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IcaroRibeiro 18 hours ago
Otter said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

I don't know about US, but retailers are selling the game for much lower than 70/60 USD for a while (I got mine for 48% of the digital launch price)

This is the first time I've seen a Nintendo game being sold for half of the price barely 4 months after its release. I've seen some posts stating it's also receiving deep discounts in Japan

My impression is the game failed to break even, so they are trying to recover some development costs as much as they can

Same in the UK, although unless these discounts are also on the Nintendo storefronts then these are mostly likely retailers just trying to get rid of stock. And then there is a combined effect of the Switch version bringing down the price of the S2 one. The game sales leaned heavily on S2 (like 80% at launch) which makes me think S1 was very over supplied. Since the upgrade path is only $10, if you sell the S1 version for $30, it doesn't make sense to sell the S2 version for more than $40.

As far as charts go, I've been following the UK figures where its stayed in the retail charts (top 40) longer then any recent Metroid. Last week it was 25, week before that it was 37. These aren't huge number but they are legs which can add up to very solid numbers over the years. For now it's still one of the only "AAA" Switch 2 exclusives, so I think it will keep legging it out if its made it this far.

Well I'm not really complaining. There are a couple of games that I've skipped on Switch 1 because the price tag was too big for me. If they decrease the retail prices for the less successful titles after a couple of months or years I'd be more than happy to play them

Pikmin 4, Xenoblade X and Fire Emblem 3 Hopes are all on my list of "buy if 40 usd or less"



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Louie 18 hours ago
firebush03 said:

I can definitely sympathize with you on this. Super Paper Mario, for instance, is a very fun game…until you remember the previous two installments. I went in hoping to somewhat scratch that TTYD itch, and ended up dropping the game in chapter 8 after having felt so burned by the story, which felt like a huge step down.

Maybe someday you and I both will come to appreciate these black sheep entries for what they are, instead of what they are not. It’s always ideal to enjoy game than it is to not, after all.

Yeah I feel you, haha! If you want the full Paper Mario RPG experience you've been out of luck (except for the TTYD remake) for... what? 15 years? Crazy. Nintendo is really baffling at times with their mantra of "new games in a series must offer some new gameplay thingy". I'm still waiting for a proper, non-gimped, sequel to Starfox 64.



firebush03 18 hours ago
Louie said:
firebush03 said:

I can definitely sympathize with you on this. Super Paper Mario, for instance, is a very fun game…until you remember the previous two installments. I went in hoping to somewhat scratch that TTYD itch, and ended up dropping the game in chapter 8 after having felt so burned by the story, which felt like a huge step down.

Maybe someday you and I both will come to appreciate these black sheep entries for what they are, instead of what they are not. It’s always ideal to enjoy game than it is to not, after all.

Yeah I feel you, haha! If you want the full Paper Mario RPG experience you've been out of luck (except for the TTYD remake) for... what? 15 years? Crazy. Nintendo is really baffling at times with their mantra of "new games in a series must offer some new gameplay thingy". I'm still waiting for a proper, non-gimped, sequel to Starfox 64.

Well the good news for me is that I’ve never play the original Paper Mario, and we also now have Bug Fables & Escape from Ever After— two games which are hailed by their respective communities (98% Recommend on Steam). As far as StarFox is concerned, I actually just purchased Ex-Zodiac for $4USD on Steam. Sounds like a solid homage to SF from everything I’ve heard.



mZuzek 16 hours ago
Otter said:

I was playing through Remastered but finally got to the Phazon suite and don't know what to do and a quick google,looks like I have to fetch all of the artefacts scattered across the levels?? Yeah, I'm not doing that. I'll move onto Metroid Prime 4 now. Based off how cheap the retail version is, it may be my first physical game in forever.

People comments have me apprehensive but the art direction is kind of insane, so hopefully I can look past its shortcomings.

Oh, lucky for you there is definitely not an extensive repetitive boring fetch quest at the end of Prime 4. Definitely not.



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