Propaganda: You Shouldn't buy a Switch now
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Historically, getting in late for a console is never a bad thing. Some of the late games for a console when everyone else has moved on have been historically some of the best looking, and sometimes the most pricey to hold on to.
I got an amazing supply of games for the PS3, 360, and PS4 in a few months of going to shops and buying used. One convention I got several full series of games all for less than $10. So yes, it is a great time to grab a switch and look up games.
Unfortunately, when talking about Nintendo games you will rarely get them at more than a few dollars below full price unless its third party or shovelware. They hate lowering the price until its only secondary markets and then its a short time before the "collectors" drive the price even higher.
Super Mario Odyssey is still 60$ on the Nintendo store.
True, but now you know which games will stand the test of time.
If you want interesting, the New Super Mario Bros for DS was being sold for $35 5 years ago new at Best Buy. That is selling power. I have only seen that staying power with San Andreas for the XBox, which is still being sold in stores today.
Disagree. It just tells you which are first party games for Nintendo. The newest Mario Golf, which basically nobody liked and was basically a failure in every sense, is still full price in most places years later. It failed the test of time on release and had people already just going back to prior entries.
Breath of the Wild, a launch title that literally everyone owns by this point, is still full priced. Which I guarantee will continue to be the case once the sequel comes out this year and makes that game entirely obsolete to even play.
Yeah Nintendo games tend to hold their value. Best bet for a discount is to buy used a little bit after release. For FE awakening I ended up paying full price used with no case.
I wouldn't even call it holding value. Its entirely inflated by Nintendo's staunch refusal to discount anything, which means secondary markets never lower the price beyond a token handful of dollars.
Of course this then gives the future market an absurd idea of what a game's value actually is, well above anything in reality. Especially as Nintendo games are probably the easiest of all consoles ever to emulate.