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@RainbowGazelle I think only a couple of times. The only one I remember was the Switch 1 Links Awakening.
Others complaining about there being many Zelda remakes already are likely to be confusing a remaster with a remake

@Sam_ATLUS I think they understand but demand Nintendo tell them everything. Nintendo has communicated many times, I think for more than 5 years, that they're not following industry trends of announcing games years in advance apart from a case by case basis. They've explicitly said on more than one occasion that they're focused on telling us about games that are 6 months ahead or less 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Oldstalk I feel that's a pretty poor attitude to take. Companies choose a short release window for various reasons. Leaks spoil it - pretty much always.

Edit: And let's not pretend telling gamers earlier will prevent leaks or will prevent the desire to consume leaks.

@hol_up going after him cements the belief that the leaks were true.

@IceClimbersMain wanting to know doesn't mean being entitled to know

@Jalex_64 thanks for the reasoned reply. I don't feel it's shifting the narrative as we're discussing pc physical sales. And the pc physical version is a steelbook. For what it's worth this sales chart is consistently displayed across different sites. It's of course possible for the chart to have an error but, not, I don't think, out of a deliberate choice. I also wonder if the split is based on total share or based on the sales that week (the latter would be easier to calculate).

I also think it's not outside the realms of possibility for PC physical sales to overtake PS5 due to Capcom's push in recent years to target pc gamers. The physical version also included (or maybe it focused on) a steelbook option

@Jalex_64 think it's a massive stretch to call the PC version obscure just because you personally didn't know of it. Resident Evil has had a fantastic launch and it's done really well on PC.

@Jalex_64 I think it's more like a case of you not quite believing the numbers. I also imagine it would a heck of a scoop if you found several major flaws (as this would be) and could back it up - especially given that this is a respected market research company and not some joe blog calling shops around the UK to get figures.

@Jalex_64 not everything needs to be a conspiracy if you don't feel the numbers are accurate.

I'm equally as convinced there's no one with a wheel spinner going hmmmm, how much should the percentage split be for this game

@UltimateOtaku91 apparently there was a physical release of the base game on PC

@MamaSymphonia shows that frame rates and resolution is slightly over emphasised....

@Jayenkai considering how many here and elsewhere proclaimed mkw dead because mk8 temporarily outsold it for maybe 2 months in total 😆

@hammers1man it's been fairly easy to get the Switch 1 version for under £40 and also fairly easy to resell for around £30. Nintendo's big franchises tend to resell for decent money so you can end up spending around £10 in total (I accept that reselling a game isn't an exact science)

You can get the Switch 2 DLC pack for under £15 from Loaded I think.

For this Switch 2 edition that includes the dlc on card, I've been seeing prices of about £55 - which is still high but you can probably resell it later for like £40 I guess (or more if you're doing it relatively close to launch).

I'll also add that I have a firm viewpoint that it's crazy that videogames are those things that gamers devalue faster than cars. A car that's 20 years old can often be very expensive to maintain unless you're skilled at restoring it - a good game that's 20 years old doesn't automatically become worthless by it's age (otherwise Good Old Games might as well give away their catalogue)

@Peach64 apologies then. your previous comment didn't sound like you were critiquing the article and sounded like you were critiquing Nintendo for thinking that these releases would constitute a bumper year. The latter sounded like an odd critique given that this is just a rumour and given that we don't really know much about what's planned for the second half of the year

@Peach64 are you suggesting that the next Nintendo direct will only have these rumoured games

It's quite a pity that GoNintendo is one of the few sites with more complete reporting on this matter instead of sites that just report on the headline

https://gonintendo.com/contents/59149-independent-reporting-circana-a-former-nintendo-employee-chime-in-following

Others have done some more investigation and the numbers appear to be quite suspect:
"As NPW points out, either Mochizuki or their insiders may have looked at the Foxconn data shared above to surmise that it indicates a slowdown in Switch 2 manufacturing. NPW also goes on to say that Foxconn’s February revenue decreases every year because of Lunar New Year (across Jan-Feb in 2025), so in their opinion it would be “dubious to interpret that as an indicator of production cuts.”"

The key data:
"- in Oct-Dec, Foxconn made ~42.5B NTD; that may correlate to 7M NS2 units sold in Q3

• in Jan, FTC made ~13.4B NTD, and if that holds for Feb-Mar, it would be ~40B NTD for Q4, correlating to ~6.5M units
• Feb revenue dropped to ~7.2B NTD, and if that holds for March, would would be ~28B NTD for Q4, correlating to ~4.5M units; a ~31% reduction"

Think some are over reacting as if the rumoured remake is the only 1 of 2 'big' Nintendo games coming this year - as if there aren't going to be more and as if this rumour covered all the Nintendo games planned for 2026

@Zeeba we all lean either to optimism or pessimism. It's possible to be pragmatic and optimistic but your questions about possibilities didn't lean that way This isn't meant to be a criticism but I didn't see much 'hope' in them

@jco83 yeah - shrugs - I was initially really confused but have come to terms with different groups having different perceptions.

For your last point, yeah - that'll be hard to tell since we have no access to sensitive cost data. Undoubtedly, they'd have factored in possibly reduced stock requests from retailers, a small uptick in digital sales (I haven't studied/researched how/whether Nintendo Switch gamers are price inelastic - as in a measure of how we might be affected by price changes), and other things like changes in distribution costs and inventory costs

@Sirko purchasing contracts vary wildly in duration depending on purpose and what's being purchased. Nobody knows whether they were for 2 years, 3 years, or 5 years (or more).

It's highly implausible to imagine that it was only for a year.

@johnedwin "the us price for switch 2 is $100 dollars more then the switch 2 price in japan who is getting cheated?"

No one is getting cheated if you paid attention to why the Switch 2 is priced cheaper in Japan. Crucially, you need to factor in the relative purchasing power in Japan and not convert prices to USD and imagine this with US wages in mind. Also, you're completely omitting that the Switch 2 in Japan is region-locked.

@Zeeba there are lots of things people can say about "What Ifs". It's possible to consider them negatively, as you've phrased, and it's possible to consider them positively.

I'm an eternal optimist, which probably results in me butting heads more often than not with pessimists. Neither group is going to be exactly right.

@Teksette "Doesn’t it? There was price parity. Now I’m paying a $10 premium to get a hard copy of Yoshi or, most likely, any future 1st party Nintendo game."

This assumes that physical prices were getting increased instead of digital prices being lowered. The former is untrue (despite some gaming media deciding to report it that way).

I'm having way too much fun with this game. It'll be even more awesome if we can get soundtracks to the various series, especially the og

@Zeeba "Will all physical games be $10 more?" - if you're positioning this as a bad thing then yes. If you're taking the news as how it's intended to be taken, then no. It's a case of all digital games being $10 less. Is there a difference? Mainly just in how you as a consumer view the change and whether you think it is good or bad.

I think it's good - and you clearly think it is bad. Will this mean even higher prices? Highly unlikely - that's conspiracy theory stuff. Think of the physical price as the RRP and the digital price will be lower than that.

@gojiguy Given that gamers across all mediums have been asking for digital to be cheaper for over a decade (I continue to drum this point), this is an unreasonable assumption.
https://www.cbr.com/digital-games-should-be-cheaper/ - From 2020 - Why Digital Games Should Be Cheaper Than Physical Ones

https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/console-desktop-pc/matthew-wilson/ubisoft-explains-why-digital-games-are-more-expensive-on-console/ - "despite the fact that digital games are cheaper for publishers to release in the long run, we often see digital copies remaining fairly expensive on console for a long time, while physical copies get fairly cheap." From 2015

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/07/10/ubisoft-explains-all-the-terrible-reasons-why-digital-games-are-so-expensive/

https://www.howtogeek.com/779374/why-arent-digital-games-cheaper-than-physical-ones/ - From 2022

@-wc- @jco83 The whole premium angle has frankly been a head scratcher to me because Nintendo didn't raise the price of physical games - they just dropped the price of digital games to finally put in practice what tons of gamers have been asking/begging for since the rise of digital games (which were supposed to be cheaper due to lower costs of distribution and storage).

After some thought, I theorise that gamers who greatly favour physical format will look on this pricing and believe that physical games are now priced as a premium option. Gamers who don't care either way or favour digital games will look on this and think that it's a case of digital games becoming cheaper.

For one thing to be considered a 'premium' option, there usually needs to a several factors that make it more greatly desirable than the other option. And, to a fair extent, I understand that physical-first gamers will say that physical games have a great many factors that make it more desirable than digital games.

At the same time though, there are several digital-first gamers who are unlikely to consider physical games to be a premium option.

I could be talking rubbish as well since it's just a theory.

Just putting out there why I don't consider physical games as being priced at a premium. Appreciate that, at this point, it could be a case (using an imperfect analogy) of one camp thinking the glass is half full and the other thinking the glass is half empty.

Nevertheless, the discourse here has been a bit of an eye opener in a marketing-sense and I've gain a bit more knowledge of price positioning and consumer perceptions today.

@BoFiS Then nothing has changed for you since physical prices didn't change

@-wc- it's not a premium because we've had cheaper digital prices in the UK and I think in Europe for about a year now. There's not been any arguement that physical games are more premium now because of that. It's just like, digital is a bit cheaper. I don't even think it's really been discussed this way until Nintendo decided to bring the US in line with pricing in their other regions.

Yeah I remember that article. It's important to remember that this doesn't mean every game will be $70 and that $60 is the discount price. Yoshi is priced at $70 physical and $60 digital. Other games have different pricing

I have a feeling that some of the comments here positioning the pricing as being bad rather than good have been influenced by IGN's original 'reporting' which appeared to suggest that physical game prices were rising as opposed to digital game prices are falling.

@CupidStunt no way you're suggesting that DK could've been done on the Switch 1

@-wc- I also get what you're saying but i think it's a pretty poor argument. This isn't like when streaming services have a premium and a standard option. Making something cheaper and not making it worse does not mean the other option suddenly becomes a premium option. It'll only seem that way if you're a physical-first gamer. If you're not fussed either way then you'll see it differently

@Steelydandiddler it's as inevitable as the sun rising and falling. Nintendo makes a change (in this case, to make digital games cheaper) and some gamers claim greed

Nintendo confirms "The cost of physical games is not going up"

Other gamers, "Nintendo raised physical game prices instead of cutting digital game prices"

Still other gamers, "I'd be happy with increased prices for physical games if they were fully physical ones"

I know it's not like we all share the same beliefs (how boring would that be), but this is still nuts.

@Teksette making digital games cheaper doesn't suddenly make physical games the premium option

@topsekret I never trade in at shops because you regularly get worse value than trying to sell on eBay/Vinted. Which is kinda understandable - get less money but guaranteed cash in hand versus trying to sell it on another marketplace which carries it's own risks.

@Joe11 It was largely to keep retailers happy

@FishDude why are you comparing Japanese prices when it's fairly well known that the yen has been pretty weak for a couple of years at least now? It's not particularly relevant unless you're flying there and shop as a tourist.

@mswhom the whole point is your statement doesn't make sense when gamers have been asking for lower digital game prices for over a decade. Now that they lower them, out come gamers to complain again and proclaim it's the death of physical games. Ridiculous

@mswhom https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/05/iwata_defends_identical_digital_and_retail_prices people complained in 2012 when digital prices were the same as physical

@Zeeba https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/05/iwata_defends_identical_digital_and_retail_prices Nintendo got criticised in 2012 for digital prices being the same as physical prices. Fast forward to 2026 and people here are criticising Nintendo for lowering digital prices. Make it make sense please

@Yoshi3 I'm frankly gobsmacked at the number of people here who think this is a case of physical prices going up instead of digital prices going down

@sixrings no, the switch 3 won't be digital only. Gamers have been criticising the fact that digital game prices haven't been lower despite obvious cost savings from distribution. This criticism has been happening for a decade at least and definitely was quite loud during the Wii U era. @zeeba Don't know how some are suddenly treating this announcement as a possible bad thing

@Dev-N they're reducing digital prices to be less than physical game prices. They're not increasing physical game prices to be more than digital game prices

@wiiwouldliketoplay people have been arguing for about a decade that digital game prices should be cheaper than physical

@HingryHuppo just on that last point, I'm confused about what personal swipe I used? I took pains to avoid language that attacked rather than challenged

@HingryHuppo ah, the ol multi billion dollar company argument. I grew up in the 80s and if I'm not completely off case you never owned the game, just a license to play the game on the medium it was stored on. It's legalese that's meant for things other than companies to remove your access willy nilly. Even if they've removed it from the storefront you still own it - you're suggesting that removing from the storefront is the same as removing it from your account. They aren't the same thing.

Above, you've arguing semantics about ownership and possession. You've never owned a game but you do own the medium it's stored on.

I also don't understand why you chose to add this line in an earlier comment:

“ Risk of loss or damage for digital Products will transfer to you upon electronic transmission of the Product to you.”

You appear to be using this as an example of you not owning a video game.

@charliecarrot fears like this are overblown. The service exists, it works, and you can think of a great deal other negative things that COULD happen and it'll be never ending. Just like when others fear servers will cease. You can still redownload Wii games and it's been almost 20 years since launch. There's no good reason to think server infrastructure hasn't improved on Nintendo's side ever since their first attempt

@topsekret For most games, I tend to buy low and sell on at a similar price (in some cases, it can end up even higher!) - the times when a game value dropped significantly for me are relatively rare apart from some notable exceptions like Metroid Prime Dread and Metroid Prime Remastered when I bought close to launch (since Metroid games never held value).

@charliecarrot I believe Nintendo can transfer purchases to a new Wii console if you get in touch with customer service if your Wii caught fire. I recall other stories of people getting their purchases restored after theft or destruction.

@TerribleTerabytes and, whatever people's thoughts about intermission routes, there are like about 200 in Mario Kart World, which is a smidge higher than 48. There are also several improved modes in World compared to the vanilla Mario Kart 8 (and event MK8 Deluxe)