New Skyrim version for Switch, first Nintendo game for $70

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Did you wish for yet another version for a 10+ years old game?
Well, whether you did or not, you're gonna get it... again.

But this time, there's a little caveat.
While the Anniversary Edition seems to offer almost every add-on available for Skyrim in a single package, alongside some new Creation Club content, the price tag for the new version becomes the very first Nintendo game to be offered at a full price tag of $70 and, according to Nintendo's site, seems to be a digital only release at the moment of writing.

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While users can still purchase the previous version of Skyrim on Switch for $60 (which hasn't lowered in price since release), the new exclusive Anniversary Edition currently sits at the new full $70 dollars price tag.
It is currently unknown if other devs, or if even Nintendo themselves, will start releasing games for this new full price of $70 for Nintendo or other consoles going forward, but most likely this will be an inevitable event to unfold in the near future.

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Must be an amazing game to cost that much on switch... especially since nintedo the last console to get the game. :ninja:

The edition that costs $70 was designed to run with 8GB RAM on a PC. This seems like one of those "impossible ports" that take a huge amount of resources to fit things down to the Switch.

Fun fact, many N64 games originally retailed for $70, and a few at $80

This was mostly due to overhead from the price of manufacturing the cartridges

70USD or the price of SM64 on launch day would be about $130 today

Some Switch games here retail for €70. The latest Animal Crossing was released at that price and is selling for €60 now. Switch games are crazy expensive here and they take long to devalue anything. It reached a point where PS5 games are cheaper than Switch games. Few people have a PS5 here and most people this gen only bought a Switch. I bought a few weeks back Demon Souls and Ghost of Tsushima for PS5 for around €30 each.
 

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In Europe, Zelda BotW is the first Switch game to cost 70€. And that also hasn't changed in all these years :D
This seems to just be new to the US.
 
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Fun fact, many N64 games originally retailed for $70, and a few at $80

This was mostly due to overhead from the price of manufacturing the cartridges

70USD or the price of SM64 on launch day would be about $130 today
I bought Street Fighter II CE for Megadrive for £65 on release in 1992. That's around £150 today :blink:
 

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Fact: the game is 10+ years old. If you consider this then you can forgive its technical limitations and (let's do not fear the words) the Switch port is NOT a big downgrade compared to the PlayStation/XboX ports. Apart from the image resolution there are just almost no differences, it's a surprisingly good port! And it's still a huge reference RPG.

But I agree that this latest Anniversary update/upgrade is 90% BS and A LOT overpriced.

Side note: with this latest update it looks like Bethesda accidentally leaked some upcoming Creation Club content: Klogirc Sanctuary. I'm talking about it here.
 

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Fact: the game is 10+ years old. If you consider this then you can forgive its technical limitations and (let's do not fear the words) the Switch port is NOT a big downgrade compared to the PlayStation/XboX ports. Apart from the image resolution there are just almost no differences, it's a surprisingly good port! And it's still a huge reference RPG.

But I agree that this latest Anniversary update/upgrade is 90% BS and A LOT overpriced.

Side note: with this latest update it looks like Bethesda accidentally leaked some upcoming Creation Club content: Klogirc Sanctuary. I'm talking about it here.
The switch lighting engine is atrocious and makes the game look like its running on an Xbox 360

Handheld mode is passable, playing it on a TV is just depressing
 

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The switch lighting engine is atrocious and makes the game look like its running on an Xbox 360

Handheld mode is passable, playing it on a TV is just depressing

I feel sorry for the people that couldn't play it back when it launched.
They're letting themselves get mugged now.
 
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I bought Street Fighter II CE for Megadrive for £65 on release in 1992. That's around £150 today :blink:
Sucks for people that save money as inflation will kill your savings.

So I say screw saving and buy Skyrim everytime it re-releases. Spend that money while you're young.
 

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I bought Street Fighter II CE for Megadrive for £65 on release in 1992. That's around £150 today :blink:
Agreed, it wasn't any easier back in that generation. I remember buying Strider for the Sega Genesis for a whopping $100 CDN in its release year (1990). That converts to $193 CDN now, or $139 US. I paid dearly for that 8 Mega Memory. Gamers have it so easy nowadays with the cheap games! :P
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Well done, milk dumb sheep if you can, rob them as they're worthless and enjoy being 💩, will come back and beg for more. Great move 👍
 

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Fun fact, many N64 games originally retailed for $70, and a few at $80

And it's not like that price was unprecidented, NES and SNES games were generally higher priced than n64 games. And Sega had some high prices on their systems back in the day, too.

But those were new games (mostly, sometimes you'd get something like yet another Street Kombat variation at exorbinant prices). $70 for a "port" of a years old game from a previous gen? Well a sucker is born every minute.
 

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Fun fact, many N64 games originally retailed for $70, and a few at $80

This was mostly due to overhead from the price of manufacturing the cartridges

70USD or the price of SM64 on launch day would be about $130 today
They definitely were really expensive.
I remember going to a Toys R Us back when Super Smash Bros 64 just came out,
and it retailed for what would be 60€ nowadays.

Roughly 20 years ago, that was a huge sum of money, especially for a kid.
 

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