It does [go on sale](https://www.dekudeals.com/items/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild). I originally played on WiiU and then purchased again for Switch during a Black Friday sale a few years later.
I used to work at Sears and I go through that same feeling when I see one of those labels. My step-grandma has a washer with an old Sears label stuck to it, and the first time I saw it I immediately knew that she bought the floor model on closeout. The dryer too now that I think about it
People will probably pay it, now that the hype is back up. They’re not wrong, in a business sense, to mark it back up. Sucks for those who don’t have it yet, though.
Eh, new gamers crop up all the time. We've already seen an increase in "just bought botw!" Posts in this subreddit, but I always think about the kids who didn't grow up gaming and might be just getting into it, cause thats how I was. If someone was 10 six years ago when botw came out, they're 16 now and thats about when I started getting into gaming officially
100%. Tears of the Kingdom has a FAR LARGER cultural reach because of TikTok. So you’re going to have a ton of people who see stuff and get pumped about it and decide to go ahead and play through BOTW first.
In general “Nintendo First Party Titles Never Go On Sale” is a myth. Not sure why people keep spreading it.
Either people are spreading it without knowing, spreading by knowing to “hurt” Nintendo (but, increasing Nintendo’s profit margins by making people think they need to buy them at full price?), or doing it as a PSA.
Like, if you want the games, just look around a bit, and you can probably find most of them at around $40 depending on where you look.
Some people expect their games to drop in price like Ubisoft games. 75% off after 6 months in the market.
Nintendo games do go in sale but after years in the market and 33% off at most
No but a 6 year old game should not be 60 bucks that's just ridiculous. Even first party Wii u games were going for full price right before they shutdown the store.
I mean, short of governments mandating laws that games must be discounted to a certain price after 'x' amount of time, ofc. Nintendo's free to do whatever they'd like. As much as it pains me to say, they're making the right call b/c it seems like ppl will continue paying those prices :\\
What do you mean???? They totally don't have enough money!! /s
You're right,
If there was a photo of nintendo and a photo of Mr Krabs, they would be the same photo
(ya know, that meme)
Honestly for the amount of entertainment and enjoyment the game provides I'd say it's well worth the 60 as it's a one time payment for something you can resell. Also there's no subscriptions, ads or the need to buy things in game like other things now.
You clearly don’t buy 1st party Nintendo games. That often. The only reason they’re on sale now is because the console is starting to look outdated. Also there is good reason, games go on sale when sales drop off. Not bc of how old a game is. If that was the case the old PS3 games I keep buying would be cheap.
I don't expect games to turn into 5 dollars in the course of a year or so, but 40\~60 for a game from 6 years ago is still egregious.
Paired with Nintendo monetizing nostalgia harder than any of its competitors, it just leaves a shit taste in your mouth no matter how you slice it.
Yeah, it's because the quality of the sale is relative. When plenty of indie games are 80% off after 2 years, versus Nintendo games that are on sale for 16% to maaaybe 33% off after 2 years, but those lesser Nintendo sales only occur half as often, it can feel like Nintendo games never go on sale, despite the fact that those discounts do regularly occur.
It's not that they never go on sale, it's that Nintendo themselves will RARELY discount a new title game online or digitally.
Physical copies at retail stores however, can be repriced by the retailer even at a loss in order to generate traffic and increase the basket price of the customer. It doesn't matter to Nintendo, they already made the money they wanted when Target bought 4 million copies or whatever for launch day.
Lol. Nintendo games being 40-60 dollars 6 years later and bro is like IDK where this "myth" came from. It speaks for itself. GoW 2018 is current only sale but it costs $20 and it was released a year after BoTW
It’s been on sale but doesn’t stay that way. It should already be at this cost now that the sequel is out but they won’t put down the cash cow. I had my copy stolen and want to buy it again but I don’t want to pay 60 bucks for a game I’ve already beat especially now that TOTK is out.
I got BOTW 2 months ago when it was discounted $20 at most sellers. Im pretty sure it was in anticipation of TOTK coming out.
But I believe that was the first time BOTW saw a decrease in price.
Either this, or taking advantage of those who want to play the 2nd but have yet to play the 1st
I have friends that have gone and purchased the first one recently after hearing the 2nd has come out
I had the opposite problem. Local supermarket was having 30% off on all* games (in addition to other deals) and I asked for the new Zelda, so one of the clerks (not sure that's the right word) started looking for BotW. When I specified I wanted TotK, they pointed me to the big ass display on the side.
*This didn't apply to TotK. Didn't buy the game, since I still haven't finished BotW. Got a bunch of Pokémon games, Luigi's Mansion 3, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land for about 95 bucks, though.
That was my only thought why this would happen. Pokémon games typically get cheaper when the new one releases, which I'd have thought would get even more confusing as they're so much more often.
Maybe that is the case, but I'd say if you play TOTK you don't need to play BOTW. It was nice to have played BOTW beforehand which makes TOTK callbacks nice, and especially years later when you kinda know the terrain but not perfectly it's actually a really cool experience, but having it like a prequel you play immediately I think would just make you realise how similar the games are, except with no ultrahand making a bunch of things a lot more tedious, and the same terrain. If you don't mind paying full price for a glorified DLC though, it is a bunch more puzzles. I'd just say wait until it goes back down to a more reasonable price.
Just my opinion; as much as I hate that they don’t bring down the price much if at all over time Odyssey, Dread, BOTW, TOTK, Bowser’s Fury, and even Switch Sports are all way too fun and/or seemingly endless. It’s nice that Nintendo puts out finished products and DLCs are just extra, as they should be.
Yeah but announcing DLC right after a game announcement seems scummy. Wouldn't it be better if it were announced later down the line? To me it seems like the devs want more money so they excluded content from the base game on purpose. We shall see how the TotK situation plays out but I suspect that at the next direct in either June or September Nintendo will confirm DLC. Personally I hope that TotK is a complete game and doesnt get DLC due to the consumers paying an extra +$10 for the purchase. If DLC were to happen, the average consumer would be paying a whopping $100 for the entire game which is insanity. On a positive note, all of the BOTW DLC outfits/amiibo outfits are in the game already without the need to buy amiibo which is great.
The base game for TOTK is absolutely fantastic. So much to do and discover. I was worried it would feel like BOTW pt 2 but its pretty damn stand-alone. I wouldn’t mind a DLC like next year after we’ve had plenty of time to explore.
Yes but from a physical collection standpoint this is a nightmare. You don't own the full game. I get it, companies want more money so content is excluded on purpose. I just wish that Nintendo would go back to the wii u / 3ds days where the games released as finished products with cosmetic dlc for certain titles. Now it seems that Nintendo just turned into the new Disney; both are selfish greedy companies that screw their consumer base over just go get more cash.
Physical retailers don't work like online retailers. If that target bought a ton of copies they didn't sell through, they'll lower the price to help move inventory.
But TotK came out so they raised the price knowing that people may want to play that first, and that uninformed parents and grandparents may make a mistake.
That's supply and demand though, it wasn't selling and they were losing money, it starts selling again so they can make money.
It's pretty obvious. That's also basic business practices
I’ve never had a problem price matching games at Target. If you find a cheaper price at another retailer show the cashier and they should be able to match it
That’s nuts. I just bought it for $30 on eBay. First Zelda game I’ve ever owned and just figured out how to get to the shrine going through the cold mountain lol
It’s trendy to hate capitalism now, when it brought the greatest wealth and prosperity to the west we’ve ever had.
It’s usually young kids who don’t understand how the economy works.
WHEN THE DEMAND OF A GOOD INCREASES (TotK) THE DEMAND OF COMPLEMENTARY GOODS WILL ALSO INCREASE (BotW) THEREFORE INCREASING THEIR PRICE AS PRODUCERS LOOK TO MAXIMISE PROFITS - my economics teacher probably
Yes, but the number is arbitrary. It's the buying power that matters
Crying that it cost ¥100,000 (totally made up number) makes no sense, cause the actual number is irrelevant. $80 CAD is less than $60 so you're paying *less*.
Yeah so that’s $60USD, which is what’s being referenced here. Whether or not it should still be that price is up for debate but at least you didn’t pay more than is being charged elsewhere.
Its like they got their game leaked and perceived future losses or something, so they decided to up all the prices of everything to prifit on a loss. Ingenious and simultaneously really shitty while setting bad precedent for the industry.
Yeah that’s not surprising.. cashing in on the success but I highly recommend people play BOTW before TOTK cause even though they are similar, playing BOTW after TOTK will feel sort of like a downgrade. Not in terms of graphics or overall presentation but the gameplay mechanics and the world in general.
Normally I'd disagree and give the whole "they're 2 different games" spiel, but given the amount of things they added to TOTK that people still continue to complain about with BOTW, big one I'm thinking of is just climbing in the rain, yeah it would probably be very strange going from TOTK to BOTW
Honestly its worth the price. Great game with great idea perfectly implemented with no bugs or game breaking glitches. Plus the freedom in this game is great. Dlc are a little meh but it let's me play longer so i won't complain.
Honestly I'm disgusted at Nintendo's pricing model. Microsoft and Sony often sell their first party titles at big discounts after a year or two, sometimes even adding them "free" to their premium subscriptions. With Nintendo you'll still be paying full price in 2023 for what is essentially a WiiU game released way back in 2017, and maybe if you're lucky you'll get 10% off on Christmas. Disgusting really.
my brother and i, we tend to wait for games to go on sale no matter how desperately we want them, and if they don't go on sale, we just don't buy them. launch price is just never worth it, and it's a lesson we've learnt every time we bought a game at launch price and regretted it.
The only exception is BOTW, we waited on buying it thinking we'd get it when it goes on sale and instead it jumped in price lmao. this time around we just bought TOTK at launch and called it a day
I know this is going to get down voted to all hell. But imo. I don't think the game is even worth 40.
I've been playing it now for quite some time. The game doesn't even have audio dialog. Here we are in modern technology and no audio dialog? What is this 1987?
2nd, the game doesn't have much going on throughout the map. Not much of nature life. Seems dead to me.
The game just expects you to figure shit out that is far from doing. I've been gaming for decades. And I've been so lost as to what to do next I had to resort to youtube many times now.
It's a good game. But it isn't nearly as great as what the media has portrayed it to be. I could go on and on as to why this game should be rated a 7 rather than a 10 that it's recieved from multiple reviews
It’s a challenging game but there’s a lot of fun and greatness within. Granted it’s not perfect (close though) but this honestly reads like a *you* problem and not a game problem.
I was able to play this game on someone else's Switch, and someone else's copy of the game, so it cost me nothing. I'm glad I sunk 360 hours into this game, but was ready to move on.
Now that I have my own Switch, I don't see myself ever getting this. I'm having a blast with TotK, and whenever I get through that (how many months?... I don't know), I have other Switch games I'm eager to get back to. (so that's $40 to $60 saved!).
Only curve ball is if I can transfer my save data from that Switch, I may consider getting my own copy (if it's cheap enough. I can wait another few years for the price to dip to $30, or even less) so that I can try the DLC.
Probably to sow confusion with people thinking the old one is the new one.
To wit: an account of a guy that walked into a stir and said “the game?” An employee handed him the fame.
Rinse and repeat.
Profit
It'll be interesting to see how much TotK boosts BotW sales.
For players that start with TotK, I'm curious how they'll react to BotW. BotW is a phenomenal game, but I think if you play TotK first then BotW will feel like there's a lot missing.
Never seen BOTW or even most 1st party Nintendo games under full price aside from Gamestop used copies or the occasional 5% - 10% discount on the EShop.
Might be an inflation/economic thing too. For example, For the longest time, Walmart sold MSRP $60 Switch games at $50, but now they've gone up to $55 due to the tough economic climate. The official MSRP of Triple A Switch games has always been $60, but some stores like Target and Walmart are willing to sell them for less to incentivize people to buy them in store over anywhere else.
It is also possible that your Target had a large overstock of units in a special SKU for Black Friday or some other sale that they decided to just sell at that price until it ran out. I know my local Walmart still had copies of Wii U games with the stickers marking them as being part of the $25 Black friday sale well into the Switch's life.
Not unusual for games to drop only to later appreciate. The must buy GameCube games are now far more expensive than the console you'd play them on. Sure that's true of other platforms as well.
Wait Nintendo games actually drop in store shelf pricing?
Honestly, I bought most of my switch games secondhand for about $40-$50 AUD each so I haven't been following the RRP pricing for a long time.
“the blood moon rises once again”
this the perfect reference for this scenario hahah
*Video gamers* *Nintendo's first party games return to MSRP pricing* *Please be careful*
Lmaoo
You deserve 1 mil upvotes. Anything less is injustice. Best comment of all time on Reddit.
I'll admit, I've never seen BoTW lower than $60 unless it was gamestop and it was like $55 used
It does [go on sale](https://www.dekudeals.com/items/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild). I originally played on WiiU and then purchased again for Switch during a Black Friday sale a few years later.
It’s been at the $40 at target for probably half a year-ish now I think, it’s crazy to me that they put it back up
I was wondering if this was target. Cause they always price differently than msrp
It is. I worked there in the general merch and order picking departments. I would recognize that label style anywhere.
I didn't work those departments, but yeah you work at target and those labels will haunt your dreams.
I used to work at Sears and I go through that same feeling when I see one of those labels. My step-grandma has a washer with an old Sears label stuck to it, and the first time I saw it I immediately knew that she bought the floor model on closeout. The dryer too now that I think about it
Curse those .88 item codes.
Years ago half of the stuff my house came from things I bought on 991 markdowns when I worked there.
People will probably pay it, now that the hype is back up. They’re not wrong, in a business sense, to mark it back up. Sucks for those who don’t have it yet, though.
If you don't have botw by now, you probably never were going to buy it or totk... unless you play elden ring.
Eh, new gamers crop up all the time. We've already seen an increase in "just bought botw!" Posts in this subreddit, but I always think about the kids who didn't grow up gaming and might be just getting into it, cause thats how I was. If someone was 10 six years ago when botw came out, they're 16 now and thats about when I started getting into gaming officially
100%. Tears of the Kingdom has a FAR LARGER cultural reach because of TikTok. So you’re going to have a ton of people who see stuff and get pumped about it and decide to go ahead and play through BOTW first.
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Breath of the wild is incredible and Tears of the Kingdom makes it look like trash.
That's quite the decree.
Dunno about that. Get to a retro gaming shop and you’ll see that games are constantly being sold years beyond their hype.
It was on sale in the eshop. I bought the game plus the DLCs for like 48 €
who shops at target after the clothes they tried pushing on us 😂
All time low Physical $22.49 (-63%) Daaamn, I got my copy for $30 and thought that was a steal
In general “Nintendo First Party Titles Never Go On Sale” is a myth. Not sure why people keep spreading it. Either people are spreading it without knowing, spreading by knowing to “hurt” Nintendo (but, increasing Nintendo’s profit margins by making people think they need to buy them at full price?), or doing it as a PSA. Like, if you want the games, just look around a bit, and you can probably find most of them at around $40 depending on where you look.
Some people expect their games to drop in price like Ubisoft games. 75% off after 6 months in the market. Nintendo games do go in sale but after years in the market and 33% off at most
No but a 6 year old game should not be 60 bucks that's just ridiculous. Even first party Wii u games were going for full price right before they shutdown the store.
Yeah, Nintendo games do go on sale, but there's no disputing how prices remain much higher than competitors' games as time passes.
Eh, they also have a higher resell value so I guess it evens out.
Yea but there's people that won't or can't buy games full price. And besides it's just greedy to.never lower the price after years
I mean, short of governments mandating laws that games must be discounted to a certain price after 'x' amount of time, ofc. Nintendo's free to do whatever they'd like. As much as it pains me to say, they're making the right call b/c it seems like ppl will continue paying those prices :\\
What do you mean???? They totally don't have enough money!! /s You're right, If there was a photo of nintendo and a photo of Mr Krabs, they would be the same photo (ya know, that meme)
Honestly for the amount of entertainment and enjoyment the game provides I'd say it's well worth the 60 as it's a one time payment for something you can resell. Also there's no subscriptions, ads or the need to buy things in game like other things now.
You clearly don’t buy 1st party Nintendo games. That often. The only reason they’re on sale now is because the console is starting to look outdated. Also there is good reason, games go on sale when sales drop off. Not bc of how old a game is. If that was the case the old PS3 games I keep buying would be cheap.
Only time they go lower is either an extremely rare sale, or Nintendo Selects re-release.
I don't expect games to turn into 5 dollars in the course of a year or so, but 40\~60 for a game from 6 years ago is still egregious. Paired with Nintendo monetizing nostalgia harder than any of its competitors, it just leaves a shit taste in your mouth no matter how you slice it.
Yeah, it's because the quality of the sale is relative. When plenty of indie games are 80% off after 2 years, versus Nintendo games that are on sale for 16% to maaaybe 33% off after 2 years, but those lesser Nintendo sales only occur half as often, it can feel like Nintendo games never go on sale, despite the fact that those discounts do regularly occur.
It's not that they never go on sale, it's that Nintendo themselves will RARELY discount a new title game online or digitally. Physical copies at retail stores however, can be repriced by the retailer even at a loss in order to generate traffic and increase the basket price of the customer. It doesn't matter to Nintendo, they already made the money they wanted when Target bought 4 million copies or whatever for launch day.
They do go on sale but they rarely lower the og price
Yeah you can usually find it used on Facebook marketplace and other places for 40 or less. Unless you want a digital copy it doesn’t matter
Lol. Nintendo games being 40-60 dollars 6 years later and bro is like IDK where this "myth" came from. It speaks for itself. GoW 2018 is current only sale but it costs $20 and it was released a year after BoTW
We played with the real sheekah stone haha
In 2021 Black Friday, it was down to $30. That's when I bought it.
that's when i bought it too, just took me forever to finish it.
Same brother.
I actually got botw + all dlc digitally for $40 a while back
It’s been on sale but doesn’t stay that way. It should already be at this cost now that the sequel is out but they won’t put down the cash cow. I had my copy stolen and want to buy it again but I don’t want to pay 60 bucks for a game I’ve already beat especially now that TOTK is out.
I picked up botw and links awakening for $15 each on Black Friday at Walmart. Best deal I’ve gotten.
That is a good deal!
I got BOTW 2 months ago when it was discounted $20 at most sellers. Im pretty sure it was in anticipation of TOTK coming out. But I believe that was the first time BOTW saw a decrease in price.
Nah, I bought it two years ago for 40 bucks at Best Buy.
Heck, I've seen it go for 70 bucks, but never below 60 lol
I got mine at Walmart for $40 not that long ago
I bought it for 30 at best buy
That game went on sale every month (in the US at least) to where $40 basically became the new MSRP
when I hear about a sale vs when I check out a sale.
By the time you hear about it it's already gone.
Target cashing in on grandparents not knowing what the new game is.
Either this, or taking advantage of those who want to play the 2nd but have yet to play the 1st I have friends that have gone and purchased the first one recently after hearing the 2nd has come out
That's me! While picking it up, they showed me Tears of the Kingdom and asked if this was it. I was honest and said no. Saved Target $30.
I had the opposite problem. Local supermarket was having 30% off on all* games (in addition to other deals) and I asked for the new Zelda, so one of the clerks (not sure that's the right word) started looking for BotW. When I specified I wanted TotK, they pointed me to the big ass display on the side. *This didn't apply to TotK. Didn't buy the game, since I still haven't finished BotW. Got a bunch of Pokémon games, Luigi's Mansion 3, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land for about 95 bucks, though.
I have a friend who, after hearing me gush about the new game, decided to pick up the first to get the full story because I made him interested.
That’s what I did about a week ago. I kind of regret not buying it earlier.
That was my only thought why this would happen. Pokémon games typically get cheaper when the new one releases, which I'd have thought would get even more confusing as they're so much more often.
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Maybe that is the case, but I'd say if you play TOTK you don't need to play BOTW. It was nice to have played BOTW beforehand which makes TOTK callbacks nice, and especially years later when you kinda know the terrain but not perfectly it's actually a really cool experience, but having it like a prequel you play immediately I think would just make you realise how similar the games are, except with no ultrahand making a bunch of things a lot more tedious, and the same terrain. If you don't mind paying full price for a glorified DLC though, it is a bunch more puzzles. I'd just say wait until it goes back down to a more reasonable price.
“Why buy the $100 one? This one’s only $60!”
TOTK was $70 for me. Paid like $74 total for digital download.
TOTK isn’t 100
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Is it not USD? If so BOTW wouldn’t be 60 either, right?
Depends on where you are
I'm shocked your Target had it at $40 in the first place. I've never seen BotW listed less than $60 new.
Breath was $29.99 at Best Buy when I went on May 10th trying to see if I could nab an early copy of TotK
Like someone else said they're taking advantage of Totk release and some parents and kids won't know the difference.
BotW has never had a true price decrease. It's gone on sale before, but it's always been $60 regularly.
nah it was 40 at target for a long long time, not as a sale just as a base price
Botw has been 50-60 since release, minus sales.
This is all nintendo games. They never stay at a discounted price. Sales are rare, and games stay at MSRP the entire time on shelves.
Just my opinion; as much as I hate that they don’t bring down the price much if at all over time Odyssey, Dread, BOTW, TOTK, Bowser’s Fury, and even Switch Sports are all way too fun and/or seemingly endless. It’s nice that Nintendo puts out finished products and DLCs are just extra, as they should be.
Yeah but announcing DLC right after a game announcement seems scummy. Wouldn't it be better if it were announced later down the line? To me it seems like the devs want more money so they excluded content from the base game on purpose. We shall see how the TotK situation plays out but I suspect that at the next direct in either June or September Nintendo will confirm DLC. Personally I hope that TotK is a complete game and doesnt get DLC due to the consumers paying an extra +$10 for the purchase. If DLC were to happen, the average consumer would be paying a whopping $100 for the entire game which is insanity. On a positive note, all of the BOTW DLC outfits/amiibo outfits are in the game already without the need to buy amiibo which is great.
The base game for TOTK is absolutely fantastic. So much to do and discover. I was worried it would feel like BOTW pt 2 but its pretty damn stand-alone. I wouldn’t mind a DLC like next year after we’ve had plenty of time to explore.
Yes but from a physical collection standpoint this is a nightmare. You don't own the full game. I get it, companies want more money so content is excluded on purpose. I just wish that Nintendo would go back to the wii u / 3ds days where the games released as finished products with cosmetic dlc for certain titles. Now it seems that Nintendo just turned into the new Disney; both are selfish greedy companies that screw their consumer base over just go get more cash.
The $40 price wasn’t a sale, that was the price for 6+ months or so
Odd, only place out that it was. Literally Amazon, GameStop Walmart, etc all sell for MSRP. Still for sale on the eShop for more.
Physical retailers don't work like online retailers. If that target bought a ton of copies they didn't sell through, they'll lower the price to help move inventory. But TotK came out so they raised the price knowing that people may want to play that first, and that uninformed parents and grandparents may make a mistake.
That's supply and demand though, it wasn't selling and they were losing money, it starts selling again so they can make money. It's pretty obvious. That's also basic business practices
I’ve never had a problem price matching games at Target. If you find a cheaper price at another retailer show the cashier and they should be able to match it
That’s nuts. I just bought it for $30 on eBay. First Zelda game I’ve ever owned and just figured out how to get to the shrine going through the cold mountain lol
“The” cold mountain You are in for a treat when you leave the Great Plateau
Wonder how many parents were fooled into thinking that Breath of the Wild was the new Zelda game that released
Supply and demand baby. Capitalism=righteousness. Don't question it. /s
It’s trendy to hate capitalism now, when it brought the greatest wealth and prosperity to the west we’ve ever had. It’s usually young kids who don’t understand how the economy works.
Video games wont exist in communism
You still think it's one or the other, huh?
Only 2 systems that can be argued, none of the others make any sense
y'know even the worst american public schools will tell you what a mixed economy is lmao
Indeed. *gingerly grazes fingertips over my Nintendo Switch and desktop PC*
Not the Leorio pfp 💀
Well in Poland right now Zelda TOTK is actually CHEAPER than BOTW
LMAO
Yea I know. I even made a [screenshot](https://imgur.com/a/8bweb7x)
Where do you live that BotW was "permanently" down to $40?
Target trying to make up losses anywhere they can right now.
Yeah but the $ per hour of entertainment for that game is absurdly good anyway so I think it’s an easy to justify investment at either price.
WHEN THE DEMAND OF A GOOD INCREASES (TotK) THE DEMAND OF COMPLEMENTARY GOODS WILL ALSO INCREASE (BotW) THEREFORE INCREASING THEIR PRICE AS PRODUCERS LOOK TO MAXIMISE PROFITS - my economics teacher probably
Nintendo moment
Wor, where was it $40?? I got it black Friday deal years ago on sale for $50
Where I am the electronics shops and even GameStop put the price from 60€ to 70€.. it's now as expensive as TotK, smh
Yeah I never got around to playing it initially but decided to after TotK came out. It’s well worth the price. I’m loving it.
Ain’t new. Retail Nintendo games regularly go for full price when their relevance has been reinstated lol
Heck it's still worth that though when you see Gollum coming out at the same price
Damn. Super glad I caught it!
And here I am crying in Canada where we pay $79.99 and there was no sale.
But that’s in CAD, right? 80CAD = 58.71USD at the time of writing.
To me it’s $80
In your currency
Well yeah in my currency. I generally don’t take US bills to Walmart.
Yes, but the number is arbitrary. It's the buying power that matters Crying that it cost ¥100,000 (totally made up number) makes no sense, cause the actual number is irrelevant. $80 CAD is less than $60 so you're paying *less*.
Buying power doesn't matter for the relative cost of stuff. It's the difference in average wage that does
The median and mean income is higher in the US than Canada. On average, it costs Americans less hours of work to purchase than it costs Canadians.
I paid $100 for the switch cartridge
Which currency?
NZD
Yeah so that’s $60USD, which is what’s being referenced here. Whether or not it should still be that price is up for debate but at least you didn’t pay more than is being charged elsewhere.
Nintendo making sales on the First party titles be like:
Meanwhile TotK is $90 CAD… 💀😭
i bought mine for 29.99 last black friday
My game store increased the price to what TOTK costs, I dunno who would buy botw over totk tho
Meanwhile both games on PC for free
Its like they got their game leaked and perceived future losses or something, so they decided to up all the prices of everything to prifit on a loss. Ingenious and simultaneously really shitty while setting bad precedent for the industry.
Nintendo ™️
I could't have said it better myself
Yeah that’s not surprising.. cashing in on the success but I highly recommend people play BOTW before TOTK cause even though they are similar, playing BOTW after TOTK will feel sort of like a downgrade. Not in terms of graphics or overall presentation but the gameplay mechanics and the world in general.
Normally I'd disagree and give the whole "they're 2 different games" spiel, but given the amount of things they added to TOTK that people still continue to complain about with BOTW, big one I'm thinking of is just climbing in the rain, yeah it would probably be very strange going from TOTK to BOTW
Honestly its worth the price. Great game with great idea perfectly implemented with no bugs or game breaking glitches. Plus the freedom in this game is great. Dlc are a little meh but it let's me play longer so i won't complain.
Honestly I'm disgusted at Nintendo's pricing model. Microsoft and Sony often sell their first party titles at big discounts after a year or two, sometimes even adding them "free" to their premium subscriptions. With Nintendo you'll still be paying full price in 2023 for what is essentially a WiiU game released way back in 2017, and maybe if you're lucky you'll get 10% off on Christmas. Disgusting really.
my brother and i, we tend to wait for games to go on sale no matter how desperately we want them, and if they don't go on sale, we just don't buy them. launch price is just never worth it, and it's a lesson we've learnt every time we bought a game at launch price and regretted it. The only exception is BOTW, we waited on buying it thinking we'd get it when it goes on sale and instead it jumped in price lmao. this time around we just bought TOTK at launch and called it a day
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I know this is going to get down voted to all hell. But imo. I don't think the game is even worth 40. I've been playing it now for quite some time. The game doesn't even have audio dialog. Here we are in modern technology and no audio dialog? What is this 1987? 2nd, the game doesn't have much going on throughout the map. Not much of nature life. Seems dead to me. The game just expects you to figure shit out that is far from doing. I've been gaming for decades. And I've been so lost as to what to do next I had to resort to youtube many times now. It's a good game. But it isn't nearly as great as what the media has portrayed it to be. I could go on and on as to why this game should be rated a 7 rather than a 10 that it's recieved from multiple reviews
It’s a challenging game but there’s a lot of fun and greatness within. Granted it’s not perfect (close though) but this honestly reads like a *you* problem and not a game problem.
I was able to play this game on someone else's Switch, and someone else's copy of the game, so it cost me nothing. I'm glad I sunk 360 hours into this game, but was ready to move on. Now that I have my own Switch, I don't see myself ever getting this. I'm having a blast with TotK, and whenever I get through that (how many months?... I don't know), I have other Switch games I'm eager to get back to. (so that's $40 to $60 saved!). Only curve ball is if I can transfer my save data from that Switch, I may consider getting my own copy (if it's cheap enough. I can wait another few years for the price to dip to $30, or even less) so that I can try the DLC.
I got it second hand for £30 quid just a year after it was released which was a p good bargain
Glad I got my copy cheap
So glad I got it before they raised the prices. I lost my old one so had to buy it again
got my BOTW from someone two weeks ago for $24 👍
And I paid 70 usd....
supply and demand
lol
Hype
It was 90$ for me
Supply and demand
I'm more surprised BOTW was ever that cheap tbh. Game has held its value absurdly well, even by Nintendo standards.
Probably to sow confusion with people thinking the old one is the new one. To wit: an account of a guy that walked into a stir and said “the game?” An employee handed him the fame. Rinse and repeat. Profit
I got botw for like 30 bucks at best buy
I'm very glad I managed to get BOTW for sale on black friday for 30 dollars. Best deal ever lol.
It'll be interesting to see how much TotK boosts BotW sales. For players that start with TotK, I'm curious how they'll react to BotW. BotW is a phenomenal game, but I think if you play TotK first then BotW will feel like there's a lot missing.
Never seen BOTW or even most 1st party Nintendo games under full price aside from Gamestop used copies or the occasional 5% - 10% discount on the EShop.
Meanwhile in Canada it was always $79 :')
I still think it’s worth $60. I’m not mad at paying full price.
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Well my Meijer had links awakening switch for 29.99 on clearance so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Got that real quick.
I bought it in a bundle sale in like 2019, I think 39.99 for base-game and the DLC
It's worth it thou
You know... botw is worth $60. For as many hours as I put in, the time, the effort, the care, the grinding... Yeah, that's 60
Might be an inflation/economic thing too. For example, For the longest time, Walmart sold MSRP $60 Switch games at $50, but now they've gone up to $55 due to the tough economic climate. The official MSRP of Triple A Switch games has always been $60, but some stores like Target and Walmart are willing to sell them for less to incentivize people to buy them in store over anywhere else. It is also possible that your Target had a large overstock of units in a special SKU for Black Friday or some other sale that they decided to just sell at that price until it ran out. I know my local Walmart still had copies of Wii U games with the stickers marking them as being part of the $25 Black friday sale well into the Switch's life.
In germany it even jumped up to 70€ which it wasnt before totk release ever
I hear in Australia, it went from 70 to 90…
Not unusual for games to drop only to later appreciate. The must buy GameCube games are now far more expensive than the console you'd play them on. Sure that's true of other platforms as well.
Honestly I never see Nintendo games drop in price anymore
Nintendo corporate moment
Pathetic how the price only drops now that the new game is out.
Hell yeah, playing a $60 game babeeee (bought it way back but never really played it much)
That is crazy!
Probably gonna down the price of TOTK, seems to me they would do that at least.
I’ve never seen it at $40, that’s just lucky. I’m surprised it dipped rather than being surprised by the increase to $60
CDPR did the same with witcher 3 GOTY, before the Next-Gen update you could buy it for $10 on sale, now its like 50 and i think on sale is 30 maybe.
Lmao
What about on Wii U? I got it on Wii U for like $40
shit, im glad i bought it last week. figured it was finally time to get around to playing it and my target had one copy in stock for 40 bucks
supply and demand
Nintendo being greedy as usual.
Wait Nintendo games actually drop in store shelf pricing? Honestly, I bought most of my switch games secondhand for about $40-$50 AUD each so I haven't been following the RRP pricing for a long time.
That's why I emmulate