{"id":102932,"date":"2019-11-01T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/this_switch_eshop_game_is_on_sale_for_just_two_cents_but_should_you_buy_it"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:15:00","slug":"this-switch-eshop-game-is-on-sale-for-just-two-cents-but-should-you-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/this-switch-eshop-game-is-on-sale-for-just-two-cents-but-should-you-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This Switch eShop Game Is On Sale For Just Two Cents, But Should You Buy It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aeb49393db228\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aeb49393db228\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aeb49393db228\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mwQweInVh78?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;re well used to eShop sales these days; publishers often use a cheeky price drop to get their game to the top of the charts and give it some much-needed visibility, but SimFabric has taken this to new lengths by hacking the price of Tocana&#8217;s Dev&#8217;s action title <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/preventive_strike\">Preventive Strike<\/a><\/strong> to just <em>2 cents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The game launched in May of this year for $1.99 \/ \u00a31.59, so it was hardly an expensive game to start with. Still, the publisher is clearly hoping that, by bringing the cost of entry down to such a small amount, many players who baulked at the original price will now take the plunge.<\/p>\n<p>Is this good for the eShop, though? That&#8217;s highly debatable, as it means this title \u2013 which we haven&#8217;t played ourselves but can report scored a rather lukewarm <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/740280\/Preventive_Strike\/\">6\/10 on Steam<\/a> \u2013 will be suddenly catapulted to the upper regions of the eShop charts, where it will presumably gain more attention and more downloads.<\/p>\n<p>Does it deserve this extra attention? Probably not. Should you rush out and buy it? Again, probably not \u2013 unless you&#8217;re short on games to play or are shopping on an especially tight budget.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s easy to see why eShop publishers do this sort of thing; if your title has stopped selling, then you really do have nothing to lose by hacking the cost down and giving it a boost. In fact, you could argue that you have <em>everything<\/em> to gain in this &#8216;race to the bottom&#8217;, as you&#8217;ll pick up sales \u2013 even if it&#8217;s just 2 cents per copy.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you&#8217;ve been suckered in by this tactic by leaving a comment below \u2013 who knows, you may even feel that Preventative Strike is worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mwQweInVh78?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] We&#8217;re well used to eShop sales these days; publishers often use a cheeky price drop to get their game to the top of the charts and give it some much-needed visibility, but SimFabric has taken this to new lengths by hacking the price of Tocana&#8217;s Dev&#8217;s action title Preventive Strike to just 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}