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@Twilite9 i love it too ! it's so awesome ! ✊

@Twilite9 check this out it's so cool 😎 https://youtu.be/T34nXvCQDQQ

@premko1 Nathan Drake

@NintendoLife @JimNorman you missed a perfect opportunity when asking for the correct name of Handheld Mode Boost ! - as pretty much everyone has been calling it "Boost Mode" ! 😂 you could have included that ! and "Handheld Boost Mode" !

initial reaction is it looks horrible. then seeing the original realise it's exactly like it, just high res clean version

i spotted Smyths listing around a week ago → https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/gaming-and-tech/pre-order-games/nintendo-switch-2-pre-order-games/snowrunner-nintendo-switch-2/p/259376

in related news, it seems WWE 2K25 (yes 25, not 26) has a 'Game-Key Card' release now. previously it was only available as a 'Code in Box' release

@jsty3105 hi. thanks for your reply 👍 it has helped me to consider that people can view this from different angles 🤓 i agree with it possibly being a glass half-full / half-empty scenario ☯️ i had thought that myself.

the point i'd like to make now is that Nintendo is a business, they would never intentionally do anything to harm their profits. i don't believe it's correct to view the situation as "Nintendo pricing digital games cheaper". i can only see it as the digital price being the full price for that game, and the physical version having a 'premium' (so-to-speak), due to it obviously costing money to produce.

btw when i use the word 'premium' i just mean it in terms of the price, as in "a premium on top of the digital price". the word 'premium' can be used and understood in different ways. i meant physical games have a price premium.

my understanding of Nintendo's digital/physical price difference since Switch 2 launched, has always been that the digital price is the full standard price, and the price on physical is higher. but that is indeed just a matter of perspective isn't it.

i can see now that it could be viewed as digital being "cheaper", especially by people who are digital-first, as you say.

i suppose ultimately; "cheaper" and "premium" are neither here nor there. because with any price difference, one is always going to be lower, and one is always going to be higher 🤷 so one person saying the lower price was made cheaper, and another person saying the higher price was made more expensive, is really just a matter of perspective.

but the biggest point is; what the price would be if there was no price difference. and i don't think we can know that, if that even exists. because Nintendo could well have split the difference between the two, couldn't they. rather than one being given a lower price, or one being given a higher price. a split difference; so half lower & half higher.

ohmygoodness ! this is aawweessoommee !! 🥳

@jsty3105 hi 👋 why are you saying

it's not a premium because we've had cheaper digital prices in the UK

? cheaper than what ?

Switch 2 exclusive game RRP has indeed always had a premium over digital, in UK and indeed the whole of Europe, as well as Japan.

take Pokopia for example: https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/pokemon-pokopia-70010000107422
digital RRP £58.99
physical RRP £66.99

surely you can see £58.99 is the games "standard" price, and the physical RRP has a +£8 premium ?

it's the same for all other Switch 2 exclusive games, they all have an £8 physical premium (Mario Tennis Fever, Kirby Air Riders, Hyrule Warriors, Donkey Kong Banaza. and Mario Kart World which is a highest price-tier game at £66.99 digital / £74.99 physical)

*edit: Yoshi actually has a +£9 premium https://store.nintendo.co.uk/en/yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book-70010000119860
digital RRP £49.99
physical RRP £58.99

(Yoshi is a lower price-tier game in every country worldwide)

don't be confused by the "look" of the numbers themselves 🧐 for example: Zelda BotW / TotK NS2E both have RRP of £66.99, but that is because they were both higher price-tier original Switch games to begin with ℹ️ at £59.99 remember.

(NS2E games do not have physical premium price)

likely all AI-generated

£417.60 for Switch 2 Mario Kart World Bundle + Pokémon Pokopia game; using the 10% off code stated on the page (code expires today!) 👍 https://www.very.co.uk/nintendo-switch-2-console-with-mario-kart-world-amp-pokeacutemon-pokopia/1601229966.prd

@Shmoo

How spooky 👻 I just bought Fire Red from a local bookstore for $127 I believe on the dot

thoroughly check that it is authentic ℹ️ as fakes are rife 🚨

@darylb24 ah my mistake 😊 John Lewis is my guess 👍

@darylb24

I work for a large UK retailer on the business planning side and for Argos

then would you happen to know who is responsible for completely omitting the words "Upgrade Pack" from the recent Argos listings of Upgrade Packs for the Mario Party title https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7746587 as well as both the Zelda titles https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7746604 https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7746611 and the Kirby title https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7746570 ?

because omitting the most important words from a product name is utterly ridiculous, let alone additionally inserting the words "Switch 2 Game" at the ends of the latter three product names. whoever is responsible is either completely clueless, or seeking to intentionally decieve.

perhaps you could communicate the absurdity of doing such to the relevant department

no demo available yet ?? 😭

@bojackson 👍

@bojackson if you have a user profile with its account set to japan logged-in on a console then you will always be seeing news articles for that region. the only way to stop it is to remove that user profile from the console or to change that user profile accounts country to a different region via https://accounts.nintendo.com/profile/edit

fyi you only need an account set to japan to initially download the japanese nso nintendo classics apps. after that you can play them using a user profile with its account set to any region 🙂

do i recall seeing an article stating the Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics games can be played without a headset ?

@Dee123

3 stores? Lol. Talk about hyping up a headline.

no, this isn't only regarding 3 stores. this regards the entire company

i love your quizzes @NintendoLife ! thanks 😁👍 9/12

@pikachupikachup

they're actually trying to make microSDEX a real standard

newsflash: sd express is a real standard https://www.sdcard.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/[email protected] https://www.sdcard.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SpeedClass9.1EN.png

oh nOoOoOoOo 😭 all that text at the bottom is obscuring the plain blue ground 😒

reminds me of the arcade games in Shenmue ❤️

@justin233

Fook GameStop for tricking me into trading in all my childhood games in the early 2000’s. Let them die.

please tell this full story 🍿

the "green" looks just like the existing blue ! 🤷

@Serpenterror hmm . . . £120 vs £12.99 . . . that's a tricky decision ! 😂 (joke) 👍

@OorWullie 😁👍

@OorWullie you can delete everything after the item number in that link if you want to remove all that guff lol 😁

yeh it seems really good value, according to dekudeals the cheapest they've ever been on eShop is £8.99 for the 1st bundle, and £9.89 for the 2nd bundle. so that's £18.88 combined

Capcom just recently released a Capcom Arcade Stadium & Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Bundle 'Code in Box' version. Argos (UK) has it available for £12.99 which seems a really good price for both 😁👍 it contains 2 download codes, one for each bundle.

that Switch OLED model (with the dog) screen does not look right at all

do Chris and Barry share the exact same character model ?

this GBC version of Resident Evil isn't really any different from Alone In The Dark

Lara doesn't look like Lara

@TheWokesterGamer it has been changed to "PC" now

@TheWokesterGamer i thought it's only Nintendo that don't disclose digital sales

@NintendoLife what's this supposed to mean at number 6

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition - PSC 63%

is it meant to say PC ?

@darylb24

Argos is now doing the Mario Kart bundle for £30 off at £399.99. They usually now copy Amazon, so the price is probably also there.

sorry (not sorry) to potentially burst your proverbial bubble. but that is actually completely backwards 🙅 all Amazon ever does is price-match other retailers. that is literally their business model. they call it Amazon "dynamic pricing". basically means they only offer better prices if other retailers do.

support the retailers who originate offers. Amazon is a retailer killer. literally

an example right here on this page is the "Switch 2 console £385 Amazon" offer. the only reason Amazon have offered that price is because EE offered it - https://ee.co.uk/products/nintendo-switch-2-console

yet another example right on this page is the "Switch 2 Mario Kart World Bundle £404.95 Amazon" offer. the only reason Amazon had that price is because TheGameCollection offered it - https://www.thegamecollection.net/products/nintendo-switch-2-mario-kart-world-bundle-switch-2 - but what you wouldn't get at Amazon that you would at TGC is £10 back in Reward Points to spend freely on anything else they sell 🤷 - Amazon is constantly price-matching TheGameCollection, it's easy to spot as all TGC prices end in 95p

Amazon has since price-matched Argos with the £399.99 offer

@Cakefish i got the same ! 👍

actually it has been beaten today by ShopTo on eBay = £349 using the discount code shown on the page https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177268976475

also TopCashBack has had 15% eBay cashback today only which allows use of the aforementioned eBay discount code. so that would make it an absolutely incredible effective price as long as it comes through (cashback is never guaranteed)

@NintendoLife @JimNorman if you want to display the percentage saving for this offer as a saving of 12%

Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle + 12-month Nintendo Switch Online Membership + Yoshi Ornament - £429.99 (-12%), My Nintendo Store

then you need to adjust the percentage savings for the other Mario Kart World Bundle offers (to also account for the MKW Bundle saving over the cost of buying the solus console + separate game)

else that My Nintendo Store offer needs to be shown as a 5.7% saving:

£429.99 + £17.99 + £7.99 = £455.97

£429.99 ÷ £455.97 = 0.943

= 5.7% saving

#maths

@Broch83 can pre-order it for less than full price !!! 🥳 + free metal keychain from ShopTo.net / TheGameCollection.net / Hit.co.uk 🤩👍

possible 5% discount via a ShopTo referral link (mine: https://www.shopto.net/?stref=48411)

i believe Currys have the lowest pre-order price (10% discount at checkout) but no keychain sadly

Currys also have a good price on the PowerA themed S2 case £13.99 (£17.99 elsewhere)

@IronMan30 multiple Reddit posts saying Costco in US have Donkey Kong Bananza at $39.97 😀👍

VGP have a great price on Red Dead Redemption (Switch) - they assure me it is cartridge version 🤷 - CA$24.99

@IronMan30 @Lucius6 but there are ! Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle + Donkey Kong Bananza (physical) for £439.99 at Very is a saving of £56.99 over RRP 💪

Switch 2 console (solus) + Donkey Kong Bananza (physical) for £409 is a saving of £53.98 over RRP

Costco (membership required) has a crazy in-store offer on the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle at £359.98 😮 saving £70 over RRP 🫢

@JimNorman @NintendoLife you can add: Nintendo Switch 2 Console (solus) + Pokémon Legends Z-A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (physical) = 405.99 https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7624867/specialoffers/E46972 👍

this is all unnecessary if the old console was never updated to the Virtual Game Card system software.

when setting up a Switch 2 you simply select the option "i no longer have this console". then there are no problems.

@NintendoLife @JimNorman Switch 2 Console Mario Kart World Bundle - ShopTo price is £429.85

£379.99 is an unknown third party seller via a separate marketplace platform website

@NintendoLife @JimNorman

15th November: 4pm - 10pm PT (12am - 6am GMT / 7pm - 1am ET / 1am - 7am CET)

need to add "16th November" to the GMT & CET times, as it's the next day for those timezones

@kal_el_07241 Lego and Pokémon announced partnership back in March https://youtube.com/shorts/VZJpbY1ZAgY

@NintendoLife @JimNorman many of your UK console prices are wrong; Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle has been £409 / £409.99 from multiple retailers, for a number of weeks now.

£409: EE, John Lewis, AO, Currys, Amazon, Very.
£409.99: Smyths, Argos.

ℹ️ also: EE has had Switch 2 standalone at £385 / Switch 2 Pokemon Legends Z-A bundle at £415, for some time now.