Nintendo briefly listed Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $70 on the eShop
Nintendo briefly listed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for $69.99 on the US eShop.
As noted by numerous sources including Wario64, the eShop was listing the game for $69.99 for a period of time.
The price is now no longer visible on the eShop page, with only the message ‘releasing in 2023’ visible.
If this is to be the game’s price, it will mark the first time Nintendo has charged more than $59.99 for a standard edition of a digital Switch game.
Twitter game sales analyst Benji-Sales also noted that GameStop, Best Buy and Amazon have all stopped taking pre-orders for the game. All three stores had been charging $59.99 for pre-orders before they were pulled.
Should the $69.99 price be accurate, it’s not yet clear whether these online stores will honour existing $59.99 pre-orders, though Amazon tends to honour the lowest price a product reaches during its pre-order period.
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Nintendo will host its next Nintendo Direct stream later today, which will feature “roughly 40 minutes of information mostly focused on Nintendo Switch games launching in the first half of 2023″.
Tears of the Kingdom is expected to feature in the Direct, but it remains to be seen if Nintendo will announce a price increase for the game during this part of the presentation.
Nintendo published its latest financial results on Tuesday, in which it said fluctuations in foreign exchange markets had contributed to a decline in sales and profits, despite strong sales of Switch games and hardware.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa reportedly said in an earnings briefing that the company does not plan to raise software or game console prices in response to market
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