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brightknightie) wrote2025-06-29 07:24 am
brightknightie) wrote2025-06-29 07:24 am
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Nintendo online shop game sale through July 9
I wanted to share that Nintendo is having what I gather is a very rare sale on its online store, with many first- and third-party games discounted through July 9.
With the 30% discount on it, I went ahead and bought The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which otherwise I would have waited on until I was ready to play it on my Switch 2. (There is no discount on either of the Wilds games, or the BotW DLCs, or of course I would have snapped them up.) I also thought about buying Stray Gods (the role-playing musical), which I've heard such amazing things about, but there are only so many hours in a day outside work, so I'm still thinking.
The last time I personally owned a console (purchased second-hand from Goodwill), my games were on cartridges (a brown bag full of them, also from Goodwill). I do understand that getting games in the Cloud is as risky as getting books or songs or movies or TV in the Cloud, that TPTB could revoke them at any time, and I'm hesitant about it, but a friend in the games industry and his wife told me that this is the way to go now for back-ups and future compatibility and the Switch 2's new sharing system. (I'm still considering getting the Wilds games on physical media, but...) So you will perhaps understand my surprise when I made my Link's Awakening purchase and realized that there was no sales tax* on it, because it is a "service" and a "license," and therefore not taxed the same way that a physical copy on a cartridge would be. I should have observed this many years ago with apps on my phone, shows on streaming, books on Kindle, and goodness knows what all, but I had gone on buying most things in physical form, and it had just never clicked, probably because all those things individually cost so little each, while a single game is expensive enough to notice (and Nintendo's check-out screen is unusually clear).
* Sales tax is set at the state and local level in the US. Your locality may differ.
With the 30% discount on it, I went ahead and bought The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which otherwise I would have waited on until I was ready to play it on my Switch 2. (There is no discount on either of the Wilds games, or the BotW DLCs, or of course I would have snapped them up.) I also thought about buying Stray Gods (the role-playing musical), which I've heard such amazing things about, but there are only so many hours in a day outside work, so I'm still thinking.
The last time I personally owned a console (purchased second-hand from Goodwill), my games were on cartridges (a brown bag full of them, also from Goodwill). I do understand that getting games in the Cloud is as risky as getting books or songs or movies or TV in the Cloud, that TPTB could revoke them at any time, and I'm hesitant about it, but a friend in the games industry and his wife told me that this is the way to go now for back-ups and future compatibility and the Switch 2's new sharing system. (I'm still considering getting the Wilds games on physical media, but...) So you will perhaps understand my surprise when I made my Link's Awakening purchase and realized that there was no sales tax* on it, because it is a "service" and a "license," and therefore not taxed the same way that a physical copy on a cartridge would be. I should have observed this many years ago with apps on my phone, shows on streaming, books on Kindle, and goodness knows what all, but I had gone on buying most things in physical form, and it had just never clicked, probably because all those things individually cost so little each, while a single game is expensive enough to notice (and Nintendo's check-out screen is unusually clear).
* Sales tax is set at the state and local level in the US. Your locality may differ.