Topic: Are these prices making you cancel your purchases?

@WaveBoy I hear ya about the trade in my only thing is unless you do it yourself like selling it to a friend, or selling it used on Ebay or Offer Up or one of the other marketplace sites you just get ripped off. Going into a used game store like Gamestop just irritates me cause they give you next to nothing for it, it doesnt matter the condition or if its C.I.B. they give you the same amount, its almost insulting. I am just better off holding onto it then let those scummy ***** get it. Of course I could also donate it to somewhere like Goodwill I guess but then there's that hassle of loading it up and taking it down there.

@FishyS Yeah I actually went and had a look at Walmart, Target and Best Buy and was shocked to see Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still at $60, eight years later (at Target and Best Buy at least) whereas you'd struggle to find it any more than £37.99 over here. Same could be said for a game as new as Super Mario Bros. Wonder or Echoes of Wisdom!

The regional discrepancy is very interesting and an important element of a conversation like this I think.

@ShieldHero Your story actually reminded me of the only time I've ever been to a Walmart about 7 years ago and finding a Switch demo kiosk which don't really exist in the UK anymore or are very rare. And the game I played...Kirby Star Allies! ...Can't remember the price though ahaha.

I have bought 0 switch 2 games so far, but quite a few dirty cheap second hand switch 1 games with free upgrades.

I've become very selective with handing over money to Nintendo as of lately.
Quitting my family NSO too.

@Nintoz I think the US market is the primary market for Nintendo consoles, Nintendo make huge money there as there is much higher demand in that market so price drops are less necessary. The UK market is a big market for Nintendo but not as big with regards the percentage of the population that buy Nintendo consoles as the US. So there are overstock situations much more frequently and a greater need for discounting. I recently say on hotukdeals the Switch 2 console (solus) refurbished (customer returns as new) going for 299 pounds at Clearance Bargains. I've seen quite a lot of Switch 2 software already heavily discounted admittedly mainly game key cards. In other markets Nintendo are more aggressive on pricing where they haven't got much of a foothold. I seem to remember Switch had free online services in China. Nintendo are good at milking each market to the maximum level they can extract with perhaps the exception being Japan where they price much lower.

It has. I rarely buy new games day one anymore. Especially Nintendo games( I still don't have a Switch 2). These prices are getting more and more ridiculous by the day. I'm sticking with my backlog or buying games used at a lower price.

Yup. I had a pre order for the Switch 2 before it was even revealed. Then came the lackluster reveal along with the price and I had to cancel it. It sucks so incredibly hard to finally have adult money then prices increase to unreasonable degrees. Gaming is now completely unaffordable for me, just like it was when I was a kid. They can say it's because of tariffs all they want, but watch the price not go down when all this tariff crap is over.

@Tasuki
Ya gotta trade at local game stores, not GameStop.

You may think you don’t have any near you (I sure didn’t), but I did a Google search, decided to take a chance on a place near me, and now I have the coolest game store that I hit up once a month or so. Never had a clue, honestly, and I thought I had a pretty good sense of the stores in my area.

The owner is awesome, gives me respectable prices on my trades, and sells new Switch 2 games at 5 bucks off automatically.

But yea, if you want to make the best money selling your games, you have to do it on eBay or another auction site. Makes sense.

Am I imagining it, or did we not have similar when the og Switch launched? Not as high prices as they are now, but a price rise from Wii U prices. First 6-12 months is all about capitalising on the hype and the appetite of early adopters, then things settle down a bit and the prices lower a bit and seem a little more reasonable.

I could be wrong, but given that the Galaxy 1 & 2 collection is not time-limited like the 3D All-Stars was, we can expect it to be available in the UK for £50 or less at some point, just not Day 1.

I'm pretty confident today's economy won't sustain these high Switch 2 prices for very long. Switch 2 might sell 15 million units in its first year, but I don't it will maintain that performance over year 2.

In that case, Nintendo will be faced with either trying to maintain their 'premium' price structure and accept a smaller install base, which could hurt their long-term plans for keeping their IP in the hearts of new generations, or they could gradually lower prices by 10-20% to shift more units and keep more people engaged.

It will be very interesting to see the financials during 2026 - will Nintendo be making as much profit from software as they have done through recent years? Switch sales are likely to diminish significantly because they're generally given less marketing priority and the focus is on Switch 2, so Switch 2 software will have to do some decent numbers. The continuing growth of digital sales will help cover some of that, as will the higher pricing, but it won't surprise me to see the net figure is down.

If Switch 2 Day 1 model had been £300, I'd have one in my hands right now. But at £100 more, my experience of cracking shells and lacklustre battery life from the Day 1 Switch model means I don't want to spend an extra 33% to have a similar experience, so I've been waiting for version 1.1.

However, one of my kids is starting to talk about the idea of us going halves on a Switch 2, so I may enter the game earlier. But there's no way I'll be supporting the Switch 2 library the way I did so obscenely with Switch 1. I'll go back to my Wii U ways of waiting for 33-50% off via the used market, and generally grow a much more streamlined collection than my nearly 700 Switch physicals and god knows how many digitals.

Switch 1 changed my life, for the better. Switch 2 will not be life changing for me, so it just doesn't justify the same level of investment.

But it will be interesting to see what other software comes out that might shift my perspective on that. So far though, I have not been sufficiently inspired.

@gcunit
700 physical Switch games?

Wow. I thought I had a lot lol

@rallydefault Even local ones are as bad as Gamestop because they are all jumping on the retro game craze. Maybe I might be able to score a deal at say a flea market but again that's just too much work for me.

@Tasuki
Uhm… ok? Did you not read my post? lol There are great local stores. You may have to try a few.

There is a bigger one close to me that adverts on instagram and stuff, but they’re basically like GameStop. Sometimes you just need to look a little harder, but they are out there.

Unless I’ve found the only one in the country lol

@rallydefault Um just because you're lucky enough to have that in your area doesnt mean I am. All areas are different. I did have a few a few years ago but a few of them shut down during COVID and one of them was bought out by a guy that raised all the prices and is basically a flipper. I do have a new one that just opened up in my town with decent prices but dont know how they are with trade ins because as I said before I just dont want to deal with the hassel.

Not a game for me but heads up.
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@rallydefault First of I wasn't complaining I was just stating why I dont trade stuff in. Second my original comment was not made to you so I would appreciate it if you want to pick about someone's conversation and claim that they are complaining when they are not maybe just keep your comments to yourself next time instead of trying to create an argument.

Good day.

In all seriousness I think with what’s happening it the world economically it is the perfect time to rethink how we consume stuff and be more ethical about it. Not just for video games.

I used to collect them when I was younger, had dozens and dozens of unplayed games I ended up selling without even touching. I don’t think we fully appreciate the experience those games provide nowadays. New game comes out, we hurry to finish it to be ready for the next release and repeat. Like is it just me or do people replay games anymore ? I feel like we all have years of backlog 😅

I don’t know if it’s common in other countries but here in Canada they have games in libraries you can borrow. Also support your local game stores and buy used games from them. You pay less / they make a lot more profit compared to selling something new.

I do think I've become more selective with what I buy for sure. Part of that is due to increased prices for sure, but also due to getting older and becoming smarter with purchasing decisions over time. But when it comes to if I'm going to buy a game or not, it comes down to what value does it offer at the price, and will a better price be available in the future. Sony's PC ports are a good example. In most cases, I'm willing to wait a bit because they go on sale so often. But, I did buy Spider-man 2 the first day it was out on Steam, because I love the series and didn't want to wait on it. It offered more value to me personally then the other PC ports. Then there's something like the Galaxy 2 port coming out. To me, it probably offers great value because it's one of my favorite games of all time, and I'll probably put a lot of time into a more easily accessible version of the game. I also have no idea when and if it will go on sale. So, I'll probably buy it day one.

It has changed nothing on me. I'm already paying 1400 Mexican pesos (roughly $70) for games here in Mexico since I think 2021. We even had to pay 1700 or 1800 pesos (cannot remember the exact price, around $85-$90) for Paper Mario: The Origami King and New Pokémon Snap at launch, and then some months later they went back to the usual 1400 pesos.

For better or worse, over here in Mexico our only "dedicated gaming store" is GamePlanet (and, yes, the quotations are because they're now more merch and Funko than gaming), and often they have 1st-party games slightly below MRSP, just not at launch. Same deal with Amazon Mexico.
One of the rare occurrences happened in 2014 with Smash Bros. for Wii U, they had very limited units of the game, GC controller and adapter bundle for 1800 pesos instead of the 2000 it would have costed everything back then.

As others have said, it's a matter of playing your cards (or in this case, spending your money) strategically.

I'm ready to spend 1600 pesos for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - NS2 Edition (the overall cost on the Mexican eShop), but stores over here in Mexico cannot be arsed to open pre-orders beyond the NS1 version (pun intended).