We had a lot of fun with EA's Burnout Paradise Remastered last year. Awarding it 7/10 stars, it still offers a solid open-world racing game but – outside of some handheld mode issues – one of our biggest gripes with this Switch port was the high price.
Charging £44.99 / $49.99 for a 12-year-old game seemed rather heavy, so we're quite pleased to see that EA has quietly updated this. As you can see from its eShop listing, that's now been reduced to £24.99 / $29.99 permanently.
It's unclear when exactly this happened, considering EA didn't formally announce this change. Still, giving us a 40% reduction on the original price without relying on sales, this is a much more reasonable ask from Burnout fans than before.
Credit to @Clyde_Radcliffe for spotting this. Will you be picking up Burnout Paradise at this lower price? Share your thoughts down below.
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Not surprising, many publishers will keep the price high in the hopes of grabbing as much cash from early adopters willing to pay, then once early sales dry up they drop the price. It takes longer than just launching at the low price but in the end can net more profit.
Although the lack of advertising is a surprise as you need to remind people of it; although thats what NLife is doing!
That and they may even know how many people have the game on their wishlist.
Finally! I just want more people to experience my favorite racing game!
@FX102A I had it on my wishlist but didn't even get emailed because it's not a "sale" reduction but a permanent one.
I'm actually more inclined to buy it now, funnily enough
Good, now I'm just waiting for the new price to be slashed again in a sale and I will pick it up.
Definitely a 8+ out of 10. Incredible how well it runs on Switch!
It seems like it would have sold bucket loads at launch if they had just released it at this price. But hey, maybe it sold bucket loads at launch anyway. EA know what they're doing I suppose, the absolute money grabbing b*stards that they are.
Ok the most important news on Switch is that we got a discount on a three year old remaster of a 13 year old game. Wish Switch got as many as huge discounts as the competition
Because "relying on sales" is rocket science and the likely bulk of the userbase aren't actively doing it, especially when it comes to publishers like EA or Ubisoft.
Burnout took a month to see its first discount, TWO MONTHS to hit the aforetouted 40% off... and was already half-priced less than a month ago. But now you can buy it cheaper more often than every few weeks, yay! Or do the price whiners hope for proportional 50% discounts on top of that? 😅
Seriously, guys (addressing the crowd in general here, not the article per se), this topic is getting old. If launch prices on Switch aren't to your liking, it's high time to make the choice between Deku Deals and Steam/PSS. Pricetags should be and are regulated by offer and demand (like what probably influenced the subject of this very newspost), not by fanbrained social media soapboxing.
@frabbit they got my launch purchase, so they sure do. I'm not even remotely in the budget zone to consistently grace the full prices of that caliber, but Burnout release landed right into my June payday with imminent summer bonuses to come. Then again, last autumn's NFS Hot Pursuit wasn't as timely for my wallet, so I'll probably end up getting it discounted instead. Almost did alongside The Outer Worlds this month, but the wage fluctuations birdflipped me pretty much down the sum required, so better luck next time.
I bought burnout paradise for £29.99 physical two days after release
taken at 19euros on Amazon.. EA🙄
Sounds very tempting.
I might buy it when it goes on sale from its already reduced price. The less money I have to give EA the better. Plus I'm not really into the open world racing, it put me off Most Waned on Wii U. I'd prefer Need for Speed Hot Pursuit,I enjoyed it on Wii. But again, I'll wait for a price reduction and sale.
If you have a Xbone and want this it's £4.99 right now, normally it's £19.99.
You can keep Paradise. I just want Revenge.
when you make an article like this you should include euros as well.
$9.99 to $14.99 and I'll buy it.
It's still EA, isn't it? So I won't buy it. Simple as that.
That is great, but it is hard to pay that for the game when the better version on ps4 goes on sale for less then ten dollars fairly often. And then the fact that I despise open world racing games.
I’ll grab it for that price. If EA would release a Mass Effect trilogy on the Switch, then I’d give them $60 😂
Seems like a fairer/more realistic price.
Thanks but no thanks, I picked up Rayman Legends on Ubisoft Connect for $10.20 yesterday. It's on sale for -66% off, and I would much rather support them than EA.
@OorWullie @Darknyht @Coxula What's wrong with supporting EA when they actually make a really good port with effort put into it like this one? I can understand not buying that joke of a Fifa game that came out on Switch recently but this is definitely one of the better third party Switch games. It sends out a message that they can actually sell well on Switch if they make the effort.
@Clyde_Radcliffe I don't buy EA games for a lot of reasons, but to name a few:
So yeah, I will support companies other than EA (and Tencent/Epic).
Cool, now put it on sale at 50% off.
Nice reduction and will no doubt be reduced in sale at some point too.
Physical edition available new here for £21.25 delivered if anyone in UK is interested
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Burnout-Paradise-Remastered-Nintendo-Switch-In-Stock-Now-Brand-New-/254601532200
Still slightly overpriced in my opinion. If if hits £15 during a sale I will pick it up.
EA showing common sense? What has the world come to?!
@Petew Same. £14.99 feels like a good price for a future sale pick up.
about time EA. I have been wanting this but the 50 dollar price turned me off.
Its still higher than it is on PS4 and Xbox One
(Its 20 dollars on those platforms) but its only 10 dollars more on switch so 30 dollar price is pretty reasonable as well.
At least it isn't as expensive as the HP remastered
https://www.thegamecollection.net/burnout-paradise-remastered-switch-edition-switch?sqr=Burnout&
£21 physical edition
@Bizaster oh it is. EA is finally doing something good for nintendo fans
@Rohanrocks88 mines is MC and it costs the same as BP remastered
I paid full price for both. They were new for me. It seems like BP took at least a little longer to go on sale. The issue for me is that in general, there is very little incentive to get a game at launch, full price, unless it’s a Nintendo game that I really want.
It's EA. Anyone that bothers to read my comments knows what I think of EA.
That said.
BUY THIS GAME! IT'S BRILL*
(*not Burnout 3 levels of brill, but it's still Burnout brill!)
ehh some EA games, I do actually like them like NFS.
Apex is free to play so I won't spend money when it comes to switch
Companies permanently dropping the price on games without advertising that they're doing so seems to be a trend with the Switch.
Wish the eShop itself would advertise when that happens like the 3DS and Wii U eShops did.
Good game for me. Worth a punt at that price. I already have it.
@Clyde_Radcliffe I just don't like EA's dirty tactics. They've been a horrible company for decades. I used to let it slide but no more. FIFA becoming Legacy Edition after just 2 years on one of the most succesful consoles of all times was the final straw.
maybe i'll actually get this now that the price is at least acceptable
@jump Exactly what I was thinking.
@hadrian
Can’t imagine why anyone on Xbox would buy this though, unless they’ve somehow exhausted all 4 vastly superior Forza Horizon games
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