Seth Michael Larson: One weird trick for cheaper physical Switch 2 games?

Maybe sell your boxes?I happened to be browsing PriceCharting and saw thatonly the boxfor Kirby Air Riders was selling for$20on average. I couldn't believe my eyes! But I looked and there were at least two boxes sold on eBay.

I quickly put together this table after manually sorting through the detected eBay listings for three popular Switch 2 titles: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Kirby Air Riders. The data only includes listings that actually sold at the price and filters out incorrect listing (such as boxes for the Switch 2 console or bundle). Here are the results in USD:

I am not sure what to make of this. If you include a conservative shipping cost of $8 you'restill saving moneyover a digital copy by buying physical and selling the box, assuming you're able to sell the box for an average price. I suspect if everyone were to employ this strategy the return would deteriorate quickly.

If you combine this with thestorage cost savingsof buying physical over digital then you're "saving" even more money despite the $10 price difference. Something to consider if you're not a video-gamehoarder“collector”, like me.

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