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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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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.

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Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this Product:
    • This is rated 4.8 out of 5 stars based on over 2,000 ratings at Amazon.
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  • 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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WH2436May 26, 2024 10:29 PM
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Quote from Spaceman6969 :
Tell that to the buyers from the used market. They made it a thing. Like I said, idc. Not my problem LOL
But you are just flat out wrong. Maybe on Facebook marketplace in your small town but checking sold/completed eBay buy-it now's, there is maybe a $1 difference, if that.
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IveGotNothingMay 27, 2024 12:57 AM
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Quote from WH2436 :
But you are just flat out wrong. Maybe on Facebook marketplace in your small town but checking sold/completed eBay buy-it now's, there is maybe a $1 difference, if that.
Difference in what
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WH2436May 27, 2024 1:20 AM
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Quote from IveGotNothing :
Difference in what
Difference in final selling prices
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nilwsmsvuzojkhtloiMay 27, 2024 3:30 AM
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Quote from OrangeMagic4534 :
This game probably isn't selling all that well.
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.

Quote from zachary80 :
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.
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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May 27, 2024 12:40 PM
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WH2436May 27, 2024 12:40 PM
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People don't realize how good 4 million copies is of an old game in a genre that doesn't appeal to the masses.
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LanmannaMay 27, 2024 3:38 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.
A brand new remake is just a "new coat of paint"? It's still a 12-20 hour game. Lol

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PretzelsRULEMay 27, 2024 5:54 PM
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Quote from WH2436 :
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.
Spaceman is correct. I am not sure where you're living, but ESRB rating makes a huge difference on the collector's side of things. If you want to see this effect in action, look at the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster. You can pick up the Asian market english release for around $90. The ESRB version sells for around $400. Same game, different rating. Regular gamers might not care, but collectors do. This game in particular? Time will tell I guess. In general though, ESRB games have higher values.
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Spaceman6969May 27, 2024 6:25 PM
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Quote from PretzelsRULE :
Spaceman is correct. I am not sure where you're living, but ESRB rating makes a huge difference on the collector's side of things. If you want to see this effect in action, look at the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster. You can pick up the Asian market english release for around $90. The ESRB version sells for around $400. Same game, different rating. Regular gamers might not care, but collectors do. This game in particular? Time will tell I guess. In general though, ESRB games have higher values.
Thank you. Folks here don't realize some gamers out there are different collectors too in their own way. Does the downvotes means SD users here don't want to coexist with game collectors or niche gamers too? It's funny and sad at the same time.
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TheRealVassagoMay 27, 2024 9:12 PM
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In for it. Thanks! I have fond memories of playing it for SNES. I haven't played it since.
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WH2436May 27, 2024 9:59 PM
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Quote from PretzelsRULE :
Spaceman is correct. I am not sure where you're living, but ESRB rating makes a huge difference on the collector's side of things. If you want to see this effect in action, look at the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster. You can pick up the Asian market english release for around $90. The ESRB version sells for around $400. Same game, different rating. Regular gamers might not care, but collectors do. This game in particular? Time will tell I guess. In general though, ESRB games have higher values.
You're not comparing the same thing. Supply is dramatically different in one vs the other. Of course, all else equal, the limited production "rare" version of anything will fetch more in resale later if it becomes a collectible. They purposely made very few of those FF Pixels, hence the markup in the secondary market.
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nilwsmsvuzojkhtloiMay 28, 2024 2:17 AM
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Quote from PretzelsRULE :
Spaceman is correct. I am not sure where you're living, but ESRB rating makes a huge difference on the collector's side of things. If you want to see this effect in action, look at the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster. You can pick up the Asian market english release for around $90. The ESRB version sells for around $400. Same game, different rating. Regular gamers might not care, but collectors do. This game in particular? Time will tell I guess. In general though, ESRB games have higher values.
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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kylwilliams11May 28, 2024 2:38 PM
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But you are just flat out wrong. Maybe on Facebook marketplace in your small town but checking sold/completed eBay buy-it now's, there is maybe a $1 difference, if that.
All you have to do is search eBay sold listings and you'll see he's right
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OrangeMagic4534May 28, 2024 2:42 PM
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People don't realize how good 4 million copies is of an old game in a genre that doesn't appeal to the masses.
Nintendo has a built-in fanbase of diehards that buys literally anything. There's nothing impressive about a Mario game selling 4 million copies.
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WH2436May 29, 2024 1:08 AM
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Quote from OrangeMagic4534 :
Nintendo has a built-in fanbase of diehards that buys literally anything. There's nothing impressive about a Mario game selling 4 million copies.
We can agree to disagree. Polishing up an old game and selling $200M worth of it, which makes it the 33rd best selling Switch game of all time, and it's been out for less than a year, is pretty decent. I'd love to dust off something I already previously made money off of, with little new costs, and make an additional $200M.
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