NBA 2K19 Is On Sale For $3 On The North American Switch eShop

Yeah but it also costs 32gb

Highly recommended, such a great game with features that EA cannot deliver.

Was wondering if this was going on sale on the switch too. I assume cause of the finals, it's this price on every system now. It's an absolute steal if you like basketball. So much gameplay for the price of a couple cups of coffee!

I can’t help but feel this is just a way to get more people into the game to increase VC sales. If this hooks a few more “whales & dolphins” then it’s a successful publicity stunt in their eyes.

@adh56 You say that like it's not a minuscule amount of memory lmao. Anybody who has a Switch now but still doesn't have an SD card has no interest in download games. For anybody who does have an SD card, 32GB is irrelevant.

They would need to pay me to download it.

Wow they must be really desperate for attention to do this.

Why don't they just make it free? $3 is nothing to them.

@adh56 That's not even the main problem imo. It's the 5GB save data that is, which is restricted to internal storage.

@FX102A If it's a win for the consumer, and at that price it is, that's all that matters really.

@Discostew Yeah, what is up with that garbage where they have to use the internal storage for game saves? It would be fine if it was 200 MB or less, but 5 gigs means I'd have to delete tons of smaller games that I keep on my internal storage. Way too big a pain in the butt! How can anyone even create a game save that requires 5 GB? It's absurd. I'm not a game programmer, but 5 MB sounds reasonable to save my file for a basketball game!

And yes, I bought it. I don't have room to download the game, or to save my game if I did download it. Someday I may try it out if I buy a bigger SD card and remember this game before I fill it with all the large and small games I've bought digitally

@PorllM 32 gb is not irrelevant. I have a 128 gb card, there goes 1/4 of the memory for one game. Once you start getting higher than this, the price really starts blowing up. If I had the tb card, then I agree 32gb wouldn’t seem so bad.

It's the same price on all platforms right now due to the NBA championship. Perfect time to buy it, it's a steal at $3.

@mattesdude That's understandable and 32gb does seem tight when you have such a small card but 128GB cards are under £20 which for all intents and purposes of this conversation is nothing.

I bought a 200GB card for £40 at Switch launch and I have the vast majority of Nintendo AAA games (from BOTW to Mario Kart and from ARMS to Odyssey etc) and several large third party games installed like Dragon's Dogma, Skyrim and LA Noire and I still have enough space to download this game if I wanted to.

If I was in your situation I could just get a second card for £20 or I could splash out a TINY bit more for this literally to never be an issue worth considering again. You wouldn't need a TB card either, anything between 200 and 512 is going to be a serious challenge to fill, since Switch games on average are tiny with only a few games available around this size.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ultra-Memory-Class-Black/dp/B014IX03CE/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=sandisk+ultra+memory+class+black&qid=1560333687&s=gateway&sr=8-4

@PorllM that’s true-I could get another 128 card for about $20 (I’m in the states). I guess that’s my preference of not wanting to change the card out. I could spend like $40 and get a 256...which would last me an extra year probably. Or maybe I should just search until a bug card is on sale!

@PorllM You might struggle with the one you linked, Switch only has a MicroSD slot, not full-fat!

Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this while browsing the shop last night. Grabbed it right away thinking it was a mistake that would soon be fixed. Looking forward to playing!

For those that whine everytime for storage, buy SD cards. They are cheap. If you play video games then you know that you chose an expensive hobby.

ROFL. Is this game ACTUALLY worth $3 if you're not a sports fan? Only sports games I've ever gotten into were rocket league, bloodbowl 2 and mutant league football...

I used Redeem Coins to get this for free. Steal!

Make it $2.50 and then we'll talk.

Honestly it’s because the NBA season is almost over and NBA 2k20 has been leaked for sept 20th or so. But $2.99 is a steal. Heck even NBA 2k18 isn’t this cheap.

If I didn’t already have NBA 2k19 I’d totally jump on this

@redd214 I live in New York City, so it’s tons of gameplay for the price of almost one cup of coffee!

@Skunkfish loool that’s my bad I just quickly Googled for an example and missed that. Regardless micro ones are available around that price too though.

@mattesdude I’d go with option 3 if you can stick it out until Black Friday. Larger ones are commonly available for the same sort of price we’re talking now around then.!

Picked it up for $3 on my PS4, and then I remembered I had more than enough gold coins in the eshop so I basically got for free. A few minor differences between the two versions, but it is a really good game. I love the GM mode.

@Palico_extremeru I mean that’s like saying is Mario Kart worth 3 bucks if you’re not a racing fan. You already lose half the overall potential value of the game, but at 3 bucks why not?

Even at $2.99 I know I'd never get round to playing this game.

@Handsomistic15 Me too! I’m glad I had the Gold Points available, haha. I’ve always wanted to try one of these games but could never justify the price tag, so there’s no way I was letting this pass me by.

At that price point I couldn't pass it up, got it last night. Now I just have to archive Smite or Warframe for Now..

I own the previous version so I had no interest in this one but for $3 how can I not pick it up!

I copped this yesterday and it literally took 12 hours to download on my crappy internet! I think we are gonna dive into it today though!

This is friggin awesome! I downloaded it immediately! I finally have a new basketball game! I haven't bought one since the PS2!

@graysoncharles I did the same, purchase 3 Switch games the other day and just throw it for this one. Not gonna play it but someone in family does love their sports games though so it'll be right there for them.

@adh56 A 32gb microSD card cost no more than a Subway footlong so it's not a problem.

What a steal! I just used Nintendo Points to purchase this amazing game for $3.

I immediately went to purchase but then changed my mind. I'd rather have the free space. I have 2k3 I think on GameCube so I'm good.

3 dollars is still too much considering PS4 or XboxOne would probably give it to u for free with online subscription.....

I bought it because.... why not. I'm just gonna archive it until I get a bigger memory card.

@Discostew@60frames-please save data doesn't take up 5GB. I own NBA 2K18 & NBA 2K19 and neither one uses anywhere near that much for save data. I don't know who started that rumor but it is NOT TRUE

Was about to log in with my US account, but 32 GB is a lot. And I'm talking about data limitations from internet providers here, not really about storage space. And archiving it means that if I want to play it again, I'll have to download it again first... So sadly, pass...

@PorllM I have a 128gb mem card and it still took up more than half of what i had left still not insignificant, however I couldn't resist at that price point since I don't have any sports games and don't mind having one for occasions.

Can anyone confirm if you can still buy this if you live the UK but use an American Eshop account? I'm not sure

Is this game pure simulation? I have dropped playing Madden because it's frustrated, slow and to "real". I like NBA jam on Wii, but I'm not sure I will like this.

@Danrenfroe2016 The main game is pure simulation, but there are different modes. My team for example is where you can collect player cards old and new and play modes like 3v3

@retro_player_22 thanks for the tip but I’ve got a 400gb card

Bought. Thanks for the heads up!

@rorosprite Not sure about UK, but in Australia you can purchase it from the US eShop with an US eShop points card. Paypal doesn’t work.

I assume it’s the same in UK.

I wish this was that cheap in the UK. I would definitely pick it up then for my Switch.

Is there any way to buy this from Europe?

Just picked it up. How could I not? (But I definitely need to get that 200gb SD card now! :/)

@adh56 Yuck. Nope.