a 5x7 card with an image of a painting created by the game's illustrator, Takashi Kojo.
Knowing that the game will load slower when using the optical disc, Nintendo plans to release four optional data packs that you can download when you purchase a hard copy of the game. These packs don't allow you to play the game without the disc but are intended to make the game load faster. You can choose to use all of them or none of them depending on your preference, but together the data packs will take up 10 GB of space.
| Xenoblade Chronicles X Data Packs | |
|---|---|
| Basic Pack | 2 GB |
| Enemy Pack | 2.7 GB |
| Player Pack | 3.6 GB |
| Skell Pack | 1.7 GB |
The game is available for pre-order now through various online retailers and will be released on December 4.
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thundervore Although this may be a great game I cant help but to remember when they released the last game it was at the very end of the Wii life. Very disappointing that such a great game was released when the system was basically dead. My Wii now just sits there collecting dust due to online playing is now dropped and friends are too busy to gather in a living room to get some good multiplayer actionReply -
syerra75 How large is the usb drive? I only have a 32GB Wii U with maybe 9GB free. That thum drive better be at least 16GB, hopefully 32GB, or I'm not getting the Collector's editionReply -
ferooxidan Maybe get your opinion checked. This game is being compared to FFXV, not Fallout 4. They are both fantasy, rpg, and open world. Although it was FFXV that is being compared to this, not the other way around. And this game was bound to be released way before, but delayed. It is available for preorder now doesn't make it as an answer to fallout 4, just because this game is also a open world. FYI, this game is even introduced way before fallout 4.Reply -
IInuyasha74 Reply16986014 said:Maybe get your opinion checked. This game is being compared to FFXV, not Fallout 4. They are both fantasy, rpg, and open world. Although it was FFXV that is being compared to this, not the other way around. And this game was bound to be released way before, but delayed. It is available for preorder now doesn't make it as an answer to fallout 4, just because this game is also a open world. FYI, this game is even introduced way before fallout 4.
While typing this did you forget what an opinion is? I'm not interested what others are comparing the game to, and it isn't relevant to the article. I made a brief comparison to Fallout 4 because it was released recently, it has been successful with gamers, and there are some aspects of the games that can be compared. In any way was my comparison wrong? No, it wasn't.
It also isn't important when a game was announced. The game release is what is important. Countless games have been announced and never made it to market, while others have taken years to develop after the initial announcement.