is the first one that’s not an anthology, deluxe edition, or DLC bundle to break the $60 barrier. Games are now regularly doing this on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, presumably because blockbuster production costs nearly double every console cycle.
The Switch is five years old though, andPlus, the Anniversary Edition is only $50 on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S where the new-gen upgrades were free. And it’s nothing to do with the cost of Switch SD cards either, since the $70 price is for the digital download. My only guess? The regular version of Skyrim is still priced at $60 on Switch, and instead of reducing that price by $10, Bethesda decided to just add it on to the new sale price. That’s all speculation of course.
Yeah... guys this thing can run on a toaster. Get it for your laptop on Steam. It'll be on sale.
Can they use mods like ps and xbox?
Shits going to be permanently $70 dollars as well
The thing is that the new add ones make the game perform abysmally. If you play it without it then it runs with no issue.
Nintendo never lower their prices.
🤣😂😂😂 Post 2011 Bethesda is a joke
Dear Bethesda...
Hey you, you're finally awake.
It's pretty simple: If people are willing to pay that much, companies will charge that much.
Me when I saw the price of SAE:
I payed 35 back in 2017 during a black Friday special n sold it for 50, I should had held on
That’s a crime 😂
Price gouging at it's finest.
FFS
This game is 60 years old.
The most milked game of all time.
greedy Microsoft.
It would be overpriced at half the price. The anniversary edition doesn’t even add anything significant.
Imagine paying $70 for this outdated game
10 years old game
This is beyond parody.
Crazy that it is $70 on that but not that price on other platforms - doesn’t make sense
Worth it
Finally. Lmao
Quietly my arse. Oh yeah, this is kotaku.
Being in Canada it's gonna be $100💀
People really saying $20 if you already own skyrim as if that is going to change anything for those that don't. $70 for such an old game is absurd.
LPT: look for a cheap physical copy of Skyrim. Then get the $20 DLC. I got Skyrim when it was on sale for like ~$30 so thats really only $50 being spent on the anniversary and base game
It's just the deluxe version, jeez clarification is key. It's literally the base game and Anniversary DLC together. You could but the base game for $60, the DLC upgrade is $20. The $70 bundle is cheaper.
rosazandre
Lol
They literally announced it on the elder scrolls twitter. Launched that day. $70 if you do not own the base game. $20 if you already own the base game. Plus there was a free update that downloaded which added a bunch of content. The content would cost more than $20 as is.
There won't be a day cold enough in hell to make me pay 70 bucks for a 10 year old game.
👀
Can I still buy the cheaper one? Asking for a friend that's never bothered with bathesda.
Agree $70 is crazy for an 11-year-old game, but on what planet is the Anniversary Edition NOT an 'an anthology, deluxe edition, or DLC bundle?'
$20 if you already own the game*
Now Nintendo is getting on with this ridiculous god-awful swindling. How many times is this game going to be re-re-re-re released? Just let it die already
Well there's always someone who hasn't played or discovered Skyrim. I know I JUST got into it a few years ago. So no, not everyone in the world has played it lol
Who cares? Zelda BotW is years old too and it's still $90 in Australia. It's $20 if you own Skyrim on Switch. You're paying $70 for the game plus the Anniversary Edition upgrade. The Creation Club stuff on there is valued at $5-$10 each, and there's nearly 80 Creations
$70 for a Switch Port of fucking Skyrim?
Imagine paying 70 for arguably the worst way to play Skyrim
$70 😂😂 rather get the cod
Todd Howard can't keep getting away with it
Clickbait.
The standard port barely runs on the switch
It's. A. Bundle!
70 dollars for a worse looking version of an 11 year old game that you probably allready own. Nintendo being Nintendo.
Big IMPORTANT THING: the nintendo swtich 70 bucks version is published by ninendo. its not Bethesda responsible for this prices, its nintendo doing it
Tempted to buy it and I don’t even have a switch
70 for a decade old game. A bit insulting, but you know someone will buy it.
Todd:
Why people still buying this game? I don't understand. Same with GTAV
Probably can’t use mods
it's just the anniversary edition. which is just a $20 dlc upgrade for the original game that was $60.
DRM free version available on GOG for $25 on sale and normally $60 otherwise. Still a much better deal either way than getting this on Switch at that price.
I wanna go to a bethesda investors meeting and plant a nuke.
Lol its a matter of time before they port it to mobile!
So stop buying the stupid thing.
STOP FUCKING BUYING IT
'$70' is a version of the game?
I mean if ppl pay that price that’s on them.
Who tf is paying $70 for that old of a game?🤦🏻♂️
Im gonna buy switch only to buy skyrim, i still got my pc and 50 versions of skyrim is on it.
This game is 55 years old.
🤮
It's $20 for the anniversary edition if you already own Skyrim. That's not terrible at all.
BlessingJr / TimGettys bethesda heard your games daily 😏
😂
Nope no nope nope
Shhhh. Maybe people won't notice?!
They can keep it 😘
$70!?
That's not even a graphically improved Remake, just a standard port.
And still no mod support
Should be like 20 or 15 dollars at least got damn
Bethesda trippin
'Decades worth' as if they've been adding and adding and adding
L
Nintendo'h
This will make more money than the whole existence of gamepass
Quietly? This is like the 100000th post I’ve seen about it 😂
12-year-old game $70 makes sense
BethesdaStudios guys really?
Microsoft got their hands on bethesda and look at the type of shit they think they can pull. Bethesda games are maybe worth 40 bucks. Their games arent as good as all the dick riders make them out to me.
Getting people to buy the same game multiple times over the course of an entire decade+. Hell of a revenue model.
skyrim has been on the switch for as long as it has been around, i do not know what the pricing was originally though
So… its not exactly that new scary $70 price point, coming to life on the Switch. The mods and dlc that come with it are being valued at $20. Which is proven by the fact that I can pay $20 to upgrade my $50 purchase with those perks.
I would play but my dock doesn’t function on my tv as of last night it’s only 5 months old. junk
I’m 29 and my parents used to tell me stories of this game when I was a child
Honestly, shouldn't a switch game max out at $40 since they are 1/4 of their counterparts game versions?
So is Nintendo just charging $20 extra for this?
$70 ..... for a switch game. OOOF.
Meanwhile my copy from 2011 on steam deck looks and plays way better
Brub😂😂😂I have some links if you wanna 'demo' skyrim with all the dlc and a workin fan patch after Bethesda abandoned the game but kept constantly re releasing it😂you shouldn't be paying for Skyrim in 2022 and beyond.
For an 11 year old game? Christ almighty
Well, somebody needs to subsidize Gamepass
More effort needed to make that happen Nintendo fans love paying those prices tho
I am again saying that Nintendo and Apple fans overlap in many aspects.
You're joking, right?
It’s simple, it’s not Sony. If this were Sony, Twitter and it’s many Xbots would be at the door with pitchforks. Nintendo does this all the time and no one makes a sound. Sony remakes a game for a new generation to enjoy & people cry like they are stealing from them. Silly people
BRUH...
lol, they wonder why people pirate games.
Trippin
he is coming
This game has literally always existed why is it still $70
Also, my favorite part about this is that $70 later, you STILL would not be able to use mods on the Switch.
bethesda Can yall stop screwing around with this and just drop SOMETHING of substance towards Elder Scroll 6? It's been over a decade, babe.
Hilariously unacceptable
Lmaooo why?
This cow has a massive amount of milk
Games in Canada are 90 with taxes so cry somewhere else.
It's for those who want it
Too expensive for such an old game
If you buy this, get some help
This game is 40 years old.
$70 😝😝
And I'm going to Quietly pass. If nintendo wants my $70 make a switch 2.
Besthesda has to stop milking skyrimg and focus on developing a better game. Get over it damn, it’s been more than a decade. Come up with something better
Just to clarify; This is the price for Anniversary Edition as a whole. The price for upgrade is $20, same as all other platforms.
93$ CAD
Skyrim Inflation Edition
Wtf
How original. 😒 Only version of Skyrim I got, was the anniversary edition for XBox One, and that’s it.
Put it at 30$ and see it fly off the shelves and build up some (more) brand loyalty for the inevitable sequel.
scam
Nobody will pay for that, boy even the 'upgrade' is a robbery
Kotaku: and that's why Sony and Nintendo are better than Xbox.
That's insane lmfao
Or just get a Steam Deck.
next up : super mario 64 remaster for only 70$ a month
Weird that it is $70 on Switch - but didn’t launch at that price on the other platforms
Ha ha ha-NO. Not paying 70 bucks for a twenty year old game...
Me looking at the price...
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