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Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) on sale for $40.95 >
Now-> $39.95.
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Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) on sale for $40.95
Now-> $39.95.
Shipping is free.
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- Jump through a colorful world and give attacks some extra oomph in battle!
- Explore the vibrant environments with your party and jump towards your next goal!
- Run into monsters to enter turn-based battles with your party of three.
- Press the button at the right time for a satisfying dose of extra damage or helpful guard.
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Here's the thing, though: it's not actually dropping in MSRP here, technically. Go look the game up on Best Buy, Target, Gamestop, et cetera, or on the Nintendo eShop for that matter, and you'll see that it's still full price, sixty bucks. These $35 and $40 copies that we're seeing on Amazon and Walmart and Groupon are all from third-party marketplace sellers, who are buying up bulk quantities of the game from countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, where retail prices for videogames are generally much cheaper, and then importing and reselling them here in the US at a likely rather slim margin but in decently large quantities, to make a tidy little profit. Classic grey-market importing. Luckily for these resellers, Nintendo Switch cartridge games don't have any sort of regional lockout and will therefore work on any region's hardware, and the copies sold in those foreign regions still include English language options, so there aren't really any logistical roadblocks preventing them from being imported and resold in other regions this way. This is quite unlike the old days where, for instance, GameCube discs sold in Japan couldn't be readily played on an US-region console, or European PlayStation 2 games didn't work on Japanese PS2 consoles, et cetera, and even if they did work, they typically only included language options specific to their intended region of sale anyways. In the specific case of these imported copies of Mario RPG, the biggest practical difference is just that they have different age rating badges on the box based on their local region's rating systems, instead of the familiar North American ESRB system.
This really isn't anything new or unusual, and you can easily find many games available as cheaper grey-market import copies these days. These resellers simply happened to find some especially low-priced foreign copies of Mario RPG to import and flip, so that's why you've been seeing it crop up so cheap on third-party marketplaces lately. It is most certainly not because Nintendo has been instructing legit US retailers to lower the MSRP on the game, nor is it in any way indicative that the game is selling so poorly that Nintendo is in a panic and in response putting it on some sort of "unprecedented" fire sale to move stock, as some people seem to be imagining. See my response regarding the game's sales figures above.
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Amazon has the UK version for $35 right now. It works on all platforms.
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Like I said, the ESRB rating is a big deal for some when considering the option to resell down the road. IMO not a big deal for most. I personally don't care as long it works and has English option in which it does.
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