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Nintendo’s slow march through 2024 continues asPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s remake is now less than a month away from arriving onNintendo Switch. Even thoughAmazon inexplicably canceled pre-ordersfor the game, it has not been delayed and you can still secure your own copy early through other retailers. In fact, if you pre-order through GameStop Canada, you’ll get a very special bonus for doing so.
Shared byNintendeal, GameStop Canada’s Thousand-Year Door pre-order bonus is a slip cover that will make your copy of the remake look like the originalGameCubeversion. Not just by slapping the standard GameCube label that can be found on every title released on the early 2000s console on the Switch game’s cover. This special edition slip cover is a full recreation of the original game’s cover, scaled so that it can be slipped inside your Switch case in place of the cover art that comes with the remake.
At the time of typing this, the retro slip cover is a GameStop Canada exclusive pre-order bonus. I’d love to tell you that it’s coming to other retailers, or even just US branches of GameStop, but knowing Nintendo the way that I do, I can’t confirm that yet. For some reason, Nintendo not only likes to lock certain pre-order bonuses to particular parts of the world, but it also varies those bonuses depending on the storefront you buy them from.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a remake of the well-loved RPG first released on the GameCube. Relive this iconic adventure that turns 2D on its head and turns Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom into paper.
TakeSuper Mario Bros. Wonder, for instance. One of the game’s pre-order bonuses wassome very cool trading cards. However, you only got those cards if you placed your pre-order at Walmart. Walmart was also the chosen one forPrincess Peach: Showtimeas it gave away themed scrunchies with the game. Hopefully that’s not what’s happening with this GameCube slip cover, but for now, the only people guaranteed to receive this particular bonus are Canadians who have placed their Thousand-Year Door pre-orders through GameStop.
If rumors that Nintendo is preparing to announce the Switch’s successor are true, Thousand-Year Door will be one of the last major first party releases on the Switch.Luigi’s Mansion 2 HDwill come after it, but beyond that, Nintendo’s future is shrouded in mystery. We do know thatPokemon Legends Z-Ais coming in 2025, but the unwillingness to reveal anything more than the little that was shown in its debut trailer suggests it will be an early, perhaps even launch, title on Nintendo’s next console.
