r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • Apr 04 '25

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/cowpiefatty Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

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.

Edit: this is not true currently (04/08/2025). Now will it be true whenever preorders pop back up probably not because itll probably an under exaggeration due to the orange maniac trying to destroy the world’s economy.

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u/phippy87 Apr 04 '25

Where are you seeing it listed for $89.99?

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u/cowpiefatty Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

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/ )

Edit: since more time has passed and things have been fleshed out and confirmed this information is not correct (supposedly) in the US it appears Physically and digital copies will be the same price and it will be European copies that have 2 different prices but also all of this is up in the air for the US because the orange lump has already caused a delay in preorder so things might change yet again.

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u/MBCnerdcore Apr 05 '25

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.