Topic: Will Animal Crossing NH ever go on sale on eShop?

I finally decided to buy myself a switch which I should get mine delivered pretty soon.

I found out about dekudeals while doing some research about past sales. Now I know 1st party games don't go on sale as often.

As I can see from dekudeals, Animal Crossing NH physical version went on sale a couple of months ago but I am mostly interested in getting most games digitally anyways.

I am debating whether I should buy Animal Cross NH on eShop at full price or wait for the sale? I am afraid if I buy it at full price, Nintendo pulls a 360 and put it on sale a few days later lol.

@Vesperyn Since you've seen the dekudeals history for digital pricing, you've seen it's only gone on sale once in May, and it was a retail store selling digital. It's actually never gone on sale in eshop for Canada or US. They didn't even have a digital sale for last black friday(US). As an evergreen title, the most you'll save for new is $20 USD (regularly $60), pardon me for not knowing Canadian pricing. Statistically speaking, it looks like a serious longshot gamble as to whether we'll see another digital sale by September, black friday/holiday season, or this year.

So, it all depends if you're willing to wait 6-8 months for a digital sale to save up to $20 USD at max. For such a successful AAA nintendo title, if it was me, and it was a Nintendo title I know I really want, in this situation I'd probably just buy it now at regular retail price. I don't think you'll regret paying the regular retail price. Or buy physical on sale, since physical goes on sale frequently. But I understand wanting the convenience of never having to fiddle with a physical cart.

Edit: Nintendo titles can hold on hard to full retail price to the end. 3ds went out of production, and Luigi's Mansion (gamecube port) NEVER went on sale, ever, on eshop, or physical. Oof. Mario Kart 7 was still selling at regular retail price on eshop, rarely had sales.

@WoomyNNYes Thank you for the reply!

Hmmm, I think I will go for full price then. As you said, a successful AAA Nintendo title, so at least it is an amazing game even at full price! if it goes on sale within a month later, oh well, it is how it is lol.

@Vesperyn They have done a 3x gold coins once and 2x twice so if you have a Nintendo account that would be $9 or $6 credit back onto your eShop account respectively. As for actual sales it was on sale at Amazon for a digital code last Black Friday for $34.99, but that flash-sale only lasted a few hours.

Hope this helps. 😉

@TowaHerschel7 Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder, totally forgot about gold coins!

@Vesperyn
Get the physical version for your future investment.
Don't get fooled by the convenience of digital games.
Convenience is comforting, it made you forget to keep your games alive for next decades.

I sorta doubt it. Since it's sold so good, I can't see them doing a discount for it.

Very doubtful. Like others have mentioned, Nintendo have offered bonus gold coins, which works out to be about 10% off the retail price.

Nintendo rarely offer discounts on their own published titles, and when they do, it's usually only for a week (two tops), and the maximum that they usually take off the price is about 30%, but often less than that.

But they just might one of these days, but that all depends on whether you're willing to wait several months (if not a couple of years) for that to happen.

I also wouldn't recommend buying the DLC as it doesn't add much to the game (it makes items that are already in the game easier to access, but in terms of what it brings to the table, it's grossly overpriced for so little actual content).

You can at least get a resale value back or give to family or kids or upcoming

They do have their benefits but only if you have a large enough sd Card to store them on.

The Switch re-made portable gaming and multiple player on the same console possible again. They re-invented gaming on the go and make it all gamers to play together on one Console without being tied to the coffee table. They took the risk and it's paying off big time Covid19 just made people realize.