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Which is exactly why a twenty year old Geo Metro costs so much more than it did originally.

If only wages kept up with inflation...

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.

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

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

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

I personally am more of a Nintendo hater. Till I see some random game for too much money. Then I get weak and buy it anyways.

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

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

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.

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.

Nintendo games don't really drop below $50 or $60 tbh.

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?

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.