$1 cheaper if you wanna support Gerry
Or price beat the above @ JB
This item will be released on July 17, 2025.
CamelCamelCamel.
I'd pay the extra dollar to give Jerry the middle finger, but damn at $99 I'll let it slide and wait for a bigger discount
$79 pre order, see info below
No, don't do this to my wallet 😡
Thoughts on this going cheaper? Nintendo first party titles don't tend to get many discounts?
It will get cheaper at some point
Nintendo games do go on sale. Don’t expect the every day price to drop, but if you want to wait at some point it’ll go for a discount.
Whether it’s actually worth waiting for, I dunno. IMHO the sale price often aren’t much better than the cheaper prices you get in the launch window for first party titles, and you may be waiting some time for a sale.
Wasn't it the Mario Odyssey game that came out with switch one, it was 75 and then drop to 69.99? And now first party games come out at 79.95 so it's selling at 74.95?
Unsure exactly tbh.
Looking back at my old receipts, looks like I paid $62 for it at launch. Also came with a Mario cap. I purchased at EB and I’m sure I likely price matched JB or Big W.
Was pretty common for Big W and the like to have low introductory pricing, which Amazon would match, and then the prices to drift back up. Of course you need to buy physical to benefit from the added competition.
No thanks
$99 - this is bananza.
Don’t know what it is, but I feel this game will disappoint to some extent… I feel it will also get cheaper.
I hope I’m wrong at the former, and right with the latter.
Hmm, the graphics on this game look kind of like Wii U era to me?
Had $30 worth of promo codes with Prime somehow, worth checking if you have Prime
Where on the website or app do you check for these?
Don't forget if you buy via JB, Target, or Big W, all three have options to get a tenner back (JB Perks requires a mobile number, but the other two's newsletters do not)
Big W does? Darn I've been missing out!
Big W has 75 min spend, Target only 50…but for new release games that doesn't much matter.
$99 for a nintendo game is crazy. Definitely waiting for this to come down
How is $99 for a game crazy? Back in 1997, Super Mario 64 was $99.95 here in Australia, which is $207 today after inflation. Today's games are bargains by comparison.
Games consistently sell more copies than back in the 90s too. Why else do you think they dropped to $70 in Australia?
You can downvote me but the fact is Nintendo games stayed around $60 on switch because they were high quality and it was the perfect price point. This will drop.
I don’t think Nintendo games did sit at $60. Just checking JB and pretty much every first party title in the first two pages of results is $69-$79. Same story on Amazon.
They often launched at that price, but would then go up a few weeks later.
@Smigit: Apologies, was talking about sale prices since we are on ozbargain. No one here should be paying RRP for games. Otherwise you could say games were already $99 for years by using EBs prices as evidence.
I still believe MrZ's comment about games being $99 in the 90s is not in good faith. Gaming is much more mainstream and less of a niche hobby as compared to back then.
@Darkvolcos: The NES sold in huge amounts in the 80s and 90s definitely not niche.
Mega Man 3 cost ~$95 for the NES when I got it…
Street Fighter 2 for the SNES was $129 on launch.
Games currently are bargains, and they won't stay this price for long - how many game studios are being shut down each week because it's just not a sustainable business?
@Darkvolcos: Yes, but that doesn't mean they were "niche" in the 80s and 90s. They were a sales phenomenon.
They were mainstream then, and they are mainstream now.
@Droz: Disagree, it was much more mainstream starting with the ps2/xbox/gc gen where they could justify lower prices due to volumes consistently being sold. But I see this isnt getting anywhere so I'll leave it there. Appreciate the discussion though.
No they don't always sell more. In fact they've ALL been on a downward trend from anywhere between 13-25 years for ALL genres. Nintendo and a few exceptional indies don't make the rule.
Final Fantasy series hasn't sold as good ever since FFVII released back in 1997. The best selling Call of Duty games were in 2010 and 2011. The best selling Assassin's Creed games were 3 (2012) and Black Flag (2013) (don't count Valhalla because it's so awful, it poisoned and killed Ubisoft).
Lol what a bargain!
Unless you had some vouchers/credits on Amazon, you're better off buying it from JB for the same sticker price - actual price being less than that, if you pay through Ultimate Gift Card or the like.
NO DEAL! THIS IS A RIPOFF!
Get it for $79 instead.
Just buy 2 games that qualify from JB HiFi for $30
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/collections/games-consoles/2-for-3…
(eg Samba De Amigo NS, Karate Kid Street Rumble NS, Super Bomberman R2 PS5, Funko Fusion PS5, currently qualify)
The game need to be valued at $10 or more (before any trade bonus) at EB Games so call first.
and trade the 2 games + $49 at EB Games
= $79 for Donkey Kong
And yes JB $10 perks works on 2 games for $30 as well.
Lets see
-Check with EB Games if 2 XB SX, PS5 or SW1 games qualify for the Trade Deal for DK B
-Buy them for $30 at JB
-Put them toward a pre-order for DK B at EB Games
-End price is $30+49 for the trade deal, hence, $79
Wrong. That's a rip off too.
Do step one (with a new Perks number, so only $20 spent)
Do the trade deal (which leaves 49 owing, aka a credit down of $60.95)
Price match Big W on release at $99 (save $10.95 off EB's price)
Total cost: $20 from JB plus $38.05 remaining, $58.05 total real dollars spent
You could also do a different trade 2 for a $70 game, return it, then pay remaining $29 but that's a bit less direct and at what point do I go "step one, win the Tattslotto"?
Legend, just picked up Samba De Amigo & Super Bomberman R 2 and did exactly this!
Edit: lol, didn't see the additional post, wonder if EB will refund the difference when price matching on release. I just paid up front a minute ago.
Couldn't be bothered making more perks accounts for more money off myself..
Edit2: just checked receipt, EB price is $104, so it'd only be another $5 back I guess.
Thanks
Did exactly this
DK, MGS Delta & Sonic R Crossworlds secured 👍
No idea why everyone is surprised at the price. Look at what NES/SNES/N64 games were selling for back in the 80s/90s. Mario 64 was $99.95 in 1997.
Going back a long time for that, its a very different market now.
That said, I think you can look at RRP of Xbox or PS5 titles, which are routinely selling for these prices and have for some time.
Batman returns SNES was $115 on release which is equivalent of $262 in todays dollars haha. Different world back then
If I'm not wrong, Street Fighter 2 on SNES was also around $120 on release.
I don't understand why people mention this. Who was ever paying those prices? It was commonplace to pick up these "$100-120" games for $40-60 on release, and any given day after that. The whole ludicrous RRP thing at the time seemed to be more about making the actual prices they sold them at seem like a good deal, as opposed to having any expectation of making a sale at that price point.
Sorry I had to neg this. There's no way that new release N64 games were selling for as low as $40 in 1997.
You are objectively wrong. My parents weren't paying $100+ for a video game under any circumstances.
I don't even understand why you'd waste people's time when you're acknowledging you don't know what you're talking about.
@Ryven: New release N64 games were absolutely not $40.
If you didn't buy it for RRP, then you simply never got the game.
There was a "Player's Choice" / Classic line which was a discounted rerelease if a game had reached a certain amount of (high) sales.
Started with SNES and Gameboy, and eventually filtered up through to N64 and GameCube.
Apparently the "Player's Choice" games came out for $40 USD. That's not $40 AUD - games back then did absolutely not go on sale like they do now.
@Droz: I'm clearly wasting my time arguing with people who don't know what they're talking about. I am not disputing what the RRP was, I acknowledged what the RRP was. I'm saying you'd have to have been insane to pay RRP because, like LEGO now, you could pretty well constantly get whatever you wanted at substantial discounts pretty well any day of the year. I did not own any "player's choice" games. I did clear out my SNES-Gamecube games some years ago and observed the games I'd picked up on release with their retail prices under the ticket prices I/my parents had paid at the time. I'd unironically forgotten RRPs were as ridiculous as they were, because at no point had we ever paid close to that. Because they were constantly on sale.
@Ryven: Look, this is getting a bit weird.
You said "Who was ever paying those prices?". I'm saying everyone was, because there weren't other options.
You said: "It was commonplace to pick up these "$100-120" games for $40-60 on release". We're saying that wasn't the case. At all. They weren't and couldn't be so heavily discounted. Imagine running a business, with the latest line of clothing/shoes/cars/whatever and then just one day shaving more than 50% off the price. At launch. Of a popular product. Like… Myer and David Jones weren't and still aren't charities.
More than 50% of the price on release? Commonplace? ON RELEASE? On a cartridge? Have you got your years mixed up? Were you a gaming generation behind?
You're saying we don't know what we're talking about - I'm saying that I do, from experience - because I was there. From your comments, it seems like you may not have been. Not sure which crime syndicate your parents belonged to if you were getting brand new stuff at more than 1/2 price ON LAUNCH.
@Droz: It is not my concern whether or not the retailers were making a profit at these price points. The only thing it was difficult to buy at a discount was the consoles themselves. Still possible, but only occasional.
No number of people who don't know what they're talking about add any value to a discussion.
You clearly weren't buying games at this time, if you were even born. Given if you were you would also be aware of this practise.
Please, if you feel the need to argue about other topics you have no idea about, hit me up. I'm sure we'd have plenty of options.
@Ryven: Today I learned that disagreeing with someone based on my own lengthy experience is "not knowing what I'm talking about"
@Droz: You didn't know anything about pricing trends of old games beyond RRPs that you could look up online today.
You clearly weren't buying games at this time, if you were even born.
Mate, don't start with this when you've already admitted that you were too young to buy your own games back in those days.
As a young teen working a part-time job to buy my own games, and rode my bike to different shopping centres every other weekend counting the days to when I finally saved up enough for my next game?
Add me as another person who witnessed first-hand that significant discounts on new (and not so new) games almost never happened back in those days.
Hell, renting games from Blockbusters to play with friends over the weekend for around $10 was actually a reasonable option back in those days, which absolutely wouldn't have been the case if you could just buy new release games outright for around $40-$60 each. That's just laughable.
@pj1351: I wasn't too young to buy my own games, I was young enough that my parents still occasionally did. Blockbuster was in fact pretty expensive for game rentals vs new, so we pretty much never did it.
It just sounds like you were the past equivalent of people who pay full ticket price for games at EB today, in spite of the fact that you can generally get them elsewhere or price match.
As others have stated, "$40-60 on release, and any given day after that" is utter nonsense.
Almost $100?
Well done!
I don't get why they didn't launch with this title?
Because Mario is Nintendo's mascot, not DK?
I guess it wasn't ready? Had an extra few months to "cook"
use APP20 with the amazon app plus CARD10 or NAB10 (yes they stack) got my preorder for $69
I just tried APP20 on this and it doesn't work..
can confirm APP20 didn't work for me either :(
it will only work in the amazon app for your first purchase made in the app
The last donkey kong game in the switch 1 was terrible, wouldn’t be rushing to get this one
The Wii DKC rerelease, or the Wii U DKC rerelease before it?
It's been officially revealed that DK Bananza was made by the same team behind Super Mario Odyssey, one of the highest rated games of all time (for whatever that is worth).
So the real question is whether someone liked that or not.
Which game? Pretty sure the Switch didn't have an original DK game?
Anyone who got the big W deal has yours shipped yet?
My order still hasn't shipped! Last time I preorder from Amazon
Mine hasn’t shipped yet either but Amazon has priced matched my order to the $89 Target price and then also added the NAB $10 discount so my order will come to $79, so probably worth the extra few days wait
![[Switch 2] Donkey Kong Bananza $99 Delivered @ Amazon AU](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/26/913726.jpg?h=566e9ab9)
I reckon this will get cheaper.