Sunday, February 24, 2019

Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night Physical Pricing Won't Include "Switch Tax"

Save your pennies.

The Switch's popularity has come at a high price. The majority of multi-platform releases in both physical and digital form often cost more on Nintendo's hybrid platform. Eurogamer even investigated why this was happening on the physical front in 2017, only to discover game cards cost more to produce than discs and vary in terms of cost, depending on capacity.

When this mystery was solved, the unfortunate term "Switch tax" was coined, to help explain why games on Nintendo's latest device cost £10.00 or $10.00 more than versions available on other systems. With this in mind, Nintendo Soup has noticed it might actually be the other way around with one upcoming release. According to a listing on Amazon, the physical copy of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on Switch will cost $39.99 and an extra $10.00 more ($49.99 in total) on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In saying this, there is a temporary discount for the Xbox One version pushing it back down to the same price as the Switch.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com



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