They should do like PA does, smaller box no lame folded poster, just game, manual, certs, soundtracks, cards and charge like 40 bux max! These super sized boxes with loose junk (imo) need to go. Shoot throw in a miniart or something.
Yeah, this idea has been around since Play-Asia really started doing theirs, and it doesn't seem LRG will go that route anytime soon. Even for them to do a 1:1 type offering, LRG version would probably cost about $45-$50, while the PA ones would still be $35. Then of course we'll all see an apples to apples comparison each time, and that would not be good. At least with these big PC type boxes, they can at least still offer items that are unique to their releases(bigger items that fit the bigger box).
Now don't get me wrong, I would rather pay them $50 each month for something similar to PA, than the $70 their asking for stuff I really don't want. And I absolutely despise those big boxes, and the only real reason to have those is mostly for the poster each month, which by having it folded, is a throw away item in my mind. They still seem to sell all this stuff out at some point, but of course all these CE's in general where bound to reach this point, as it's just CE for the sake of offering CE's. With no real reason to have them, than to get a couple of extra dollars at each release. At least with a steel book each month, you would probably get most of the collector's no matter what, but even collector's seem put off with some releases having them, and others not.
As for Yooka-Laylee, I've always been interested in this title, but at $35 it would have been a coin flip? I was a HUGE fan of Banjo-Kazooie, but then I heard this title is closer to the sequel, Banjo-Tooie which I found to be a suck ass game. So I may have still got this at $35 for a quick romp and I could pass it off to my son when I'm done. But at $50, I'm happy to wait on a good digital sale and call it a day, as my sone would prefer it that way, so he won't have to swap carts. I'm sure this title even at $50, will probably be one of their best selling NS titles, as that game was tailor made to be played on a "N" device, so I see it doing well for that reason alone.