What do the different The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild editions contain?

[TDIRunner]

C'mon Shenske, Arseen has 15247 posts.  Do you expect any quality from his posts anymore? 

Perhaps not. You and everyone else should expect quality from my 5000th post 

Do we get a prize when we reach it?  Not far off myself. Lol

Only two people know.

[Megatron]

That collection is badass, but unfortunately I refuse to give in to the cash grabs.  I have Hyrule Historia and Arts and Artifacts, and that's all I need. I would love to have all of those, but they are just way too cash-grabby for my taste.

I don't know if I would call those "cash grabs."  I have all of those as well, and ordered them when they were released.  I don't think I paid more than $25 for any of them, usually they were less than that on Amazon.  That's not too bad for a strategy guide in today's market.
Now if you tried to buy them NOW, yes, I can see how one wouldn't want to spend that kind of money.

[Arseen]

Google? C'mon Arseen 

C'mon Shenske, Arseen has 15247 posts.  Do you expect any quality from his posts anymore? 

Is it me or did your star just shrivel up...

[Arseen]

In my opinion game guides have gotten way out of hand. I still much prefer the simple magazine style guides. I don't want to feel like I'm reading an Easton Press publication while I'm playing Zelda. 

What is this 'Reading' you speak of?



Seriously, though, they still make paperback versions - but I'm still surprised they bother to make guides at all.  I buy the Zelda guides, because, well, Zelda... but I've never. Been tempted to buy a guide for another game.  Gamefaqs usually has that need covered nicely.

I have both versions of Arts and Artifacts ordered (Amazon *says* shipping today).  Haven't ordered the Collector's version of BotW yet, but did the DX version.  Three versions, two aimed at collectors... it's obviously a huge money grab.  Gonna wait to bite the bullet on that second one (I know I will eventually...)

Gotta buy all of those.
Just ordered 3 of those chests.

[UncleBob]

That collection is badass, but unfortunately I refuse to give in to the cash grabs.  I have Hyrule Historia and Arts and Artifacts, and that's all I need. I would love to have all of those, but they are just way too cash-grabby for my taste.

I don't know if I would call those "cash grabs."  I have all of those as well, and ordered them when they were released.  I don't think I paid more than $25 for any of them, usually they were less than that on Amazon.  That's not too bad for a strategy guide in today's market.
Now if you tried to buy them NOW, yes, I can see how one wouldn't want to spend that kind of money.

The $25 you paid for the hardcover is still twice what you could have picked up the softcover version for if you had wanted.

The Prima guides were nice, but they did things to really hurt the overall line.  The Skyward Sword was a trainwreck of information, so much so that they reworked and re-released it for the box set down the road.  The books were of uneven lengths (from spine to opening length), the guilded edges weren't used on all the books,  TriForce Heroes didn't even get the freakin' name printed on the spine.  The box set (conveniently announced right after the Hyrule Historia CE nabbed so much press) was the only way to get the OoT3D hardcover, the only way to get the corrected Skyward Sword guide, didn't include the Link Between Worlds guide that released at the same time, and (which is okay, really) didn't include all the cool extras that made the hardcovers special (cloth maps and such).  I am sad to see Prima lose the line for some kind of consistency, but hoping these new guys do something nice with it.

[BigChew]

Does anyone have a list of the hard back Zelda game guides. I have the chest but I want to collect the other ones.

[Megatron]

Twilight Princess (Brown),
Phantom Hourglass (navy blue),
Spirit Tracks (green),
Skyward Sword (light blue),
Wind Waker HD ( turquoise),
the chest which contains all of the previous Editions Plus Ocarina of Time 3D ( purple, exclusive to chest, the chest also contains a revised Skyward Sword),
Link Between Worlds (light green),
Majora's Mask 3d (maroon),
Triforce Heroes (dark brown),
Twilight Princess HD (black)

Other games have hardcover editions but do not match the style. Hyrule Warriors, Hyrule Warriors Legends, breath of the Wild,  Hyrule Historia, and the art and artifacts book

[UncleBob]

Of note, the first Twilight Princess guide comes in two versions, the regular and the 'Expanded'  versions.  I can grab some pics later if you're interested, but, since mine are sealed, I'm not sure how helpful they'll be.

This means, essentially, there are four different TP hardcover guides.  The original, the expanded, the one in the box set, then the TP HD guide.

[Megatron]

^ This is correct.  The original is in the box, while the revised has a better comprehensive checklist and some other cool features - it is also more of a milk chocolate cover vs the dark wood brown version in the box.  I don't know if the original and the revised have different shades, as I only have the revised.

It should also be mentioned that the ones in the box aren't quite as good quality as the stand alone books.  Specifically the binding and the paper quality.  Still nice to have, though. 

[UncleBob]

My Art & Artifacts  Collector's Edition arrived today.

http://m.imgur.com/a/1FezI

[Taketheword]

My Art & Artifacts  Collector's Edition arrived today.

http://m.imgur.com/a/1FezI

Your guides don't look near as sexy as my printed out guides from ZeldaDungeon. 

[marioxb]

I actually miss when Nintendo (Power) used to make the game guides. I used to collect those, for all games. I miss the Nintendo Power magazine too.

[PX0]

I found a thread where someone listed all the different special editions of the new Zelda game:

-> Zeldadungeon.net - The Different Breath of the wild Limited Editions around the world.

Japan:
(Limited Edition + Master Edition)



America (US):
(Limited Edition + Master Edition)



Europe:
(Limited Edition only)



Australia:
(Master Edition only)