Amazon has cut the physical preorder price of the Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time from $69.99 to $59.88, which puts it 11 cents below the digital edition.
The discount took effect on October 22 and saves $10.11, according to the listing. The digital version sits at $59.99. The game launches on November 5.
Amazon is also attaching a preorder price guarantee. Your card is charged when the game ships, and if the price falls between now and then, you pay the lowest figure from that window. If it dropped to $55, you would pay $55. The practical upshot is that preordering carries little price risk, though the guarantee as described only protects against drops.
The physical edition has one more thing going for it. Nintendo is putting textured foil cover art on the first print run, a detail aimed squarely at collectors.
The more interesting number is the gap that closed. At $69.99, the disc cost $10 more than the download. At $59.88, the two are effectively tied, so the choice shifts from price to what you want to own. A disc can be lent, resold or shelved. A digital copy cannot, but it needs no trip to the mailbox and no cartridge swapping.
That leaves the foil packaging as the real tiebreaker, and it applies only to the first print run. Whether that is worth anything depends on how much you care about a box that will mostly sit on a shelf.