We're rather excited about the release of Super Mario Odyssey on Switch on 27th October, as it's shaping up to be something rather special indeed.
We're sure you'll be keen to whack in a pre-order for this bad boy soon, though from a UK perspective at the moment the Amazon price leaves a lot to be desired, so you might want to wait on that one. However, some might want to hop on the fantastic deal from the Nintendo UK Store which includes a copy of Super Mario Odyssey and a plush Cappy Hat - which features a prominent set of eyes - for £49.99.
Please note that some external links on this page are affiliate links, which means if you click them and make a purchase we may receive a small percentage of the sale. Please read our FTC Disclosure for more information.
Sure, you are potentially paying a little extra for the Cappy Hat, but it looks so cute... how could you resist?
Comments 48
Don't you mean crappy hat? £50? You're having a laugh. Is that hat so you've something to get sick in if you pay that price?
'CRAPPY'
@SLIGEACH_EIRE is £50 for an AAA game laughable? I'm aware other companies will undercut this price but in all honesty, it's not extortionate.
Good to see that Nintendo have not gone with the £60 model they were asking for Zelda.
I'll probably order the game elsewhere just to not get the hat, I don't need tat with EVERY game.
@G0dlike Ya, the price will likely come down closer to launch. I'd expect to see it for £35. I want the game, I do not need nor want that hat.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE looks good to me, better than paying £50 and having no hat.
Better than £60 on Amazon UK!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
That Cappy is NOT CRAPPY !!
It's so Lovely !
Show your Respect a bit with Nintendo's efforts.
You are such a Toys Hater here.
To tell you, your attitude was unacceptable and you will NEVER enjoy gaming with hatred attitude like that.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
£35 for Mario Odyssey ??
LMFAO
Are you nuts ?!
@Anti-Matter Why not?
Shopto are selling it for £42.85.
http://www.shopto.net/nintendo/switch/SWSU02-super-mario-odyssey
And most sites I'm sure have £50 as a placeholder. Except for Nintendo's own store who are extortionators.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
I can get better price in my place, Indonesia. And it will not cost more than US$ 60.
"Sure, you are potentially paying a little extra for the Cappy Hat..."
That's not really a "deal" then, is it? Thing for sale, yes.
The price is fine to me.. but still waiting for a collector's edition..hopefully with soundtrack and amiibos
To be fair to @SLIGEACH_EIRE (first comment) I read the headline that way- need some coffee.
Is it an amiibo? Do you only get the hat in game if you use the amiibo?
And until you can get the Wolf Link pet in Zelda BotW w/o the amiibo I'll keep making stupid comments like that.
It should be an amiibo though. 10 coins to get a life in case you run out of coins.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE But you can throw the hat at anything and become that thing! Buy the game and use the hat to rob a bank for profit.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE £10 cheaper than Amazon with out crappy hat
Its a cool looking hat but probably won't fit me and I'd rather save the £8-£10 by buying it elsewhere.
If I was going to pay £50 for the game then sure, I guess the freebie is welcome, but there are much better deals available.
£50 is actually rather reasonable, Game is £60.
Much as I don't want to take money away from NL, you can get 6% cashback from topcashback, making this effectively £47
Guess I'm lucky I don't have to order through the UK?
Though I'm not going to preorder juet yet, game is still a ways off. Amazon Prime usually nets me a nice discount though.
Both Nintendo UK Store and Game are doing this for £50.00, strangely enough Amazon are doing pre-orders for £60.00!
I only pre-order collector's editions or if the free gifts look good or collectible. I'm not too bothered about this hat, and I bet it will be available to buy on its own so won't be particularly collectible either. Still better than nothing if you can't get the game for under £50 anywhere else.
Console games in general are getting more expensive, but switch games in particular are demainding high prices currently. I urge everyone to shop around before forking out RRP for anything, many less well known sites offer much better deals than Amazon or Nintendo UK. For those of you in the UK, keep an eye on Hotukdeals.com for good offers, saved me loads of cash in the long run.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Can I be honest? £35 for a first party game on a new console is unrealistic. I am a regular bargain hunter for Nintendo goods and so far on average I find the games for is £38 which isn't far off. That is using price comparison websites, discount codes and other techniques.
What I have found is that you can easily get Switch first party games for £40 and 3DS for £30. Trying to reach £35 is a blessing but if you want it day one you are not going to likely be able to achieve this.
And I agree with @GravyThief and his approaches. Any gifts are a bonus but the games are the priority.
@Grandpa_Pixel £35 was a common price point for new Wii U games, a lot were even £30. I see Switch games are more expensive, it must be partly down to the cartridges. The games don't look any better than on Wii U, well it's negligible. But take Zelda: BOTW when that launched the Switch version was about €10 more expensive than the Wii U version, the exact same game. Comparing prices now though for that game wouldn't be accurate as the Wii U had a limited print run and has driven its price up.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE True but we both know the Wii U needed a lower price to sell its games. Whereas the Switch has been a glowing success in sales so far so the price is realistically the £38-£40. Now if the Switch was as big a flop as the Wii U we would definitely see it go down to £35.
I don't think we can compare port graphics as they are just ports. But I managed to get the Switch version of BotW for £41 and the normal for £35. And having seen both in play as my partner has his own copy, I can confirm the £6 difference is justified.
While I agree that £60 is excessive, that is just the way the industry as a whole is going these days. Walking through local game shops have seen it like that. £50-60 is the common norm now.
Given that the game's RRP is £60... a price that practically everybody is undercutting to some degree... a £10 drop off of RRP with a hat is pretty neato, especially if it's like the plush Mario hat Nintendo UK have had for sale/with pre-orders for games previously. That thing, while obviously a novelty, was actually a fairly comfortable hat to wear.
Donkey Kong's tie from DKC Returns 3D, Link's scarf from Hyrule Warriors, now this. Reggie, why can't we get cool preorder bonuses like the UK gets?
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I think your memory is a little faulty...maybe even subject to wishful thinking. Going back to price trackers, I looked up Super Mario 3d World and Windwaker 3D (see https://pricespy.co.uk/product.php?pu=1997676 and https://pricespy.co.uk/product.php?pu=1631226, you may have to hunt for the price history tab near the top) and I can see that pre-release the prices averaged over 40 and upon release were just below 40, with discounts lowering the price over time.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
LMFAO
You think Wii U is the Best of All ?!
Come on... !
Switch is TONS Better than Wii U.
You HATE Gifts from video games, you HATE Switch games, you HATE Amiibos, you HATE non AAA / AAAAA+++++ games, practically you HATE Video games !
Your defend about Wii U just completely Nonsense, immature, pathetic as a gamer.
You don't deserve to own Wii U if you worship your Wii U like that. Shame on you as an Extreme Pickier gamer !
@Anti-Matter
Mate, he makes a fair point concerning the prices of Switch games, and, as someone who also invested fairly heavily into the Wii-U the number of ports thus far and games skipping the system despite promising it would come out, will of course lead to frustration and annoyance. Switch games are too expensive at the moment, I don't think anyone would argue that they're not. If you look around you can get a semi-decent price but asking for anything above £40 or so for a new retail release is just taking the piss imo.
Nah, I would prefer it if the cap was made the same as what Yoshiaki Kaizume was wearing.
Can you even wear this hat? It just says plush, so...
Pre ordered from the link. I didn't want to but my son will love to play Mario with that cap. I hope the quality is good as the club Nintendo mario cap
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
RRP for BOTW is the same on both systems, £59.99. I would expect it to be more for the slightly better version given new console tax and that but it's not.
Switch is similar to other consoles in their early days. There are traps set to tempt new buyers into overpaying but these can be avoided by shopping around. I paid £40 for BOTW, £36 for MK8D, £35 for Lego City. I downloaded Puyo Puyo Tetris for £24. You can get Arms for £39.99. Eshop credit is available cheaper online too.
If I could be confident that nintendo would deliver it to me on 27th October I'd be tempted to pre order from them, but as it happens I've waited since 2010 when super Mario galaxy 2 was released to play a 3D Mario game like this (probably longer as sunshine was the last exploration 3D game) so I think I'll just go to Smyths on the day and buy a copy.
No way am I taking a chance on waiting for the postman all day only to be disappointed
@electrolite77 36 pounds for mk8d is really good. Best I found was 40£
@Marios-love-child although I was thinking exactly the same. Smyths will charge 49.99 just for the game. The cappy cap is a bonus.
Not all the time but sometimes they do deliver a day earlier 😉 Which I doubt I'll be getting.
@electrolite77 I paid €40 through Amazon UK for the Wii U version. That's € not £ and that was ordered long before its launch day.
@UK-Nintendo
That is true, although the price in this case doesn't bother me so much, I just need to make sure I get it day one, by that I mean the second the store opens
@Kingrat
When was RRP for new games ever less than £40? As well as being a gamer I worked in retail in the 90s and it wasn't just N64 games at £60, PS1 games like Doom and Tekken 2 were £50 and £45 respectively. Adjusted for inflation, those.prices now are £100, £83 and £75 respectively.
RRP for Mario is, like COD WW2, £50. For Destiny 2 and Star Wars it's £55 (that's what Game are charging, which will be RRP).
Making games certainly hasn't got any cheaper, quite the opposite. Neither have any other forms of entertainment like cinema tickets or gig tickets. So why the expectation that games should have done?
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
So you managed to get the version on the console that's been out four years longer for a couple of quid cheaper than the better version that was a new consoles big launch title. That's to be expected.
It hardly feeds into any narrative about Switch games being more expensive, especially when the RRP of the two versions is the same. NSMBU launch RRP was £49.99, same for Lego City on Wii U, same for Mario 3D World and Nintendo Land. Mario Odyssey is £50 as well.
@electrolite77 The shops and online retailers didn't charge £50 for Wii U games. Nintendo and their RRP are a farce as is their online store. It's always been a joke. Even now Nintendo are still charging £50 for Mario Kart 8 on Wii U. Who in their right mind would pay that?
https://store.nintendo.co.uk/games-wii-u/mario-kart-8/10879168.html
I paid £35 for that at launch 3 years ago, plus remember that came with a free digital game.
£42.75 on Base.com for anybody who wants a more sensibly priced pre-order
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Be a long time before you see another offer like that again. They were desperate times.
Tap here to load 48 comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...