The worth hike for video video games has lastly hit Nintendo. Nintendo confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the extremely anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild, will value $69.99, as an alternative of the normal $59.99 worth for first-party Nintendo video games. After Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct, the new worth of Tears of the Kingdom was mirrored on Nintendo’s web site.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is Nintendo’s first main launch to be impacted by the $10 worth hike. The enhance doesn’t seem to have an effect on all upcoming Nintendo video games, nonetheless. Pikmin 4, due in July, is priced at $59.99, as is Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, which lastly arrives in April.
When requested if $69.99 will grow to be the normal worth level for first-party Nintendo video games, a spokesperson for Nintendo instructed Polygon by way of electronic mail, “No. We determine the suggested retail price for any Nintendo product on a case-by-case basis.”
Nintendo’s elevated worth on first-party video games matches different publishers’ current-gen costs. Microsoft raised the costs of its first-party video games from $59.99 to $69.99 in 2023. Other publishers, together with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Take-Two Interactive, have offered new video games like God of War Ragnarök, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and the NBA 2K sequence, respectively, at the $69.99 worth level.
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