inflation calculator says it should be $67.60 today, so, stonks etc
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Which is exactly why a twenty year old Geo Metro costs so much more than it did originally.
I mean, true but also they’re gouging on cars because of the chip shortage.
If only wages kept up with inflation...
Sold all my GameCube games to GameStop for $80 to get a Wii. Regretting it deeply, I had the Metroid games, Melee of course, and worse of all, Pokémon colosseum and Gale of Darkness. Each time I look up the prices of those I die a little
Same, was so stoked to finally get a wii, a refurbished trade in, after about a year after release. Our local GameStop never had any. I did have a lot of fun with the wii, but now I have to emulate those sweet sweet nostalgia feels. That Wind Waker and Metroid sound tracks just hit something inside. And Cubivore is a G.D. masterclass in ridiculous, silly fun.
So I bought a Switch because there was a discount. THEN I looked a the games prices and I didn't feel so good.
Always assume nintendo games are full price until othwrwise stated.
Nintendo is easily the worst platform to be on if you are part of patientgamers
At least officially.
But yeah, it's rough that the biggest discounts they ever offer were 33%, rarely, for just a couple titles.
Wait... A Nintendo sub where folks can criticise Nintendo?! Sign me up! This is already better than Reddit
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From the sidebar. So yeah we're all going to jail
what baffles me is that this even happens to less popular games that you wouldn't expect people to buy. Like why is princess debut on ds $80?
And that's why I boycot Nintendo
Yeah, I want a Switch, but a quick price check of multi-year-old Nintendo games and I remember why I have a PC.
exactly. I have a switch but I have less than ten games for it due to their prices. Most of the games I have I got for christmas/birthday presents
This is why I eat all the bananas before Donkey Kong comes in.
BTW, where the hell did Mario come from, and why was he after Monkey King's bananas anyways?
If you know you know..
*waiting 10 years for that $50 game to somehow be worth $150
I was waiting to buy Tears of the Kingdom, thinking the price would go down eventually. Should I not do that?
Get tears of the kingdom as a physical copy from a supermarket. I have seen it as low as £48 new in shops Vs £60 in the estore.
What is mad is Breath of the Wild will still be £59.99 on the shelf next to it....
Nintendo games rarely (as in, barely ever) get discounted, especially first party games. Remember how they offered a certain game (I think it might have been 3D All-Stars?) for a limited time only? Nintendo is rather anti-consumer in the long run.
So if you keep waiting for a price drop, it's gonna be a while. Maybe you get lucky and some third party shop sells it for 40$. Don't expect it to go under that for a long time, it's a Zelda game. The ones who really want it will buy it regardless of the price, and Nintendo or the other shops don't really care about the rest.
You know if you build yourself a $3000 computer, you could play it using ryujinx, saving yourself a massive -$2940
I have a what I assume to be about 1500€ to 2000€ machine (I don't know the exact value as I inherited it from my cousin who passed away in January) and I can play BotW on yuzu just fine. I assume that even a thousand euro machine would be able to handle switch emulation fine, at least if you don't go doing any enhancements like unlocking the framerate or running shaders...
Ya but could it run turbo tax?
Depends on how low you want it to drop.
On the EU e-shop (seems to be similar for the US one) Breath of the Wild has regular 30% discounts starting about one year after release. It's been 6 years, it never went lower, and probably never will.
Same for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It's been almost 10 years since the original release of Mario Kart 8, and eshop sales never go under 30%.
Nintendo is known for keeping their games mostly full price. The only games that get big sales are the ones that didn't perform as well as they wanted, and even that is becoming rare.
Im Europe, if you want to buy digital, it can be worth buying with a Norwegian account, they often have the best prices in Europe. Like Zelda TOTK is at least 10.- cheaper in Norway than almost all of Europe. On the other end of the spectrum is Switzerland, where it's 20.- more expensive. So as a Swiss resident, it's 30.- cheaper for me to buy it through a Norwegian account.
Nintendo games don't really drop below $50 or $60 tbh.
The physical copy is $52 on amazon and walmart right now. Costco has it at $60. I'm sure other retailers have their own discounts.
Not saying you'll ever get it for pennies on the dollar... but you can get it for cheaper than retail.
Have you tried dekudeaks? It shows where a specific game is on sale to. I picked up mine from amazon for £41.
It's not worth saving a tenner to lose out on the relevance of playing it at release imo.
I don't understand how Nintendo keep their games prices so high, are people just not selling second hand games?
They are, I trade mine in all the time. But they sell well, so secondhand places don't mark them down much.
Soon all new titles would be $70
And all old Nintendo titles would be $70 too.
I bought TotK for $70, I don't think I can bring myself to buy anything else for that price. Heck, $60 was a lot too lol.
Me too. I used switch online coupons to buy Totk and another game. Paying $100 instead of $130 was the only way that I can afford it 😄
What about 20+ years when it costs between $100-600 from a guy on eBay or the overpriced retro game store?
I was a broke adolescent back in 2011, but now I am a working adult with some disposable income. So the image is accurate.
Look for what is on sale in the e-store. Found some good deals on games at decent prices
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