The fervor around SteelBooks, at least for this dedicated group of movie collectors, has prompted Best Buy to create a landing page allowing people to vote for new or reprints of SteelBooks.Īnd even though the aisles of movies and CDs that used to sit at the center of stores like Best Buy and Target have dwindled to just a few racks, clearly physical movie sales shouldn’t be counted out. The market's measured embrace of SteelBooks For example, an empty SteelBook for Bayonetta 2 on Nintendo Switch recently sold on eBay for $83, even though the game can easily be found for around $60. During the pandemic, as game collecting has seen a massive surge, likely due to nostalgia-fueled boredom, even empty SteelBooks are being sold on eBay for high prices, showing that there’s more value in the packaging for some than in the game itself. Usually, SteelBooks are included in more expensive collector’s edition variants of games. When this much attention to detail is given towards the packaging, it can be hard to ignore the lizard part of your brain telling yourself, “I need it.”Īnd it’s not just movies getting the SteelBook treatment, so are video games, with everything from the Call of Duty series to indie platformers like Shantae.

Frodo, Gandalf and their compatriots have a halo around their silhouettes, something that could only be accomplished with the sheen found in metal. The SteelBook artwork for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring features gold that evokes the epicness of Tolkein’s world as it fades into green, conjuring images of the down-to-Earth humbleness of The Shire.

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