Nintendo's MAR10 Day Sale Brings Discounts To Select Games And DLC (North America)

If Super Mario Odyssey was on sale I’d be tempted 🙂

@OctolingKing13 how do you not have that game?! But you bring up a good point, a lot of Mario games aren't on sale which is bizarre

Some good deals here. I might pick up the Sparks of Hope dlc , even tho i haven’t played the main game yet. Is the dlc good?

I don't think mario oddysey was on sale except for 2 times

Picked up Sparks of Hope. Have no idea what the series is about so I'm going in blind!

I might actually jump on Mario Party Superstars. While none of my friends play video games, I understand that this entry has online play with randos? Might be fun to have some drinks and stumble my way through a session on Friday nights.

I would love to see a 50% discount on Luigi’s Mansion, Warioware, or the newer Mario Party and nothing will make me pay more.

I can't argue with the viability of their pricing philosophy but it’s a bummer sometimes.

@Diogmites If your confidence in buying the DLC is based on enjoying the first game, then I would wait. It’s a good game but while I thought the first game was a great tactics game, the second is more like baby’s first tactics games. I’m under leveled and still beating almost all levels on my first or second turn without taking any damage.. It’s good but not great.

@RBRTMNZ Never played the first one. I found a physical copy of the second for dirt cheap, so i grabbed it on a whim.
Thanks for the heads up on the difficulty, though. I’ll hold off until i play the main game.

@Guitario haha got it from the library one time but only got to play it for about an hour. I’ve been wanting it since I owned a switch lol. also I feel like nsmb would on sale since wonder has come out

Why is Mario Kart on sale, the Mario Kart + DLC is on sale, but the DLC by itself is not on sale?

I never picked up the DK DLC for the first Rabbids game. Maybe I will pick that up.

One benefit of licensing out their characters is that Nintendo can maintain their stingy discount strategy while also celebrating these occasions with deep discounts. Let Ubisoft and Sega take the hit.

I got Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope recently. Wasn't planned but, hey I have it now. Is the DLC for that on sale in Europe as well?

Edit: Had the time to look it up myself and nope, it's not. Sad. Just the Rayman DLC for some reason.

@RevengeFan Great question. I was really hoping the Mario Kart DLC would go on sale as I didn't renew the Switch Online expansion.

Surprised they didn't put Super Mario Maker 2 on the list.

They can't go above 33%, that's pretty much a fact. That much for a 2017 game is insulting.

@abbyhitter Probably because that's not what's best for customers, but what the company needs to sell more. Not a single Mario platformer made it to this list, only bargain bin products as usual.

It'd be cool if the discounts included physical.

@rushiosan

They can't go above 33%, that's pretty much a fact. That much for a 2017 game is insulting.

Why? I do not get it. Of course that we always want to pay less, but why a game should be devalued because was not launched in the current year?

A person buying the game today will have the same content (if not more) that I had at the launch.

The logic that a game should be cheaper because is "old" is flawed and used more by people addicted to buy instead of play it.

@Jezebelley

it's a great franchise! Mario meets Xcom.

More like the XCom reboot, not the original. And for some of us the reboot sucks.

Also, as a fan of strategic games (the only games that I start at the hardest difficulty), I do not recommend Mario + Rabbids, since they are very weak as strategy games.

The first one is one of my biggest regrets on Switch (the other games that I regreted are Poly Bridge, Hentai Girls and Banner Saga).

@RevengeFan it comes with Nintendo Online for free so they probably want to incentivize subscriptions.

Up to 67% off! Nintendo, don't spoil us so.

Oh, it's the UbiSoft games that are already regularly discounted (excellent as they are).

@RevengeFan This. Even though I own the NSO + Expansion Pack, I know my access to MK8DX DLC won't last forever and I'd need to make the purchase of it eventually. This would've been a great time for it, even with the typical 33% discount.

@HammerGalladeBro @sketchturner @RevengeFan When I saw MK8 on sale for $39.99 I briefly considered it, but then seeing the game and dlc right next to it for $64.99 I was so annoyed by the doc nit being on sale, that even though it would have probably been only a few $ cheaper at the same 33% off, like $57.99 or so, I decided not to get it. 🤑 I still think the bundle will be a $69.99 launch title for Switch 2, which is $5 more than the bundle now, but I’m hoping for a few more bells and whistles updates in that one.

2 more months MK8 will be 10 years old, so hard to pay $65 for it now when I bought it for $60 ten years ago.

@rushiosan

I think the developers of older games would think your comment to be insulting. Why should a game that is just over 5 years old be discounted more than 33%? What makes it worth less in such a small span of time?

This discussion is always so dumb. We all want to enjoy games and revere them as achievements in art and gameplay, but as soon as they’re older than a year we want to pay close to nothing for them.

@rallydefault A 7yo product already generated enough money to cover all development costs/sales expectations to be discounted at will. Certain companies simply don't see it like that and want to milk every penny out of a game, emulator, 20 year old defunct hardware, expired licenses etc.

It's a choice like many things in life. I'm entitled to disagree and despise it as much as they're entitled to be greedy about their properties.

Not defending billion-dollar companies is what I have to contribute to this discussion. Have a nice day.

@Rozetta Games aren't pieces of art in such limited amounts to be kept valuable and restrict for whatever reason. The digital licenses are pretty much infinite as long as math goes, and they can always reprint copies under cheaper labels like "greatest hits" or "nintendo selects" to make them accessible for a wider range of hardware owners, they just opt not to.

@RevengeFan If you were to buy the base game on sale and the booster pass at regular price you would pay $64.98. You get the same $20 discount whether you purchase the base MK8 or the bundle with the booster pass. Effectively there is no discount on the booster pass portion of the bundle. (You actually pay 1 cent more.)

Similar discount occurred with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and the Expansion Pass bundle in a sale last year.

New Bros U should have been $20 for this sale.

Kind of underwhelming.

@MsMaestroon

I'm not much of a strategy game guy, I enjoyed what I played of X-Com Enemy Unknown and it's sequels but never finished them because I'm horrible at them.

The first Mario + Rabbids game is great from what I played, I still need to beat it but it's been backlogged as my free time has lessened. Thankfully it was not as challenging or at least as unforgiving with design mechanics like X-Com.

I own Sparks of Hope and I hear some changes weren't liked but that it's still good. I'll hopefully get to it some day soon.

@Rozetta

I disagree, most products over time lower in price. Nintendo themselves have lowered the price of their biggest games eventually, just look at the greatest hits collections.

It's just a way to get more sales from more cost conscious consumers. It's not like the games are a year old.

Nintendo chooses not to because of money. The Wii and especially the Switch has sold so well Nintendo feels it doesn't need to lower prices.

Now this is their right to do, but in no way does lowering the cost of their games diminish the quality or integrity of the them. That's just their excuse instead of just saying the truth. "We don't want to lower the price of our games because we know consumers (especially fans) will just buy them and it makes us more money."

That phrasing isn't something most companies want to publicly state so they come up with some PR nonsense reason instead.

@rushiosan

So once a company covers its dev costs for a product, it's time to start offering up said product for next to nothing?

@Jezebelley Sounds good! It just arrived in the mail today.

@Diogmites curious myself

@rallydefault They should probably revoke licenses and demand people to buy it again.

@rushiosan
Nah, that would never work. People would use their brains and not play along.

Just like horse armor.

@rallydefault Yeah, totally (look at sales of Wii U ports).

@rushiosan
Now, I know this is a crazy concept, but here’s what I do:

-If I already own a game, I don’t buy it again. And if at all possible, I always buy physical. I don’t mess with digital licenses if I don’t have to.

• I don’t get rid of my old consoles.
• I don’t buy stupid DLC.
• I don’t buy any game for a price I don’t want to pay for it. There are too many easy alternatives in waiting for sales, buying used, and even renting if I don’t have long-term interest in the game.

Novel concepts, I’m sure. But maybe if more people acted this way, we wouldn’t be having this back-and-forth in the first place. If people stopped buying Nintendo’s games at full price or near to full price seven years after release, then we would likely see different pricing behavior from Nintendo.

@rallydefault Truth is - that's never going to happen. We're walking towards the worst possible scenario in digital content distribution: you don't own anything, the companies are entitled to revoke your library at any given time (or whenever licensing expires), you're not even allowed to share an account or the media you purchased in the past because newer hardware (or OS version, in the mobile scenario) is made to force replacement. Take a step towards software preservation and they'll sue you with a lifetime debt for copyright infringement.

It's hard to see a bright scenario in the upcoming generation.

@rushiosan
Well, again, it'll take people to actually use their brains and vote with their wallets: buy physical, not digital.

It's your classic case of slowly giving up your independence/freedom/power (whatever dramatic term you wanna give it) in exchange for convenience.

@rallydefault Just a side note - The previous two Pokémon generations broke sales records in several milestones, including the overall franchise launch sales, even with tons of bad performance clips flooding the internet during the release week.