Nintendo games/consoles bargain alert thread

Star Lord

Banjo wrote: »

Can I be the first to sing "You say Som-AT-osensory, I say som-A-tosensory"

Wait, that doesn't work written down

FYP!

CastorTroy

Finally ordered a micro sd card. 128gb for £27.99 isn't bad
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B06XFX9N84/
£28.68, Irish price

manual_man

I want a Super Mario Kart Maker as part of a Switch Super Mario Maker so bad with online play

maximoose

Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze is ~€45 for digital from Smyths UK right now

Banjo

manual_man wrote: »

I want a Super Mario Kart Maker as part of a Switch Super Mario Maker so bad with online play

Another title like Smash that could be built on an existing engine - in this case one that's already running on Switch - for a low cost and used to sell the Switch online offering. Free to play if you sub, 20-30 quid buy in if you want to make your own tracks; And make up your back-end selling Amiibo of racers in karts that unlock specific specialist tiles or reskins of existing tiles and hazards not required to build a track but handy to introduce flavour.

manual_man

Banjo wrote: »

Another title like Smash that could be built on an existing engine - in this case one that's already running on Switch - for a low cost and used to sell the Switch online offering. Free to play if you sub, 20-30 quid buy in if you want to make your own tracks; And make up your back-end selling Amiibo of racers in karts that unlock specific specialist tiles or reskins of existing tiles and hazards not required to build a track but handy to introduce flavour.

Super Mario Kart is one of my fave games of all time. There's never been a true sequel (on console at least - one or two of the gameboy titles were kinda similar). Would be magic to see a track editor and see what the community could come up with. There's be so much online potential Ninty could host annual tournaments. Who knows though maybe some SNES games will be added down with added online functionality like the NES ones, even just the original game with online play would be cool, so many people who never even played it.

jimmytwotimes 2013

maximoose wrote: »

Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze is ~€45 for digital from Smyths UK right now

New to this. UK and Ireland all the one so it will work on the Irish account I've set up?

maximoose

Yep it should redeem on your irish account no issue

jimmytwotimes 2013

maximoose wrote: »

Yep it should redeem on your irish account no issue

Thanks for that

jester77

maximoose wrote: »

Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze is ~€45 for digital from Smyths UK right now

How do you register, it won't accept my number, is this UK only?

maximoose

I used a dummy number, don't think what you enter there is of any importance. Allows you to change billing address country no harm so not intended to be UK only.

Code redeemed fine for me and downloading painfully slow over my 4g now

300 Gold points for the store too.

jester77

maximoose wrote: »

I used a dummy number, don't think what you enter there is of any importance. Allows you to change billing address country no harm so not intended to be UK only.

Code redeemed fine for me and downloading painfully slow over my 4g now

300 Gold points for the store too.

Nice, just redeemed, should be there when i get home.

SMC92Ian

Picked up Super Mario Maker Special Edition in Smyths for €20, happy with that price, it what I feel Nintendo games should be.

sligeach

SMC92Ian wrote: »

Picked up Super Mario Maker Special Edition in Smyths for €20, happy with that price, it what I feel Nintendo games should be.

The game is great but loses a lot without Miiverse. Nintendo should cutting the prices of Wii U games.

TitianGerm

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/8153557

Probably a mis price but worth chancing for anyone in the North/UK.

SMC92Ian

sligeach wrote: »

The game is great but loses a lot without Miiverse. Nintendo should cutting the prices of Wii U games.

They should always be cutting prices, half of their games aren't worth full price, Pokken, Smash, Mario Kart are all €30 games to me.

murphyebass

SMC92Ian wrote: »

They should always be cutting prices, half of their games aren't worth full price, Pokken, Smash, Mario Kart are all €30 games to me.

I would have thought Smash and Mario Kart were Nintendo Select” titles by now.

Does it not go on units sold like back in the PS1 platinum era? Or is it just Ninty have selected a few games for the craic?

I’d like to pick up Pokken as well but not paying full price for that on a dead console.

All of that said there’s still nothing grabbing me, a Wii U owner, to buy a Switch. I know that’s another conversation but all this rehasing of old Wii U games on Switch is a pain.

New IP’s or new games please Ninty.

And ps.. drop the Wii U game prices please so us fans are punished further for buying your failed efforts.

/rant

That felt good. Lol

ps ps... I loved/still love my Wii U. Must get back to Xenoblade at some point, along with the rest of my backlog. Sigh.

Asus X540L

Probably already mentioned but Captain toad treasure tracker is 30 Sterling on Amazon right now to pre order

TitianGerm

Asus X540L wrote: »

Probably already mentioned but Captain toad treasure tracker is 30 Sterling on Amazon right now to pre order

Great spot Asus.

Corholio

SMC92Ian wrote: »

They should always be cutting prices, half of their games aren't worth full price, Pokken, Smash, Mario Kart are all €30 games to me.

Do you mean when they are released new or their prices now? Smash and Mario Kart will always be 'full' price games when released new and why wouldn't they be.

As for bargain alerts, Smyths here in Cork were selling off a few end of stock games like Monster Truck for Switch for €10. Probably differs in each store.

CiDeRmAn

Huge discount buying Bit Trip Runner 3, or Runner3, on the SA store rather than local, it was up around €25 on the local Eshop, just over a tenner to preorder on the SA store!
I have the previous trilogy on my Wii and 3DS, so I know this is a lot of fun.
At a tenner I'll double dip for a physical copy, should it be released

manual_man

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Huge discount buying Bit Trip Runner 3, or Runner3, on the SA store rather than local, it was up around €25 on the local Eshop, just over a tenner to preorder on the SA store!
I have the previous trilogy on my Wii and 3DS, so I know this is a lot of fun.
At a tenner I'll double dip for a physical copy, should it be released

yeah it's a bit mad, isn't it? low price also on MEX store. Everywhere else a lot higher. Can't say i was mad interested in it after i saw the trailer mind you

CiDeRmAn

manual_man wrote: »

yeah it's a bit mad, isn't it? low price also on MEX store. Everywhere else a lot higher. Can't say i was mad interested in it after i saw the trailer mind you

It's a lot of fun but you can get a flavour if you find Bit.Trip.Runner somewhere cheap.

SMC92Ian

Corholio wrote: »

Do you mean when they are released new or their prices now? Smash and Mario Kart will always be 'full' price games when released new and why wouldn't they be.

As for bargain alerts, Smyths here in Cork were selling off a few end of stock games like Monster Truck for Switch for €10. Probably differs in each store.

I mean when they launch, Mario Kart should not be €60-70, it's got a few characters and a few tracks, same for Smash, they're not exactly massive open world games... from my point of view I see Nintendo games as indy games, little games you throw on for 20 mins for a quick race or a fight like Rocket League.

keane2097

Really subtle.

TitianGerm

SMC92Ian wrote: »

I mean when they launch, Mario Kart should not be €60-70, it's got a few characters and a few tracks, same for Smash, they're not exactly massive open world games... from my point of view I see Nintendo games as indy games, little games you throw on for 20 mins for a quick race or a fight like Rocket League.

Are you on drugs :pac:

Banjo

Lego Dimensions Wii U for £20 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00VJWS3AW/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Think Smyths had it for between 20 and 30 euro last time I was in though so this may not be a revelation or anything.

earthwormjack

TitianGerm wrote: »

Are you on drugs :pac:

Seriously Nintendo games are probably the most polished, well made games in the industry. One of the few companies whose games I'd feel are worth full price on release day the majority of the time.

They lend themselves to both pick up and play and extended game sessions equally too I think.

CiDeRmAn

Dial it back now lads
Every one is entitled to an opinion.
By the same token, no baiting will be tolerated, so keep it in mind.

ThunbergsAreGo

Ubisoft sale on the US Store at the moment

Hopefully we will get same on Thursday