Those Switch 2 game prices are appalling. In a world where people have less and less disposable income, it comes off as not just greedy, but outright fucking spiteful.
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Yeah, if you wish to punch this shit in with the next Jimquisition I will be one hundred percent behind. This is just fucking too much. No game is worth 70 dollars in my estimation, they sure as hell ain't worth 80.
Getting it with the console gives you a slight discount on MarioKart World, I'm still playing both 3D Zelda's so a £15-£20 upgrade isn't too bad and as a NSO EX+ subscriber I'm looking forward to GameCube, but that appears to be where the deals stop as I relied quite heavily on the vouchers.
As a dedicated buyer of physical media, I find myself wishing the Switch was digital only. The increased cost of creating the media justifies across the board price hikes that fuck over digital purchasers. I love video games but hate the business of video games.
I honestly think this is their last physical era. A lot of stuff from both this and the previous direct with the virtual game card makes me think they're pretty much ready to call it on physicals soon.
The most physical any switch gaming media will be after the next decade is an NSP on a hard drive. I'm gonna keep buying things I enjoy, but those wouldn't be my "canonical" copies. I'm not getting fucked over when the eShop disappears and the update CDN stops working.
Oh no doubt about it. A gajillion and one Shark Dollars for a pair of shoes for your character in GTA online. The cut for the Shark Dollars will obviously be one gajillion, forcing the people to buy at least two.
that game I can see it cause of how much it cost to make and how much replay value it will have, though it would be funny if Rockstar undercuts Nintendo by pricing it at 70 bucks and makes them look bad. Wouldn't surprise me given the hostile history between the two companies.
I will say that I think Nintendo listened to you when you said that the Switch 2 needs to justify itself by having unique ideas in it's hardware because the Switch 2 screams of them desperately trying to think of a unique feature and failing
...also adding to greedy ideas on display...how the fuck is the Switch 2 not fully backwards compatible with the Switch? Like I was really surprised to see a list of compatible games and not just text that said "it's all backwards compatible...it's literally the other console with a 2 ffs"
I know it doesn't address the reality of the "whales" that so many companies exploit. But I really wish Joe Public gamer would just go "No, I'm not buying this shit, actually." The game industry 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 they can fuck over their customers, and I'm hoping there's a day they go too far.
Yeah, the presentation actually started to win me over but once I saw the gameprices I was like "noooo".
And I am in a position in my life where I COULD afford this stuff, but I am definitly not gonna as a matter of principal, thats the greediest pricehike of the entire industry (yet)
Especially when you consider that they just made a whole button just for the sake a paid online service. So after a certain point in time if you don't have NSO, that button is worthless.
Yeah, I’m gonna skip this one. Hardware price is a bit steep but expected. Game prices are just unacceptable. 90€ for a physical release is just criminal.
Time to dust off the ol' Anbernic RG552 and get some roms going on to satisfy my handheld needs, I'm mostly only playing Donkey Kong for the gameboy on my switch anyway :p
I’ve been doing my part and sharing around your episodes about the 60 dollar myth and 70 dollar prices being indefensible, and it’s been annoying a lot of the “but inflation!” Pundits haha 🫡
Apparently, I might’ve been responsible for the 70 dollar video being put back into YouTube’s algorithm for some people because of how much I was sharing the link to it online lol! (saw a recent comment on the vid saying it showed up suddenly for them) 😅
Funny thing about spite is that it goes both ways. I have a sister who is a mother of a kid who is of "old enough to get a game console" age and I'm gonna be honest to her.
If the kid must play Mario or PKMN, get him a switch 1 (or, hell, a refurbished 3DS for PKMN) else sod it, idealy a laptop that can run Minecraft, but I wouldn't begrudge her getting a tablet for games.
I had a dude being like "games are really expensive to make these days, it's actually weird prices haven't gone up sooner" which was, on a certain level, compelling, but ultimately counterproductive.
Rather than make me rethink my reaction to the high price it just made me reflect that AAA devs are spending more and more money to make less interesting games. You really hit the nail on the head when you coined catripleapitalism.
No, that's what I'm saying. Don't want to spend $60 on the games they're asking me to pay $60 for, so why in the hell would I want to spend $90 or even $100 for the same disappointment? To say nothing of the point Stephanie made about people's spending money.
I think some AAA games are still plenty interesting, i'm pumped as hell for GTA 6 and that's one time where I can see the justification for a higher price because of it being the most expensive game ever made and with the insane amount of content it's going to hav.
I also instantly had people that were like "NES games were $50. Get over it" and it's like....living wages haven't gone up since then so maybe lets actively fight every bit of "inflation" forced upon us
The industry could at least explain their justification or at least say the increase to our face, instead of essentially making it a footnote at the end of a newsdump of a console announcement. iirc Sony did the exact same thing
true sadly Nintendo has charged 70-80 bucks during the N64 era as well(mostly because of their incredibly idiotic decision to use cartridges instead of CDs like everybody else)but that did cost them and they ultimately lost against Sony as a result. I've seen some argue that "physical is pointless".
As a non-American, we paid R200-R400 for PS2 games when I was a kid, which was about $60 at the conversation rate in those years. TOTK came out at R1400 and on Steam Elden Ring is regionally priced at a mere R850
It's so much worse if you aren't American, games are so much more expensive now.
games where not more expensive in the old days, In the old days I could buy a brand new game on a nights worth of babysitting money, a weekend's worth at most. we're talking $20 a night for 4 hours. I bought every mainline pokemon game like that. I bough whole consoles like that.
To me, Nintendo’s games have ALWAYS been very pricey. I paid £70 for Donkey Kong Country on the SNES in 1994. Adjusting for inflation, that’s £145 today 💀
I did point that out on one Nintendo video but that wasn't a defense of Nintendo, just me pointing out that they have pulled this shit before so i'm not as surprised as some are.
And when sales drop off, they'll blame inflation as if it's a magic bird that landed on their window, or regulations because Dems hold all the power in the deep state!
To be fair, "$124.95" is EB Games marking up their prices an additional 10-20 dollars. Other vendors almost never go above $109... but that figure is the cheapest you can find MK World for (Big W) so yeah, Nintendo dun goofed.
Note: I realised after posting this that this is actually other vendors undercutting recommended retail price as opposed to EB marking their games up. The net result however is the same.
I'm not sure if video games can sustain themselves as an art form if they're only going to be luxury items. This is exactly why I prefer films and books. I didn't have to pay 100 bucks to read Frankenstein!
there are award winning renowned indie games that go on sale for under $5 regularly! triple a games are not sustainable for normal people but indie games absolutely are, plus you are supporting artists directly
Yeah definitely, I'm finding myself more and more just playing independent and older games on my Steam Deck. Right now I'm playing Tron 2.0 and having a blast.
I haven't personally installed any mods and I've been fine. It uses a controller to move and shoot. The only thing is that you have to alternate with the keyboard feature to upgrade and download. It's awkward at first but you quickly get used to it.
I've installed the KA mod through a windows computer and then moved the game to the deck's library, and there are some old windows drivers that you install through winetricks so the music plays properly. I recalled I followed a reddit post for that. I'll try to see if I can find it when I'm home
I've played Tron 2.0 on the deck. Killer App is needed to make the game mostly bug free and you'll also need to switch control schemes when you're doing the light cycle stages. Installing the game on the steam OS is also a bit of a hassle.
I've been playing a lot of 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘮 lately (which I bought on sale, I might add). I think it's fantastic. But, BUT, most of the time I'm playing old shit in OpenEMU. One of my social media "trademarks" is posting 𝑵𝑯𝑳 96 clips that no one but me cares about.
There are literally more retro games than you could finish in your life :) Filmcow (creator of Charlie the Unicorn) has been streaming 2 hrs each night without fail every day, including weekends, and is over 2,000 streams I believe.
There's no need to pay Nintendo for this nonsense. We are set.
Take Two/Rockstar - and then the rest of the industry - have just been given the Greenest Go Flag to charge stupidly because of Nintendo's blinking first, right?
It's going to do well because it's Nintendo and people were going, "Nintendo might have done this because they have to, not because they want to" so I would bet late 2025 or early 2026 we will see 80 USD titles as the base price be the norm with a lot of studios.
I mean, Nintendo was riding high on the DS when they did the 3DS and then ended up having to reduce the price because they weren't selling as many as they projected and gave people who bought them early on, a few free games as part of their "ambassador" program.
I doubt it will happen with the NSW2 because there will be a lot of people clamoring to give Nintendo 500 bucks for the bundled console and even if not. If it does happen, they'll probably just lower it to 400 and throw in the tech demo title for free.
I remember reading a thing about this a while ago.Basically how companies don't seem to understand that overcharging for their products will lead to the company collapsing because no one can afford their products. I forget the full quote, but I read it in a manifesto somewhere...
One reason I'm still quite a bit wait and see on the whole switch 2, already have a switch 1 and a steamdeck so not lacking for portable options (and afordable games for that matter)
I didn't see who had written this skeet and was about to refer them to this amazing person named Stefanie Sterling from the Jimquisition and well... 🤷🏼
Mario Kart is their biggest seller, its orders of magnitude above Zelda and Metroid. This is them using their "bulletproof" game to find out how much gouging they can get away with.
The thing is, it's not just Mario Kart that they are doing this with, if you look at the games they listed https://bsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky.social/post/3lludhecn7226, they are also selling Kirby, Mario Party Jamboree, and TOTK all for 80 bucks and no doubt Switch 2 games going forward will be about that price with maybe a few
i'm not buying the tariffs excuse myself, they're doing the same crap Sony was doing after they were riding high on the success of the PS2, Ninty thinks because of how succesful the Switch was that they can get away with this kind of highway robbery.
Once other AAA publishers latch onto that price for all of their games, I feel like that's going to accelerate the inevitable collapse of the AAA game industry.
saw someone say it was "disrespectful" to not want to spend 80 dollars on mario kart and that they need to raise the prices to avoid dev layoffs, and like, in my experience if a game company is suddenly making their products more expensive, than it usually doesn't result in LESS lay offs.
Nintendo's JP branch doesn't engage in wanton layoffs either because they have worker protections to prevent them from doing that (not a perfect work environment obviously due to a variety of other reasons) but I saw someone say "I'll gladly buy it because it's Nintendo and it's more likely to
go to the devs instead of helping some CEO get their 8th Yacht" and maybe that's true, or maybe Nintendo still pockets a ton of their money and while they do pay their devs well, they probably pay their lawyers much more.
Yeah.... its true nintendo dont do a lot of layoffs. Thats because they use a ton of contractors that just dont get renewed, those dont count as layoffs.
speaking of Xbox One DRM have you seen how some Switch 2 game carts are basically only shells where you have to download large portions of the game for it to actually be playable?
I feel like this is going to become another Wii U disaster. No one is gonna buy the Switch 2 because they already have the Switch 1. If they are gonna buy a new console, they're probably gonna buy one that is backwards compatible to one they didn't buy last gen or go PC or Steamdeck or something.
a lot of stuff about the switch 2 is really tone deaf to the western economic issues. Video & voice chat in a game console with a $50 web cam isnt going to work out well in the USA. There still places on dial up. yes covid did force high speed internet into more places but our infrastructure is shit
Especially $80 for Mario Kart, a game that requires an online subscription to also be purchased if you want to get the most out of it.
NSO should be subsidizing part of the cost of multiplayer games, instead their most popular multiplayer game is the most expensive they think they can get away with
Yup, the death of Player Selects/Greatest Hits is really infuriating. 1st party Nintendo games rarely go on sale. That 80 dollar copy of Mario Kart World is still gonna be 80 dollars 6 years from now
Sony can fall back on other products even with their PS5 game prices being that high. For Nintendo this seems more of a risk. This might finally be the price that is gonna hurt more than benefit them.
For the low low price of $450 you can play a Wii U game from 2017 again! And for the low cost of subscribing to our online service, we won't even make you pay for it again! Unless you actually bought it for the Wii-U, in that case, fuck you, that will cost $70, why didn't you pay your Switch tax?
The Big N thinks that because the Switch sold like gangbusters that they can get away with this kind of highway robbery(and it's telling that it's considerably cheaper in Japan)don't even get me started on them low-key taking inspiration from Microsoft's original XB1 plans with some game carts.
i've seen some people like Arlo arguing that tariffs are to blame for the higher prices but i'm not buying it, even if the US had a competent world leader I still think Nintendo would've been pulling the exact same shit. They're doing exactly what Sony did with the PS3 after the PS2 was a smash hit.
I'd say.. partially. Nintendo for sure took upcoming tariffs into account with their pricing, that's almost guaranteed due to the immense price difference between JP consoles/games and international ones. I'd say their plan was to buffer the changes with help of both US and EU income. Thing is /1
now, completely unexpectedly, tariffs turned out much, much higher and more random than they could ever realistically expect, and it's no longer possible to leverage the planned US/EU prices. Nintendo now has some thinking to do and decide if they rather keep or stay close to the announced US /2
prices, or if they will raise them to properly compensate the upcoming changes while still sell a sufficient amount of product. Also, they have absolutely no security if the new tariffs will stick, will get lower, will get higher or whatever the f will happen, 'cause the US /3
are now completely unpredictable - not only in a 4 year bubble, but basically on a daily basis. The market is incredibly viotile right now, stocks are completely borked, there's basically no way to properly predict income and spendings anymore if you're international. /4
So yeah I'd say Arlo is right if we don't take very current developments into account, the prices were set with potential new tariffs in mind, but with Trumps recent changes, it's all out the window and actual tariff follow-ups are yet to come.
Actually Nintendo is selling two Switch consoles in Japan, the Japanese-language only one is the cheaper model but they are also selling a multi-language model over there which costs roughly the same as the current US price for the console so i'm not buying the "tariffs" excuse, it's just greed.
Multi-language Switch is being sold to eu/us price to minimize/eliminate scalping.
I'm not saying prices are a reaction to the current, new tariffs. Those have only been known after reveal/price planning was long done and why they're halting preorders in US now. I meant general tariff predictions.
not to mention charging for a fucking tech demo, for fuck's sake even Sony and Microsoft weren't THAT greedy and short-sighted, like imagine if Sony had charged for Astro's Playroom? They would've never heard the end of it but unfortunately i've seen Ninty fanboys defending this.
It's arguably why they went after Yuzu/Ryujinx when they did because it's probably very similar and could be used to emulate the Switch 2 games and Nintendo didn't want you NOT to buy their 80 USD titles and upgrade packs.
It's bad, but on the other hand, Nintendo is one of the few AAA publishers that doesn't put Microtransactions in it's games. Or Deluxe Editions. Or 48 hour early access. Which is the lesser of 2 evils? Could you imagine if Microsoft owned Mario Kart or Smash Bros? They'd monetize the fuck out of it.
Nintendo has done deluxe editions before, and i'll gladly take those things over charging egregious amounts of money for games, i'm sick of Nintendo fanboys normalizing this shit and defending it.
I'm no Nintendo fan boy. In fact, I didn't buy the Wii U, or 3DS. But at the same time, they deserve to be applauded for not chasing the live service trend like everyone else. Remember that Sony was the first ones to raise prices so they're hardly perfect either. No one is flawless in the AAA space.
Yeah well it might be out of Nintendos hands. America's brain dead tariffs are kinda fucking things up for everyone right now, including Japan. Again, not defending Nintendo. I'm just saying we're probably not getting the whole story here.
so i'm not going to give them a free pass just cause they don't put them in their console games(yet, i wouldn't be surprised if Mario Kart World is loaded with MTXs, after the shit Crash Team Racing pulled it wouldn't shock me one bit if The Big N followed suit).
This is why I'm more interested in a Steam Deck than a future Nintendo console. Pricey, yes, but I already own a vast library with games that work well with the device.
That or one of those new handhelds that can play an archive of retro games.
Steam Deck is the real rival to Switch 2. The tech boost is already there, and Steam sales incentivize wish listing multiple games and waiting for them to go on sale before picking them up on the cheap. Plus, with an adapter, you can play Steam games on your TV like a docked Switch.
That mentality doesn't help. They already had to make a huge price cut for the 3DS because after the core fans bought it the first weeks the general public wasn't interested on a better DS for 250 bucks. Best we can do is putting them on that situation again.
That's my hope. The true believers will buy it no matter what. But I'm hoping there's a "red mirage" kind of thing, where sales might look great out of the gate, but fall off a cliff once everyone else is clearly saying, "Fuck you. That's too expensive."
Reminds me of how a physical copy pre order of vii rebirth cost me £60 instead of £70 for digital, and that it was $70 in the US at a time when £70 was more like $100. The numbers are made up and the points don't matter!
Not to be rude, love all your content commander
But wasn't there a jimqusition about the true costs of video games?
While most companies hide their costs with micro transactions, dlc to complete games, gambling mechanics, and multiple additions, the true costs of video games have been high for awhil
There was a video, and my disgust at publishers is not incongruous with my disgust at these new prices. The two go hand in hand.
While we’re citing me, I urge you to remember my many comments on the dangers of normalization with publisher practices. Nintendo just set a dreadful precedent.
Other publishers are absolutely watching this to see what they can get away with.
And even without that, the $70 Shell Price of games was already bad whether you bought the additional guff or not. Any game starting at $80-$90 is pricing a ton of customers out of the market.
Guru Larry did a great video on the hostility between Rockstar and Nintendo during the making of Body Harvest, suffice to say it's theorized that said history is the reason why you've never seen a mainline GTA game on a single Nintendo console.
yeah it's funny how people were worried about the potential cost of GTA 6 and then boom Nintendo beats them to the punch. It would be funny if Rockstar sees the backlash to this and sells GTA 6 at the "normal" 70 dollar price and undercuts Nintendo, wouldn't surprise me given their history.
Ok that makes sense, sorry my tain of thought was "other publishers were hiding the true price, at least Nintendo were being upfront about it, sorry if my comment came across as rude, that wasn't my intention.
I'll be more careful when citing people in the future
you should watch that episode again because you clearly weren't paying attention that the argument was "$60 is not the true cost of a video game, it's the price of admission to a theme park full of paid attractions".
or the like 5 other episodes ripping on games priced too high in the last decade
Not giving them a free pass, but Nintendo is getting a lot more hate then other companies for this and at least Nintendo games usually come feature complete, have a lot of content and don't often nickle and dime customers outside of the initial purchase
You're freely going to bat for a shitty corporation's shitty pricing model. Maybe think a bit more before you type boneheaded trash to the biggest critic of horrible business practices.
They're basically saying, "You can't afford to escape reality for a few hours and enjoy yourself, because you don't have enough to give us, even though we don't need it and you do. So fuck you, I guess." Absolutely shameful.
I recently heard that the richest 10% are now doing half of all consumer spending in the US. maybe Nintendo's given up on the 90%, many of whom probably couldn't buy a lot of games anymore even if they were still $50, the better to get money's worth from those who can buy at all. fuckin bleak if so.
I'd honestly figured them going after emulators so hard lately was that "Switch 1 games that run decently!" was going to be a major selling point, though I honestly didn't expect them to charge for it, too, lol.
They are charging for it?? I don't follow Nintendo that much including the S2 but would assume backwards emulation would be a bonus included with the original purchase. Super lame... But yeah no doubt they will make emulation tougher I bet
To be clear the vast majority of switch 1 games are backwards compatible. This is just an addition upgrade with new features as well as better graphics. The Zelda upgrades are free with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.
Backwards compatible is good! Better performance without having to pay for a deluxe version would be better, which is how I've seen it so far. (Tho it'd have been hella cool to pay less to upgrade MK8 Wii U to Deluxe on Switch)
These prices aren't gonna last and I fully expect a reduction to 70 dollars in the future and maybe a shitty apology program like 3DS Ambassador for early adopters
In more of a "The US has given these companies an excuse to be particularly greedy bastards" way than a "The world revolves around the US" way, these prices are Donald Trump's fault. Of course they were gonna look for excuses sooner or later, but Trump handed 'em one on a silver platter.
because this is what console makers do whenever they have a smash hit console, Sony did it with the PS3 after the PS2 sold like gangbusters and Nintendo themselves tried it with the 3DS after the runaway success of the DS but they were forced to lower the price after poor sales six months later.
yeah i'm not buying that excuse, digital goods aren't affect by tariffs so there is ZERO reason for digital versions of Switch 2 games to cost that much besides pure greed. Even if we had a competent world leader in the US I think Nintendo would've still pulled the exact shit they are doing now.
yup, I wish Microsoft had been able to buy them in the early 2000s like originally planned, whatever their plans for them were couldn't have been half as bad as this shit.
The thing that weird me the most is the system is the price of the PS5 but is supposed to be weaker. Outside of Nintendo exclusives, I don’t see the point of buy if for third party games. Especially since games like FF7 Remake and Yakuza 0 are always in sale.
I prefer consoles because then I don't have to deal with worrying about if certain games will run poorly on certain kinds of graphics cards(I know some games like Watch Dogs were notorious for running poorly on AMD cards)and don't get me started on Denuvo, I don't want that shit anywhere near my PC.
I love how every time there's a "sale" every corporation is showing their whole ass and saying "we can sell these games at this price every day if we wanted to, but we choose not to because we're allowed to get away with it."
So they do that on purpose to control WHEN revenue hits so they can manipulate market reports. Just another way for them to cheat the system, and they essentially know there's a large swath of us that won't buy outside sales. Like Steph says, they prey on the neruodivergent.
This isn't really true. As (kind of) non physical products, most of their costs are incurred pre release. They then reach a point where they've recouped their costs and from that point onwards, all sales are 100% profit. In that environment sales are a different beast to selling a physical product.
They never needed to be selling games at $60 to "recoup their costs", nor sell dlc, nor microtransactions. Now they're $70, Switch 2 pushing $80-$100 to "recoup their costs" when they can EASILY sell the game at the sale price and still recoup the cost with zero loss...
Sorry, but this is just nonsense. If you 'pay attention' you'll see no end of games failing to make a profit and studios closing. The entire industry isn't just EA, Sony and Nintendo.
I'm talking about AAA companies, exclusivly. I'm quoting the person who's post your commenting on. Take it up with them if you find this to be nonsense. I've watched The Jimqusition for 10 years and witnessed as they've forecasted the exact industry we have today. So good luck with that.
...but because these "AAA" game companies are ran by executives that don't want some of the money they want ALL OF THE MONEY, they'll continue to raise prices while chopping full games up into little DLCs, & selling microtransactions so you'll spend more money to help them "recoup their costs."
I know some have trotted out the "games cost more back then" line - hell, I've done it, myself - but on reflection people had more leisure money back then.
Nintendo following the greed-driven trends of the rest of the industry is going to bite them on the arse.
Games cost more back then (assuming we're talking SNES and N64 maybe) because of the carts. Some game carts required more electronic components inside of them, which made them more expensive to make, resulting in a disparity of pricing back then.
And you just KNOW that money is not going into the pockets of the actual developers, or re-invested into company R&D. Bitter experience with the industry has taught us that.
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This is going to be a bastard of a knock on effect.
And I am in a position in my life where I COULD afford this stuff, but I am definitly not gonna as a matter of principal, thats the greediest pricehike of the entire industry (yet)
My entire friend group lost all interest as soon as we saw the price of the games. And you can see just how many on here who have said the same.
For $400 you can get a steam deck.
I remember paying way too much for an N64 game in my teens. Even with that experience, the Switch 2 game prices are ridiculous.
It's so much worse if you aren't American, games are so much more expensive now.
https://bsky.app/profile/axl-warpshaft.bsky.social/post/3lltxlvq26s24
There's no need to pay Nintendo for this nonsense. We are set.
still holding out hope that 70 is the new standard (better than 80)
ToTK at $70 was the first step onto a “slippery slope”. Tariffs and global market insecurity took that and RAN.
If the tariff goes away and the price hike stays, then we’re in the spot you’re talking about and I’m onboard with that thinking.
£75 for Mario Kart!?
And they did come back to the Nintendo Selects line for the 3DS and Wii U eventually.
Which would be fine if I trusted them with my digital purchases.
It's pure Nintendo Shareholder old-man greed.
NSO should be subsidizing part of the cost of multiplayer games, instead their most popular multiplayer game is the most expensive they think they can get away with
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony of the past all disagree with you, dumbass. It used to be a thing they INTENTIONALLY did before late stage capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Selects
Nobody's paycheck increased, that's the most important statistic to look at
Yeap, and in 2009 the minimum wage was $7.25/hr - the same it is today. Which means games are MORE EXPENSIVE NOW than they were in 2009.
Thank God for you. No really, please continue to exist. We need your incisive insight more than ever.
Also, why the heck is it so much more expensive in GBP vs other currencies?
I'm not saying prices are a reaction to the current, new tariffs. Those have only been known after reveal/price planning was long done and why they're halting preorders in US now. I meant general tariff predictions.
I'm not going to applaud them for NOT doing something, that's pathetic. the whole "no one is flawless" excuse does not justify any of this bullshit.
That or one of those new handhelds that can play an archive of retro games.
It's amazing.
Still, even for $100 more, the value prospect is better, long-term.
https://a.co/d/hamZQNE
They could make the games €100 and it would still sell.
But wasn't there a jimqusition about the true costs of video games?
While most companies hide their costs with micro transactions, dlc to complete games, gambling mechanics, and multiple additions, the true costs of video games have been high for awhil
While we’re citing me, I urge you to remember my many comments on the dangers of normalization with publisher practices. Nintendo just set a dreadful precedent.
And even without that, the $70 Shell Price of games was already bad whether you bought the additional guff or not. Any game starting at $80-$90 is pricing a ton of customers out of the market.
I'll be more careful when citing people in the future
or the like 5 other episodes ripping on games priced too high in the last decade
For Switch 2 and it's games, I'm gonna just stick to second-hand. Nintendo has enough money to sue everyone already :L
Do they honestly think people will be o.........k.......with.........let's be honest, cultists will be OK with anything.......
Besides the absurd Switch 2 costs, I mean.
If its the former, then very much so inspite of the world
If its the latter, then no
However, I hope you're right.
Nintendo following the greed-driven trends of the rest of the industry is going to bite them on the arse.