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"So the trick is to show the world that customers don’t just think that eco-friendly packaging is a good idea, they actually favor it in their buying habits. "While humans may mean well, commerce can unfortunately be as loud as community voices," Gibson said. White said iam8bit's smaller size lets it take nimble risks that can let the company serve "as a guiding light for, who due to their nature and size simply can’t move as quickly (which we completely understand)."įor this kind of change to spread further, consumers are probably going to have to make noise and vote with their wallets. That's part of why iam8bit hopes its packaging efforts will serve as a statement that leads to a "domino effect of change" throughout the industry. That move cost the publisher about £0.20 extra per unit but saved the production about 20 tonnes of plastic across the game's entire print run, the publisher said.
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Advertisementįollow the footballIam8bit's move toward eco-friendly packaging comes roughly a year after Sega and Sports Interactive used cardboard sleeves for the physical packaging on the PC release of Football Manager 2020.
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The PS4 version of iam8bit's eco-friendly "Lovely Edition" sells for $35, or $5 more than a version with standard packaging from Skybound Games. The decision to be environmentally conscious isn't cost-free. "It’s counterintuitive to be freighting raw materials around the world if you’re trying to be eco-conscious, because one of the other goals here is to minimize the carbon footprint of production, and in a best case scenario, to make production carbon neutral." Controlling costs and leading by example It holds sturdy and strong."īecause of supply chain limitations, Gibson said sourcing those high-quality recycled materials in an eco-friendly way "isn’t as simple as ordering some reams of paper from Amazon Prime for next-day delivery." The limited number of factories that make eco-compliant papers and inks are currently "only located in certain regions and have limited production capacities," he said. That was harder than you might expect, Gibson said, because "most recycled and sustainably sourced raw materials tend to be a littler weaker." To ensure quality, iam8bit put prototype boxes through what it calls a handheld “squeeze test," to make sure "it not only feels structurally sound, but if you apply pressure, it doesn’t collapse. It’s a really positive topic for Nintendo and iam8bit, so stay tuned!" White said Sony was "very interested in the eco-packaging samples we sent over, right out of the gate" and was "fully supportive of our eco-packaging efforts." For Nintendo, though, Gibson would only say the Switch maker "support the steps iam8bit is taking to push eco-friendly packaging forward" and that iam8bit is "super excited by the ongoing conversation. Nothing from Nintendo?While the PS4 edition of Untitled Goose Game has eliminated plastic packaging, the accompanying Switch edition is only available in the usual plastic box, which is itself an ocean of wasted space. And the included "No Goose" sticker is made from sugar cane waste, which the company assures us is fully biodegradable but not as delicious as it sounds. A booklet and foldout poster included in the package get their paper from sources certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, ensuring the wood "comes from only the most well-managed and environmentally responsible forests," as iam8bit puts it. The eco-friendly decisions extend to what comes inside the game box, as well. Iam8bit's so-called "Lovely Edition" release of the game will be the first PS4 title to eschew the standard plastic Blu-ray DVD case in favor of a cardboard box made with "100% post-consumer, recycled material with heavy duty 20-pt stock and no harmful inks." The packaging also makes use of a biodegradable plastic shrinkwrap called biolefin, which breaks down into biomass after just one to three years, instead of the usual 300 to 600, according to its manufacturer. When Untitled Goose Game finally sees a physical release later this year (after a highly successful digital launch last year), it will also see the debut of a new line of "eco-packaging" that publisher iam8bit says it "hope leads an entire industry into the future."