The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Nintendo's first $70 game
Tears of the customers
The cat got out of the bag last night on this, but now it’s official. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Nintendo’s first game to see a base price of $70.
Late yesterday, the Nintendo.com listing for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom showed a price of $70. A few other retailers followed along with that, and then everyone removed the price. Now we know that price was posted a few hours earlier than expected.
Nintendo has now confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be priced at $70. No matter whether you go physical or digital, you’re not going to be able to get a better deal than that. Whether we like it or not, here comes the era of $70 Nintendo titles.
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froyuken_files
If I had to guess, the price is due to the game probably requiring a 32 GB Switch card. BotW came in at around 14 GB on a 16 GB card and I can't imagine all the time spent developing TotK only added 2 extra GB of content.
kuribo
1+ y agoNot counting Ring Fit Adventure ;)
It’s about time US gamers paid similar as Europe where BOTW is €70 :)
tendonin
1+ y agoIf it helps anyone stomach it better, $60 in 2012 (when Nintendo first sold $60 games) was equivalent to over $76 in 2022 dollars.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com
Edit:
Also, Pikmin 4 is $60 per Nintendo.com, so it's at least not every game going forward.
bakfug
1+ y agoI blame getting the vouchers back in the US. The price increase means nothing to our digital only folks
froyuken_files
1+ y agoIf I had to guess, the price is due to the game probably requiring a 32 GB Switch card. BotW came in at around 14 GB on a 16 GB card and I can't imagine all the time spent developing TotK only added 2 extra GB of content.
While it was available, the UK store said it was over 18GB download.
jake_a
1+ y agoI think my Amazon pre-order price is locked it at $59.99
gybones
1+ y agoWeird you can still use the vouchers for it, extra good deal
I'm thinking Amazon is gonna pull some crap. I forgot the game I had preordered where the price increased, but Amazon cancelled my lower-priced preorder and other folks due to "lack of availability" and put up a new listing, all so they wouldn't have to honor the lower price for everyone who preordered.
My (and i have to imagine many others) raises haven't matched the unchecked inflation since then so it doesn't really make it any easier on my stomach unfortunately
nekotaku
1+ y agoI'd pay 100 for it. People complaining are weird. It's relative but 70 is normal for games in Sweden already.
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