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Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2
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$90 to replay a 8 year old wiiu game. Why would anyone?
As relevant now as it was over a decade ago.
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$10 to replay it, replay meaning you already have the switch version. Or free if you have switch online expansion pack. It's only going to set you back 90 (instead of 80) if you've never owned it and you want it on switch 2
Isn’t that crazy?
I think breath of the wild has always been overpriced lol. And it's not news that Nintendo rarely ever discounts their older games. But the vast majority of people who are gonna want to play it on switch 2 already own a copy ( I hope).
I wonder what this'll do to the price of used physical copies
This pricing is why Nintendo doesn't want emulation of its games, while other companies don't give a shit because they either figured out how to port their shit over to PC or did a multiplatform release to begin with. Steam was the largest reason piracy for games has literally shrunk and why so many from the scene stopped. Make it cheap and easy to get the game, no need for people to pirate it. Nintendo did the exact opposite and has tried and tried to keep it on a closed platform...yet it's one of the most emulated company out there.
Nintendo makes great games and has super scummy business practices. The ideal combo for pirating.
Lol that's the truth.
You might be surprised. I came to the Switch party super late when I bought my kid a switch Christmas 2023. He's all over Zelda now, has BotW, TotK and even Skyward Sword on his Switch. For him, these games are all from the last year. He turned 2 the year BotW was released.
It'll be the same story with Switch 2. Some kid who might not even be born yet will get a Switch 2 in 8-9 years and come across these games with all his school friends.
I doubt I'll go the Switch 2 path with the kids. I haven't seen a reason to upgrade, yet. I'm thinking of the Steam Deck - while the Nintendo had a fairly cheap entry point to get on the platform, I've spent enough on games to negate the difference between a Switch and a Steam Deck - where I already have a 500+ game library to play on it.
Not if you bought it on the WiiU like I did.
Yeah! I forgot it was on the wiiu that actually how I played it too. I later got a switch and played through it again though.
I bought a physical copy of BotW while I was living Japan. My Nintendo account is U.S. My copy of TotK is Digital to boot.
Fuck me, right? lol. What an ass hole I am!
Nintendo fanboys are notorious suckers
There are lots of people with disposable income who don't have the technical capability to pirate.
I played it six years ago, but with a better experience than switch 2… thank you, cemu
I've been wanting to play botw so I tried it on cemu awhile back but couldn't get it to work. I'll have to try it again and see if I can figure out what I was doing wrong.
I wouldn't pay $90 for it, but Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition was definitely fun enough to keep playing.