as a Canadian I’m used to everything being expensive as fuck, but I have to draw the line somewhere. this is why piracy exists. I’ll probably break down and buy one at the next major Zelda title launch, because I don’t get a choice in that. my heart wants what it wants, and I’m getting too old to say no at this point.
If you just want Zelda, a singleplayer game with no expiry / pressure to play while others are playing, you could consider waiting for emulation to catch up. I’m currently enjoying a bunch of singleplayer Switch games on my PC.
Not sure of the official CAD prices, but the $80 USD digital / $90 USD physical game price is $113 / $127 CAD. Absolutely bonkers when compared to Steam, especially with sales.
Yeah, once I moved permanently to piracy I’ve noticed I actually have way more games than I know what to do with.
I still haven’t finished BOTW, and there’s also TOTK to play after that. I also haven’t played Skyward Sword ever and I replayed WW and Twilight Princess in the meantime.
Really, I can’t fathom getting excited for digital media at this point. There’s so much to enjoy, I genuinely believe that any sort of “hype” is just consumerism taking hold of unsuspecting individuals.
Products cost what we’re willing to pay, not what they cost to produce.
The fact so many people are willing to pay for things they can get for free (while complaining they don’t have enough money) is just another reason why things are the way they are. We’ve been conditioned to be proud of our consumerism at any cost.
Um… Wow.
With these prices, they better have one hell of a line up besides a Mario Kart that looks about the same and Street Fighter 6.
I’m very interested on how powerful this thing is if it’s price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck and $100 less than the OLED model.
as a Canadian I’m used to everything being expensive as fuck, but I have to draw the line somewhere. this is why piracy exists. I’ll probably break down and buy one at the next major Zelda title launch, because I don’t get a choice in that. my heart wants what it wants, and I’m getting too old to say no at this point.
If you just want Zelda, a singleplayer game with no expiry / pressure to play while others are playing, you could consider waiting for emulation to catch up. I’m currently enjoying a bunch of singleplayer Switch games on my PC.
Not sure of the official CAD prices, but the $80 USD digital / $90 USD physical game price is $113 / $127 CAD. Absolutely bonkers when compared to Steam, especially with sales.
Yeah, once I moved permanently to piracy I’ve noticed I actually have way more games than I know what to do with.
I still haven’t finished BOTW, and there’s also TOTK to play after that. I also haven’t played Skyward Sword ever and I replayed WW and Twilight Princess in the meantime.
Really, I can’t fathom getting excited for digital media at this point. There’s so much to enjoy, I genuinely believe that any sort of “hype” is just consumerism taking hold of unsuspecting individuals.
Everyone should just move to piracy anyways.
Products cost what we’re willing to pay, not what they cost to produce.
The fact so many people are willing to pay for things they can get for free (while complaining they don’t have enough money) is just another reason why things are the way they are. We’ve been conditioned to be proud of our consumerism at any cost.
Fun fact, if you adjust for inflation, this machine is only $52 more than the original switch was at launch.
This is basically the originally pricing, adjusted for inflation + Trump’s 20% Chinese manufacturing tariff.
It’s also at around the same price point in Europe. I don’t think the tarriffs had an effect on the price.
Edit: I was wrong about JP pricing and removed that part.