ASR: Forklift Ryo Will be EU/AU Pre-Order Exclusive
Tristan Oliver | February 1, 2010
No Bonus Plans Laid Out Yet for North America
On the heels of a mysterious Spanish advertisement found last week, Sega Europe community manager Kevin Eva, using his ArchangelUK handle, confirmed today that a forklift-only Ryo will be made a regular character in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, but only as a pre-order bonus and only in certain countries.
“As a special European exclusive (and Australian as well I believe) pre-order for 360/PS3 only, you’ll be able to get Ryo riding his forklift in game normally,” AAUK said today on the Sonic City Blognik.
AAUK also confirmed in response to a comment that the offer will not be coming to North America, at least for the moment. The comments were made in response to Spanish retailer GAME updating the artwork we showed you last week with more specific information. AAUK affirmed GAME would be offering Forklift Ryo as a pre-order bonus in that country.
That leaves the question of what Forklift Ryo’s All-Star move would be, and AAUK hinted to expect something on that tomorrow. We will be waiting. The bottom line right now is that Forklift Ryo will be playable as a regular character on both XBOX 360 and Playstation 3, in Australia and certain European territories where it’s offered as a pre-order bonus. It does not appear the Wii edition will be involved.
Filed Under Australia, Europe, Gaming News, Global Gaming, Microsoft, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Sonic Scene, Sony
I’ve pre-ordered mine (Xbox360 version) 2 days ago in GameStop for Portugal I hope it comes with all exclusivness…
Agh, come on! here in America we love forklifts, please Sega release it here as well.
(really nice, this is how americans get thanked after saving europe two times in a row)
This just scares me that there is going to be regional exclusives. Hopefully every console in every country will eventually be able to get everything through DLC. (When I say EVERYTHING, I mean within limits. No Mario in PS3 or anything =P)
When it comes to DLC exclusives, they don’t last very long. Many of the Rock Band / Guitar Hero DLC’s that came from artist’s CD albums that had codes to download these songs remained code exclusive for about a month or so before becoming a purchasable DLC through the Marketplace, so I’m very certain that Ryo’s forklift DLC will eventually appear in the US marketplace as well.
Still it will make my blood boil when i play online to see some dude using Ryo with the forklift all the time while i just watch the awesomeness.
I like Ryo on his bike anyway
I like Ryo`s bike anyway (It`s a classic infact today I saw the same kind of bike but in black)
…Has USA gotten ANY exclusives? I know Europe and such is getting the Wii wheel and this, but i haven’t heard any Exclusives or Bonus stuff for us. >_>
Seems like over sea’s is getting the better deal so far.
Wow, that’s pretty stupid, good thing I don’t care. As long as the regular Ryo is still there I don’t, anyways. Also why are you people OK with it being DLC later? That means you’ll have to buy it additionally.
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