• Dudewitbow
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      22 years ago

      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

      • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        At least officially.

        But yeah, it’s rough that the biggest discounts they ever offer were 33%, rarely, for just a couple titles.

    • @MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      12 years ago

      (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of these topics is fine.

      From the sidebar. So yeah we’re all going to jail

  • @Zealous@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    I was a broke adolescent back in 2011, but now I am a working adult with some disposable income. So the image is accurate.

    • @0235@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      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…

      • Jon Von Basslake
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        12 years ago

        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…

    • @Globulart@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      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?

      • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        They are, I trade mine in all the time. But they sell well, so secondhand places don’t mark them down much.

    • Jon Von Basslake
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      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.

    • Royalish
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      12 years ago

      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.

      • GrO2Bl
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        12 years ago

        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 😄

    • BombOmOm
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      12 years ago

      Yeah, I want a Switch, but a quick price check of multi-year-old Nintendo games and I remember why I have a PC.