Nintendo's Black Friday 2024 Deals Revealed - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 November 2024 / 2,834 Views
Nintendo has announced its Black Friday 2024 deals.
Dozens of games will be discounted including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Maker 2, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Pikmin 4, Nintendo Switch Sports, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Super Mario Odyssey, Pikmin 1 + 2, and more.
The Neon Red and Neon Blue Joy-Con controllers and the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller will be discounted by $20, while the Nintendo Switch Carrying Case & Screen Protector - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition will be discounted by $10.
The Nintendo Switch: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle will once again return for $299.99, while the new Nintendo Switch – OLED Model: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle will be available for $349.99. Both bundles include a digital download of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a 12-month Nintendo Switch Online Individual Membership.
The Nintendo Switch Lite: Hyrule Edition with Bonus Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack will be available for $209.99. The bundle includes a 12-month Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Individual Membership.
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Pretty weak honestly, one could have hoped they would give the Switch one last push, but I guess they're more focused on the next system.
Super Mario Odyssey at $29.99 is decent for anyone that doesn't own it. All the $39.99 games should also be $29.99.
Yeah, Switch owners really have no excuse to not get it now unless they don't like 3D platformers at all.
Poor deals. They're really not trying very hard considering their ambitious sales targets.
(aside: “ambitious sales target” 12.5mil is not much of a stretch tbh. All Nintendo would need is 5.5-6mil during Q3, which would fall closely in line with YoY drops (outside Q1 b/c TotK) from 2023. Not saying it’s guaranteed, though I wouldn’t bet against it.)
I agree these are some comical Black Friday deals though lol.
Almost 8 years in and that's the best they can do lol. Pretty much guarantees Nintendo has no intention of doing a price drop on Switch to keep sales from plummeting close to zero once the successor launches. They clearly have no interest in pushing hardware sales of the Switch.
There's also a Nintendo Switch Sports bundle for 279 in Europe (standard Switch + NSW online).
Since Nintendo games are so evergreen, $40 for games is Nintendo's idea of a Black Friday deal when they should be $15-$30 by now when on sale.
On Nintendo's side its more than just responding to sales, it's also branding. Games like Pikmin 4 have more or less stopped selling and are short of 4m worldwide (Way less than many PS5/PC games which you can find for $20) but Nintendo doesn't do major price reduction on Pikmin not because it's still selling but because they want their software to maintain a premium value perception.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. If they don't need to sell more copies, and the value of their brand is high at 70$, then they will keep it there, they "should"n't reduce it for any other reasons than if they need to sell more copies for whatever reasons they may have (projections, bottom-line, upcoming remasters, etc.)
Why are people always thumbing me down? Aren't you guys tired of that. Basically what I am saying is that Nintendo is in control of their price and don't need to dilute their price unless they have some very clear reason to lower the price, like they did with the titles in this article. Why is that getting thumbed down, are you not able to read?
Agreed. All those old games outside of Mario Kart should all be $30-$40 retail price now, and $20 for Black Friday sale. I'd probably end up picking up a bunch more games if they were priced appropriately at $30 or $20 on sale for how old they are now and how low their sales are at this point. Instead I'm whittling my choices way down to the last few $60 Switch games I want to get, and even those I'm only going to get by using the vouchers program to get them for $50 instead of $60.
Mario Kart should be $30-$40 considering it's a WiiU port that released over a decade ago.
Even GTA5 which has sold like crack has a lower price with it's overhauls/remasters/re-releases.
Market demand. MK8D is consistently their best selling game, meaning there is no business reason to drop price. There's an actual business reason to drop the price on all the other games: because they don't sell that much anymore.
Mario Kart 8 has sold 65 million on the Switch not to mention income from the expansion pack. They would me mad to lower the price whilst it's still got good sales. You do realise the aim of a business is to make money??
Wasn't this "last push" already announced for holiday 2023?
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