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Nintendo just doubled the price of their self published games on the Argentina’s eShop. For the second time in 2 months (not shown on graph as it just happened today).
Xenoblade Chronicles DE, for example, is now priced at 57669 ARS, which is around 160 USD not including taxes and using official exchange rate.
If you add our tax rate for buying goods in a foreign currency (it applies even when its shown in local ARS), which is around 150%, the price jumps to a whooping 139000 ARS. Literally insane.
It is now cheaper for us to jump regions back to US to buy 1st party titles.
Thanks everyone who changed to our region to get cheap games. Please don’t do it anymore on other regions, and let everyone enjoy games as they should be. We certainly can’t anymore.
by Basssico
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>Please don’t do it anymore
Don’t think that’ll be a problem. Sucks for you guys.
This will always be the problem with regional pricing. People abuse it and the people who needed the regional pricing eventually lose access to those reasonable prices.
How much were games before? I wasn’t aware you could get games cheaper other regions. I figured they were about the same everywhere.
you can either be region free or have regional pricing. not both.
Just some fantastic collective punishment from the big N here. That really fucking sucks to see, sorry man.
Interesting fact: 139.000 ARS is just below our minimum wage of 156.000 ARS.
So yes, you could easily need one whole salary to buy 1 game (crappy job of course, bust most people can’t chose here).
Google is saying that 139000 ARS is $517.51 CAD. Just for one game. Holy shit.
If piracy wasn’t a major issue in Argentina before it sure will be now.
>Thanks everyone who changed to our region to get cheap games.
Which will be an exceptionally small % of the Switch userbase. Same for Steam.
You also ignore the major reason this is even happening was to address an issue with local currency rates in Argentina and Turkey. Like at least be honest here, because Steam put out a fairly detailed explanation for this change and you’re not citing a shred of it.
It’s not a few fellow multi-region account holders that are responsible for this, not by miles.
Let’s hope the new presidente really does make major economic overhauls. It makes no sense to do business at all in Argentina right now with the state of things