Capcom Takes A Bite Out Of Its Resident Evil eShop Prices In Europe

Still, will not get them, will only cave if they are on a cartridge

@Bunkerneath they will put half a game on the cartridge and the rest is downloadable with a code..

Can't wait till Resident Evil 6 releases in October for £30, no one in their right mind will pay that, the game isn't even worth £10.

Tell it like it is guys.

Capcom are taking the piss with those prices and there is zero justification for it.

So even discounted they are still more expensive than the other consoles

Just wait until Halloween.

Brilliant article theming.

@Peshokinha Exactly, therefore no buy even at "discount" unless the go below £10 then I might...

Still too pricey. If people are moaning that Turok 2 and DMC are expensive at 15 quid then these ports certainly are. Even at a discounted 19.99 they are still atleast 5 quid too pricey.

Already have Revelations 1 and 2 on Switch, have the other 3 on Gamecube and/or Wii.. so I'm not bothering with this yet until they drop to at most €15 (maybe; €10 or less will be an instant buy at least for RE4). If they come on cartridge though then I'll splurge €20 or maybe even €30 on each game.

Screw capcom. Greedy as all hell.

@AlternateButtons what's with all the negativity!

@StinkyHat not a fan then?!

A rip off to put it bluntly. Should be 10 pounds tops for a port. 🤠👍

I don't understand why they are asking this much money for these old games. Yes they are good, but they are old now. Ask a reasonable price and more people will actually buy it. Now you have only a few buyers due the too high price tag. I got double pack on PC for only €10 RE0 and RE1 remake. If it's possible on PC it should be possible for 2 games €10 as well. Well too bad for them

These are still only temporary sales for the next 2 weeks, right?

Yes far too expensive for old games we have played so many times

Too expensive, no physical, and RE4 lacks motion controls. So no purchase.

If they would just release 7 (panic buttonight as well do the porting for these lazy bums) and somehow port 2, I could justify the pricing. But these older classics are hugely over priced. And even at 10 bucks a piece it's hard to justify each individual purchase.

I'm tempted to start this series, but 4 is the only one that was ported reasonably well (as far as I know).

You can probably buy the whole series for less during a steam sale...

@antdickens yes on other hardware it's cheaper... it should be same pricetag on each console. Well it's what it is

@Bunkerneath So am I understanding this right: You won't buy the game at all digitally, but you're willing to buy it on cartridge for £10 even if you still have to download half the game, at that point getting none of the benefits of a digital purchase and all of the drawbacks of physical, it literally being at that point just a key for something you've half downloaded that won't work properly should you need to redownload in the future once servers are down, IE, the main selling point of physical copies.

Some people are just odd.

@sremick
Thanks was just about to ask the score (motion controls) with resi4, do you know if theres a patch in the works??

Games are too expensive anyways, AAA releases have gone up almost 20$ on average where I live in less than 10 years, no inflation amount can explain that huge hike other than publisher greed.

Its almost as if people expect Capcom to give these games away. I'm more than happy to pay £30 and enjoy myself then make a big deal over ten or twenty pounds which is quite frankly not a lot in the grand scheme of things.

If you don't want to pay their price fair enough don't play it but maybe a little less complaining that every company is greedy because they won't give it to you for nothing.

I will buy these games at 7.99. I am quite certain that in a year or two they will be this price. They are often 7.99 on PS4. I have already played them a lot and will only be buying them to have yet another copy on a convenient platform. So 7.99 is as far as I'm willing to budge. I got RE4 for 9.99 physical on Wii, with better controls in 2010 or something. Can't pay double, on 'sale'for an inferior product.

@bluemage1989 The issue is that Capcom is charging more for the Switch version with no explanation. 4, 5, and 6 on Switch are 30 while other platforms have them at 20.

This comes off as a deliberate attempt to fleece Switch owners.

@Jokerwolf Jesus that ain't fun. In the US games haven't increased in price since the Xbox 360 cam out in 2005. Which is INSANE given how development costs have skyrocketed.

@bluemage1989 but they are greedy, that's the point. At the end of the day its Capcom that need us and not the other way around. These games should no way be 30 or even 20 each. If Capcom want to sell these games they need to be realistic on their prices. No ones has said they want them for free but a reasonable price that sits in line with the other ports (DMC,Onimusha,Turok etc).

Stop taking the Mick and put the bloody prices back.

Double the discount and i am in

@C0NNERS if Nintendo can get away with full price for Zelda links awakening I don't know why capcom is being painted as a bad guy.

@Indielink Ya it does suck, $79.99 +15% sales tax = $92 for a new game here, and less than 10 years we were paying 59.99 for games with arguably more content.

@sixrings because links awakening isnt a port is it! It's a complete from the ground remake of an old game. All capcom have done is copy and paste from other consoles. Well lower the res, copy and paste.

@sixrings If you think the pricing of the Resident Evil games represents good value on Switch, by all means show your support by purchasing them. I do not, and therefore have not, and - at those prices - certainly will not.

@sixrings I guess because Nintendo have remade Link's Awakening from scratch whereas with the Resi games it appears they've simply remapped the buttons and released them as digital downloads.

I know there is more involved in porting obviously but that's not how it's perceived. If they had done anything unique for Switch then we'd understand the price increase.

Still too much Resi 4 is roughly the same age as Doom 3. Although age isn’t the only metric I’d say these are equal stature in terms of ip so seems odd one is less than half the price of the other.

@Jokerwolf Where are you from? Just curious how that exchange rate comes out.

@KraniX weren't the revolutions games remade since 3ds and the resident evil zero, 1, and HD were remastered at the beginning of the ps4 xbox one era. Unless you're suggesting because these games have been out for 6 or so years they should be cheaper. I'm all for that. But Nintendo games rarely get cheaper yet people aren't on here going crazy.

They also lowered Onimusha: HD to $11.99 in the US.

I enjoyed it on PS2, but curious if the HD remastering is worth it.

@Indielink East coast Canada, but if you look at the past exchange rates they don't line up as well, they are pretty spot on now. Companies would sell more copies of games if they took a 10$ hit in our market, after taxes it goes a lot further for the consumer. 10$ base price hit is more than 20$ in savings after taxes for the consumer.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I haven't got any sales figures so I could be wrong but have Onimusha and DMC sold that much better then Resi at half the price?? Based on nothing but my friends list, people I know and Discord I see a lot of people playing Resi and no one going near the other two. I can't hold against any company wanting to make stacks of money from a popular franchise, after all, they are businesses and not charities and if I need to pay £30 a game to see them come to Switch i am (and many others i imagine) happy to pay a decent price for a quality game. If that price point is to high there are plenty of other games available for between £10-£15 but the way I see it life is to short to split hairs over a few pounds.

At the risk of gaining hate here, I'm sort of with @sixrings on this. Yes these games are over priced for sure, but nindey charging 50 clams for what is in essence a port is hard to swallow. Don't get me wrong full remake of zelda is epic, no question, but the price is so hard to swallow when the likes of pokemon, DQXI and the such are at the same price for much much bigger games. I guess my question is, can you hate on capcom when Nintendo are in essence doing the same thing?

Not looking for hate just pointing out the obvious

I have the originals of all of these beauties still ready to go (except Rev2 which I have on Switch already). Classics. All of them , well maybe not rev1&2. Whatever, play and enjoy them if you haven’t already.

@Flokii we have no idea how long Links Awakening remake will actually be. Yes the original was fairly short but this is a complete remake and I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a lot of extra content.

@Flokii I think Nintendo is putting a lot more work into the LA remake than Capcom is putting into their Switch ports. And as others (and myself) have said, the issue Capcom is charging more for the Switch version than they are for the PS4/Xbox versions with no justification for it. If all versions were 30 then I would simply grumble and buy it when I had the spare cash but there is an explicable price hike that rubs me the wrong way.

@Indielink but the problem on Nintendo platforms is Nintendo themselves don't ever reduce their prices which means Nintendo fans are often used to paying more for games. Which means third parties can capitalize on that same fan base. Listen I love Nintendo. But they screw me financially on everything. The accessories and the games. Where as I like my XBOX but Microsoft has promotion after promotion basically begging me to buy their items. Yet I still own far more Nintendo items.

Hold on... RE4 (not even a remaster) is £30 on Switch???
RE4 is £17.99 on Wii U eShop for the better Wii version too? It is Cashcom I suppose.

@Jokerwolf That's what I would have guessed. Those taxes are a killer.

In terms of the pricing, if they line up evenly in terms of exchange rate I wouldn't hope for prices to go down. If anything I think games prices should go UP. Games development is getting more and more expensive but the consumer cost hasn't necessarily increased with it. I think that's why we see so many safe boring sequels and microtransactions: to help cover the rising costs.

They should be £8.99 max

@Indielink I think the main reason it has not gone up is because more and more people get into gaming year after year so their profits increase without increasing the base price of games. On top of that while budgets are higher the tools to do the jobs are getting easier and easier to use which cuts costs down by not having to pay people as much to do the same level of work as 10 years ago. For example it takes far less time to make 3D model and rig it now than it did 10 years ago.

@beazlen1 fingers crossed to it having more content. @indielink I get you.

No word of a lie, i love this community. All comments are valid and respected

I think it's my wallet that hates my love of Nintendo software Haha! And in all fairness the polish Nintendo puts into all of its products really justifies the price. Dam you capcom, up your polish and remake game son

@Jokerwolf If you look at total PlayStation and Xbox consoles sold this and last gen, this gen is only about equal to the previous one in about the same time period. There isn't a huge amount of growth. I can't attest to the ease of tool use because I'm not super knowledgeable about them but I'm not sure if your comment is right when new tools are constantly being made that have to be learned and mastered
And in terms of staffing, team sizes have absolutely grown. Many Ubisoft games have had their teams grow into the 1000s of people. That's a lot.

@Indielink Most of that in house growth is for live service games, but I can say the tools have made developing 3D models and environments much easier. I program for a living and have seen the improvements in all aspects of software development.

@sixrings Nintendo games hold their value and don't often go down in price. That does make it hard to hunt for bargains which is a feeling I can empathize with. But that is SIGNIFICANTLY different from 3rd parties artificially raising their prices on the Switch versions just because they can.

In terms of accessories, the only one I find to be too expensive is the dock.

@Indielink but they can artificially raise their prices because customers continue to pay for them. Just like Nintendo can never reduce their prices because people will continue to pay for them. Other system customers simply wouldn't buy the games.

Also Activision who we all apparently hate released crash bandicoot remastered for a discounted price. Sony is releasing Medevil remastered at a discounted price. Microsoft released the halo master chief collection remastered at a discounted price. Zelda links awakening is Nintendo's bold way of saying we don't care, we know Nintendo fans will pay us full price so damn it were going to charge that much.

If you don't like what they cost, then don't buy them?

They just came to the Switch this year and as much as I always love the comparisons between console prices, it's as meaningless as whining I can't get games on my Xbox for the same price as Steam.

I suppose as well the fact that it's the portable version gives it a premium, thus you can buy capcom or any other games cheaper else where but if you want it portable, pay the higher price. Comes with owning a switch I suppose.

Again, not hating only stating

@Jokerwolf Single player games are also getting larger and larger teams. Breath of The Wild was Nintendo's biggest production ever.

@sixrings I'm still not inclined to blame third parties raising their prices on Nintendo merely maintaining theirs. If that was the case we would have seen this in past generations as well.

@Flokii But portability usually just involves lowering the resolution. Not sure if the ten dollar surcharge justifies the work involved.

@John_Deacon If you buy the voucher, you get more than £4 back in e-Shop credit, plus because if the double points you get £2.50 back, so you can get the game for 37.50 which is a bit easier to stomach for a remake. Nintendo are renowned for being RIP off merchants.

@Indielink hey if you want to let Nintendo off the hook that's cool. But as an adult I've come to the conclusion they are a company first and foremost. Nintendo fans are like Disney fans loyal and willing to just throw their money at the company. My sister monthly buys from the Disney store limited edition diaries. She never ever writes In them but she has to have them. 20 a month is 240 a year. Disney is stealing her money while Nintendo is stealing mine.

@sixrings I'm not giving Nintendo a pass. I'm saying that Nintendo generally prices their games at the same 60USD retail price that most AAA developers set their own games at. Whether that price is acceptable for you is a different conversation but they are still conforming to an existing standard. That is very different from Capcom releasing RE4 for the (actual) 7th time and only this single release being a different price.

If Nintendo were to come out tomorrow and say, "screw you we are Nintendo and everything is 80USD from now on and you will all like it," then I would be pissed off. This is pretty much what Capcom is doing now.

@Indielink it's their own games. They can price it whatever way they want. One company does loot boxes and people are mad. Another releases remakes too much and people are mad. Another releases a game with dlc day one and people are mad. I don't care what they do. It's just annoying here people complain about one company and choose to ignore their own favourite company. It's like going to church and the pastor keeps complaining about smoking meanwhile they are morbidly fat and lazy.

@bluemage1989 That's because maybe you the money for it so it doesn't matter much to you. But people who are a bit more aware of the value of money can see this pricetage for old games like this is too much. €15 would be reasonable and with discount for €10 then yes a great deal. And these games are only 2 or 3 hours gameplay. Well it doesnt matter for me anyway... i'm sticking to my PC version which I bought for a great deal

@sixrings I guess the annoyance is that these digital releases are the same as on PS4 and Xbox but cost more, if they were on a physical cartridge or had system specific enhancements then Capcom could justify the difference. As it is it just looks like a mean spirited cash grab.

But then people need to vote with their wallets, not buy them and then it's up to Capcom.

These have been on offer a number of times since launch so they obviously aren't getting the sales figures they expected otherwise they wouldn't be discounting them regularly.

I do really hope the sales have been low on these and Capcom understands it's not for lack of demand, it's the price. £20 is still too high for me for a game I think I bought on GameCube for £10...

@KraniX I get the annoyance but like you said Nintendo fans need to vote with their wallets. The problem is that all the data shows that these third party games sell better on Nintendo despite the higher prices. There is no incentive for them to drop the prices.

@Alexface Unfortunately I think that Capcom, well most publishers really, would still place the blame for any low Switch sales numbers on lack of demand, not due to their overpriced offerings. It's a convenient excuse for them.

while old games, I can say that Resident evil 4 and REmake are worth playing if you have never before but that should've been at a original price of 15 a pop.

If I hadn’t just got the 1000g on resident evil 4 on Xbox (courtesy of games pass) then this discount could of tempted me to get it on switch.

But since the itch to replay it has now subsided. It’ll require a much bigger discount to tempt me to spend money on it. Though more likely now, it’ll be next generation of consoles before I pick it up again

@John_Deacon yes still available in the UK

Resident evil 4 is around £7 currently on Xbox. Love my Switch but the tax is real🙄

There's a decent Capcom sale going on in the US, I snagged the Beat Em Up Collection. I already had physical versions for a lot of the games on sale, but for anyone who hasn't got em yet, Mega Man Legacy, X Legacy, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary, and Mega Man 11 are all on sale as well as a few others. The Phoenix Wright Trilogy set is kinda tempting.

@dakka-dakka then it's just bad business! It's supply and demand right. Everything has a price, companies just need to work out what is profitable. There's no way the switch version costs more to make than other consoles so it's either price or demand. A sensible company would reduce the price of a product that doesn't sell

so, when RE 5 & 6 release, I will definitely not buy them.
I will wait patiently until a price drop or sale 2 months after release.

@StinkyHat I wouldn’t say that. It’s been an excellent coaster now for many years. I’ve certainly gotten plenty of use out of it and it always protects my table from unsightly spills.

Looks like these are all discounted in the US eShop too.

Does it count as a sale if they put the price up high first and then reduce it to a something that is still higher than normal price?

RE:make and 0 should be 10 pound each. I paid 6.99 for 0 on PS4 and got RE:make with my Ps plus subscription. You.must be insane to pay 20 each, let alone the 30 asking price

This is interesting-people were more than happy to pay 40 dollars for Metal Gear Solid 3D when it was only one old game, at a fraction of the framerate. What's changed?

@Xelha I don't mind waiting a year or two. Maybe these bad ports will have had some updates to improve loading and controls by then.

@John_Deacon I just bought some. I got £4.21 back, and will get another £2.50 back for getting Link's Awakening as because of the x2 points offer, I will get the extra only. So I am getting it for £37.50. Wiite a good deal as I was not paying 50 for it. It is still on so I am hoping to get more vouchers