Nintendo Games Are About To Get Cheaper In Russia, Customers Also Offered Extended Warranties

In Soviet Russia, Nintendo Switch buys and plays with you.

I've bought a few games from the Russian eShop due to having some of the lowest prices after exchange rates.

Even lower prices could mean more visits.

In Soviet Russia, warranty extends you!

@eltomo I main a Russian account, and first party prices (and a few third party ones but mostly Nintendo stuff) bloated up noticeably after our neighbours' currency sank proportionally in regards to the euro. I certainly wouldn't complain if they reverted to the previous ones in this "adjustment", but seeing will be believing here. Warranty does not concern me since there's no way their service would deal with anything in Belarus.

This means in the next sale you will see Nintendo games for 31% off. 🤣

Hopefully the Russian bears don't get all the consoles so the Russian humans can play.

Russian eShop is already a good bit cheaper than the UK one most of the time. I wonder if they'll see a spike in sales due to other regions hopping onto the Russian store to buy rather than their "local" one

@dmcc0 @eltomo I used to buy most of my games from the Russian Eshop but for the last few months, the Polish Eshop has been generally the cheapest. This is a great website for price checking.

https://eshop-prices.com/?currency=GBP

@HotGoomba They bought all the Oled Switches and are trying to sell them to us at a 50% markup.

Well, I guess this wouldn’t effect physical. Physical games are cheaper in Russia than the digital versions - heck, you can buy Pikmin 3 for 1100 roubles, which is like 13 euros. Anyway - good policy.

@themightyant nah, this is mostly a marketing scheme. Nintendo is still considered as a baby-console in Russia and they want to break the mould. Furthermore, Sony and especially PC-games all have regional prices, which reflect the GDP and average wages.

@OorWullie Yeah, that's my go-to site for price checking too. I've already got a Russian, South African and Norwegian accounts as well as my regular UK account and can usually get somewhere pretty close to the cheapest price with one of them so don't really want to set up another for a relatively small saving - I only have one user slot left anyway (family are using the rest) and was considering a Japanese account for the odd exclusive.

@dmcc0 you sound like you have the exact same set up as me

@dmcc0 why do you have multiple European accounts if you are based in Europe?

I live in the UK and just switch my Nintendo account to the relevant European country when purchasing games.

@kobashi100 For me it seems like less hassle than having to change country every time - I can just open the store from whatever user account is cheapest. Don't you lose existing funds/coins when you change countries, or is that just for different regions?

Deku deals, nytchevo

@HotGoomba If you talking about scalpers... They are rarely seen in my country, I think. I'm Russian and I'm living in Rostov-on-Don(South of Russia).

@CactusMan that's strange. I live in the UK and never have a problem logging into Nintendo account from my phone and switching country in user info menu.

Nintendo games should get cheaper in all countries, is a absurd what Brazilian pay for Switch games in Brazil.

@Vyacheslav333 No I didn't mean scalpers, I meant bears. Scalpers could work in that sentence too though.

@HotGoomba Oh, okay.

In Canada game prices have been on a steady climb for years now. What is it now, like a hundy to buy a game? Two hundy if you get a bit of DLC?

@nhSnork wait, no warranty? won't Batka Lukashenko come in and repair all your consoles first hand?! Seems he likes to meddle with the lives of ordinary Belarussians, I'd think so!

j/k obviously.

Sometimes I wish there was region locking on the Switch. Just comparing Steam prices and eShop makes me cry. Like, Hades is almost 4 times more expensive on the Switch in Russia, and even though I'd love to play it on the Switch, it makes absolutely no sense from a financial standpoint.

So why did the article failed to explain what exactly is happening in Russia that would require lowering the prices of games and whatnot?

Did Russia joined the third world all of the sudden?

And if it did, then why do games cost so much more in Brazil or in other parts of Latin America?

@pinta_vodki games go on sales and a whole lot of third party games go on massive sales; Supergiant's own previous offerings on Switch have hit 80% off in the past. But Hades sells like hot cakes as it is, so the discounts are naturally less of a wowser for now.

Region lock is hardly more preferable in my book - I'd rather be able to buy a game eventually than not be able to buy it at all. Especially seeing as Russian eShop somehow manages to miss out on a few items available on Russian PS Store... and even on The Wonderful 101 which was previously available here on Wii U. And then there's stuff like Dying Light which all of Europe still seems to be lacking due to some content rating misadventures.

@GC-161 Just a marketing scheme and a nice present for the Russian players. Seeing how people stopped harassing everything Nintendo does at every possible occasion like they did, Nintendo Russia has gifted them extended warranty. They used to give out actual cash until June 2019 mind you, but they stopped when some vocal "fans" have been harassing everyone at Nintendo Russia for reasons unrelated to the early 2019 controversy. Now, no Switch owner pays any attention to the eShop prices, which are managed entirely by NoE in Germany and Yasha can't do anything about it. The eShop prices are stupid expensive for an equally stupid reason - the huge brain NoE just slapped the required 20% tax for digital goods imposed by Russia in December 2016 onto the MSRP of physical versions, which already has a regular 20% for regular goods. As such they simply get more profit than they need to. But the retailers only like it as it brings more people into the stores, and Nintendo Russia understands it well - that's why they're always advertising their games there. And Nintendo only gets more and more popular with each year as it penetrates the Russian market further.