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Topic: £60.00 uk money for a game?

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koopakidforever

Dezzy wrote:

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.

Excellent find mate, thanks.

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Bass_X0

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

So you remember when N64 launch games were £60 - £70?

Edgey, Gumshoe, Godot, Sissel, Larry, then Mia, Franziska, Maggie, Kay and Lynne.

I'm throwing my money at the screen but nothing happens!

jump

Bass_X0 wrote:

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

So you remember when N64 launch games were £60 - £70?

I remrember using £60 of my birthday money to buy Goldeneye from Toys R Us as a wee nipper.

edit I remember Killer Instinct Gold being £70, I was always annoyed I couldn't afford it.

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Nicolai wrote:

Alright, I gotta stop getting into arguments with jump. Someone remind me next time.

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penfold007

Breath of the Wild is now £49.99 on Amazon too.

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Andrzej777

I just checked my online store of choice and they have zelda for about 60-65 EUR, which is a huge step up from what they charged for a wii u game - zelda wii u is currently set for about 40-45 EUR. I am not sure this is final but after having calculated all costs attached to it I am uncertain if I am willing to pay that much, it seems kinda steep for me. Theres three games until summer that I would buy, botw, mk8 and splatoon 2. the latter two I own the wii u versions of and dont really see the necessity of buying them right away. So I think I will wait until christmas and see how the switch will sell and hope for a nice bundle or price drop. Really this sort of pricing is getting annoying and unreasonable. I hope it will not sell too well, which might force nintendo to rethink their strategy. Its not that I couldnt afford it, its just that I dont see the value behind it, looks overpriced to me IMHO. I understand that backwards compatibility was not possible, but man, couldnt they have made at least the controllers bc?

Andrzej777

Dezzy

Amazon have dropped Zelda to 49.99 yet Splatoon 2 is still 59.99.

Surely Zelda is worth more?

If Nintendo are really gonna try and engage in price fixing with the Switch, it's gonna be a good generation for the used games stores.

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

jump

Dezzy wrote:

Amazon have dropped Zelda to 49.99 yet Splatoon 2 is still 59.99.

Surely Zelda is worth more?

If Nintendo are really gonna try and engage in price fixing with the Switch, it's gonna be a good generation for the used games stores.

Amazon do price match on pre-orders so if another manjor retailer like Argos lower their price Amazon will match it. However smaller/indie retailers may still offer it cheaper but Amazon wont match it.

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Nicolai wrote:

Alright, I gotta stop getting into arguments with jump. Someone remind me next time.

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ocelot20

I have a switch pre ordered but no games pre ordered. I refuse to pay more than £45 for a new title.

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mav-i-am

Please cancel you Amazon orders, so I can pre order one!

Switch games list,

Legend of Zelda BotW, Human resource machine, NBA Playgrounds, Street Fighter 2, Super Bomberman R, Snipperclips, Overcooked, World of Goo.

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JamesR

Am I alone in having paid £64.99 for Streetfighter II on the SNES?

JamesR

zitpig

I paid £70 BITD for Virtua Racing on MegaDrive... Worth every penny

zitpig

koopakidforever

Bass_X0 wrote:

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

So you remember when N64 launch games were £60 - £70?

Yes i rented my girlfriend out for blast corps.

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Andrzej777

You cannot campare cardridge based n64 games with the currrent situation. There is competition and nintendo seems to always know best and thats the problem like with the wii u.

Andrzej777

koopakidforever

Andrzej777 wrote:

You cannot campare cardridge based n64 games with the currrent situation. There is competition and nintendo seems to always know best and thats the problem like with the wii u.

Agreed

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zitpig

Andrzej777 wrote:

You cannot campare cardridge based n64 games with the currrent situation. There is competition and nintendo seems to always know best and thats the problem like with the wii u.

Actually, you can compare cartridges and cost now and then; Switch carts and games are far better value. They are likely/guaranteed to be much larger, with better graphics, sound and the games themselves are likely to be bigger too. There's no way you'd have got Zelda: BOTW on a N64 cart (3+GB space required for WiiU version) and if you did it would have cost squillions of quids. The largest N64 games were 64MB (Conker's Bad Fur Day and Resident Evil 2 IIRC) and they were +-£50. Yet today, here we are and we get it for £50. Not bad. Not bad at all.

As for competition there was just as much competition back in the day too, BTW.

zitpig

jump

zitpig wrote:

Andrzej777 wrote:

You cannot campare cardridge based n64 games with the currrent situation. There is competition and nintendo seems to always know best and thats the problem like with the wii u.

Actually, you can compare cartridges and cost now and then; Switch carts and games are far better value. They are likely/guaranteed to be much larger, with better graphics, sound and the games themselves are likely to be bigger too. There's no way you'd have got Zelda: BOTW on a N64 cart (3+GB space required for WiiU version) and if you did it would have cost squillions of quids. The largest N64 games were 64MB (Conker's Bad Fur Day and Resident Evil 2 IIRC) and they were +-£50. Yet today, here we are and we get it for £50. Not bad. Not bad at all.

As for competition there was just as much competition back in the day too, BTW.

BOTW is 13gb, the 3gb is for the install.

Nicolai wrote:

Alright, I gotta stop getting into arguments with jump. Someone remind me next time.

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zitpig

Well, there you go - even MORE bang for your buck!

zitpig

Honelith

Just preordered Zelda BotW for £37.99 from amazon.co.uk today, I'm a Prime member so £2 off the preorder, but for today only use the code BIGTHANKS and you get £10 off a £50 order, just slap a jar of coffee onto your order and you're good to do, a free jar of coffee and a couple pounds off your Zelda preorder, win.

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koopakidforever

zitpig wrote:

Andrzej777 wrote:

You cannot campare cardridge based n64 games with the currrent situation. There is competition and nintendo seems to always know best and thats the problem like with the wii u.

Actually, you can compare cartridges and cost now and then; Switch carts and games are far better value. They are likely/guaranteed to be much larger, with better graphics, sound and the games themselves are likely to be bigger too. There's no way you'd have got Zelda: BOTW on a N64 cart (3+GB space required for WiiU version) and if you did it would have cost squillions of quids. The largest N64 games were 64MB (Conker's Bad Fur Day and Resident Evil 2 IIRC) and they were +-£50. Yet today, here we are and we get it for £50. Not bad. Not bad at all.

As for competition there was just as much competition back in the day too, BTW.

You talk crap, games are larger because of the coding that needs to be done with shaders and graphics chips etc, as well as the crap they put in games to be ready for internet connections and piracy. You cannot argue the point that "games are better value because they are larger and better graphics", thats just stupid because it does not make a BETTER game! Explain to me why a game on my ps4 is 40gb in size, also needs a 30gb patch at install and a game that looks not much different on the ps3 needs 14gb and 1gb at install? Laughs, does that mean "no mans sky" is better than zelda on the N64? Ha, you sound like your a developer trying to justify the stupidly high prices and If your telling me a game that needs 70gb on a ps4 for a racing game is "better value", because its more expensive and has more size, your as deluded as the developers dude.

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