Why in the heck are you associating the Premium TV Edition to Hardcore fans?
So if you're smart you will save 20 bucks and get the regular edition. Now, if you like expending money for now apparent reason, go ahead.
for once in a while i agree with you, :buttrock:
it's just stupid wasting money for something that doesn't really feel special at all, as i said before, if only they didn't had custom soundtrack feature in, Premium TV CAN, in darksenshi's words : "force the hardcore fans to get the Premium TV version"
but with custom soundtrack in? i don't see any leverage from the premium TV that could force anyone with common sense to purchase it aside from...having no common sense
As for second Riders. I am expecting this game to receive the same treatment as the original Rider Generations. The game was mainly about the main Riders, the only playable second Rider was Birth because it was the main series' second Rider at that time. In other words, I expect that only Beast will be playable in the game but hey I might be wrong.
I only hope that the secondary Riders will not be like the original Climax Heroes (i.e. Playable in one mission only)
the difference being that game ONLY has Birth in the game, this game had the secondary riders actually appearing(and fighting with you, in some of the PV scenes)
your second point are actually very plausible though, they could give us a little taste of some(all?) of the secondary riders and then release a DLC that contains their signature stage/stories and makes them also playable in the "free mode" or something