You'll Be Able To Buy The Borderlands And Bioshock Games Separately On The Switch eShop

So, I can buy Borderlands 1&2 without having to buy the pre-sequel? SIGN ME UP!!

2K- would you kindly drop the price of Bioshock trilogy 50%?

Please and thank you.

@SeantheDon29 on the US eShop it’s BL1 GOTY, Handsome Collection (Pre and BL2), or the whole pack. Pre-sequel is packed with BL2 regardless sadly lol

Now if they could give us word when we’ll get Tales From The Borderlands that’d be super nice.

@Dm9982 Drat.

@GrandScribe - Probably a complication with that as Telltale has (or had) the engine. They would have to have a talk with whoever owns that now.

In other words: Red. Tape.

@NoNoseNosferatu Lol, Switch tax is real. Can’t imagine only owning a Switch since games that go for £5 on other consoles are £50 here.

@nessisonett Those games were more expensive when they launched in those markets too. Suggesting other systems get cheaper games is disingenuous.

@SeantheDon29 Yeah I didn’t enjoy BLPS as much as 1 or especially 2.... but, I’ll gladly pay and accept PS as part of the package if BL2 performs well portable. Seriously the best in the series so far. BL3 isn’t bad, but it doesn’t beat 2. May in the future, but not yet.

@PanurgeJr Suggesting that selling 10 year old games at full price is an acceptable business practice is just as disingenuous.

@nessisonett not really. People pay good money for repackaged old music, books, movies...some of those involve tech being worse at the older time, but the new product will still be more expensive. This makes it portable as well. If you can't afford it or already played, we'll, great. I might get a game on Switch, wait for a sale. Never understood whining on prices. Things cost money. These are fat collections, and they will go down in price.

@nessisonett Which games have that price difference? Name one.

@nessisonett It's not at full price though, at least in the US. And you are getting three games. At launch the Bioshock Collection was 10USD more expensive on other platforms than it is for Switch. And the launch price for getting all three of these Borderlands games on other platforms was almost double what they are charging on Switch. Seriously, the games would have to be free for some people on this site to not be displeased with the price.

If you don't like the price then wait a few months. 2K has been consistently on point with putting their games on sale.

@graysoncharles

TellTale Games was relaunched under LCG Entertainment, Inc. Unfortunately, select titles are not available to purchase such as Tales From The Borderlands and Back to the Future. I am certain 2K Games will bring back Tales From The Borderlands eventually but not so certain about the rest of back catalog of game.

@nessisonett Did you say that when these games launched at full price for the current consoles? I know these 10-year-old games weren't sold for mere peanuts like they're right now on other platforms.

@Deltath Doom is £60 on Switch on Amazon compared to £20 on PS4. You could easily get Doom on sale or second hand for about £10 on any other platform. Of course these games aren’t that price when they launch but the point remains that Switch games are ludicrously expensive even when they’re ports of old games. It’s milking blind fans who put up with zero third party support throughout the entirety of last gen.

Currently the Bioshock collection is $11.99 on ps4. How much will it be on Switch?

@nessisonett what are you talking about? MSRP for Bioshock 1 and 2 is $20 each

Even though BioShock collection is currently only $11.99 on ps4, Sony were giving it away for 'free' recently on psplus. I have it, sitting in my hard drive. Clearly not going to pay $60 for this. It has happened a few times where I realise I already have an old game on PSPlus, that Nintendo is selling for $60. Happened with Doom too.

I am probably just going to get the original Borderlands and call it a day.

@nessisonett The numbers you said were far more ludicrous than reality. I've never seen Doom for PS4 under 20 but I have seen it for Switch at 25. Though regularly 45-60, yes. No argument that they're going to cost more on the Switch when many of them are newer to the system, but there's no reason to wildly exaggerate. The actual numbers can speak for themselves.

You guys bickering over Switch prices vs other console prices.... you do realize that 90% of the time the money is to pay/recoup for the porting company? Not sure about these, but like Witcher 3 and Doom 2016.... originally developed by CDPR & Id, ported by Sabre and Panic. You’re either paying the porting company, or paying the original company back for hiring the porting company. THIS is why “Switch Tax”.

Loved borderlands 1 and prequel wasn’t anything very good, but I believe I will be getting Borderlands 2. That was the ultimate Borderlands and the best in the series. As long as it has all of the download content(besides the last one prior to the release of Borderlands 3, but hopefully eventually get) I will be a happy camper.

@Deltath
Doom also hasn't received a physical reprint unlike the PS4 version, causing inflated prices for the physical version.

Wolfenstein II is a better comparison point. It's easy to snag that on Switch for under $30.

Hopefully Nintendo will bring the Nintendo Selects line back soon and include third party titles like Doom within the selected titles.

Disappointed about the downloads, but I still intend on buying all three “Physical” collections.

@Indielink Either that or people should just save up their Gold points on the eShop through MyNintendo to get a hefty discount on games they believe are too expensive.

Hmm $20 each it's not that bad considering the low bar set by Capcom
Btw it's not cheaper to get on a PS4 if you need to buy a PS4 first
Yep Switch ports have a price problem, justified or not, it's a thing that happens
But I'm not buying a PS4 now thank you

@Moistnado "It has happened a few times where I realise I already have an old game on PSPlus, that Nintendo is selling for $60"
You are aware that Nintendo doesn't set the price for third party games, right?

As much as I’m excited for these games on Switch, 2K has to realize that they’re sort of setting themselves up for failure if they think they’re going to see success from full price compilations, years after the fact, while making the (poor) decision to make the majority of each of them downloadable. There is no reason they couldn’t have fit these games on cards. I’m going to be buying a new memory card very soon, but I really don’t want to have to name it the 2K sd card.

@Deltath DOOM is under 20 literally all the time on PS4. Heck 20 is the standard non-sale price for it on PSN. In fact, it is even in sale for 7 dollars right now. According to Dekudeals, the lowest the Switch version has ever been (physical or digital) is 30.

I’ve received all except Borderlands 1 on PS Plus, but I’ve only played the Pre-Sequel among all those games... I’m a failure at playing the right ones. I could see myself getting that one and perhaps Bioshock Infinite on my Switch

I'll be buying the collections of all of these, but nice to have this option. Can't wait to play some BioShock on the go.

@Kochambra I apologise as my words could be interpreted as insinuating that our beloved Nintendo had a hand in this. I will rephrase- and Nintendo is selling for $60, on behalf of a third party developer. Either way, Bioshock collection was being given away for 'free' by Sony, I assume with support of the same developer just last month.

@Indielink I got Doom it for free on Psplus. My Nintendo account may be much cheaper but, it actually ran out several months ago and I only just noticed when dusting off Mario Kart yesterday. I didn't renew.

@nessisonett I’m happy these games are going portable, but you’re right about price being a factor. Right now you can play Doom, 3 Wolfenstein games, the Metro Remasters, Xcom 2, the Borderlands games, etc.. with a PS Now sub.

I’ll still get Bioshock 1 and Xcom 2 on Switch when they go on sale, but it’ll be a while before the prices are comparable to the competition. Love the Switch but non Ubisoft AAA releases have airport and movie theater prices.

@NullPointerExcep I actually decided to buy my PS4 while shopping for Switch games. I found that a new ps4 slim was the same price as the money I would save by getting 4 or 5(edit-more like 3) PS4 games for $10 instead of $59.99. I would wait for a ps5 now though.

@nessisonett they also know Nintendo is the only hardware you can play games on the go. Gamestudios are aware of it and charging even more from people. I'm sticking to TV/PC gaming with my other hardware since games should be played on big screen. It's ok on the go, but those games should be even less expensive since Switch is the weakest hardware from the "next gen" consoles. Switch doesn't deliver the quality we should have.. it's still in many many cases 540p undocked. docked 720@30fps most of the time. That they dare to ask such high prices is ridicilous. Don't buy it till the prices are right. Otherwise they think they can get away. You have to boycot it. No sale!

Borderlands pre sequel for me. Reason being I never played it

Honestly when you are buying a collection they should always make it they are an individual download.

The Atelier collection were all individual downloads for me which is great

Now not sure about FFX/X-2 as a digital but on physical it was one package as ffx-2 download was acting as dlc for X. That method is fine for physical but for a digital download I hate.

While I am not interested in getting the collections I do hope they are individual downloads as I remember my time on the vita looking up what collections where individual downloads or not.

@nessisonett fifty quid?! Cheezits and crackers, that’s insane.

@nessisonett you hit the nail on the head. I really want bioshock on the switch but won't pay the money. Look at resident evil and the witcher 3.crazy price for games I can get on the ps4 much cheaper. I do love my switch but developers seem greedy when they bring games out for it!

@Toy_Link I got Wolfenstein 2 for $11.99 in December. I also got Wolfenstein 1 for $5.99.

@Indielink @deltath bear in mind Doom 2016 has been out a year longer on PS4 than Switch so naturally will be cheaper. And I’ve also seen Doom Switch for £25. However I doubt Doom will be as low as £7 in a year but you never know. Dekudeals is great and it’s my go to now for discounts but it doesn’t pick up all prices. It doesn’t get CDkeys prices for example which fluctuate a lot and can have amazing Switch deals.

@Moistnado "I apologise as my words could be interpreted as insinuating that our beloved Nintendo had a hand in this. I will rephrase- and Nintendo is selling for $60, on behalf of a third party developer. Either way, Bioshock collection was being given away for 'free' by Sony, I assume with support of the same developer just last month."
Yes, I think that it's a safe to assume that 2K agreed to add the 'Bioshock Collection' to the PS Plus payed subscription service. As it's safe to assume that 2K set the price of the 'Bioshock Collection' on Steam: Currently $59.99. You know, more or less the same price that they set for the collection on the eShop.
2K made all these decisions, not Nintendo, Sony or Valve.

Good news, I think I'll eventually get Borderlands 1 & 2 (not pre-sequel, if possible) and Bioshock Infinite.
I hope the ports looks great on portable, that'd be the way I'd play them.

@NoNoseNosferatu their L.A. Noire is 50% off now and has been up to 70% off in the past. Patience, young padavan.

@nessisonett it is even more disingenuous to suggest that a game's offerings can officially deteriorate in 10 years. Fiction doesn't have expiry dates. All sales across the industry happen because: a) the title has to compete with an evergrowing number of other releases as months and years go by, and b) publishers try to give the title more legs through possible impulse purchases from initially uninterested buyers after they're done fishing for the target audience. But very few would willingly price a new platform port at launch with the discount tag of the previous releases, and thank goodness it's not enforced in any sane market because that could effectively spell the death of most such ports beyond a few crowdfunded projects - and eventually become a detriment to many games' accessibility.

As has been pointed out countless times before, eShop sales aren't rocket science either, and Deku Deals is three doors down. But even at launch, the "Switch tax" is particularly what you pay as an alternative to the cost of added streaming expenses and hurdles on the TV-chained PS4, the cost of lugging around the added weight of a suitcase called "laptop" (plus the mouse, the AC adapter and often the separately bought gamepad) or the cost of the added premium to buy and ship a Chinese crowdfund beast like GPD Win (with its own compatibility and control scheme hijinks). And if the flexibility you buy with any of the listed options is not topical for you to begin with, then it's time to admit you're not necessarily in the market for Switch beyond a bunch of exclusives to begin with. And it's fine - but it's much less fine to promote a potentially poisoned well for others to whom portable gaming means something more. If buying Bioshock Collection for ten bucks on PS4 outweighs the other aspects for a customer, the logical decision is to go buy Bioshock Collection for ten bucks on PS4, end of story.

Most ironic is how people don't even realize such an attitude to launch prices simultaneously goes to fuel the issue they have with "required downloads" in physical releases. Again, most publishers will have less motivation for a port when expected to just swallow the added cost of a larger capacity unit (cheers for CDPR and all, but CDPR is incidentally in the Valve league regarding income sources), and how can they hope to get this cost back in retail if the market goes vocally ballistic over the price without it?

In short, "hey, third parties, what the hell, we want everything on Switch but we want it cheap enough to compete with everything else we can buy this everything on!" Yeah, good luck. And best regards from "blind fans", "sheeple" and everyone else blursed with the awareness that this industry doesn't exactly work for food.

@nhSnork Padavan? Lol.

I personally love having portable ports of classic games I never got to play on other consoles. I have a huge SD card to take them all away with me and usually get games on sale - I’ve never had so much choice. I understand they’ll cost more because of the costs of porting and marketing the games. Obviously it’s not a simple procedure as it often takes months/close to a year.

@Liam_Doolan I'm interested to see what this means for the reviews.

@Alaninho Well said

Not interested in any of these games, hated borderlands on PS3. Alot of these games were floated during the Wii U cycle, so the prices are probably recouping some of the initial investment from years ago that never got released. switch is still a "hot" product so they'll milk away sadly.

That’s a relief i want only bourdelands 2 , bioshock 1 and2

@Kochambra I hope they do match steams prices because, while it is $59.99 it is often $11.99; about two times each month, similarly to ps4. Somehow I doubt it will happen on eshop though.

@Moistnado So far, we only know that 2K has decided to release the Switch version at exactly the same price as the 4 year old Steam version.
The question of how or when that price may change is up to them, too.

@Dm9982 I’ve seen DOOM $10.00 many times, especially at GameStop. You can find it dirt cheap. For me personally, I’ve yet to see DOOM drop below $30.00 on the Switch.

Maybe Bioshock Infinite for me. Definitely Xcom 2 though. The Switch is tailor made for TB strategy games. I'll pay $50 for Xcom 2. It's the only port I really desperately wanted (besides Zelda ramasters). Honestly besides Zelda games, Smash and Odyssey the games I have the most hours in on the Switch are Into The Breach, Wargroove and SteamWorld Heist. Being able to play a few turns then sleep mode then instantly back in the action is perfect.

@nessisonett You don't know what "disingenuous" means, do you?

@Moistnado oof that just shows how insane the pricing is on the Switch, be it because of the cart or porting overhead costs or novelty factor or something

I wonder how well those $60 ports sell, I mostly ignore them, it's kinda a bold move being the same price as Nintendo exclusives on a Nintendo platform
The only $40+ games I've bought were exclusives
The Witcher 3 is a 'maybe' for me though, just for the porting effort and for using the 32gb cart

@Nerdfather1 Yeah at this point I’m surprised it hasn’t hit $20 on eShop or physical for a sale. I bought it at launch on Switch for $60, and it’s amazing. Preferred to play on Switch over PS4. Ended up trading it to help pay for Witcher 3, and regret it since it hasn’t been on a decent sale since. Def worth whatever price as it’s a great game, but I see if people don’t wanna double dip unless it’s $20 or less.

As amazing as Bioshock Infinite was, I don't know if I want to triple dip. This is a nice way to try the other games (provided you have the storage space).

Wish they had just made borderlands 3... downgrade it, do whatever... but for me to play these grinding games again is a bit much for me...
I’ll grind something NEW, but won’t bother here...

Never played. COM 2 and always wanted to though, so I’m in for that for sure.

Another problem with this mass release of all the borderlands is that you effectively split the online community into three different pools... so we have a smaller group to play each one with...
Unlike if you released one at a time spread out, much of the community could pass on to the newest game as they came out... even if you did it quarterly it would be something...
Just another thought.

@Moistnado
This is true. But I buy games on Switch for the freedom to play whenever and wherever I want. I own DOOM 2016 on PS4 and Switch. I paid $50.00 for Witcher 3 on Switch because there is no way I would get enough time with the television to play through it. While I wish these games were more like $40 to $50, I will gladly pay the Switch tax or wait for a sale for the convenience.

Great news, especially since it might be possible that the physical Bioshock collection (wich still requires a download) is more expensive then dowloading all 3 games seperately. That wouldn't surprise me.

@WhiteTrashGuy while I agree that sometimes it is worthwhile for the convenience of portability to pay an extra $40, I always think that Nintendo made the console portable, not the dev. With doom and Witcher the devs did put in extra work but quite often the game dev did very little to make it portable themselves, so I don't really think it is right that they charge significantly more. I currently have a eshop voucher for a 60 dollar game that is about to expire. I don't want to buy something I already got for $10 or free (which includes doom and Witcher) on Ps4, and I'm not into animal crossing either...sucks.

@the_beaver since borderlands 2 looked fantastic on psvita - i bet it will be on paar with xbox one or ps4 / pc.

i mean, if they were be able to port that game to the vita, switch should have no problems with those games aswell, since the hardware is much stronger.

I have to agree with some of the comments, under 20 bucks seems like a fair price for these. If they go ridiculous high then I'll just wait for a sale, or play it on a better system with better quality.

I can buy Borderlands again? On yet another platform? Sign me up, bonertoots!

If it's £50 for each collection it will still be a better price than what Capcom are trying to pull.

Though, these should still be cheaper. Make no mistake, the high cost of Switch games isn't because publishers are scrapping the barrel to make back their money. It's all about maximising their profit. That's why Capcom and here with 2K don't pay for the high capacity carts and instead force downloads on you.

It's even worse on these ports. Sure the Devs do a great job, and they need to get paid, but like I said, this isn't what this is about. Porting a game is a much cheaper, much faster project than building one from scratch. You're paying a handful of engineers, artists, and testers for 6-12 months, vs a larger team of those guys, along side scene directors, writers, marketing, concept artists, etc for 3+ years.

Porting an older title is even easier. This is why games like Dragon's dogma, Red Faction, and the Doom games can out at cheaper price points.

@Moistnado
I understand completely. Just, as a father of 3, I have to game when I can and very rarely do I get time with the TV. The WiiU and the Switch have afforded me the ability to play Mature and Role Playing Games. That is invaluable to me. Even at such a mark up.

@nessisonett

Agree with you mate. Exorbitant prices for old games. What baffles me is why are ppl playing these games on a controller and console. Better suited to PC

What is the price of the individual games? Download size?