New Super Mario Bros. 2 Download Price Confirmed for UK

Are you one of the people that want to experience Nintendo's first retail download? For those of you that are, you better keep your gold coins saved up.

Nintendo UK confirmed today that it will cost £39.99 to download the latest Mario adventure. Now we know this is their first venture into the retail download market, so it's quite understandable as to why they've stuck with the RRP, but considering a lot of online retailers have it priced at around £10 cheaper, is it really worth the extra gold just to have the ability to play it without switching out cartridges?

UPDATE: The prices were also confirmed for FreakyForms Deluxe (£24.99) and New Art Academy (£29.99)

FreakyForms has turned out to be £5 more than I expected it to be. Luckily you bought the original now, right Marzy?

( Edited 13.08.2012 13:22 by Mush123 )

not a great way to start if you ask me Nintendo.

Still of course it'll make shitloads anyway, it's got 'Super Mario Bros' in the title.
Just think it's a bit lame they're charging so much for their first ever full download title.

SuperLink said:
not a great way to start if you ask me Nintendo.

Still of course it'll make shitloads anyway, it's got 'Super Mario Bros' in the title.
Just think it's a bit lame they're charging so much for their first ever full download title.

It isn't only Nintendo that are doing this though, some retail games on Xbox are priced at £49.99! It's pretty bad, this whole digital business. Not sure how it is on Sony's front.

Yep, Freaky Forms for £5.40 is well worth it. If you're on the wall about it, I highly recommend people get it now, before the Deluxe version goes up. I'm personally enjoying it. Creating characters is fun and the voices you can pick for them are hilarious.

As for the pricing of NSMB 2, I personally think it's overpriced.

( Edited 13.08.2012 13:43 by Marzy )

There are many PS3 games at £39.99 but also many at cheaper prices, add to that the fact that the 3DS is a handheld and NSMB2 is probably a bloody tiny game and you have kind of a bad deal.

I don't want to buy a relatively small and content-less handheld game at the same price as a big console one.

Haha, Nintendo UK are a bunch of idiots. Double points is no incentive at all, ten pounds more in your pocket, along with convenience, is.

Very few will pay £10 pounds more for convenience and some shitty points, very few.

£15 pounds more cheaper at some online retailers if you pre-ordered.

Can't this be solved with those retail-sold vouchers Nintendo spoke about? Or don't they sell them yet? =/

It's F-ing ridiculous! How the hell can they charge that much!

I put some money on the e-shop ready to get it, but no way at that price. I thought they were over pricing the Gameboy games, but this takes it to another level. Nintendo are starting to look like greedy robbing Bs. :-x

Trepe said:
I thought they were over pricing the Gameboy games, but this takes it to another level. Nintendo are starting to look like greedy robbing Bs. :-x

But almost £40 for a game you can get £10 or more cheaper. Yeah.. that is ridiculous.

In my eyes all VC gams are overpriced. I haven't bought a single one. Just 2 WiiWare games.

£30 for New Art Academy? Yeah, no thanks. Will wait until I can get one of those retail vouchers for £20. Greedy gits.

New Art Academy is £20 on ASDA and Amazon UK websites fyi. Unless you want download-only.

Laughable prices, but Nintendo aren't the only ones. £50 for PS3 games on PS Store, when you can get them for £10 elsewhere. Can't blame them for trying, but it's a slap in the face for fans that have forked out so much wasted money on them over the years.

Yeah, it's the kind of game I'd like to have downloaded for the convenience factor, thanks for the heads up anyway. ^^

I'm certainly not paying that much for an edition of this soulless, unimaginative cash-cow of a Mario series. Particularly a digital one.

I'd say it's more convenient to have the cartridge, I always wonder whether I'm buying digital downloads for the life-duration of the console or my own life. It should be the latter, but based on how the VC works, I never get that impression, so no, I would definitely not even consider a £40 download for a game £10 cheaper on the high-street. Bravo Nintendo.

I just hope retailers start with the discounts on download cards as NSMB2 is a game I'd prefer to download but there's no way I'm pay £40 for it.

I like selling my games after a while. I'm not downloading anytime soon.

Mush123 said:

Trepe said:
I thought they were over pricing the Gameboy games, but this takes it to another level. Nintendo are starting to look like greedy robbing Bs. :-x

I don't have any gripes with the prices of GB games, I think they're quite reasonably priced. (I'm probably the only one to think this, but whatever)

But almost £40 for a game you can get £10 or more cheaper. Yeah.. that is ridiculous.

I think they are a little over priced (though that hasn't stopped me buying them) and should be (ideally) around the £1 mark. This would put them at a price that competes with games on other mobile platforms. Lets face it, Nintendo have made their money out of these games already and it costs them next to nothing to re-release them like this. They are extremely dated compared to similar offerings on competing devices.

( Edited 16.08.2012 11:03 by Trepe )

Yeah, I'd say something like Tennis is too expensive, which is £2.70. You could probably get Virtua Tennis or something for iPhone for around the same price and you'd get far more for your money.

Tennis seems like the most basic of games on there. Which is the reason I'm pointing that one out.