Yesterday's Nintendo Direct broadcasts were certainly full of surprises, with some reveals also coming in as little as 10 seconds of video. One announcement that's worth pointing out for those that missed it in Europe is that there's an extensive range of discounts coming over the next few weeks, covering retail and download-only games.
Below are details on the discounts highlighted as available now and on the way:
Wii U Retail Downloads
- ZombiU — €9.99 / £7.99 from 26th December to 2nd January
- Rayman Legends — €20.99 / £16.79 from 26th December to 2nd January
- Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag — 30% off from 26th December to 2nd January
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist — 50% off from 26th December to 2nd January
- Resident Evil Revelations — 50% off from 26th December to 9th January
Wii U Download-Only
- Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams — 20% off from 19th December to 26fh December
- Zen Pinball 2 — 50% off from 19th December to 2nd January
- Toki Tori 2+ — 40% off from 19th December to 2nd January
- TNT Racers: Nitro Machines Edition — 35% off from 19th December to 2nd January
- DuckTales Remastered — 40% from 26th December to 9th January
- Cloudberry Kingdom — 50% off from 26th December to 2nd January
3DS eShop
- Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale — 35% off from 12th December to 2nd January
- Crimson Shroud — 35% off from 12th December to 2nd January
- Harvest Moon 3D: The Tale of Two Towns — 30% off from 12th December to 9th January
- Resident Evil Revelations — 50% off from 26th December to 2nd January
- EDGE — 50% from 26th December to 23rd January
- Wakedas — 30% off from 19th December to 9th January
Some of those offers had been previously confirmed, while others are fresh reveals. Do any of these discounts tempt you?
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ZombieU for a 10er is a steal, whjo doesnt get it at that price has no hope left
Is Blacklist's standard price still at £60?
This is probably the time to finally pick up Resi Revelaitions
My poor, poor wallet.
@AJWolfTill I'm fairly certain that Blacklist was reduced to something like £37. Might be wrong though.
Totally getting ZombiU again, got it at launch and sold it on cause I felt is was not worth the full price tag and never went back to it after a few goes, but for €10! ya really cant go wrong. And if it sells well in this sale I wonder if it would make Ubisoft re-think about making a sequel (hopefully with better graphics).
Also, was thinking about getting RE:R for the Wii U in the sale, but I take it it's gonna be €25 in the sale, still kinda high when you can get it second hand for about €15. Anyone know if the Wii U version add's anything over the 3DS version? I loved Resy on the 3DS, but thats goin on sale too, argh, sophie's choice!
I will be picking up Cloudberry and Ducktails anyway.
Thinking of getting Blacklist and Black Flag ..and maybe Black Rayman Legends too!
Zombi U for that price is an insult!
DuckTales Remastered, Cloudberry Kingdom and maybe Zen Pinball 2 as well for me.
I already have a few of these titles and I'm not interested in the others. Still waiting for more VC games...
Hmmm, it would be good to see some… well, actual prices for some of these games? I mean, 50% off sounds nice and all, but it could be like with PSN where the price is still higher than online retailers like ShopTo…
Also, 50% off Zen Pinball 2? As far as I remember the actual game is free, so does that refer to the table "DLC" pricing?
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag for me. ZombiU is a favourite of mine - I would definitely recommend this - especially for £8
Why do they lay it out like this? They do it in the eShop News updates aswell.
The original price isn't there, or the new price, just the percentage off. How am I supposed to know how much it is?
Blacklist is totally worth it, I already got it though. Black Flag is tempting as well as Rayman and maybe Duck Tales. Unfortunate that the sale is so short. I'm going abroad and don't really have the money now :/
Jeez, some of those are plain ridiculous! Lucky Europeans!
UK Wii U OWNERS: AC IV: Black Flag is currently a mere £22.49 until the end of the day on GAME.co.uk. I would advise nabbing that over this digital offer (which works out around the same price as the normal retail game anyway).
Link: http://www.game.co.uk/en/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-212029?pageSize=20&searchTerm=assassin's%20creed%20wii%20u
This is better. Microsoft and Sony have these sales all through the year, and the ones at Christmas are usually fantastic. At the end of November you could pick up Dark Souls for £3.75 and Red Dead Redemption for £4.99 on XBLA.
Would be nice if we started to see this more often, and have Virtual Console games included too. I know I'd buy a lot more VC stuff if it was 50% off.
@MegaWatts Ha just been down town and picked this up
It's a great deal and fortunately AC tumbles in price so I knew if I waited I would be rewarded.
Not particularly happy that on the shop it has a poster advertising the half price offer but only showing it for PS3 and Xbox 360 though, had to go and ask and even the girl behind the till didn't now until she scanned it...
I will be getting zombiu though does anyone know the file size? It's a bit frustrating that the eshop only tells you AFTER you've bought the game.
I hope America sees similar sales. I'd definitely get Cloudberry and Ducktales at those prices, and I might get Toki Tori 2+ (though I'd prefer the current European sale for that).
I was planning on picking up Rayman Legends anyway, so this is perfect news. ZombiU for £7.99 is also a no-brainer. Sure, the game has its flaws, but at that price it's definitely worthy of a place on your system.
Where's the love to Canada?
I would prefer the smooth framerates and non choppy glitchless DIGITAL 4 LYFE version of AC IV, cheers
I hope NA gets some of these, Rayman legends and AC IV id get in a heart beat
maybe Zombie U for $10
Please tell me a similar promo is headed to NA! I have been on wait to see if a can get a good deal on Zombie U and if something like this hits the US I'm getting it for sure!
TNT racers, DuckTales & Splinter cell for me! it sucks i don't have anymore money to get Rayman Legends too tho =/ also all of you who have a Wii U should get Zombie U for 10€, it's well worth the price! i have the disc version since launch & i'm not picking it up again, but i recommend it to others.
Whoa. I feel like Europe has better promotions than the US, heh.
These discounts make me hope there is a game drought before Mario Kart so I have time to play them all. I prefer the nice shiny disc boxes but might buy me an HDD so I get better loading times and less crashes.
I think the level of discount for the newer games shows just how poorly they have sold but hopefully the flexibility of download prices encourages them to have longer sales tails.
I really hope Nintendo start offering some better VC discounts i.e. Buy SMB and SMB2 and get SMB3 free etc.
Meh...not worth mentioning. I'm sure the games are good, but you can get them on other platforms for a much better price. How about some (good) discounts for your first party titles, Nintendo?
The DuckTales Remastered discount is a pretty sweet deal though, not gonna lie.
@Einherjar
I think I'll pick it XD
"Code of Princess" 3DS discount would have been nice.
@Einherjar no hope left was Resi Evil 6's slogan A somewhat ironic one at that ^_^
At least Ubisoft realizes that the price of retail games are dropping so they kinda match or do better so as not to lose a sale to a used game. Nintendo on the other hand never does this even with first release games like Pilotwing per say. You'd be a fool to pay full price for that game on the shop!
Lol one week after buying AC IV full price. Silly me.
Picked up a physical copy of blacklist brand new for £3.30 on the day Blockbuster shut. Bargain of the year! Oh and Metroid other M for 50p.
I'll be getting Ducktales and Cloudberry on Boxing Day for sure.
Anyone know if this is coming to North America ?
@devinias I don't think so... Lucky us, sad for you !
@Yasume Zombie U is an exclusive, and the pinball stuff isn't cheaper elsewhere at this price. I will be getting Zombie U and some more pinball tables. I recommend Epic Quest, as its my favourite pinball table of all time.
EDGE is listed under the 3DS section, even though it's not available on the 3DS yet. Does this mean it's coming out on the 3DS soon with this discount?
These are some nice discounts, basically bringing what I was able to get most of these for in disc in the States. Wish NOA would follow suit as I would pickup Black Flag.
If these discounts make their way to North America, I may seriously consider getting Rayman Legends finally.
I'm starting to think that NoA hates us.
Just a heads up that Black Flag is only £17.99 today on PSN (£20 without PS+) https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/12-deals-of-christmas/cid=STORE-MSF75508-12DEALS
Good to see Nintendo doing some deals though as I find their typical pricing rather steep
Hometown Story is also on sale, at least here in the Americas. IT is 29.99 (regularly 39.99)
@SpoonyTech I actually see merit in dropping prices in titles like those. Regardless of what Iwata says, those don't have as much value as games like Mario, so keeping them at full price is just stupid.
Zombi U, Rayman Legends and Ducktales.... pretty sure I'm close to a fiver in the premium promo thing too
@Eight-Bit-Yoshi Really ? Whoops
But to be honest, i liked Resi 6 for what it was. It was one of the better 3rd person shooters ive played recently. Diverse enemys (Zombies that really wont die unless you shoot their heads, mutants who grow new body parts according to their injury etc) and fun and crazy bossfights made up a good action title It wasnt survival horror, but it still wasnt as bad as people sy it was, at least i think so.
But ZombieU is a real treat when it comes to survival horror. Its atmosphere is so dense, that many people, me included, just played it in short bursts because everything above that was a bit too much
And its unsynchronous multiplayer is a blast to play, really.
Nothing for north America
Nothing for north America
@Einherjar agreed it is an underrated gem of a game, I have never been so on the edge of my seat play a game
@MadAdam81 well said, cheers for the heads up on the pinball table I've been deciding what to downloading. Can u recommend any others
I got rayman 15 or 20 on black Friday NA
EVERYONE BUY ZombiU. That is all.
@triforcepower73 oh not true, we finally have one of those Club Nintendo Figurines the rest of the world always gets...course I don't have 1500 coins since i never save since there never is anything other than games that I get
Rubbish sale for 3ds. (The.£1 off Super Mario Bros 3 is not on there either.)
Don't buy Ubisoft stuff the sooner they go bankrupt the better. They are worse than even EA with the utter contempt they have for their customers.
75% off is where sales become interesting. (Exclusives being a little different).
(Funny thing is even with much lower prices I have.spent at least 3 times more on Steam than Nintendo.
@ThomasBW84 Will do... If the sale is in Australia as well.
Wow, great discounts! my poor poor wallet!!!
@ThomasBW84 you listed EDGE under the subheading 3ds eShop!
damn and I have a NA Wii U
ouchh help my bank balance. But this is what Nintendo need to do. Lets face it zombie u at this price will sell a bucket load. Already enjoying toki toki 2 & giana sisters & TNT racers. mmmm the tree still has no decorations or lights but ill get their.
'Murica?
There are some deals on NA eshop, couple of the download only games mentioned about. Just saw them earlier when I was on the eshop.
@ThomasBW84 I've had it since launch, and I feel more people need to buy Zombie U ASAP!!! We need another great game like that, it's so creative!
ZombiU is awesome, and the rayman legends deal is just what I've been waiting for:)
Finally time to buy rayman and resi, wish I could have gotten them earlier but after rayman was delayed it came at a bad time money wise and resi didn't seem worth £40 as I already own the 3DS version. Everything else on that list I already own.
AC:IV Black Flag, Rayman Legends and Ducktales for me!
Great sale!
Where's America's sale?
Ducktales.... here i come i have been waiting for this.. even though it is cheaper on Steam :/
@Zach777 same price for a physical copy on amazon.com. you can even still get it with the plushy for the same price on amazon.
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