Get Pokémon Sword And Shield For Less With Nintendo's Money-Saving Switch Voucher Deal

Nice. 😀
But i will get the games physically. 😜
I will choose Sword version first before considering the Shield version.

This'll be one of my voucher games for sure.

I might pick up a second set now. If they're making Sw/Sh compatible with the vouchers, why wouldn't they with all of their other big first-party releases?

Well i’ll definitely end up using one of my vouchers on this. Think it’s a no brained for those wanting both versions of the game too.

Still £42 though. Majority of new releases can be found cheaper than that.

@Incarta Physically they can yes, which for Nintendo games is a solid investment as they hold their value for a long time.

On the other hand this does bring the price of digital down to be in line with the physical and with it being Pokemon it won't be on offer if ever. The best physical price I have seen is just shy of £40. So £2 extra for the convenience of having it available all the time and a game that many people won't resell anyway seems like a good deal to me.

£42 for a day-one download of a AAA game is an excellent deal. I'll still buy the cartridge for 40 quid elsewhere but for those who are digital only this is a godsend.

Thought about it for a second - my two sons each want one, so it would save us $20 over MRSP - but then I remembered they won't be out for another 5 months, and my sons have already said they want the games as Christmas gifts, so I'm not going to pay $100 now for $120 worth of Christmas gifts in 6 months. I'll keep my eyes open for deals on the physical carts. Those work better under the tree anyway.

Good marketing by Nintnedo though, for both NO in general and the voucher offer.

Anybody pre-buying things online, just keep in mind if the rumours come true of a Switch Vita, they may bundle it with these games, and you may want one of those.

Remember these? Perfect to sell a $199 Switch.

@damo Feel free to do an article on a potential Switch Mini Pokemon bundle.

Hard pass. I only buy indies or heavily discounted game on the eshop. £42 is equivalent of day one retail price on amazon.

No thank you but at the very least it’s an option.

Pokemon sword my be my 2nd voucher game. Seems like a good game to have digitally like Mario maker 2 and I'm sure I'll be hopping in and out of playing often. But, being that I've never played a Pokemon game, part of me thinks I should go physical in case i really dont enjoy it.

I still like physical, but this does make buying digital more tempting. However you are still forced to get 2 games to get the discount. This also all but confirms as most expected pokemon will be 60 bucks each.

Now just add Animal Crossing to the list and ill bite.

It's great that it's on the eShop but in order for me to use the voucher the game has to in prepurchase state and then I can redeem the voucher on it. I've tested it because I wanted do it for Ultimate Alliance 3 but it won't let me do it unless the prepurchase green label is on there. But all in all I like buying physical copies so I'll be picking it up at my retailer this Nov 15.

Umm $10 off isn't what I would call a "significant" savings. Two weeks ago I bought kingdom hearts 3 from amazon for $30. That's half off. Now that was a significant savings. But of course Nintendo never lowers the prices on their first party games. And never puts them on sale except for black friday. I refuse to pay $60 for a game.

The price would work out cheaper than Amazon and the Nintendo eshop, so that’s not a bad deal for all-digital people.

However, if anyone in the UK is set on getting a physical copy, I suggest going on Base.com - they currently have preorders up for both games at £39.99 each, which is a solid £10 cheaper than all other retailers.

16% off isn't a "significant" discount. Nintendo is greedy as hell and its ridiculous to charge full price for digital games.

Not really for Canadians though. It would still be $140, which would only save maybe $10......I’ll stick with my discounted Best Buy preorder which is 20% off of the game.

@Jezebel95 thegamecollection.net £39.95. simplygames.com £39.85.
shopto.net £39.85. base.com £39.85.
offergames.co.uk £38.74 & 'Make an Offer' & Share to 'Get 10% Off' ☺

Excuse my ignorance (and I truly prefer to.kearbbthia from you rather than googling it) but are these two games the same? I guess not. So what's the point of or the other. I'm interested in getting one, which one should that be? Thanks.

Wasn’t aware of the voucher deal but that’s great! I’ll prob grab Super Mario Maker 2 and Pokemon Sword at least, this way.

$30 off a AAA day one release when I buy only digital anyways? Yes, please!

@Ralizah All of their first party releases ARE available with it. Not just big. What made you think otherwise?

@ClaytThaGreat It's not $30 off. It's $10 off per game. Still a nice deal, but definitely not $30.

@Francema "and I truly prefer to.kearbbthia from you"

to.kearbbthia? What? Anyway, the difference is just in what Pokemon you can find, generally. Little nuanced differences that won't matter to 99% of gamers. It generally just encourages groups of friends to get different ones to trade their unique Pokemon online with friends or strangers. And then a few hardcore players buy both. But there's no reason for you to do that. They're the exact same game otherwise.

@bdez90 Absolutely EVERYONE in the entire games industry, in the ENTIRE WORLD charges full price for digital games. How is this even a thing you're saying? It's literally required if they want stores to stock their games. This is common knowledge. Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart and any other physical retailers have deals with the game publishers to keep prices the same between physical and digital at launch because most gamers wouldn't buy the physical games if they could get them on the digital store fronts for a lot less. This is actually why things like Puyo Puyo Tetris has a ghetto "special edition" with a little keychain and box, so they can sell the physical edition for $10 more than the digital.

The voucher system is actually a clever way for Nintendo to honor their agreements of having the prices be the same on the digital store front but also offering a discount in a roundabout way.

Also, 16% is ABSOLUTELY significant. If you end up buying 10 games this way, you literally get 2 games free worth of savings. Not to mention the $25 worth of cash back in gold points IN ADDITION to that over buying physical.

@Deltath I mean future releases, like Animal Crossing. Pokemon is their big cash cow (well, one of the biggest), so if they were going to be protective about their future releases, I'd imagine they'd have started with Sw/Sh.

Keep in mind that NoA is apparently only selling the vouchers until the end of July, so I wasn't quite sure what their strategy with them was.

@Ralizah They've said it already. Every Nintendo first party published game, that includes the ones they don't develop like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, will be available with the voucher. This includes Animal Crossing.

@Deltath Oh? All I've heard on the American side is that "more games will be added in the future," which could mean anything.

@Bryon15 But literally millions of gamers do buy $60 games all the time. Many games sell most of their lifetime sales in their launch window (or first 3 months). You wouldn't get the luxury of paying less than that six months later if tons of people didn't buy them at launch. And people keep acting like this voucher system is somehow comparable to discounts you get later. This system is OBVIOUSLY for people who buy games at launch. There is no way to save money on most games at launch. People just pay $60 and that's that. This is a near 20% savings on games for millions and millions of people. If you bought 10 games using the voucher, ten full priced current or upcoming games, means 2 entire games free at that price point and an additional $25 in cash back in gold points. The savings is huge. I don't know about you, but I'd love to get two free games after my next ten game purchases from Nintendo and then have $25 in gold points banked.

@Ralizah It could mean anything in terms of other titles, but Nintendo has also said all first party games will be included. And that's held up true so far. They even have Sushi Striker.

@rjejr Amazon has $10 gift credit given on physical copies of Sword and Shield. The voucher is still a better deal because you get $5 worth of gold points too for a total of $25 savings on two games, but $10 per Pokemon game is close if you want physical m

@Deltath I just rewatched that section of the MM2 Direct and they never specified that all their first-party games, past and future, would be eligible. While I'm inclined to agree with your assessment, would you mind linking me to your source?

@Ralizah I didn't immediately find the quote with a Google search, so you can take it or leave it if you believe it. It was in a clarification to a few news outlets about the system if you want to look it up yourself.

Many retailers have the physical edition for £39.85 which negates this offer

@Deltath I always forget about the gold coins. But I as a Prime member I get 5% back as points on my rewards account, which I then transfer as cash to my checking account, so that's kinda break even. This month I got $67 back. (that's 3 or 4 months worth)

Cash in my checking account > gold points

Maybe when Nintendo finally realizes they have a console called the Switch and they put discounts on Switch games as MyNintendo rewards rather than only Wii U and 3DS games then the gold poi TS will have real value for me. Until then, I'll take the cashwhen I can, and physical games.

@rjejr It is ridiculous that they JUST updated their rewards a few days ago to include new Wii U and 3DS rewards. Ridiculous. At least the gold points can be spent like cash on the eshop now. I'm going to go with Amazon for Pokemon, myself. My girlfriend really wants one of them. But Amazon doesn't offer that deal on most games.. so the voucher is still pretty good for any other games you want to buy at launch.

@Deltath LOL ... That should be I prefer to learn this from you rather than....

Thanks for the info!!! Makes sense. Which one should I get. Can I get Pickachu in both?

@Francema While not technically confirmed, I'm 100% sure you could. And even if somehow they put him in only one version (which hasn't been the case before), he's an easy to catch Pokemon so you could just trade for him anyway.

@Deltath thanks a lot!