From today onwards, Nintendo fans located in Australia in New Zealand can now purchase Switch games and consoles from the local My Nintendo Store.
Nintendo is offering all of its major first-party titles in physical form - from Pikmin 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to earlier Switch releases such as New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. There are also harder-to-find products like Ring Fit Adventure as well as plenty of third-party games including the new release Disney Illusion Island.
As highlighted by Vooks.net, the catch here is you'll be paying top dollar (aka the full recommended retail price) and free shipping is only available if you spend $100 or more. The average game on the digital store is $79.99 AUD with certain releases costing slightly more or less. As for Switch, an OLED model costs $539.95, an original unit is $469.95 and the Lite is $329.95.
While certain hardware has been offered on the Australian My Nintendo Store in the past, it was mostly for "limited edition" consoles, controllers and spare parts. Games though are a completely new product on the storefront. Obviously, the option to purchase games and hardware directly from Nintendo's official website in other regions is already available.
Have you ever purchased any physical games directly from Nintendo or do you purchase the latest releases from your local retailers or digitally? Tell us in the comments.
[source vooks.net]
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I bought the games from my local game shop, from local online shopping website, from play-asia and Ebay.
It's good to have more options I guess but I'd still rather just buy elsewhere cheaper.
I guess that’s nice, but I think I’d rather buy it from somewhere else. I can get them much cheaper, and I don’t have to wait for shipping. I wouldn’t mind if they started doing this for more regions, though. Southeast Asia, anyone?
Maybe even hardware maintenance?😅
As us Aussies would say......Yeeeeahh, naaahhhh.
That tagline makes me think someone else enjoyed the new Futurama episode as well.
Ha! It was free shipping for orders over $80 until this recent addition to the store. I'll stick to JB Hi-Fi for physical games.
Is this with USD conversions? These are a lot without adding on the shipping fees
I bought the physical copy of Bayonetta on the official Nintendo shop.
It was an experience to forget. But I did get it.
But would it come sealed like from Playasia or in EB Games's case, a supposedly "brand new copy" that is probably played by the workers themselves...
I find Smyths and Argos are the better options anyway. Pikmin 4 is £10 cheaper in Argos than anywhere else.
@NinjaNicky But that’s great and all if you live in the Uk, people in Australia pay a lot more
@NinjaNicky I'm in the U.K. and I must admit Argos is excellent. I can check availability, buy online and collect in store at my convenience.
@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed We do have plenty of our own local options for getting games lower than RRP though. New games at launch are usually at least $10 off if you look in the right places so I don't even remember the last time I've paid full price for a game here.
Nintendo has to sell these games to retailers for cheaper than the MSRP so those retailers can still make a profit. Since this is cutting out the middleman, that means Nintendo is getting 100% of the proceeds if you buy from their website. I feel like they should sell them for cheaper. Granted, I guess they have to pay to keep the lights on in whatever warehouse they're storing these physical games. I dunno. It still just feels like Nintendo is trying to maximize their profits at the expense of the customer, which is something they've been great at doing this gen.
Really wish i could just buy physical games through the eShop.
That's pretty cool
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