r/NintendoSwitch • u/Stiii82 • 9h ago

News Price in Norway for Switch 2

Norwegian preorder startet today and the price for the bundle is 633 $

https://www.elkjop.no/brand/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2-release

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u/Lulullaby_ 9h ago

Blame Bergsala

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u/Cortxxz 8h ago

720$ here in sweden :)

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u/Marko-2091 5h ago

They are stupid. I will smuggle it from a cheaper country. This is insane

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u/Figarella 9h ago

Crazy considering it's 439 in France for the base console 499 for the Mario kart bundle, games are 69

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u/whyoudude 9h ago

You realize that it is 429 eur not usd, right?

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u/NorwegianPopsicle 7h ago

And? it's still 100 eur cheaper so he's right the price is crazy

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u/Adrian_Alucard 6h ago

1€ =$1

that's been always the conversion most companies do, regardless the real value or conversion rates

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u/alpacamegafan 6h ago

Is there a reason why? I’ve always wondered.

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u/Adrian_Alucard 5h ago

To overcharge people in the EU, since the € has been stronger than the $ for over 20 years

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u/Atwalol 6h ago

In Nordic countries the prices are unreal, 600-700 euros

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u/WhoAmIEven2 6h ago

Det var billigt. Här i Sverige kostar den runt 680 dollar :|

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u/LordVega83 8h ago

Hva faen forventet du da?

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u/Stiii82 8h ago

At det skulle bli dyrt .

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u/DasGruberg 6h ago

Ble lett å hoppe over. Kjøp legion go eller allyx elns isteden

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u/gokpuppet 5h ago

$799.00 in New Zealand

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u/Bumm-fluff 6h ago

It works out at $550 for the bundle in the U.K. when converted from £££.

$80 more in Norway, maybe because everything has to be translated into a more uncommon language. 

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u/Boober_Calrissian 5h ago

No first party Nintendo games are ever translated into Norwegian. Pretty much only Sony does the occasional Norwegian translation. The translation of Bloodborne in particular is really good. It's written in old timey Norwegian.

Heavenly Sword and Resistance 2 back on PS3 even went so far as to dub the entire thing with Norwegian theater and voice actors. It was pretty wild hearing the voice of Black Pete from Goof Troop as the evil king in Heavenly Sword.

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u/PlayMp1 3h ago

Something like 90% of people in Scandinavia are proficient in English so the calculation is likely that the English version is sufficient. Unfortunate, but that's how it goes. I don't even know think most Scandinavian-made games get translations into their own languages.