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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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Works out at £42 for each game in the UK. Not really much of a deal to be honest.
Just an FYI (if it wasn't already known) you can buy as many of these vouchers as you like, I just tested it. This year of 1st party output may end up rivalling 2017 for me.
Yoshi's Crafted World
Super Mario Maker 2
Fire Emblem Three Houses
Astral Chain
Animal Crossing
Links Awakening
Luigis Mansion 3
Pokemon
With maybe 1 or 2 more to be announced at E3. Almost makes up for how barren last year was from them.
Yoshi's Crafted World
Super Mario Maker 2
Fire Emblem Three Houses
Astral Chain
Animal Crossing
Links Awakening
Luigis Mansion 3
Pokemon
With maybe 1 or 2 more to be announced at E3. Almost makes up for how barren last year was from them.
Because you're saving £10 of a £50 game.
£84 for the 2 vouchers and £4.20 back in gold coins. For people like me who much prefers digital so I can always have my games with me on trips, this saving brings pricing in line with what you can get for buying physical.
This would be better if there were two AAA releases on Switch anywhere near eachother. It's only a deal because they're so stubborn about dropping the prices of their 1st party stuff.
Kinda tempted to do this for Maker 2, but to be honest there is nothing else currently revealed or released that I'd buy for 50 Euros as opposed to 60. We'll see at E3 if there's anything worthy, because I ain't putting down an extra 40 Euros "blindly" in the hopes of a good enough day 1 release in the next 12 months.
Well Zelda BOTW is priced £59.99 on the eshop, and I've brought mine on Amazon for £38 at launch, pre-ordered.
this does look great for japan particularly with pricing for stuff like astral chain and fire emblem, but y'all should note that the japanese SKUs for those two games don't have any other language options. i'd have ended up buying them at $60 from the US store anyway.
still a good deal to save 3000 yen on two regular first-party titles, though.
still a good deal to save 3000 yen on two regular first-party titles, though.
That's really the only information I need.
I'm going to wait a little closer to the release of MM2 to be sure.
I don't remember if the 2x Gold Coins were announced immediately at the start of preorder for the other games.
In any case: thanks Amazon and Twitch for the free NSO!
What? You can buy first party games for 45€ on Amazon.
This is a terrible deal.
so if I get this straight; you can buy these voushers for $99.99 and select two titles from those in the OP?
As much as I love digital games the prices of physical games make me scream internally that I decided to go digital this time.
Terrible for those that buy at retail. Good for those that preorder/buy digital
I just checked to be sure.
Mario Maker is 49,99€ here on Amazon, so two games would be 1 cent less.
Except I prefer digital games AND you get 4,95€ in Gold Points. So I get 4,96€ and two digital games. That's not great, but it seems like a deal in my favor.
Unless you want digital, you can preorder them online and still get the discount on release. Plus the $10 in rewards.
Think i will buy this to get Pokemon and Pokemon.
Much prefer these games digital, so saving 25€ will be nice.
Much prefer these games digital, so saving 25€ will be nice.
Say I buy 4 vouchers. That's £168 for 4 game's priced £50 each. I also get 1000 gold points (£10 cashback).
So £158. I'll save £42.
Or I can think of it as new games costing me £40 at launch.
It's not great but as someone who has gone all digital I'll take whatever discount I can get.
The deal improves if Nintendo release any of their future first party games for £59.99. (Only Zelda and smash so far).
This is a good point actually. The timing of this announcement before E3 is quite clever, especially with upcoming games like Animal Crossing and Pokemon, which can be more convenient to have installed on your system.
Not sure if I will get one of these vouchers yet though. I like my physical purchases and some companies tend to offer these games at a cheaper price than Nintendo themselves.
For people who buy digital anyway and don't want to wait 1 year or more for Nintendo flagship games to get a discount, this saves money.
You can get it for €99 which with our inflated shop pricing works out to -40% in some cases.
You can also try switching regions and see if buying it in SEK/NOK/AUD lowers it further...
Because I don't want to 'have' to buy one of the expensive games (that's what it forces you to do right?) I want to buy any of the games instead.
I buy e shop credit for 20% off when they go on sale. Combine that with these vouchers and I can buy new Switch games for $40 a piece.
This isn't the greatest deal but it allows me to get Mario Maker 2 and MUA3 digitally for about what it would cost physical day 1 and that's good enough for me I guess.
That would be an ideal situation but the idea is probably for you to spend more on games. The idea is to encourage you to pick up more games per transaction.
The best thing for me would be to lengthen the expiration date. I'll probably find 2 games to buy within a year.
Seems a bit goofy to me. Why not just give NSO subscribers discounts on games like Xbox live gold, and PS Plus?
Having to fork over cash before a discount is just weird.
Having to fork over cash before a discount is just weird.
Yeah but since I normally buy from the US store it isn't really a great deal for me (the price would roughly be the same as the US price converted).
Since the vouchers can only be purchased until July 31, I'm guessing more games won't be added in the future? If so I'll end up with Mario maker, marvel, fire emblem and astral.
£84, phew. I have everything I want upcoming from Nintendo preordered on shopto for £37 a pop so that feels rough hah. If you're already buying this stuff digitally and you're subbed up though, why not.
The thread that will result if Nintendo decides not to add any more titles to the supported list would be absolutely glorious.
I kind of hope they don't, just to witness the overwhelming amount of salt from people assuming (with no confirmation, mind you) that they can get every upcoming title for the next year with these things.
I kind of hope they don't, just to witness the overwhelming amount of salt from people assuming (with no confirmation, mind you) that they can get every upcoming title for the next year with these things.
The big problem of this offer in Spain is that I probably can get 2 nintendo titles for that price or less in their physical form thanks to Media Markt. For example Smash Bros Ultimate in Mediamarkt isntead of 70 euros it was 55 euros on release. All nintendo titles on media markt cost around 10 to 15 euros less than in any other store or the pirce nintendo ask for officialy.
The gold coins and some people enjoying more digital than physcal is the only thing that this offer has in its favor.
The gold coins and some people enjoying more digital than physcal is the only thing that this offer has in its favor.
Going to do it for Mario maker and Marvel ultimate alliance.
UK people use zoom as well for cheaper eshop credit
UK people use zoom as well for cheaper eshop credit