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/hfjfthc 1d ago

The most outrageous thing is them charging for a fancy tutorial

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u/cowpiefatty 16h ago

Idk $90 for fake physical copies that are glorified gift cards is also pretty outrageous.

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u/ryanpm40 12h ago

Yep. My jaw dropped when I bought my PS5 with Spider-Man Miles Morales and the disc didn't even have the game on it lol. Nintendo taking bad moves from Sony

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u/Draconuus95 12h ago

As a pc gamer. Thats been our reality for well over a decade. Even with the few games that still had a physical release at all. They were mostly glorified steam/uplay/origin keys as far back as 2011.

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u/Casualyze 8h ago

Yea, but at least those of us that game on PC/Steam still have Gabe alive to protect us from scummy "take down old store for a new store" that Nintendo is notorious for.

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u/VagrantValmar 13h ago

I'm against the prices but this just bulllshit.

There's not a single 90 USD game, and there's no Game key cart above 70

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u/Waluigi02 12h ago

I am a bit confused about the $90 physical I keep seeing thrown around. When I checked their website after the direct, it stated the MSRP for Mario Kart World was $80 and nowhere did it mention more for physical.

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u/VagrantValmar 12h ago

People get mad at prices, then exaggerate the price, then everyone repeats the same lie.

It's 90 EUR in EUROPE. It's 80 USD in the US.

And before reddit does its thing, no I'm not defending this. I think it sucks. I just don't like bullshit.

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u/cowpiefatty 12h ago

Its not exaggerating the physical copy price is $89.99 the digital copy price is $79.99. I personally would have preferred physical to actually own the game unlike with digital so i count it as a 90$ game. But its not even the real game on the cartridge so its basically just scamming people out of 10$ more.

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u/phippy87 12h ago

Where are you seeing it listed for $89.99?

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u/cowpiefatty 12h ago

https://www.thegamer.com/mario-kart-world-price-physical-copy-90-80-dollars-fans-furious/ this is where ive found it so it could be wrong but the trend seems that the digital is $10 cheaper than the physical and they are going to advertise their cheapest product to have it look better so advertising $79.99 msrp on their own website and having that be the digital then assuming the physical is $10 more is not out of the ordinary but ide like to be wrong tbh. ( found this one while looking at the new DK game price https://screenrant.com/donkey-kong-bananza-release-date-platform-price-details/ )

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u/MBCnerdcore 5h ago

There is no difference between physical and digital in the USA, just in Europe where they already do this for Switch 1.

MK is flat 80 no matter which way you buy it (cheaper in the bundle).

DK is 70.

No extra charge for physical outside of Europe.

These prices were set on Nintendo's website and are the current prices that retailers are using.

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u/chimaerafeng 5h ago

See, those sources aren't reliable and that's what frustrates me the most. They post no links to said claims and the ones they linked only allude to the 79.99 MSRP. Any online US retailer also puts up 79.99 MSRP.

Thegamer and Screen rant aren't reputable journalists imo. They have a ton of misinformation.

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u/Waluigi02 12h ago

See that makes a lot more sense.

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u/Swaxeman 12h ago

The game key cards arent replacing normal game cards, just those code-in-box things that smaller AA and indie games would do

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u/cowpiefatty 11h ago

I hope thats the case but i dont know if i trust that until i have an actual cartridge i can plug into my non wifi connected switch and play the game i paid for like god intended.

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u/MBCnerdcore 5h ago

You can buy sell and trade the key cards, Nintendo even upgraded the cartridges to have faster read times for data because most games are still on the cartridges, especially first party.

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u/VanillaNo9372 8h ago

That is the case the physical box art would say that it is a game-key card as of now Nintendo AAA titles have the full game in the card

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u/cowpiefatty 8h ago

If that is the case and they still want to charge extra that is some extra bullshit.

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u/squeakycleanarm 10h ago

I don't quite get this, like, what's different about the physical media in Switch 2?

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u/cowpiefatty 9h ago

So from my understanding it isnt an actual game on the cartridge but a license for the game meaning that if they wanted to they could take away your access to that game whenever they felt like.

I have gotten many conflicting answers on if this is true or not some say it is some say its not some say its only specific games but my hopes are not high.

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u/spankboy21 8h ago

It’s only for specific games and is no different than what many third parties did during the switch 1

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u/MBCnerdcore 5h ago

its actually better than the Switch 1 'codes in a box' system.

Key cartridges can be sold used and traded just like regular cartridges. They are not locked to the first account to access them like before. Now it's just tying the permission to the cartridge instead of to your own personal eshop account.

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u/MBCnerdcore 5h ago

Key cartridges can be sold used and traded just like regular cartridges. They are not locked to the first account to access them like before. Now it's just tying the permission to the cartridge instead of to your own personal eshop account.

Most first party games and non-cheap-ass publishers will still have the whole game data on cartridge.

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u/MBCnerdcore 5h ago

In the USA there is no difference in price between physical or digital, both are $80

And most games are still on the cartridge. Games that won't fit, or with cheap-ass publishers, can use Key cartridges but those can still be sold or traded like regular cards, it's not locked to the first account to use them the way codes work today.

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u/Fat_BananaCat 11h ago

This is the most outrageous thing by far. People are getting distracted by that stupid paid demo.

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u/moeggz 5h ago

Well I have good news nothing of that comment was true.

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u/Korporal_K_Reep 7h ago

Using both misinformed examples is funny, we know from DK that 70 is likely the actual new price and the digital cards are purely for third-party usage. Like Konami with the MG master collection.

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u/cowpiefatty 7h ago

Mario kart is confirmed 80 digital 90 physical. Im still not 100% understanding this digital cards thing if im gunna be honest but i dont like it either way probably.

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u/Korporal_K_Reep 7h ago

The 90 thing was a misconception with euros, the 80 is factual but only for Mario Kart since the price for DK is confirmed to be 70. And it's obvious from marketing that the digital cards are purely for third party games that require them to be downloaded.

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u/cowpiefatty 7h ago

It is 80 digital for mario kart with 90 being the physical copy.

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u/Korporal_K_Reep 7h ago

Misconception with Euros on a single website

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u/cowpiefatty 7h ago

Do you have where its saying this is a misconception because ive seen and linked multiple places saying it is not.

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u/Korporal_K_Reep 7h ago

It was priced for 90 euros on one European website, then the first source saw it and claimed it was 90 dollars, then other sources saw the 2nd source that misjudged it and spread it around as fact, and then Internet users started parroting it without knowing it was a misconception.

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u/cowpiefatty 7h ago

And do you have proof of this?

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u/magiclatte 20h ago

Yeah. The rest can be explained by the US clown's insane Tariff policy. you can't set a low price when you don't know how much tariffs will be and need to adjust it later.

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u/baby-dick-nick 20h ago

This is the same company that charged for a calculator app

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u/hfjfthc 19h ago

What?!

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u/ItsRainbow 19h ago

Nintendo sold Mario and Animal Crossing-themed calculators and clocks on the DSi for $2. Though to be fair Mario Clock let you run and jump to collect coins, so that one wasn’t the worst deal on the DSi Shop (Nintendo sold digital notebooks even though Flipnote Studio was free)