Puyo Puyo Tetris set for release on Switch in Australia
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Deep Silver have today confirmed the local release date for Puyo Puyo Tetris, well at least the season. The game will arrive here in Australia on the Switch and the PlayStation 4 this autumn. That’s anywhere from March to the start of June.
Just like the rest of the world too the game will be more expensive on the Switch launching at $69.95. The PlayStation 4 version is just $49.95.
We hope it’s not a trend to start pricing Switch stuff higher just because it’s newer.
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Jeez, I wanted to support this, but even $50 is stupidly expensive for such a simple and cheap looking puzzle game that looks like it would cost a couple of bucks on the app store. I’ll still get it as I was bummed that the Wii U version didn’t leave Japan, but they’re having a laugh at that price. Games like this should be $29.95 tops.
Dang, it should be at least on par with the PS4 price…what is going on here?
They’re doubling the price because it’s a double console.
That would have made sense if it had been a Wii U version as developers would need to factor in the second screen and program content to appear on that second screen (i.e. the Gamepad), even if it is just off-TV play (incidentally, PS games weren’t marked up just because they had crossplay between the PS4 and Vita, nor are PS4 games marked up for supporting VR, as VR is a considerably more sophisticated feature than mere dual-screen play). The Switch is a single-screen experience, so your analogy doesn’t make sense (though I understand where you’re getting at).
Manufacturing costs shouldn’t be much higher either as Nintendo should be able to provide developers game cards of varying sizes (even as little as 1GB or even less, as I would imagine a game like this would only require a few hundred MBs of space *if that*), unlike Wii U optical discs, which were based on the Blu-ray format, so all games would have been provided on 25GB discs, regardless of the size of each individual game (and most retail Wii U games were only a few GBs in size).
Are you sure they didn’t also use DVD’s for the Wii U? I know the PS2 featured games on DVDs as well as games on CD (like the Australian Disgaea is on CD while the American version is on DVD)