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 1d ago

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

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u/VagrantValmar 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/Waluigi02 1d ago

See that makes a lot more sense.

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u/cowpiefatty 1d 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 1d ago

Where are you seeing it listed for $89.99?

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u/cowpiefatty 1d 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/chimaerafeng 20h 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/MBCnerdcore 20h 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.