Yep. I've got mine for digital Sword & Shield and that's still saving £15 off eShop price
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Nintendo announces Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers (Buy 2 full price games for $99.99 / Exclusive for NSO users)
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How so? Is it just pricing weirdness?
Here it works out to be about a AU$5 saving compared to physical (most games can be found for AU$69 here physical), or up to AU$45 compared to digital (some games are AU$90, most are AU$80, so a typical saving for most cases is AU$25). You also get about $6 worth of golf coins too, which you could add to your saving. So here it's a great deal if you want to go digital anyway (which I typically do for casual MP games like Mario Kart), but not that great a deal if you prefer physical. If you factor in the benefits of physical (resale value, preservation, sharing), you could argue the vouchers are a worse deal, but that's only if you love the benefits of physical.
Yeah. Not even factoring the benefits, physical versions are just cheaper here.
Not if you buy eshop money for less. Then you can save twice which puts you well below retail prices.
Animal Crossing is not a Collector's Edition type of game. They never had one in the past.
You can buy 2 vouchers for £84 if you switch to UK which is ~91€ so 45€ per game, not useless at all.
Or even better, switch to the Australian one and you pay only 83€.
Yeah but Australia won't accept my european card, do you know a site selling AUD cards?
Oh my card works, but my country does not have an official e-shop store, so maybe that's why...
I don't know where to buy AUD cards online, sorry.
Who knows but it is a good bet more Nintendo games will be added and potentially vouchers will return if it is successful
The only caveat with animal crossing is if it gets delayed past 8/1/2020 (when the current vouchers all expire).
When was the last time Nintendo delayed a game that was already given a firm release date?
Hello. Quick question: can I buy vouchers on the jp eshop (they're cheaper right?)? I have a jp credit card even though i currently don't live there, and an address.
And will these vouchers be usable on other eshops if needed?
And will these vouchers be usable on other eshops if needed?
You can. Some said you loose access to the voucher once you switch region. However, that's not my experience, I bought one set in the Swedish EShop and another one in the German EShop and all vouchers are visible no matter where I'm logged in.
In Europe pre paid vouchers have to be valid for I think at least 25 years (caveats apply of course, businesses going out of business, changing legal frameworks etc)
You're not wrong - and technically, where I am, gift cards, vouchers, etc are legally not supposed to expire or have "maintenance fees". I'm pretty curious what would happen if somebody raised a stink over these.
Yeah, holding my second one for Pokémon. They last a year as well, so there's no need to worry about time. Once it's up for pre-purchase, the voucher will work, just like with Link's Awakening.
What I'm curious about if you'll tell me, when you used it on Link's Awakening, did you get that Double Coin thing as well that it's advertising?
You can't redeem a voucher for a game until it's available for pre-order, and Luigi's Mansion isn't available for pre-order yet.
You don't get any coins when you redeem a voucher for a game, you got coins when you bought the voucher.
for like the millionth time: the voucher program only ended in NA.
Ah I see! Makes sense, otherwise the double coin thing is a bulk off of another big game, or just a smaller game for free.
Is Luigi's Mansion even buyable in your territory? I know in mine, it's currently straight up not purchaseable.
No not yet I've just checked to be sure. It's in the "coming soon" section, but that's it.
Well then I think there's no reason to panic about it, yet.
Worst comes to worst, you can always spend the voucher on Astral Chain.
What is the point of killing this deal? They already make more with it than a physical copy, and it just means I'll buy more physical games. Digital ratios must already be fairly high for them not to care. I guess the argument could be made for all digital storefronts that don't discount their games, but it's more odd because other territories still have it and other's are less reluctant to discount their titles.
Maybe one of the purposes of the vouchers is (beyond NSO) is to get more people on the digital bandwagon. And maybe the digital share in the US is already high enough, while in EU and Japan it generally isn't, and they want those audiences to get used to buy more digital by continuing with the vouchers. Just a guess though.
I hope so. Animal Crossing is the only reason I bought these. Lol
obviously not before it's available for preload which is also teh time when it's finished and sitting on the server. which clearly isn't 4 months before it's out. patience.
same^^