I recommend games such as brawlhalla and Pokemon unite, which are both free. Otherwise indie games are wonderful, like Celeste, slay the spire, hollow knight, etc.
Sold all my GameCube games to GameStop for $80 to get a Wii. Regretting it deeply, I had the Metroid games, Melee of course, and worse of all, Pokémon colosseum and Gale of Darkness. Each time I look up the prices of those I die a little
Same, was so stoked to finally get a wii, a refurbished trade in, after about a year after release. Our local GameStop never had any. I did have a lot of fun with the wii, but now I have to emulate those sweet sweet nostalgia feels. That Wind Waker and Metroid sound tracks just hit something inside. And Cubivore is a G.D. masterclass in ridiculous, silly fun.
Nintendo games rarely (as in, barely ever) get discounted, especially first party games. Remember how they offered a certain game (I think it might have been 3D All-Stars?) for a limited time only? Nintendo is rather anti-consumer in the long run.
So if you keep waiting for a price drop, it’s gonna be a while. Maybe you get lucky and some third party shop sells it for 40$. Don’t expect it to go under that for a long time, it’s a Zelda game. The ones who really want it will buy it regardless of the price, and Nintendo or the other shops don’t really care about the rest.
On the EU e-shop (seems to be similar for the US one) Breath of the Wild has regular 30% discounts starting about one year after release. It’s been 6 years, it never went lower, and probably never will.
Same for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It’s been almost 10 years since the original release of Mario Kart 8, and eshop sales never go under 30%.
Nintendo is known for keeping their games mostly full price. The only games that get big sales are the ones that didn’t perform as well as they wanted, and even that is becoming rare.
Im Europe, if you want to buy digital, it can be worth buying with a Norwegian account, they often have the best prices in Europe. Like Zelda TOTK is at least 10.- cheaper in Norway than almost all of Europe. On the other end of the spectrum is Switzerland, where it’s 20.- more expensive. So as a Swiss resident, it’s 30.- cheaper for me to buy it through a Norwegian account.
I have a what I assume to be about 1500€ to 2000€ machine (I don’t know the exact value as I inherited it from my cousin who passed away in January) and I can play BotW on yuzu just fine. I assume that even a thousand euro machine would be able to handle switch emulation fine, at least if you don’t go doing any enhancements like unlocking the framerate or running shaders…
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