Thanks. That is probably pacific.
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Nintendo Downloads - August 2012
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Thanks. That is probably pacific.
In Norway, the e-shop price is much LOWER than in stores. 10-20% lower. I guess they just converted the currency from the UK price, and didn't bother check what the games actually sell for in stores here.
What is the lowest price in Europe in the E-Shop?
Uk is probably the most expensive.
I dont think E-Shop allows yout to buy suff from another continent.
Tax rate list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_of_Europe
But I think currency exchange may also have a lot to do.
Uk is probably the most expensive.
I dont think E-Shop allows yout to buy suff from another continent.
Tax rate list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_of_Europe
But I think currency exchange may also have a lot to do.
I'm crossing my fingers Nintendo does this in the Brazil eShop. If the price is converted using the same values they use for other eShop games, it should end up costing $30~$35 USD.
I don't understand all the fuss. In France 1st party mario games are always 40 - 45 range in retailers like fnac, saturn etc. Mario Kart Ds is still 35 in some stores. Yes, a couple of bucks higher than some retailers but this was always the situation. I used a PSP Go and I know the price difference between digital and retail. I have bought Soul Calibur for 45. But I didn't mind. As a guy who has a habit of losing game cartidges very often, I'm still going on digital route.
This might be the worst eShop week yet. I really hope NSMB2 is the exception to the rule when it comes to how much influence digital retail releases have on an eShop week, because they could have released any number of digital games people have been clamoring for and still sell millions of copies of NSMB2, whether digital or retail. Obviously they're just putting everything they've got into pushing people to buy it digitally.
Well they also said they would remove Cave Story DSiWare from the eShop when Cave Story+ hits 3DSWare, so I think they just don't want to allow for 3DS owners to get confused and buy the DSi version of a game.
Well they also said they would remove Cave Story DSiWare from the eShop when Cave Story+ hits 3DSWare, so I think they just don't want to allow for 3DS owners to get confused and buy the DSi version of a game.
AndyMoogle
Member
Bergsala has gotten so bad over the last 10 years or so. Sure, they price gouged the shit out of us in the past, but it seemed that they at least knew their stuff.
Nowadays it seems that they don't know about anything until they have the item in their hands.
I guess they can't afford to do anything these days when they have to keep normal prices.
Tell me about it. I'm a retailer, and they were the best distributor I could hope for 10 years ago. Now, they're... well, I should probably be careful, but I'm not very satisfied with how they do things. They have downsized away almost everything that once made them a pleasure to deal with. Now they're just a faceless corporation run by accountants. The salespeople are still great, but they don't get the information they need to answer our questions.
Electivirus
Member
Already stuffed my eShop account with $40+ bucks. Bring it on, Sunday.
Agent Unknown
Member
Nice. At least it isn't the AU price, yikes.
Well on the positive side your not trying to retail Nintendo products in Poland.
Is there another dual release where this isn't true?
I remember reading that Cave Story will be removed from the eShop once the + version is released.
But will remain as standard DSiWare for DSi units.
Seems like the smart thing to do.
When the NSMB2 eShop entry was first added in the US eShop, the price stated "$39.99", but it was removed after a few days.
Like the hat?
Banned
Why do people say there is nothing on eshop? there are over brand new 50 games!
What are the other 2 games again? An Art Academy game and something else I can't remember.
Freakyforms Deluxe.
Robin64
Member
Freakyforms Deluxe
Edit: Grrr.
But also! I agree, I doubt Nintendo's servers will struggle with digital downloads for these games.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Oh...
Well, I have the original freaky forms and that was shit so I'm not interested in that.
I can't imagine they'd use the same save file.
Which sucks cos that means I'll have to decide between digital and physical.
I would prefer digital - to have the game in the system at all times - but it's AU$70, compared with $54 at Big W.
EDIT: Or maybe I'll do my initial playthrough physically, get to 1M coins etc, then wait for a game sale on the eShop, and do it all over again.
Which sucks cos that means I'll have to decide between digital and physical.
I would prefer digital - to have the game in the system at all times - but it's AU$70, compared with $54 at Big W.
EDIT: Or maybe I'll do my initial playthrough physically, get to 1M coins etc, then wait for a game sale on the eShop, and do it all over again.
Why don't you just buy the digital version from the UK eShop?
If I had to guess I'd say there's a chance the DLC will work across digital and cart versions on the same system, but the save file for the cart version is going to be on the cart and won't be updating the save file on your SD card unless Nintendo specifically designed the game with this in mind, and I can't see why they would. There's really no reason to put the cart version into a system that owns the digital version unless maybe a friend borrows your 3DS with their cart to play DLC (again, assuming that might work) or if you just run out of SD space and decide to buy the cart version to replace the digital version.
The Mana Legend
Banned
I don't understand why Square-Enix hasn't jumped all over the Virtual Console yet. How many goddamn sales would they get if they just released the FFs and DQs on this shit?
Thank you and, well, we'll know pretty soon. I hope the great conversion rate that eShop uses in its current games catalogue carries over to the retail games... I want to pay ~R$70 in NSMB2, and not R$130, as most retailers here!
Worthintendo
Member
I would love to see the Final Fantasy/Saga games on the 3DS VC as well as Final Fantasy Adventure. Heck I'd just be happy to see more RPGs on the 3DS VC, Great Greed, the Ultima Games, Knights Quest. Best I can see in the future is Legend of the River King which is more a fishing game but with RPG turn based battles against various wild life while you are walking around. And that Shinning Force game coming out for Game Gear some day in the future.
Don't think we'll see the DQ games on the eShop though anytime soon. The first DQ Monster game got a 3DS remake in Japan that'll hopefully be coming out next year some time and not sure if Square would go ahead with the original DQ remakes either.
It took them years and years to even support the Wii VC, and they only started doing it seriously after FF13 flopped, and even THEN they half-arsed it.
Where the 3DS VC is concerned, you have to remember that:
-The VC platforms currently available on 3DS (GB/C, NES, Game Gear) didn't really get a whole lot of games from S-E to begin with
-S-E doesn't seem to want to release any of the old DQ games on legacy platforms like VC, so that's DQ1-3/Monsters off the list
When you break it down like that, there isn't really as much there to hope for as you might initially thing--FF1, the three SaGa games for GB and the first Mana game, which is definitely better than nothing, but hardly spectacular.
please
Yes, it's legal, but if you're not in AUS/NZ (or some other non-EU PAL-region country that I'm not aware of) than changing region won't make a difference. All the EU countries have the same prices.
well I'm from England so changing to another PAL region will give me a good discount. Thanks for the reply, I'll download
yes it's like, 7 pounds less when buying in Euros
There are other currencies, I'll swap the region and tell you guys a few prices.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
There's also Taito and Eidos stuff they could release.
Really I just want FFA and FFL2. Maybe Magical Chase GBC if they hold rights over that.
Ohh yeah, I forgot all about them. Now that I'm thinking about their back catalogues, though, they released even less for those platforms than S-E did--a bunch of downgraded versions of decent arcade games from Taito, and a couple dodgy Lara sidescrollers from Eidos (assuming they actually hold the rights to the GBC games).
ShellyDeKiller
Member
That would be great.
Unfortunately my 3DS is not with me right now, so can't do it myself.
Hmmm, so far the best deal is Euro? (about £5 cheaper)
The zloty one is 36.73 pounds. Don't know yet which one is the best deal yet. I can't recall which countries don't use the euro. Em africa is Pal region too?
Checked also Albania, Turkey, and Hungary and Russia. Which don't really have an eshop or it is not updated. I'm not sure about Russia, someone has to double check that,
ShellyDeKiller
Member
Got my 3DS back. Checked Russia and South Africa. Both have empty eshops. Why bother having a functioning eshop if they're not going to release games for it? :S
Nintendo sometimes...
Norway has about the same price as the UK.
Nintendo sometimes...
Norway has about the same price as the UK.