Nintendo is reportedly putting an end to small developers playing the Switch eShop cards with dirt-cheap deals by placing a price restriction.
This information comes from SMG Studios via Reddit. In a short reply message it is emphasized how a 99 cents is offered for sale Death square would be the ‘lowest price’ ever on Nintendo Switch, as ‘new rules’ on the Switch eShop currently seem to prevent developers from pricing games. below $ 1.99 USD. Clearly, this excludes free play titles.
“This is the lowest price it will ever be able to have. New rules on the eShope mean no game can be less than $ 1.99 and it’s 99c because I planned this sale in August!
Although Death Squared is no longer for sale, a quick look at the Switch eShop shows that there are still a number of games available for less than $ 1.99 (to be exact) (99 cents) – they contain titles like Pesweg, HoPiKo, Ridderruil 2 and Ant-Gravity: Tiny’s Adventure.
Perhaps the developers of these titles also locked up well before the new rules went into effect.
According to a story about Polygon, Nintendo recently stopped games that cost a single cent to make the list of “bestsellers” on the Switch eShop. Apparently there is also a rule that prevents developers from giving 100% off if a user already owns a game from their catalog. This information was shared by Simon Carless’s GameDiscoverCo newsletter.
If we hear any updates or developments, we’ll let you know.