Not all game releases follow the Nintendo price formula. The switch 2 release of Street Fighter 6 Year 1-2 Fighters Edition Sells for $ 60, and Square Enix's Remastered Brave Standard goes for $ 40, exactly the same price that the 3DS version launches more than ten years ago.
Game-key cards have clearly labeled cases to tell you that the cards have no game content.
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A possible complicating factor for those games? Although they are physical releases, they use Nintendo's new game key card format, which tries to split the difference between real physical copies of a game and download codes. Each cartridge contains a key for the game, but no real game content – The game itself is downloaded to your system at the first launch. But even though he does not hold a game content, the key card must be inserted every time you start the game, just like any other physical cartridge.
These cards will probably be freely shareable and sellable, just like regular physical switch releases, but because they do not contain any real game data, they are cheaper to produce. It is possible that some of these savings are passed on to the consumer, although we have to see more examples to be sure.
What about Switch 2 Edition upgrades?
The big question mark is how expensive the Switch 2 Edition -Game -Upgrades are for Switch games that you already own, and what the price clothing (if present) will be between games such as Metroid Prime 4 or Pokémon Legends: Sat They start on both the original switch and the Switch 2.
But we can distract from Mario Kart And Donkey That the prices for these Switch 2-upgrades probably somewhere in the range of $ 10 to $ 20 will be his difference between the $ 60 price of most first-party switch releases and the price of $ 70 to $ 80 for the Switch 2 editions currently mentioned at Wal-Mart. Sony charges a similar $ 10 allowance to upgrade from the PS4 to the PS5 editions of games that will be performed on both consoles. If you can find copies of the original Switch games for less than $ 60, this may mean that you save a little money on the Switch 2 edition, compared to the selling prices of $ 70 and $ 80 from Nintendo.
Nintendo will also use some Switch 2 edition upgrades as a carrot to seduce people to the more expensive layer of $ 50 a year of the Nintendo Switch Online Service. The company has already announced that the upgrade packages for Wild's breath And Tears of the Kingdom Is offered for free to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers. The list of extra benefits for that service now contains extra emulated consoles (Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64 and Now Gamecube) and paid DLC for both Animal Crossing: New Horizons And Mario Kart 8.
This story was updated on 2 April at 7.30 pm to add more price information from American retailers about other early Switch 2 games.
