Don’t expect Zelda’s $70 price to become the new Switch standard | Digital Trends
Don’t expect Zelda’s $70 price to become the new Switch standard | Digital Trends
by AntiqueHome5160
23 Comments
BigSteppaSaul
why not
Shes_so_Ratchet
“Don’t expect multimillion dollar companies to get greedier in a capitalist system.”
Tell that to the grocers.
Dry_Ass_P-word
Feels like that headline is just missing “until the switch successor”.
Unfortunately.
KLEG3
You just know Pokémon company is going to charge $70 for each version of whatever turd they crank out next though
hypnotic20
The biggest power you have to combat this is to boycott, but FOMO is really strong with some people.
TimidPanther
Disagree. When this title is the biggest selling title of the year, it will fully justify Nintendo making all of their games cost a higher price.
And many Nintendo fans will defend them for it.
Prophet6000
Cap
JSRFCube
It’s like suddenly everyone forgot that Nintendo has been releasing games at different prices since the Wii U era, this means nothing.
Nintendo wanted to release it at $70 and that’s that.
ChronictheSkunk
✨And it’ll stay 70 dollars until the end of time✨ wish Nintendo would do like a Steam Sale for older games. BotW just now dropped to $40😞
Complete_Bad6937
Well yeah, Zelda is the last flagship game for the system so not a hard prediction to make…
Brownant520
Buy discounted E-shop cards, Costco right now has $5 off a $50 card, get 2, buy the two game vouchers, use one on Zelda, and the other on another triple A, cost of two first party games is $45.
spongeboy1985
Sounds like the $10 up charge is due to them using the more expensive 32 GB cart due to the game being over 16 GB
UsualCut6497
As long as every game that does this is high quality I suppose it’s ok with me. (But I highly doubt this is the case).
No-Instruction9393
Did you read Nintendo’s comment??? It’s essentially corporate speak for “we can neither confirm nor deny”
sportspadawan13
Fine by me…if they do it right. Metroid Prime Remastered good at $40. Mario Strikers, $50. Kirby and Forgotten Land, $60. But if you think we should pay $70 for Strikers when $60 was a ripoff, well…don’t expect many sales.
funnyinput
I seriously doubt Nintendo wouldn’t do this again. If they know one game will sell at this price; they will take advantage of this.
ShiftyShaymin
It’s prob because it’s a 32GB cart, but because of that, it’s probably not going to go on sale as often or as low (physically at least). Witcher 3 never got aggressively cheap physically on Switch like the other versions because of that.
They could make future reprints of it on a 16GB later and require a download to make it cheaper.
b_lett
Nintendo puts their biggest upcoming game at $10 more and everyone loses their minds.
Metroid Prime Remaster launches at $40 and Pikmin 4 holds at $60 and no one cares. There’s observable games at different price tiers, and people are acting like Nintendo is the most greedy and evil company in the world over a single fixed $10 difference on one item.
I’m tired of seeing how negative this sub is toward Nintendo. Name a single first party Nintendo game littered with lootbox microtransactions. They aren’t EA or Blizzard.
totoofze47
Genuine question: why is everyone freaking out so much over something that COULD happen, rather than on something that DID happen?
A singular price increase for TotK is not the end of the world, and while I understand worrying that they will become standard in the future, they haven’t. Complaining this much this soon doesn’t make much sense.
JerrodDRagon
I understand people being upset but If this game is at the same quality of the last Zelda then I’m fine with spending the extra ten dollars on it
VonDukes
It will for the switch 2
thingwithit
Why can’t they just make a seperate download that you have to do alongside the cart? They did that with doom, mk11, outer worlds, and definitely a lot more. I think it’s just because nintendo sees other companies doing it with their games, and they are incapable of leaving money on the table
reqausxobi
I think they started the voucher program to compensate those who buy digital copies.
23 Comments
why not
“Don’t expect multimillion dollar companies to get greedier in a capitalist system.”
Tell that to the grocers.
Feels like that headline is just missing “until the switch successor”.
Unfortunately.
You just know Pokémon company is going to charge $70 for each version of whatever turd they crank out next though
The biggest power you have to combat this is to boycott, but FOMO is really strong with some people.
Disagree. When this title is the biggest selling title of the year, it will fully justify Nintendo making all of their games cost a higher price.
And many Nintendo fans will defend them for it.
Cap
It’s like suddenly everyone forgot that Nintendo has been releasing games at different prices since the Wii U era, this means nothing.
Nintendo wanted to release it at $70 and that’s that.
✨And it’ll stay 70 dollars until the end of time✨ wish Nintendo would do like a Steam Sale for older games. BotW just now dropped to $40😞
Well yeah, Zelda is the last flagship game for the system so not a hard prediction to make…
Buy discounted E-shop cards, Costco right now has $5 off a $50 card, get 2, buy the two game vouchers, use one on Zelda, and the other on another triple A, cost of two first party games is $45.
Sounds like the $10 up charge is due to them using the more expensive 32 GB cart due to the game being over 16 GB
As long as every game that does this is high quality I suppose it’s ok with me. (But I highly doubt this is the case).
Did you read Nintendo’s comment??? It’s essentially corporate speak for “we can neither confirm nor deny”
Fine by me…if they do it right. Metroid Prime Remastered good at $40. Mario Strikers, $50. Kirby and Forgotten Land, $60. But if you think we should pay $70 for Strikers when $60 was a ripoff, well…don’t expect many sales.
I seriously doubt Nintendo wouldn’t do this again. If they know one game will sell at this price; they will take advantage of this.
It’s prob because it’s a 32GB cart, but because of that, it’s probably not going to go on sale as often or as low (physically at least). Witcher 3 never got aggressively cheap physically on Switch like the other versions because of that.
They could make future reprints of it on a 16GB later and require a download to make it cheaper.
Nintendo puts their biggest upcoming game at $10 more and everyone loses their minds.
Metroid Prime Remaster launches at $40 and Pikmin 4 holds at $60 and no one cares. There’s observable games at different price tiers, and people are acting like Nintendo is the most greedy and evil company in the world over a single fixed $10 difference on one item.
I’m tired of seeing how negative this sub is toward Nintendo. Name a single first party Nintendo game littered with lootbox microtransactions. They aren’t EA or Blizzard.
Genuine question: why is everyone freaking out so much over something that COULD happen, rather than on something that DID happen?
A singular price increase for TotK is not the end of the world, and while I understand worrying that they will become standard in the future, they haven’t. Complaining this much this soon doesn’t make much sense.
I understand people being upset but If this game is at the same quality of the last Zelda then I’m fine with spending the extra ten dollars on it
It will for the switch 2
Why can’t they just make a seperate download that you have to do alongside the cart? They did that with doom, mk11, outer worlds, and definitely a lot more. I think it’s just because nintendo sees other companies doing it with their games, and they are incapable of leaving money on the table
I think they started the voucher program to compensate those who buy digital copies.