So I bought a Switch because there was a discount. THEN I looked a the games prices and I didn’t feel so good.
Always assume nintendo games are full price until othwrwise stated.
Nintendo is easily the worst platform to be on if you are part of patientgamers
At least officially.
But yeah, it’s rough that the biggest discounts they ever offer were 33%, rarely, for just a couple titles.
inflation calculator says it should be $67.60 today, so, stonks etc
Which is exactly why a twenty year old Geo Metro costs so much more than it did originally.
Wait… A Nintendo sub where folks can criticise Nintendo?! Sign me up! This is already better than Reddit
(Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of these topics is fine.
From the sidebar. So yeah we’re all going to jail
What about 20+ years when it costs between $100-600 from a guy on eBay or the overpriced retro game store?
*waiting 10 years for that $50 game to somehow be worth $150
Look for what is on sale in the e-store. Found some good deals on games at decent prices
Soon all new titles would be $70
And all old Nintendo titles would be $70 too.
I was waiting to buy Tears of the Kingdom, thinking the price would go down eventually. Should I not do that?
Nintendo games rarely (as in, barely ever) get discounted, especially first party games. Remember how they offered a certain game (I think it might have been 3D All-Stars?) for a limited time only? Nintendo is rather anti-consumer in the long run.
So if you keep waiting for a price drop, it’s gonna be a while. Maybe you get lucky and some third party shop sells it for 40$. Don’t expect it to go under that for a long time, it’s a Zelda game. The ones who really want it will buy it regardless of the price, and Nintendo or the other shops don’t really care about the rest.
Get tears of the kingdom as a physical copy from a supermarket. I have seen it as low as £48 new in shops Vs £60 in the estore.
What is mad is Breath of the Wild will still be £59.99 on the shelf next to it…
You know if you build yourself a $3000 computer, you could play it using ryujinx, saving yourself a massive -$2940
Depends on how low you want it to drop.
On the EU e-shop (seems to be similar for the US one) Breath of the Wild has regular 30% discounts starting about one year after release. It’s been 6 years, it never went lower, and probably never will.
Same for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It’s been almost 10 years since the original release of Mario Kart 8, and eshop sales never go under 30%.
Nintendo is known for keeping their games mostly full price. The only games that get big sales are the ones that didn’t perform as well as they wanted, and even that is becoming rare.
Im Europe, if you want to buy digital, it can be worth buying with a Norwegian account, they often have the best prices in Europe. Like Zelda TOTK is at least 10.- cheaper in Norway than almost all of Europe. On the other end of the spectrum is Switzerland, where it’s 20.- more expensive. So as a Swiss resident, it’s 30.- cheaper for me to buy it through a Norwegian account.
