Honestly this change has been a long time coming. In fact, why wasn't this the case back when digital copies were first introduced?
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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From their perspective, why cut your prices when you’ve reduced your cost if the customers will still pay the same? Use it instead to raise prices on the physical copies to bring them in line with your new, increased margins!
awesome, i can't wait to not buy any of them!
Ok so why are you even here?
I think it is worth it to voice the resentment that companies create with erratic behavior.
I'm old enough to still know when companies said 'oh without the distribution and manufacturing costs, the prices with digital only will be much lower' only to (expextedly) coax into online drm and remote shut down.
So yeah, this is likely to go down that road too.
I don’t trust anything Nintendo sells digitally. They don’t understand (or have a toxic understanding of) digital ownership and takes active steps to limit how you can use your digital games.
On Wii/Wii U/3DS you didn’t own your games, you console did and good luck if it ever broke/died.
On Switch they finally move it to your account, but since the Switch 2 release you can’t play your games on another system without an active network connection. And no way to move the license to another console without them having an account or an internet connection.
So while it’s nice to see Nintendo adjusting its prices, I think they’re trying to back out of the corner they put themselves in. I don’t see this as a reduction of digital prices, but rather a return to normal prices and a tax on physical games.
I hope this means they are coming down. I haven't bought any first party games for my switch 2 yet. I just can't make that investment unless I'm sure I'm getting 30+ hours of play out of it. And this is something which I'm never sure of.
Yes, they clarified that the digital games' price will be reduced. Yoshi is $60 digitally.