inflation calculator says it should be $67.60 today, so, stonks etc
Which is exactly why a twenty year old Geo Metro costs so much more than it did originally.
I mean, true but also they’re gouging on cars because of the chip shortage.
If only wages kept up with inflation…
Sold all my GameCube games to GameStop for $80 to get a Wii. Regretting it deeply, I had the Metroid games, Melee of course, and worse of all, Pokémon colosseum and Gale of Darkness. Each time I look up the prices of those I die a little
Same, was so stoked to finally get a wii, a refurbished trade in, after about a year after release. Our local GameStop never had any. I did have a lot of fun with the wii, but now I have to emulate those sweet sweet nostalgia feels. That Wind Waker and Metroid sound tracks just hit something inside. And Cubivore is a G.D. masterclass in ridiculous, silly fun.
So I bought a Switch because there was a discount. THEN I looked a the games prices and I didn’t feel so good.
Always assume nintendo games are full price until othwrwise stated.
Nintendo is easily the worst platform to be on if you are part of patientgamers
At least officially.
But yeah, it’s rough that the biggest discounts they ever offer were 33%, rarely, for just a couple titles.
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I recommend games such as brawlhalla and Pokemon unite, which are both free. Otherwise indie games are wonderful, like Celeste, slay the spire, hollow knight, etc.
Wait… A Nintendo sub where folks can criticise Nintendo?! Sign me up! This is already better than Reddit
(Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of these topics is fine.
From the sidebar. So yeah we’re all going to jail
what baffles me is that this even happens to less popular games that you wouldn’t expect people to buy. Like why is princess debut on ds $80?
This is why I eat all the bananas before Donkey Kong comes in.
BTW, where the hell did Mario come from, and why was he after Monkey King’s bananas anyways?
If you know you know…
I was waiting to buy Tears of the Kingdom, thinking the price would go down eventually. Should I not do that?
Get tears of the kingdom as a physical copy from a supermarket. I have seen it as low as £48 new in shops Vs £60 in the estore.
What is mad is Breath of the Wild will still be £59.99 on the shelf next to it…
Nintendo games rarely (as in, barely ever) get discounted, especially first party games. Remember how they offered a certain game (I think it might have been 3D All-Stars?) for a limited time only? Nintendo is rather anti-consumer in the long run.
So if you keep waiting for a price drop, it’s gonna be a while. Maybe you get lucky and some third party shop sells it for 40$. Don’t expect it to go under that for a long time, it’s a Zelda game. The ones who really want it will buy it regardless of the price, and Nintendo or the other shops don’t really care about the rest.
You know if you build yourself a $3000 computer, you could play it using ryujinx, saving yourself a massive -$2940
I have a what I assume to be about 1500€ to 2000€ machine (I don’t know the exact value as I inherited it from my cousin who passed away in January) and I can play BotW on yuzu just fine. I assume that even a thousand euro machine would be able to handle switch emulation fine, at least if you don’t go doing any enhancements like unlocking the framerate or running shaders…
Ya but could it run turbo tax?
Nintendo games don’t really drop below $50 or $60 tbh.
The physical copy is $52 on amazon and walmart right now. Costco has it at $60. I’m sure other retailers have their own discounts.
Not saying you’ll ever get it for pennies on the dollar… but you can get it for cheaper than retail.
It’s not worth saving a tenner to lose out on the relevance of playing it at release imo.
I don’t understand how Nintendo keep their games prices so high, are people just not selling second hand games?
They are, I trade mine in all the time. But they sell well, so secondhand places don’t mark them down much.
Soon all new titles would be $70
And all old Nintendo titles would be $70 too.
I bought TotK for $70, I don’t think I can bring myself to buy anything else for that price. Heck, $60 was a lot too lol.
Me too. I used switch online coupons to buy Totk and another game. Paying $100 instead of $130 was the only way that I can afford it 😄
I was a broke adolescent back in 2011, but now I am a working adult with some disposable income. So the image is accurate.
Still coming out a little ahead.
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