Video games stores in Spain started dropping Switch 2 games prices from (Mario Kart World 89.99€ to 74,90€)

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Amazon Spain, MediaMarkt and others video games stores in Spain started dropping Switch 2 games prices. (Mario Kart World) others games are dropping too, same prices in France.

Update: Nintendo removes the prices of Switch 2 games on the Eshop, looks like an official price drop is incoming.

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It's very normal in Spain that games have a lower price for a period of time before release in some stores. Most Playstation games can be bought for 65-70 instead of 80 (European prices). If the game is niche, maybe 60.
 
Guess what? It's still gonna sell hardware and software. Maybe millennials need to think about their hobbies. Knitting, perhaps? Knit one, pearl two...
 
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Hollywood Hitman said:
On best buy the couple games listed I noticed were 59 for one, and a few 69, and then MK was 80 but still... Hardly a reason to freak.
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I think they won't back down from Mario Kart at 80.00 no matter what, but I think they left themselves an out to lower prices for games for all others. I expect all the others Nintendo games to be $10-15 cheaper to boost sales.
 
MSRP is just a suggestion, so we may end up seeing sales more frequently as retailers compete against each other or based on how many units are being sold.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
In Amazon too, but it's usually a flash pre-release offer and it sells out fast.
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Amazon Canada did this sometimes in the past. Usually i never saw the actual sale but got the savings because i already had it on preorder and the prices automatically adjust.
 
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Pretty normal, most Switch games are reduced 25% on Amazon Spain and France.

The retailer gets 30% or so of the game price, so they're still making money.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
Hmm. Wonder what's going on..
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I don't know about Spain but in France most supermarkets and online stores sell games way below MSRP. Business as usual.

Current Switch games are sold for 42-45€ and XSX/PS5 games around 60€ instead of the normal 79€.

Right now MK World is 69€ and Bananza is 59€ if you order from Leclerc (supermarket).
 
People thinking this is some damage control from Nintendo have no idea how the market works in some countries. In Spain or France, retailers always sell video games below MSRP; the place where I bought my Switch 2 lists MKW for 70€, and everything else - DK, BotW, TotK - is at most 60.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
Hmm. Wonder what's going on..
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European stores often can and will sell things below the suggested retail price. In fact, many companies (including Nintendo itself in the past) don't even announce fixed pricing to customers and just suggest pricing to retailers, leaving it to retailers to decide on pricing after that as long as their own cut is met.

TLDR the retail landscape in Europe is different than it is in North America
 
LakeOf9 said:
European stores often can and will sell things below the suggested retail price. In fact, many companies (including Nintendo itself in the past) don't even announce fixed pricing to customers and just suggest pricing to retailers, leaving it to retailers to decide on pricing after that as long as their own cut is met.
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You just described American MSRP.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
You just described American MSRP.
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Not really. In America, companies with bargaining power like Apple, Sony, and Nintendo can and do dictate terms to retailers — for example, Apple and Nintendo both refuse to do buybacks and reimbursement programs, meaning retailers are disincentivized from putting their products on sale any time the companies themselves aren't doing so. Sony can and has insisted retailers carry loss making products such as the PS Vita and dedicate a minimum portion of shelf space to them to be guaranteed a level of access for the PS4 and games. Etc.

In Europe, however, the retailers wield a lot more power relatively speaking, in part because local laws to constrain unchecked corporate power are a lot stronger there than in NA.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
Hmm. Wonder what's going on..
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Gamers are not buying them / preordering them and retailers are getting spooked.

Digital games have to be cheaper, it would be a scandal if it was the other way around, but achieving this by jacking up the prices of physical games is a bold strategy :D.
 
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Meanwhile all prices went up in my country because "checks notes" our Retarded government is corrupt as fuck, want more money and the gov is bankrupt because of all the money they already steal, so increasing VAT was their solution.
 
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