8 Video Game Pre-Orders That Made You Say WHAT?!

The Pokémon franchise has never really had to try hard to shift units, what with the ever rabid fanbase willing to part with Poké-pennies each and every time a new edition emerges from the long grass. Maybe as a result it explains why Game Freak has been pretty terrible at offering incentives for people to pre-order the games.

Take for example, the outstandingly bad pre-order of the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Dual Pack from Amazon, which would reward all would-be trainers with admittedly two brilliant games in one, but also a code for a whopping 200... potions.

Potions? Are you kidding me?

In a series in which Full Restores are the MINIMUM that most trainers will accept, you're handing out 200 potions?

Can't wait to glug about 20 of these in order to make a dent on my HP bar.

This is even worse than the previous pre-order code that gave players 200 Pokémon as at least with that they could spam the things enough to at least catch something!