Ninja Gaiden 4 now has a release date, which means pre-orders for the next numbered game in the series are starting to go live. The game will be $70, so not one of the Xbox titles making the jump to $80 like The Outer Worlds 2, although Ninja Gaiden fans who raced to Walmart to place their pre-orders might have been met with a very unwelcome surprise.
Walmart didn't have Ninja Gaiden 4 listed for $70. It didn't even have it listed for $80. No, as pointed out by Wario64, the new Ninja Gaiden's pre-order was listed for an eye-watering $999.99. It wasn't some wildly-priced collector's edition, just the standard edition. A mistake on Walmart's end, and the price has now been dropped, although interestingly not to where it's supposed to be.
If Team Ninja had thrown a bike in with the game like Capcom did for Monster Hunter Wilds, then it might have been able to get away with asking for $1,000.
Ninja Gaiden 4's standard edition is currently $79 at Walmart, and its deluxe edition is $99. That's despite the sequel being a $70 game with the deluxe edition priced at $90...
