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[falling into hell]

I don't care as long as I get the full game on card.

 

[Topher]

Confirmed, Yoshi is $59.99 digitally and $69.99 physically.

Oh....so it is actually is a discount for digital. I'm surprised, but......well done, Nintendo.

 

[Danny22]

They should make the digital premium releases 90 dollar digital and a 100 dollar physical for Americans who are the main cause behind over-inflation of the world, much like the rest of the world already pays over-inflated prices.

Make them atleast look at a 3 figure and gasp. Microsoft doesn't have the balls and Sony only gets them at the start of a gen.

 

[touchfuzzy]

Nintendo has clarified that this doesn't mean the price of physical games are going up, but that digital games will be cheaper.

Nintendo Clarifies 'The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up' Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games

Nintendo has announced that it will now charge different amounts for digital and physical copies of the same Switch 2 games, beginning with next month's launch of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.

www.ign.com

 

[Buggy Loop]

Good. Digital purchases should be cheaper. It should have been like this from the beginning.

I have a feeling digital prices will stay the same, but physical will get more expensive.

Edit - well nevermind, if post above is true. I'll have to see it to believe it

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

You like it physical don't you little pay pig

 

[bender]

Oh....so it is actually is a discount for digital. I'm surprised, but......well done, Nintendo.

I told you meat sacks that Nintendo loves you, but does anyone listen to me, bender ?

 

[mckmas8808]

digital wont be cheaper. physical will just be more expensive.

Interesting....

 

[archangelmorph]

Nintendo has clarified that this doesn't mean the price of physical games are going up, but that digital games will be cheaper.

Nintendo Clarifies 'The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up' Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games

Nintendo has announced that it will now charge different amounts for digital and physical copies of the same Switch 2 games, beginning with next month's launch of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.

www.ign.com

Meanwhile…

Zelda Breath of the Wild: Switch 2 Edition
Physical SKU
MSRP: £469.99

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Im a Nintendo customer for the first time since the Wii as I gave in and bought a Switch 2.

Nintendo is one brand I feel I absolutely need to buy physical, if only for resale value being great.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

People who exclusively buy Digital games or are on the cusp of exclusively buying Digital games will look at this and see it as a good thing because they will be getting a discount.

Meanwhile people who exclusively buy Physical Switch games like myself will no longer see the fair standard price that everyone adhered to and instead we now get taxed for daring to buy a physical game.

There only 3 possibilities with this announcement:

- Digital games are getting cheaper
- Physical games are going up in price
- Digital games are getting cheaper AND Physical games are going up in price

Either way Physical game buyers like myself lose out in this.

 

[blacktout]

Nintendo has clarified that this doesn't mean the price of physical games are going up, but that digital games will be cheaper.

Nintendo Clarifies 'The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up' Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games

Nintendo has announced that it will now charge different amounts for digital and physical copies of the same Switch 2 games, beginning with next month's launch of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.

www.ign.com

Great news! Nintendo is still being a little cagey in their clarification, probably to avoid creating the impression that all digital games will be $60 moving forward when some will almost certainly be $70, but at least this should shut down some of the intellectual dishonesty from the usual suspects in this thread.

 

[memoryman3]

Great news! Nintendo is still being a little cagey in their clarification, probably to avoid creating the impression that all digital games will be $60 moving forward when some will almost certainly be $70, but at least this should shut down some of the intellectual dishonesty from the usual suspects in this thread.

We'll see when Fire Emblem launches.

 

[Pataponpon]

People who exclusively buy Digital games or are on the cusp of exclusively buying Digital games will look at this and see it as a good thing because they will be getting a discount.

Meanwhile people who exclusively buy Physical Switch games like myself will no longer see the fair standard price that everyone adhered to and instead we now get taxed for daring to buy a physical game.

There only 3 possibilities with this announcement:

- Digital games are getting cheaper
- Physical games are going up in price
- Digital games are getting cheaper AND Physical games are going up in price

Either way Physical game buyers like myself lose out in this.

youre still getting more than digital buyers, you can re-sell your game, you can have a physical cartridge to truly own it outside your digital acc, you also get the box and all to be sitting pretty in your collection. It wasnt really fair to buy it digital without all these things and yet pay the same prize, $10 seems fair enough.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

People who exclusively buy Digital games or are on the cusp of exclusively buying Digital games will look at this and see it as a good thing because they will be getting a discount.

Meanwhile people who exclusively buy Physical Switch games like myself will no longer see the fair standard price that everyone adhered to and instead we now get taxed for daring to buy a physical game.

There only 3 possibilities with this announcement:

- Digital games are getting cheaper
- Physical games are going up in price
- Digital games are getting cheaper AND Physical games are going up in price

Either way Physical game buyers like myself lose out in this.

It's not a big deal--ten bucks will buy you a burger or a six pack these days. That's what we have to deal with to keep physical alive a little while longer.

 

[digdug2]

Fuck yeah. I can't wait until digital copies are $70 USD and physical is $80.

 

[Famipan]

Yeah where is my sale on Elden Ring SOTE edition Sony!! I have been waiting for years for it going on sale and I have no physical drive and I must scream

 

[Xion_Stellar]

youre still getting more than digital buyers, you can re-sell your game, you can have a physical cartridge to truly own it outside your digital acc, you also get the box and all to be sitting pretty in your collection. It wasnt really fair to buy it digital without all these things and yet pay the same prize, $10 seems fair enough.

None of those "advantages" are things provided by Nintendo themselves they are a byproduct of a product having a tangible existence in our reality (the box sitting on the shelf) or basic Consumer right that have existed since the dawn of time (selling things you own) and I shouldn't have to "pay extra" for something that Nintendo themselves doesn't provide.

 

[Pataponpon]

None of those "advantages" are things provided by Nintendo themselves they are a byproduct of a product having a tangible existence in our reality (the box sitting on the shelf) or basic Consumer right that have existed since the dawn of time (selling things you own) and I shouldn't have to "pay extra" for something that Nintendo themselves doesn't provide.

being honest with you, does it truly matter for you who provides it? you're still getting all of it for extra $10, again, it wasnt very cool to not have any of that and still have to pay the same as the physical copies

its not that youre paying extra, it still the same price for you, but now the digital buyers have it something more fair for them

 

[Brucey]

They should make the digital premium releases 90 dollar digital and a 100 dollar physical for Americans who are the main cause behind over-inflation of the world, much like the rest of the world already pays over-inflated prices.

Make them atleast look at a 3 figure and gasp. Microsoft doesn't have the balls and Sony only gets them at the start of a gen.

So US Nintendo owners will continue to subsidize the Japanese market where they pay peanuts in comparison?

 

[Xion_Stellar]

being honest with you, does it truly matter for you who provides it? you're still getting all of it for extra $10, again, it wasnt very cool to not have any of that and still have to pay the same as the physical copies

its not that youre paying extra, it still the same price for you, but now the digital buyers have it something more fair for them

In this context yes it does matter because it's only Nintendo that pulling this nonsense.

In the context for me personally? Yes it does matter because Nintendo is the only console where I exclusively buy Physical games.

I would have done things slightly different instead of punching physical game buyers in the face like this.

I would have ceased all "normal physical game" releases and instead threat them and call them "Deluxe Edition" so instead of getting Donkey Kong Banaza physical game buyers get "Donkey Kong Bananza Deluxe Edition" that still cost $10 more but it comes with additional content that the "Standard Digital version" of Donkey Kong Banaza doesn't come with and if those digital owners wanted the Deluxe content too they could pay the $10 Deluxe upgrade.

Physical Game buyers forcefully get added value, digital owners get cheaper games and Nintendo still charges $10 more for Physical games by converting the entire line as Deluxe Editions.

 

[Pataponpon]

In this context yes it does matter because it's only Nintendo that pulling this nonsense.

In the context for me personally? Yes it does matter because Nintendo is the only console where I exclusively buy Physical games.

I would have done things slightly different instead of punching physical game buyers in the face like this.

I would have ceased all "normal physical game" releases and instead threat them and call them "Deluxe Edition" so instead of getting Donkey Kong Banaza physical game buyers get "Donkey Kong Bananza Deluxe Edition" that still cost $10 more but it comes with additional content that the "Standard Digital version" of Donkey Kong Banaza doesn't come with and if those digital owners wanted the Deluxe content too they could pay the $10 Deluxe upgrade.

Physical Game buyers forcefully get added value, digital owners get cheaper games and Nintendo still charges $10 more for Physical games by converting the entire line as Deluxe Editions.

That would be cool, but they're never gatekeeping content like that. Tbh, I just don't understand why people feel "punched" or things like that, you prefer physical games for reasons, don't you? Those physical games will still be the same price for you, why let the idea of people paying less (to miss the reasons you prefer physical games) affect your enjoynment?

 

[Xion_Stellar]

That would be cool, but they're never gatekeeping content like that. Tbh, I just don't understand why people feel "punched" or things like that, you prefer physical games for reasons, don't you? Those physical games will still be the same price for you, why let the idea of people paying less (to miss the reasons you prefer physical games) affect your enjoynment?

It doesn't affect my enjoyment I just don't think it's fair that out of the gate MSRP wise I'm no longer paying the same as everyone else I'm just paying "more" now.

This Nintendo news along with the Dynamic Pricing being done on Sony's side makes me realize why there are price regulations for other types of goods in life and maybe it's time for the law to start catching up to the Digital Market.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

its not that youre paying extra, it still the same price for you, but now the digital buyers have it something more fair for them

Let's not kid ourselves about what's really going on here: it's a bold strategy to bring physical people over to digital, and it's going to work, BIG TIME!

In the end it will make these last remaining few physical copies even more valuable, with less copies being out there. Though it's still going to bring about the end for physical games and collecting.

 

[Shifty1897]

Physical game tax is here.

 

[LyricalShrike]

Digital games being the same price as their physical retail counterparts is the biggest scam the gaming industry has perpetuated and we've all accepted since forever.

Right up there with digital storefronts taking the same cut as physical retailers.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

I already noticed this on the Japanese page for Yoshi when the release date was announced. 80K yen for the retail version and 70K yen for the digital version, unsure if it's also the case for the rest of their first-party releases in Japan.







Physical is becoming more expensive, not the other way around lol.


No? Nintendo is certainly doing this due to the increasing memory costs.


Next Zelda is 100% costing 90$ for physical. TOTK was literally the sole example of a 'premium' $70 first-party game on Switch 1.

Who give a sh*#. Of the game is good and people want physical they will pay for it. If you want digital and want to save some $$, then cool.

The only thing this does, is put even more pressure on studios to deliver quality content! It will be looked at differently by consumers, investors, analysts, and the general public at large!

If you want that pressure and heat, then awesome!

I think Guuitar hero clone by RedOctane which will be a HUGE holiday game btw, I bet that thing is $120 with a guitar!) I still think that is a good price.


People under estimate how much consumers will pay for quality and no BS.

I bet Madden could charge $80-$90 annually if they removed all the microtransaction stuff. And streamlined the game some. This is an older gamer perspective. If it was a kid, throw that stuff on mobile with F2P or free to start.

Edit: I'm not being rude. I'm pointing out, even with people with strapped budgets due to world economics. People will pay for perceived quality, and content!

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Kind of afraid that this doesn't mean digital games will be cheaper but that physical games will be more expensive. (Ed: though Yoshi is 59.99, so maybe it will be 60 for digital and 70 for physical)

Yeah, this would be my immediate concern after reading that.

 

[ReBurn]

Now all Nintendo needs to do is publish more Switch 2 games.

 

[mrpants]

Should have been like that from the start

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

This is what it always should have been. Digital costing less than physical...

But watch these fuckers keep current prices as digital prices and then increase the price of physical.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

This is what it always should have been. Digital costing less than physical...

But watch these fuckers keep current prices as digital prices and then increase the price of physical.

That's exactly what is happening lol, who the fuck actually thinks they are lowering the cost of digital?

 

[HYDE]

Yeah where is my sale on Elden Ring SOTE edition Sony!! I have been waiting for years for it going on sale and I have no physical drive and I must scream

That's Namco dude

 

[Ozzie666]

It was always bullshit, for far too long Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo claimed digital prices had to be higher as physical, to support brick stores. Always bullshit reason. No they don't need the stores at all, so fuck em. They are all greedy. This is the way it should have always been.

 

[Panajev2001a]

I have a feeling digital prices will stay the same, but physical will get more expensive.

Edit - well nevermind, if post above is true. I'll have to see it to believe it

Exactly, I want this to be true but Nintendo is the one that stated it was ok for digital to be More Expensive than physical because you pay for the convenience! So I think the games they are launching were always meant to launch at that price and now they are increasing the retail price period.

 

[Fabieter]

It was always bullshit, for far too long Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo claimed digital prices had to be higher as physical, to support brick stores. Always bullshit reason. No they don't need the stores at all, so fuck em. They are all greedy. This is the way it should have always been.

Why not keep the physical price and make digital cheaper .

 

[ahtlas7]

I already contracted my spending on Nintendo games and doubt I will buy another of their consoles. Let's see how raising prices works out for the

 

[Xion_Stellar]

Why not keep the physical price and make digital cheaper .

Because the opposite has actually happened already it's just that either people didn't notice the change or were already willing to pay full MSRP for games anyways.

Nintendo Vouchers used to be a thing remember? You paid $100 upfront and got two Switch games for the price of $50 each. Those vouchers are gone now and technically speaking they didn't increase the MSRP price of Digital games to begin with but now the same people that were paying $100 for two Digital Switch 1 games are now paying $120-$140 for two Digital Switch 2 games.

 

[Baemono]

Digital games being the same price as their physical retail counterparts is the biggest scam the gaming industry has perpetuated and we've all accepted since forever.

You're right but I gues retailers weren't happy with the idea of the same games being sold cheaper on stores owned by the publishers/manufacturers

 

[Hyet]

Nintendo is doing everything in their power to deter physical game sales:

• Raising physical prices while maintaining digital prices
• Key Cards
• Ruining artwork at every chance they get applying horrible labels everywhere

They really want everytone to buy everything digital and then rise the prices to physical level to maximize profits. And since there won't be physical cpies coging around there'll be no alternative or used game market.

It's a scam.

 

[J Required]

Did people here assume Nintendo will lower digital prices? Lol

They simply increased physical edition prices.

 

[Trilobit]

Kind of afraid that this doesn't mean digital games will be cheaper but that physical games will be more expensive. (Ed: though Yoshi is 59.99, so maybe it will be 60 for digital and 70 for physical)

I agree. This will be the way. Nintendo wants people to go digital only and stop the second-hand market which they don't benefit from.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

I agree. This will be the way. Nintendo wants people to go digital only and stop the second-hand market which they don't benefit from.

They can wish for this and do as much harm as they can to the physical games market but according to their own financial reports 2/3 of their customers still prefer physical games.

So it's going to take a lot to flip those metrics on its head specially in places like Japan which is also their best market at the moment.

 

[blacktout]

Did people here assume Nintendo will lower digital prices? Lol

They simply increased physical edition prices.

They've already released a statement saying the opposite, but you wouldn't know, because you locked into doing one your typical drive-by posts before reading the thread.

 

[J Required]

They've already released a statement saying the opposite, but you wouldn't know, because you locked into doing one your typical drive-by posts before reading the thread.

Let's wait and see.

 

[Topher]

Let's wait and see.

Nintendo already showed this. New Nintendo games have been $69.99 whether physical or digital. Starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, the digital version is $10 less.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book – Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive - Nintendo Official Site

Join Yoshi on a charming new adventure in Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, a Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive filled with colorful worlds and creative gameplay.

www.nintendo.com

 

[J Required]

Nintendo already showed this. New Nintendo games have been $69.99 whether physical or digital. Starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, the digital version is $10 less.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book – Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive - Nintendo Official Site

Join Yoshi on a charming new adventure in Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, a Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive filled with colorful worlds and creative gameplay.

www.nintendo.com

Good news. Im interested in how are they going to price mainline Mario or Zelda games

 

[adamsapple]

Did people here assume Nintendo will lower digital prices? Lol

They simply increased physical edition prices.

Let's wait and see.

Wait and see for what? It's already there.

 

[J Required]

Wait and see for what? It's already there.

Good news. Im interested in how are they going to price mainline Mario or Zelda games

 

[Sintoid]

Let's see what the price reduction will be... nevermind I forgot it's Nintendo we're talking about