- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was the #1 highest selling title on Switch (67m)
- Mario Kart 8 / Deluxe is the #5 highest selling videogame (75m)
- Mario Kart is the #13 highest selling videogame series(189m)
It has a few fans out there
Kelly
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Transferable licence.
They can be sold, gifted, inherited, etc.
Its the same concept as a stub game disc which requires a full online install (something Xbox used for cross-gen one/series titles).
Its nothing like the account tied physical sales they proposed at the Xbox one announcement.
Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked
What? Of course not ... that's why they are in the form of game cards.
Switch games are sourced only from Nintendo
I'm pretty sure some regions can buy Nintendo digital games from humble store.
The don't support my region so j don't know what the range is like but I believe it as available for some places.
Interesting, maybe we are just getting a good deal.
Their preliminary thoughts are that the direct's footage for this title was probably processed incorrectly and may not represent the experience on actual hardware.
I just calculated in another thread that the Australian pre sales tax price converts to us$383.91. That's without any language or region restrictions.
In the Australian market the base model is:
- selling for au$700
- if we remove GST we get au$635..45
- and convert to USD for us$383.91
If we compare the listed US price:
- 450 ÷ 383.91 = 1.172
So the US price was already about 17% higher than our local price, a position that may have been taken in anticipation of the US tariffs.
How do the other international pre sales tax prices compare to the US? Is this pattern across the board or is Australia an anomaly?
Except Mario Kart has had its fair share of paid post release content lately. We can't expect it to be the one-off purchase it once was.
I'm reading:
Of course if any post release patches that occur may need to be downloaded but their apparent intent has been to provide a version that is playable from gamecard.
This sounds like the best implementation with the exception that the base game is not playable on S1 consoles (something you could do of you bought it digitally).