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UK prices are as follows: The digital edition of the game will be £24.99 (per the game's eShop page).  The physical Deluxe Set will be £49.99 (per the generic email I just received from the My Nintendo Store asking me to register my interest):

VaatiVidya is release a 5½ - no, that is not a typo: FIVE AND A HALF - hour long lore video for Fires of Rubicon later this week: As someone who LOVED ACVI...GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEE 

Most people consider rail shooters like Star Fox and Space Harrier to be a completely different genre compared to horizontal or vertical shmups, but there is certainly enough crossover that it can at least be considered an adjacent genre. Personally I get more annoyed when people don’t consider Space Harrier or Afterburner to be in the rail shooter genre, despite them basically being the progenitors of said genre!

It does summarise the specialities of each platform and the differing expectations of each respective audience quite nicely doesn’t it? By the standards of 3D platformers seen on PS1, Gex ain’t bad at all.  But once you bring it to the N64? You’re up against Mario 64 and Banjo; which is a lopsided fight that no 3rd party could ever be reasonably expected to compete against. Conversely, the Tony Hawks games on N64 are solid enough, but they compare poorly to their PS1 counterparts.

8 player local multi support is sick! Doesn’t look quite as creative as NES Remix, but it still looks fun.  Will cop