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Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)

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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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Amazon has Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) on sale for $40.95 > Now-> $39.95. Shipping is free.

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Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal.

Details:
  • 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.

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this Product:
    • This is rated 4.8 out of 5 stars based on over 2,000 ratings at Amazon.
  • About this Store:
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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nilwsmsvuzojkhtloi
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It's sold at least 4 million copies in barely six months, which I believe likely already makes it the third best-selling traditional turn-based JRPG on consoles the last decade, after Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI (which are likely somewhere around 8 and 7 million copies, respectively). Note that P5 and DQXI are both multiplatform titles available on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC, and that both were later re-released as expanded versions (Persona 5 Royal and Dragon Quest XI S), and that their sales totals include all these different platforms and releases. The Super Mario RPG remake, on the other hand, exists as a single version available on just one platform. Then consider that the game's development cost was likely just a fraction of either of those other two, and I'm willing to bet that Nintendo is quite pleased with the game's commercial performance so far. Remember that traditional turn-based JRPGs are a rather niche genre in this day and age, and they aren't intended or expected to be challenging the likes of Call of Duty and Madden and NBA2K at the top of the annual sales charts. Nintendo knows this perfectly well, and they didn't set the scope, budget, or sales targets for this rather modest and very faithful remake of an old SNES game at a level so high where they would have needed it to come out and immediately outsell such huge genre hits as Persona and Dragon Quest and become the best-selling JRPG of the past decade just to break even, or anything even remotely like that.


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.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8VMWBWB
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nilwsmsvuzojkhtloi
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I'm not trying to argue against your premise, but that's a really bad cherry-picked example. FFPR's physical release in North America was a very limited one-time print run that was exclusively sold via Square-Enix's online store. It was a limited collector's item from the get go, and basically tailor-made to be quickly snatched up by collectors of physical ESRB-badged copies of niche games. You can't rightly make a comparison between that and a mass-produced wide release game available readily available at Walmart and Best Buy.
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Spaceman6969May 26, 2024 1:46 PM
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At least $40 is acceptable to most. This won't be less than $35 by BF 2024. Nintendo won't allow it.
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mastershadyMay 26, 2024 3:16 PM
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Quote from Spaceman6969 :
At least $40 is acceptable to most. This won't be less than $35 by BF 2024. Nintendo won't allow it.

Amazon has the UK version for $35 right now. It works on all platforms.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8VMWBWB
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Quote from Spaceman6969 :
At least $40 is acceptable to most. This won't be less than $35 by BF 2024. Nintendo won't allow it.
This is pretty much unprecedented for a first-party Nintendo game to drop this far this fast, it probably should have been released at $40 (which is why I didn't use my voucher on it), I wouldn't be surprised if this is the all-time low except for people dumping inventory.
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hollowpocketsMay 26, 2024 4:37 PM
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I grabbed this and metroid remastered and had a $10 Discover cashback coupon I stacked. I used $1 of my cashback. Thanks op.
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WH2436May 26, 2024 4:55 PM
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Quote from OrangeMagic4534 :
This game probably isn't selling all that well. Asking $60 for what is essentially a very short SNES game with a new coat of paint is something only Nintendo seems to get away with.
Were you the one that posted the same comment last week? It's sold 4 million copies, at $50 each that's $200 million for a "old short game with new paint". $200M is pretty solid, not sure there is a sell thru issue.
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DerekR5067May 26, 2024 5:45 PM
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Quote from Spaceman6969 :
Of course but here in America the ESRB rating is a must have for most gamers cuz they want the option to easily sell it. It purely preferential
You're insane. That weird rating isn't gonna stop someone from selling it for $30 or more on fb marketplace. No way no how.
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DinksGonnaDoinkMay 26, 2024 5:47 PM
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Quote from Spaceman6969 :
Of course but here in America the ESRB rating is a must have for most gamers cuz they want the option to easily sell it. It purely preferential
Lol, wtf you talking about?
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WH2436May 26, 2024 6:25 PM
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Quote from OrangeMagic4534 :
Most of those were during the holiday season. If it was still selling well we wouldn't be seeing this game constantly getting discounts. And these aren't regular sales, the price is just fluctuating down because no one is buying it.
Who cares? It's a recycled game. $200M is a lot in sales. Of course sales slow down. The people that want it bought it already. I don't think you understand how good selling $200 million of an old game remake is. It's impressive. The market for such a game is never gonna be massive 9 months after the release.
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WH2436May 26, 2024 8:15 PM
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Quote from Spaceman6969 :
I'm not insane. It is a thing thanks to social medium.

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.
Sorry spaceman, but no one cares about this and it does not impact resale. This is literally one of the dumbest takes I've ever read on this forum.
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This is pretty much unprecedented for a first-party Nintendo game to drop this far this fast, it probably should have been released at $40 (which is why I didn't use my voucher on it), I wouldn't be surprised if this is the all-time low except for people dumping inventory.
It's a remake, settle down with the "unprecedented" nonsense. It has sold over $200M, it's a success. Period.
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