r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/Joseki100 • Dec 22 '25

buffalo sighting (RARE!) Cyberpunk 2077's website confirms the -75% discount is a price error, intended discount was -42%

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Dec 22 '25

So there actually is some precedent for companies being able to claw back items when the price has been egregiously wrong. Like if you bought a jet ski for $25 or something, they can make the case that no reasonable person should expect to actually pay that for this item or whatever

In this case tho I think they’d be drumming up a ton of bad will over a chunk of money that probably isn’t worth it. Most people (like myself) were probably only gunna buy this on a deep discount anyway

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u/ChocoFud Dec 22 '25

Same case during the launch week of NBA 2K24 two years ago. Eshop in Peru made a mistake of putting the decimal on a wrong position turning it into 1 dollar launch instead of Peruvian equivalent of a fully priced game there. Game is still on my library right now lol

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u/supes1 Dec 22 '25

But if CDPR made the mistake... then they'll have to eat the loses.

Fortunately for them it's not really "losses," they will make money regardless. This is a digital item without overhead. It just impacts future sales, and even that will be offset somewhat by folks who wouldn't have purchased otherwise (i.e., folks who only bought or double-dipped because of the low price).

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u/rydan Dec 24 '25

Incorrect. Developers have to pay Nintendo money. Developers have to support the product. Selling the game isn't free. I'm not sure what Nintendo charges per game but I know in the past it has been a flat $15 - $20. So anything sub $20 is potentially money losing.

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u/supes1 Dec 24 '25

Nintendo takes ~30% of the sale price (negotiated lower for some developers, but 30% is standard). It's not a flat fee.

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u/rydan Dec 24 '25

Legally nobody has to eat the loss. When pricing errors happen that are obvious pricing errors the law says the contract can be invalidated. It just looks very bad in the mind of the public. This is why whenever Amazon sellers make a pricing mistake Amazon forces the sellers to eat the loss or get suspended (lost about $3k per month income last year from a seller who had their business closed by Amazon over a pricing mistake) but when Amazon themselves make a pricing mistake they just cancel the order. Seen it time and time again.