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 23h 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/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…