I recently pre-ordered a Switch 2 and will get it end of this week and now is the time for getting games.
However, I noticed that digital is overall more expensive than physical even when the games are new from retail stores. For example;
- Mario Kart World is €72 digitally, €68 physically.
- Tears of The Kingdom €78 digitally, €70 physically.
- Ocarina Remake €70 digitally, €65 physically.
Might be a stupid question but is this a normal thing for consoles? I have not purchased any games for consoles since I went over to PC gaming in 2019-2020. Can’t remember anymore how it was on PS4/5.
I like having the game physically, sort of owning it (if it still can be called owning). But the loss of easily switching games will be a sad ‘loss’ lol.
The games I’m planning to purchase in the long run are:
- Mario Kart World.
- Tears of The Kingdom.
- Some Yoshi games.
- Breath of The Wild (already played though)
- Newer Kirby game (2027 one).
Games that are actually made by Nintendo tend to be expensive and are rarely discounted anyway, at least on the Nintendo store. The online store also isn’t competitive whereas the physical shops tend to try to beat each other on price. If you can you need to try and find games that give you a download code that you can buy from shops, online stores, etc.
There’s an iPhone app I use called NT Deals. It watches the Nintendo Store and it will show you details about games like the lowest price it’s ever been and you can set an alert so if it goes on sale or the price drops it’ll let you know. I’m a PC gamer normally and I refuse to buy games at full price. It took about nine months before I could buy Zelda BotW because it took so long to go on sale even years after it was released.