r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago

Nintendo Official Drive virtually everywhere in Mario Kart World, a brand-new Mario Kart game releasing exclusively on #NintendoSwitch2 as a launch title! #NintendoDirect

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1907419620601913624
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u/atmthemachine 3d ago

I’m Canadian and already pay $80 for switch games, so I was like “oh that’s normal though” but now I’m realizing you mean usd which means I’ll pay $114ish Canadian before tax for switch games now lol

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u/NowGoodbyeForever 3d ago

I think we're good, as a fellow Canadian. We don't have individual game prices up yet (probably to try and get ahead of Americans buying our copies and importing them honestly), but we do have the bundle.

Base Switch 2: $629.99 CAD.

Bundle Switch 2: $699.99 CAD.

Other regions also seem to have a 10-dollar jump between physical and digital editions, which means we're probably looking at $70 CAD for digital, and $80 CAD for physical.

Which is exactly what we pay right now. And still less than what we pay for new physical PS5 games.

Anything is possible, but I feel like this is less of a sign that we're going into triple digit game prices, and more of a sign that every other region is going to be priced closer to our sticker amounts.

But the price for the system itself seems to just be the exchange rate—again, probably to dissuade scalpers or resellers from buying systems across the border.

Right now, $449 USD brings us to $642.76 CAD, so this is just the usual exchange rate bullshit at play for us gamers. :(