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    Splatoon Raiders will be $50 Digitally / $60 Physically

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    3. GrimmTrixX on

      At least theyre doing it right. I wouldve expected charging $70 for physical and $60 for digital. So I am glad they are slightly realizing that digital should always be cheaper, but physical shouldnt fetch a premium price when it was the dominant format for the last 40+ years.

      Whatever a physical (edit: full retail release) game costs, the digital should always be cheaper, and personally it should be more like $20 less. You literally dont own the game and you get nothing tangible for your money. And they save millions by making far less physical versions of their games than ever before.

      That and no one asked for these $100 million game budgets, so it shouldnt be on us to pay more for the game for them to recoup losses they didnt need to attain in the first place.

    4. Rikkasu on

      I hope they drop it a bit more for UK release. As we get like a £2-3 difference on buying physical or digital. Should be like £43 digital and £53 physical

    5. FrankPapageorgio on

      You know what… I think I am going to go digital this generation if this is the pricing structure.

      It’s not just a $10 difference. I can get eShop GCs regularly for 10% off from Sams/Costco, sometimes stock up at 20% off. It makes something like this $40-$45 instead of $66 physical with taxes where I live.

    13. Altruistic-Action491 on

      Ummm, Nintendo announced this pricing strategy like last month. Why are you all so pikachu faced surprised. This is the way it’s going to be moving forward. 🙄

    14. PalmTreeExpert on

      Amiibo up for preorder and $24.99 each, I do not see a triple pack yet. Absolutely will get them as I have all the other amiibo (minus the alternate colors 😢) but unsure if I should wait or not. I hate how sparse amiibo can get so feels like a risk.

    17. ultimateformsora on

      I’m new to Switch, has Nintendo always done the variable pricing for their exclusive titles? I always assumed they’d be priced at regular MSRP as other platforms seem to do. I know they recently made the physical vs digital changes but I was certainly expecting this to cost $70(P)/$60(D)

    18. Edyed787 on

      I’ll still buy physical and I am okay with a physical premium. I’d rather keep physical media alive than have it die.

    19. GarionOrb on

      Looks interesting! The Splatoon 1-3 single player campaigns were all pretty lackluster so I’m hoping this will be a lot better.

    20. Digibutter64 on

      I hope this price difference isn’t a permanent thing. I shouldn’t have to pay more for physical.

    21. koteshima2nd on

      Single player focused? Count me in, though I wouldn’t mind some fun multiplayer modes every now and then

    22. LefTurn629 on

      As someone who does not at all care for Splatoon as a PvP game, this is incredible

    24. mgwair11 on

      Interestingly, you can “raid” with up to three other friends online or via local wireless despite the game being single player focused. Product page also specifies that only one idol at a time can fight alongside you in a powerful mech suit.

    26. RotundCorgi on

      So the digital price actually went down while the physical price stayed at current retail value, just like Nintendo said they intended to do? No, that cannot be correct. You see, I was told by all the level-minded, totally not Nintendo bashing folks that digital prices were actually staying at current pricepoints and physical games would really be getting a greedy, extortionary mark-up that I, a simple-minded and biased Nintendo fanboy, was just too stupid to understand or admit. /s

    29. shortandpainful on

      I am so excited for this. I was looking at getting the game and just crossing my fingers it would not be $70. Even if it is short, I am in for more single player/co-op Splatoon at this price.