Seriously you must be joking right? The games retailers in the uk have the games already at £60.00 and if thats the case i am cancelling preorder of the console.
I have been gaming since 1980 and have bought every game and console of nintendos since they came out, but there is no way that pricing can be justified, even if its the retailers doing it and not nintendo.
I have over 20 consoles in my house since the 80s and this ridiculous pricing has to stop. What next, £200.00 for a game? This may appeal to rich little kids who has mummy and daddy to throw money at them, not to hard working class people it doesnt.
If this is true then im going back to ps4 and xbox, even though i love nintendo consoles much more.
@koopakidforever Are those final prices? Even if that's true, there's always inflation to take into account, not sure if the drop in value of the GBP has anything to do with it. Amazon doesn't have the games up yet, Game has them priced at £60 though, strangely enough, Arms is £50, whereas it is $60 in the US.
@Octane Im not 100 percent sure if thats final, but if it is man jesus thats absolutely stupid. Granted there are people who can throw money at it, but the working class man is being priced out of the market in nearly everything thats launched in the UK, i could go on about eliteism in the uk, but i cant be bothered anymore. If this is the correct pricing, there is no justification for this and a sad day for working class gamers. http://deals.simplygames.com/p/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N1083WZ/ref=sr_tnr_p_2_6762010...
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Nintendo do try and control their pricing more than other platforms but they're not omnipotent deities with control over economics.
If that £50 for the boxing game is a serious intended price (as opposed to an attempt to just make the most of out the fanatics who'll preorder anything from Nintendo), they'll be forced to adjust their prices when almost no-one in the UK buys it. If they don't do it, the retailers will do it for them in order to get rid of the stock.
Nintendo do seem to have some weird attitude towards pricing though that doesn't really fit in with western attitudes (or even Sony's attitude).
They don't seem to like the fact that if they'd sold Mario Run at $5 instead of $10, they'd likely have made more revenue in total (i.e more than 2 times as many people would've bought it).
What are they incentivizing by having the Switch Zelda be £60 but the Wii U version be £40? Surely they know?
Wow - thats a bummer if it turns out to be true.
Truth be told I am more and more inclined to just wait and see and buy the switch for xmas 2017 at the earliest. From what I have seen acccessories are ridiculously overpriced and this whole switch thing might become really expensive. Additional joy cons, the pro controller and what have you are very pricy. And if you take paid online gaming into account the sums keep just piling up. Maybe I am gonna wait some more time and see if they release another nintendo selects line and keep going from there. There is so much games in my backlog at this point that I would be good for a couple of years even without the switch. Nintendo is apparently getting greedier with everything they do and less user friendly IMHO.
The Game Collection is advertising all games at £50; which is still £15-20 more than I'd pay for most of the listed titles. And £49.99 more than I'd pay for 1 2 Switch! PuyoPuyo Tetris would be OK at £20.
The Game Collection is advertising all games at £50; which is still £15-20 more than I'd pay for most of the listed titles. And £49.99 more than I'd pay for 1 2 Switch! PuyoPuyo Tetris would be OK at £20.
yeah, we will have to wait and see. One thing that bothered me before I switched from xbox to nintendo was the pricing policy. Nintendo used to charge not as much as its competition, but also the games stayed expensive for a very long time or didnt drop the price at all, nintendo selects notwithstanding. But now they seem to become pure luxury items and if the prices dont drop, well... it might be time to pick up games VERY CAREFULLY and never pre-order them. but we will see.
maybe not too much cause I am not planning to travel with the switch, rather just play at home. But if something breaks - man, this is getting expensive. Kids break things easily - wonder how parents will react.
£60 for a game seems expensive. That's just one of the reasons why I'll wait until after the launch and for the hype to die down before I'll even consider getting the console.
@koopakidforever The high prices could be a result of higher manufacturing costs (cartridges instead of discs), but more likely because of greedy retailers taking advantage of Switch anticipation. I'm sure the prices will drop soon though. In the UK it is still easy to obtain a pre-order for Switch, suggesting the system might not be flying off shelves come launch date.
Argos have Zelda at £49.99. Mario Kart at £44.99. 1-2-Switch at £34.99
Clearly the prices aren't entirely fixed by Nintendo. Argos wouldn't sell a game for £10 less.
These prices are likely just to make the most of preorders.
I'm guessing a month after launch, they'll be the same price as PS4 games pretty much everywhere.
I've seen Zelda listed as £44.99 somewhere but I can't find it now, it may have been Gameseek who also listed the Switch as £195 before the announcement, lucky sods who got their orders in there!
50£ really doesn't seem like that much with the current exchange rates imo (~56€ apparently?)
I mean..I'm the type who gets games near release so I'm used to paying (near) full price for my games. But as far as I'm aware the "premium price" for Wii U releases wasn't above those 50£/56€ they want for BotW on Switch now. So it's not like you're paying any more for a copy at release. PS4 games tend to be up to 10€ more expensive than that. At least here in Germany.
Sorry my friend, who said anything about 50 quid? I said 60 quid. 44-50 is about usual, but i said 60 quid!
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