Last night we reported that RiME developer Greybox had announced that the price of digital version of the game would be dropped to parity with the other consoles. The physical version, would remain the same but with the added sweetener of a code to download the game’s soundtrack.

This will not be happening in Australia.

A modified note from Greybox has been sent to us by the Australian company distributing the game, the game will remain remain $79.95AU both digitally and physically;

At Grey Box, we are determined to provide a fair deal for everyone around. And so we discussed how we could do that, without simply selling at a loss, all while also being fair to our retail partners

Basically they’re putting the happiness of retailers over you, the customer here. The game isn’t dropping in price digitally here as well because no store will bother to buy stock if it’s lower on the eShop. It’s a double edged sword. Whatever Nintendo need to do, to make Switch cards cheaper needs to be done sooner rather than later.

Lucky for you the Switch is region free and you can buy it, cheaper from another region.