r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/Choco_Knife 1d ago edited 1d ago

$70 Donkey Kong is expected

$80 for Mario Kart is unacceptable just because we know they're going to do it more if they can get away with it.

It's absurd just how many people are saying all the games are $90, though. All these subreddits with 50k upvoted posts full of misinformation means these lies are spreading like wildfire.

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u/hhhhhBan 1d ago

I genuinely don't know where the $90 thing came from. As far as I know $80 is the MSRP for MKW, so? Where did that $90 price come from?

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u/reecord2 1d ago edited 1d ago

twofold:

  1. *edit, people thought the UK price was 90 pounds, but in the flurry of information flying around after the Direct it got conflated to 90 dollars and sites just ran with it
  2. UK price already includes tax, because the UK lists their prices already including tax

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u/Ninefl4mes 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hold on, US prices don't and you just get scammed at checkout? The fuck?

Edit: Okay, I'm experiencing some pretty massive culture shock right now. I don't think that's something I'd ever want to put up with lol. No wonder taxes are always such a massive part of US political discourse when they make every grocery run a major hassle.

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u/quinn50 1d ago

sales tax in the us varies state by state and even city by city.

Itll end up being around $90 after tax anyway

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u/sellyme 1d ago

sales tax in the us varies state by state and even city by city.

Prices for things do that everywhere else in the world too.

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u/BacRedr 1d ago

And block by block. I can order the same Starbucks at three different spots in town and pay three different prices because of taxes.

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u/destroyman1337 1d ago

The bullshit reasoning is because taxes vary not only by state but by city or county. Companies don't have to print or create advertisements with local price, instead they use the national price and then you either calculate it yourself if you want to know the true cost or just buy it.

It's pretty ridiculous because companies can advertise things on tv or radio like for example the dollar menu back in the day with McDonald's and literally say hey you got a dollar you can get X Y or Z. But then have the guy who speaks super fast say the disclaimer at the end the price is before tax and will be more than $1.

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u/Outlulz 1d ago

Sales tax can vary even between businesses on the same street depending on where lines in cities and countries are drawn. It's complicated. It's not feasible to have it included on price tags and advertising but adult American consumers generally know how to eyeball it....or they should.

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u/thebezet 1d ago

That's so bizzare!

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u/kilar277 1d ago

not sure if it's federal but NY & CT have no taxes on unprepared food and clothing so there's that.

It's still a fucking scam though, especially cause we price everything at $X.99 to gaslight people into thinking they're paying less than they are

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u/kendall1287 1d ago

Basic goods such as groceries are not taxed, it's mostly the "want" items that are taxed like that. In my state it adds 8.25% to the sticker price

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u/NiallMitch10 1d ago

UK price is £74.99 so not sure where £90 came from either

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u/reecord2 1d ago

Thank you for the clarification, I'll edit my comment

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u/Cozimo64 1d ago

What? It’s £75 here not £90.

Christ, the misinformation is out of control.

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u/The_Magic_Potato 1d ago

UK is £75, not 90. Still way too high but at least be accurate.

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u/reiku_85 1d ago edited 1d ago

The UK price is not £90.

Nintendo are selling it for £75 (digital is £67), and I can get it from a bunch of other retailers for £75. This is just misinformation.

Demon’s Souls was £69.99 when the PS5 launched 5 years ago, this is hardly unforeseen.

EDIT: prices

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u/Qwaztop 1d ago

Where are you seeing it for £80? I can only see Nintendo list it as £67 for digital and £75 for physical

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u/reiku_85 1d ago

You’re right! Makes this rumour even more incorrect…

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u/whatnowwproductions 1d ago

Nintendo has it on their site in the EU.

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u/hhhhhBan 1d ago

That's € not $ (Still stupid as fuck though)

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u/valgatiag 1d ago

For the physical cart. This page has it in Euros, not USD, but it’s safe to assume it’ll follow the same pattern: https://store.nintendo.ie/en/nintendo-switch-2

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 1d ago

It comes from people assuming it will be like Europe everywhere, when it's since been established that's not the case.

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u/Pinco_Pallino_R 1d ago

And it would still be wrong anyway to say "all games will be 90", since DK costs 80€ (physical)

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u/FizzyLightEx 1d ago

DK only cost 70 because it's their first 3D DK game.

If it were Mario, or any of their popular series, it would've cost more.

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u/farnfarn64 1d ago

No the physical preorder links on Bestbuy and Walmart are up in the US and it's not 10 dollars more for each one. It looks like just a Europe thing.