I bought a switch and everything game costs crazy money.
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The eBay PayPal sale on digital codes is one of the best and most consistent discounts. You will be able to get 15% off. You can get credit card points on top of that.
Nintendo games go on sale rarely digitally for like Zelda, splatoon etc(I think just the one time for e3). Arms and 1-2 switch have gone on sale a number of times for like 25% off.
You can get any indie or third party digital titles on sale in the eshop. You just need to wait. They go on sale regularly. I’ve missed some sales and picked games up a few weeks later.
Physical titles for Mario, Zelda , splatoon you should be able to easily get for like 45-50 but I haven’t seen much lower than that.
Get a screen protector. They are not expensive
I disagree, and I think it's pretty clear that most of everyone else does too. There's no quantifiable metric that places those games you listed above Nintendo's best games. Certainly not 'far' above as you claim. That is just ridiculous.
Everytime I pass by the Switch section in Wal-mart or something, I look at the prices, laugh to myself, and leave the electronics section
The majority of the Switch library aren't even original titles. So i simply can't bring myself to pay $59.99 or similar for them.
My Switch library would have been massive by this point. But their ridiculous pricing pretty much ensures that i'm not doing any impulse buying on Switch. I'm not even buying Indie games on the platform.
I'm sorry, it's just ridiculous.
It's like, the only way I could possibly see myself as being okay with the Switch pricing is if i was just completely oblivious to the way PS4/Xbone/Steam pricing works.
Seeing people cheer that their favorite company doesn't discount games is pretty... weird.
Lots of stockholders on here I guess
Lots of stockholders on here I guess
Yeah, for people who buy digital only and who like to buy their games later, the sudden price drop is a good thing.
It's not rocket science to understand how products retaining value can be helpful.
If you buy a new game, play it, you can then sell it and have some money for the purchase of your next game. If games drop their value quickly, you have less money to buy the next game so over time you buy fewer new games.
Everything I've seen or heard of Zelda looks amazing, same with Odyssey and Kart is usually always amazing local multi, but yeah I can't be spending retail prices this far after they've come out, quality of the game doesn't matter it's that I'm not willing to spend £40+ on a game that's almost 2 years old.
Edit: I will say though I was still a little tempted even though I knew the games were pricey but then checking the price of the hardware pretty much killed it, if the actual console was much cheaper it might be worth it for me buying it solely for the few Nintendo titles I want but for what I'm getting the cost of the hardware is just too much also. Basically everything's expensive when it comes to Nintendo for me. XD
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Justifying what they do is a form of defending them. People should try changing Nintendo instead of accepting it.
And yes Apple gets shit all the time.
Conversely, if they dropped prices like everyone else you could just wait a few months and keep it forever.
Nintendo consoles and games are always worth it in spite of the pricing strategy.
I get that it makes sense for them, but it's the reason why I've got a grand total of five games after owning the Switch for a year. There's really no room for trying anything when the vast majority of first party games are still full price. So I'll just get what I'm 100% sure will work for me.
There's quality and decent pricing model with the other platform, so that's where most of my purchases go.
Btw their accessory pricing is quite disgusting this gen
I get that it makes sense for them, but it's the reason why I've got a grand total of five games after owning the Switch for a year. There's really no room for trying anything when the vast majority of first party games are still full price. So I'll just get what I'm 100% sure will work for me.
There's quality and decent pricing model with the other platform, so that's where most of my purchases go.
Btw their accessory pricing is quite disgusting this gen
Horizon actually sold really well, especially for a new IP. They just didn’t sabotage their own game by pricing it higher years after release. This way, more people get to enjoy the game too.
What about digital though, how does this help them?
You could also say the same for other accessories which are way too overpriced.
Brawl's MSRP was $49.99.
If you're a prime member just her then day one for 48 bucks if youryo in the States. Also, if you aren't into collecting. You can trade then in and they hold about 33%-40% at GameStop depending on your membership. Or you can just sell it yourself for 40-50 bucks.
Speaking is trade in. All the switch evergreens trade in for a base of $22 bucks, where God of War is already at $20.
Walmart sells the pro controller and joycon 10 bucks below retail, if you're ever in the need and are in the States
Yeah I agree. 69.99 for the pro controller is outrageous, especially since the d-pad is shit.
Why should a company that lives and dies solely on hardware and software sales heavily slash their prices like their competitors that make up for it in microtransactions, subscriptions, and non-gaming divisions?
Just to satisfy your own greed that you deserve these products for a price you deem worthy?
But many Nintendo games like Smash and Mario Kart are evergreens that only get one title every gen so why would anyone sell them?
Just get used to switch your region to SA/Norway/RUS (and Mexico if your card is accepted there, mine isn’t) to get shit at muuuuuch better prices.
Go to
https://eshop-prices.com/?currency=EUR
To check where a game is cheaper.
We’re talking pricing differences that most of the times are 30% or even up to 50% of the UK price in some cases.
Switching region is super easy, no drawbacks, you can play games on any account once downloaded.
That's your prerogative I suppose. Like I said earlier ITT I do understand this, just was a bit confused by the wording of your comment.
I mean just for me for instance I can't wait to play Fire Emblem Three Houses- it's gonna be great (I hope) so I have no qualms with buying it for £40-50, same as I did with several other games this year. I can afford it and knowing that it (probably) won't be £10/15/20 off within months is definitely something that works out for me as well.
Sucks for late adopters such as yourself but the reality is obviously the sales data were getting these months such as BotW charting on every month NPD since March 2017. It certainly works for Nintendo in that instance.
Though I do definitely not like seeing people priced out of games of course.
Yet most Sony games don't have microtransacions and gets cheaper even when they sell well.
And I am greedy now? This thread is getting really embarrassing.
Lmao this reads like parody.
Nintendo has all of the things you mentioned.
Consumers should always look after their own interests instead of caring about a corporation's bottom line.
Like what
Sabotage? LOL
No, BotW has been selling better than Horizon since release. How is that sabotage if Nintendo can keep the price as high as they do and sell as many units? More like Sony sabotages their games by cutting the price so significantly shortly after launch. A lot of people probably hold off on buying a Sony game because they know they'll get it for $10 in a few months. That's exactly what I started doing!
Nintendo keeps the prices high because a lot of people still buy their games. It's pretty simple. Sony does not have that luxury (fortunately for budget minded consumers)
Because Sony devalues their games doesn't mean Nintendo should. And yes demanding they change just to placate your own desires does make you greedy.
It's capitalism. You don't like the price, don't buy it.
I fully agree, which is why I'm asking. Why should they bother dropping the price? To satisfy your demands?
It's one thing to go "nah too much for me." It's another to go "I demand they change their prices."
The pricing of remakes, smaller titles and indies aree excessive. I find myself skipping games entirely or playing them elsewhere for a fraction of the price. What's disappointing is that I'd like to try out titles such as Tropical Freeze or Hyrule Warriors, but not at $60 a pop for direct Wii U ports (yeah, they sprinkled in some whatever content, I know). This has left my Switch collecting dust as well as my perception of the its lineup this year as lacking. I have no problem paying full price for Zelda, Xenoblade or Odyssey, but that's a different story. I'd even go as far as saying that initially charging $60 for Arms, Splatoon 2 and Mario Tennis was asking too much. Then going forward, Nintendo is about to drop a subscription service which isn't terribly priced, but yet another thing to spend money on if I want basic features like cloud saves. Additionally, I've gone digital only with the Switch because I use it as a handheld. I think you get kicked back a buck or two with digital games, but that doesn't encourage being liberal with purchases and I inherently lose out on that option to resell a game if it doesn't turn out to be my kind of thing. I've only played Hollow Knight on my Switch this year (thank you for only being $15) and looking ahead, something like Toad would be fun, but $40 for an already tiny game that's also a port? I just can't justify that. Most people don't have problems with the pricing, so it's not like I expect anything to change. This has just been my experience with the Switch this year.
It is really weird when people are trying to get others to buy a game to send a corporation a message.
This doesn't even make any sense considering Zelda at full price is still selling better than discounted Horizon.
I myself buy games at or near launch. Bought Zelda and Horizon last year. I can sell one of these games today for $45 and other for $10-$15. So it actually works in my favor that Nintendo games don't' drop in price. Just a different way to look at it.
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you could just buy a new game from Walmart
$17.78
and then buy another game
$19.93
and then buy yet another game
$22.80
and then maybe one more
50% off on PSN right now
$9.99
Total: $70.50
Four full-length, great games.
Or you could buy this:
$54.99
And then this
$52.94
Total: $107.93
WOW WHAT A FUCKING STEAL
Wait, maybe i want to play Axiom Verge on the go
$39.99
Or i could just not
and get it on literally any other platform
because why the fuck would i spend 4x as much to play this on Switch
Nothing will change. This conversation happens all year. This is a price that everyone pays for and accepted for 20 years. A discussion in a forum or internet won't change that fact. This is no different than many practices in the industry.
Potential consumers demand cheaper things all the time and companies need to listen to survive. But I guess poor Nintendo can't do that and any demand is greedy.
All they are doing with this move is turn away potential consumers like me so they are losing money.
I assumed it didn't need explaining, but most pricing is motivated by greed (maximizing profit) — all that matters is whether the consumer perceives they're getting value for what they paid. The reason Nintendo doesn't discount games as much isn't because they're greedier than other platforms; it's that it would lead to less revenue overall, which is the opposite of why you would discount something.
Games generally get discounted because the increase in revenue of bringing more players in is presumed to make up for the revenue lost by lowering the margins on the product. Nintendo's market positioning is obviously completely unlike that from the platforms they're ostensibly competing with. If you're buying one of their current devices, it's likely because you like to play very specific types of games over others and are obviously willing to pay to get access to them — or else you likely wouldn't have bought the platform over the others in the first place. I say current devices to exclude legacy platforms that Nintendo has historically always continued to market, which would now include the 2DS line that's now focused mostly on delivering value to parents. The Switch, at its current price-point, is obviously not going to attract value-focused buyers.
When Microsoft offers something like Game Pass, or Sony give's away "free" games as part of Playstation Plus, or thousands of games go on sale on Steam at the same time — although these can deliver great value to consumers, the purpose is ultimately to maximize the revenue generated from consumers. Don't take this as a jab at other platforms, because they are all awesome and deliver value in their own ways, perhaps more-so now than at any point in the industry's history.
What matters is that those consumers perceive they're getting value for what they paid, and that's dependent on what's motivating you to buy a product in the first place. Lowering the price can increase the relative perceived worth of something, and who doesn't love a deal? But the same factors that motivate people to purchase games on one platform don't always apply to Nintendo's users. The number of people interested in playing Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2 or other major Nintendo first-party releases isn't going to reasonably increase if they lower the price of those games — certainly not enough to offset the revenue lost by permanently discounting those titles. After all, you bought the Switch to play those kinds games in the first place, right? (This actually somewhat applies to the way indie games are priced on the platform as well, but that's a slightly different topic and this post is long enough already.)
You might come away from this thinking that it's a bunch of corporation-defending tripe and that lower direct prices for the consumer is an intrinsic good that must be pursued. I can't blame anyone for wanting to pay less money for a product, but the expectations people have built up from other platforms are totally based on those platforms' business models. I don't think it's fair to accuse Nintendo of being greedy just because they're pursuing their business model with the fundamental same goals of selling their platform and generating revenue in mind.
You don't get it bro you can just stop playing those 2 games, return both of them, and maybe get one different game in exchange! That way your 3 games only cost you $105!
Sure, the reality is that they don't have such thing. And even then, they had a thing called handhelds with plenty of third party support and never did this. Or in their other home consoles as well.
Honestly, this sets a bad precedent for games. Companies are lucky in the sense that people feel the need to play a game absolutely day one, because if you guys were majority, games would tank left and right.
I have no interest in buying netherealm games day one because the complete edition will be out in 10 months at 1/3 the total cost of the game plus dlc.
If I bought Injustice day one with the season pass for 90 bucks for it to be 60 10 months later, I would've been furious. The truth of the matter is that it's the early adopters are the ones getting ripped off.
Do you guys really think it's a good thing if God of War is 40 bucks come September?
I have no interest in buying netherealm games day one because the complete edition will be out in 10 months at 1/3 the total cost of the game plus dlc.
If I bought Injustice day one with the season pass for 90 bucks for it to be 60 10 months later, I would've been furious. The truth of the matter is that it's the early adopters are the ones getting ripped off.
Do you guys really think it's a good thing if God of War is 40 bucks come September?
Digital is the ultimate scam, so no, it doesn't help anyone except the platform holder.
If the game is good and you want to keep playing it, keep it?
Nintendo games are evergreen because they keep selling at retail price forever. If they sold some then price crashed, they wouldn't be evergreen.
'Dropping price' means that the supply is larger than the demand, which causes the price to drop to correct for the over supply by reaching a potentially larger audience that didn't value the product at the original asking price.
At this point, we should ask why the manufacturer didn't just launch the game at the adjusted asking price (or somewhere between this price and the original price) instead of gouging the people who bought day one.
Nintendo games sell well for a long time, it's because they are supplied and priced near equilibrium with the value the product provides.
I know.
It is a sad reality but I guess I can't do anything about it other than not buying their products until they change someday.
100% yes.
Supply is infinite in this case, especially when you consider the existence of digital games. Demand is the portion of the equation that matters for game sales. Demand for the titles at a certain price point is finite. Dropping the price engages an audience who is interested but not interested enough at the initial price.
Axiom Verge is $14.99 on Switch eShop. Is there a reason you ignored the eShop version and compared it to the PSN one?
Wait. You're comparing the price of axiom verge digitally to a physical version on switch? Huhor
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you could just buy a new game from Walmart
$17.78
and then buy another game
$19.93
and then buy yet another game
$22.80
and then maybe one more
50% off on PSN right now
$9.99
Total: $70.50
Four full-length, great games.
Or you could buy this:
$54.99
And then this
$52.94
Total: $107.93
WOW WHAT A FUCKING STEAL
Wait, maybe i want to play Axiom Verge on the go
$39.99
Or i could just not
and get it on literally any other platform
because why the fuck would i spend 4x as much to play this on Switch
Again blame consumers who stopped buying horizon. There's a reason it's less than $20. People stopped buying it. People keep buying Botw at a crazy rate Blame consumers
same here. Would love to grab a physical copy of Tropical Freeze but 55 dollars is a tough pill to swallow .
Sure, why not?
I mean you are buying it Day One but you could also wait and get it cheaper. You have a choice to do what works for you.
Horizon was probably an outlier when it comes to discounts and even then it did amazingly considering it was a brand new IP. Look at God of War, sold over 5 million in the first month and that was far higher than BotW sales in its first month. They sold it at full price too and it’s still charting in most places worldwide.
Indeed, Apple gets a ton of shit. There’s a reason why Android is massively popular but at the same time it sells due to marketing. That said, new Android phones are now on similar price points to Apple phones.
Nintendo doesn’t have that luxury anymore by hiking thier prices high (£70 for a joy con set? That’s ridiculous) due to increased competition and consumer awareness. Consumers are far more price conscious now.
I really don't mind paying $60 for titles like BOTW, SMO, XB2. You get much more than $60 value out of them.
Plus if you use GCU (rip), Express codes that are everywhere and very generous, sales at retail stores, you can say $10-20 here and there. I have 5 full price Switch games, haven't paid more than $45 for any. First one will be Octopath Traveler for $48.
Plus if you use GCU (rip), Express codes that are everywhere and very generous, sales at retail stores, you can say $10-20 here and there. I have 5 full price Switch games, haven't paid more than $45 for any. First one will be Octopath Traveler for $48.
You could perhaps tone down the sarcasm and the capitals maybe. We can read just fine without them I think.or
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you could just buy a new game from Walmart
$17.78
and then buy another game
$19.93
and then buy yet another game
$22.80
and then maybe one more
50% off on PSN right now
$9.99
Total: $70.50
Four full-length, great games.
Or you could buy this:
$54.99
And then this
$52.94
Total: $107.93
WOW WHAT A FUCKING STEAL
Wait, maybe i want to play Axiom Verge on the go
$39.99
Or i could just not
and get it on literally any other platform
because why the fuck would i spend 4x as much to play this on Switch
Also comparing 2 2016 PS4 games and 1 digital PS4 game currently on sale with its physical release is about the most disingenuous comment I've seen on this site in a long time.
So yeah you'll need to do a lot better than this to convince me you're 100% correct in all this.