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$. Don’t expect it to go under that for a long time, it’s a Zelda game. The ones who really want it will buy it regardless of the price, and Nintendo or the other shops don’t really care about the rest.
I have a what I assume to be about 1500€ to 2000€ machine (I don’t know the exact value as I inherited it from my cousin who passed away in January) and I can play BotW on yuzu just fine. I assume that even a thousand euro machine would be able to handle switch emulation fine, at least if you don’t go doing any enhancements like unlocking the framerate or running shaders…
On the EU e-shop (seems to be similar for the US one) Breath of the Wild has regular 30% discounts starting about one year after release. It’s been 6 years, it never went lower, and probably never will.
Same for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It’s been almost 10 years since the original release of Mario Kart 8, and eshop sales never go under 30%.
Nintendo is known for keeping their games mostly full price. The only games that get big sales are the ones that didn’t perform as well as they wanted, and even that is becoming rare.
Im Europe, if you want to buy digital, it can be worth buying with a Norwegian account, they often have the best prices in Europe. Like Zelda TOTK is at least 10.- cheaper in Norway than almost all of Europe. On the other end of the spectrum is Switzerland, where it’s 20.- more expensive. So as a Swiss resident, it’s 30.- cheaper for me to buy it through a Norwegian account.
I was waiting to buy Tears of the Kingdom, thinking the price would go down eventually. Should I not do that?
Nintendo games rarely (as in, barely ever) get discounted, especially first party games. Remember how they offered a certain game (I think it might have been 3D All-Stars?) for a limited time only? Nintendo is rather anti-consumer in the long run.
So if you keep waiting for a price drop, it’s gonna be a while. Maybe you get lucky and some third party shop sells it for 40$. 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.
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…
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.