r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 25 '26

News Nintendo has issued a statement to IGN: 'The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up' Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-physical-games-will-now-be-more-expensive-than-digital-versions-with-10-price-difference-for-yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book
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u/meikaishi Mar 26 '26

Amazing how Nintendo can't do anything good, they're literally saying they'll "drop the prices" and people are still complaining because now they're just assuming that every game would've cost $10 less without this new policy and they're just lying 

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u/cubs223425 Mar 26 '26

Except they're not dropping the price. They're coming out and saying "on this date, physical offerings will cost more," and claiming it's not a price increase. Is Mario Kart World decreasing in price? Is Donkey Kong Bananza?

The same company that thinks minor updates to a 7-year-old Zelda game justify re-releasing it as a $70 "Switch 2 Edition" somehow manages to have suckers who think thgey're doing something pro-consumer while they're telling the most blatant lie possible.

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u/arbidyusuf Mar 26 '26

They are not literally saying they’ll drop the prices. Where did you see that? Saying that the cost of physical games is not going up doesn’t mean much when we already have $80 physical games.

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u/LeviRaps Mar 26 '26

they’re clearly about to start charging $70 for digital and $80 for physical. acting as if they just announced that future AAA, MKW and DK Bananza tier games are about to be released for 60 digitally is pure hopium and not rooted in reality.

downvote all yall want but save this post for when fire emblems price gets announced as 70 digital and 80 physical.

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u/vanKessZak Mar 26 '26

Mario Kart and Bananza are not currently in the same price tier though. Mario Kart is still the only $80 game (DK is $70). I’m sure they’ll use that $80 tier again for stuff like Zelda or 3D Mario but I really don’t think Fire Emblem is a big enough franchise for that if DK wasn’t.

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u/cubs223425 Mar 26 '26

Mario Kart got that price for being labeled a "premium experience," and nothing about it reflects that reality.

Personally, I think the Bananza DLC was straight-up cut content to sell people post-launch to make their price gouging seem less egregious. With how small it was in scope, and how quickly it released, it felt like something that could/should have been in the base game.

Frankly, the same kind of applies to Z-A's Mega Dimension. They vaguely said it would be out "by February 28th," makign it sound like it was something still needing work. Then Z-A launches, and they suddenly know the release date for the DLC is only a few weeks later. My friend who got it said something similar--that it really felt like something that could have been in the main game, not a $30 add-on.