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Are these those things I stare into at an eyesight test?
When I unscrew the caps, is there salt inside?
Is this what Vader uses to scan people's ball sacks?
So I'll post this here:
Switch 2 Mario Kart bundle is only availible in limited quantities while stock lasts.
Nintendo is sending out invitations to pre order this system only if you meet certain requirements.
You save a good chunk of money if you get the bundle, so try and pre order as soon as you can.
I don't know what I'm going to do. I was waiting for amazon and I registered my interest, but it seems to be sold in conjunction with the uk Nintendo store and says I would have to meet these requirements to even get an invite to preorder and that means having an active switch online membership
I Just used the 7 day free switch online trial so it will be active for the 8th when preorders start. Hopefully the 350 hours i poured into Snowrunner will boost my playstats and make me.eligible for invitation.
Begone, heathen!
Can't I just detach and use the volume knobs on my car radio to play those games?
On a 90s tamagotchi screen?
Yeah, I recall paying $100 for Street Fighter II and $115 for Chrono Trigger for the SNES back then as well. That was Canadian by the way. Don’t even mention the price of those Neo-Geo cartridges either.
There are differences though. Those were more expensive to produce given their format. Games didn’t sell as many copies as they do today. Also now they sell digitally as well so they get more money off those sales. It’s just when you see a game like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sell over 60 million copies it can be difficult to rationalize that they need to charge more for the sequel.
Then GC and Wii the prices came down to £40
Switch games here are supposed to cost upwards of £50 but you could always fine them for lower, big first party usually £40 to £45.
But you can get physical 3rd party games from £15 to £35.
I think I wouldn't mind the higher physical price if the digital prices were much lower.
But, Donkey Kong Bananaza is $70 physical. I think digital is less.
So even if we take the physical price and apply Nintendo standard -33% discount it will eventually be $47
Mario Kart is $70 digital, with the eventually discount it should drop to $47 too.
BTW 3rd party games are already cheaper. Street Fighter 6 is $60.
With all this hubbub about Switch2 being 4K 120FPS HDR I'm wondering if I should buy a new TV as well. I don't want to spend the money, but it'll irk me to no end knowing our 12 yera old TV is holding things back.
Well, the good thing is that they are not nearly expensive as they used to be. You can find a pretty decent one for 300 or less. Still though thats $300 out of your pocket.
What can we expect from today's Treehouse?
We will know in 20 mins. Hopefully 3rd party stuff, but GVG on YouTube has lots of impressions videos up.
Luckily my TV is new and has all the most modern features, OLED helps too. But I think I'd rather play in 4k over 120 fps at lower resolutions. I'd have to test it out first, I've never played a game faster than 60fps anyway.https://youtu.be/YZIk9_CpuvQ?si=nKrnG5KFHKzb4BxA
€49.90 for Donkey Kong Bananza and there's a further 10% off code off of that.
That's £43 uk money and $55 American
Switch 2 is region free apart from the Japan exclusive version
Weird, that price is cheaper than most new Switch 1 games here.
Max is right. Sony standardized game prices to $50 during the PS1 ea, but game pricing was all over the place prior generations.View on YouTube
I remember 1996 when the N64 came out, Nintendo was charging $80-90 for N64 games that Christmas. I waited until November 1998 to buy mine and I don't recall paying more then $50 for new N64 games.
Nintendo wants to charge more based on popularity it seems. Time will tell if the masses are willing to pay $80+ for Mario Kart and Zelda. If not, at least Nintendo will be able to charge the hardcore Nintendo fan more for the first year or so.
I haven't any issue with the $450 hardware price but $80+ for Mario Kart? Sorry, nope.