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Yeah its $80 minimum which is bad enough no need to lie to exaggerate especially since nintendo never has sales. But lets be real all the good games are gunna be at that price. You know all the games that you would buy a switch for anyways, ie mariokart, mario oddessey 2 or whatever it's called, super smash, pokemon. The cheaper games will be all the games that you should just buy on another platform.
Who knows i could be wrong
Edit sorry misspoke,minimum isn't 80 but I meant to say if mario kart is 80 that signals to me that most mario Nintendo games like kart, pokemon, etc will likely all be 80 as well. Maybe donkey kong is a little less because it isn't an established franchise, or maybe the less popular stuff will be a little less.
That is to say the minimum isn't 80 but any of the games that you will want to get a switch2 for probably will be close to 80 digital.
Also it hits harder because Nintendo shit never goes on sale, sure i guess you could argue it holds value or some dumb shit but some of us just want to play games and not spend $1000 on a console and 5 mario games.
I haven't been a nintendo customer for a long time, but this will certainly dissuade me from buying a system in the near future
If we are being real you could look up the preorder prices of the games and see that 80 dollars is the maximum.
I can't speak for the US but in the EU, some retailers are ignoring the RRP nintendo set and selling games way cheaper.
Even in the UK, where this isn't the case, I am seeing £75 for mario kart. Only £5 more than most games cost these days.
Also £65 for donkey kong which is £5 less than standard.
I appreciate that nintendo games dont tend to drop in cost over time and perhaps like many others you would prefer to try to justify piracy (to be clear, and fair, i have pirated games,tv and movies of the years, but dont tend to do it much these days) then by all means, dont by these games, dont by the switch 2. But dont lie about what it is and what it costs just to be part of the rage.
I find it so strange that the people who pirate games are getting mad about the cost of games they are going to pirate anyway. I am not saying thats you, because i dont know you, but a lot of this rage comes from people who were never going to pay for it in the first place. Its baffling.
But anyway, the point is, if you are going to be mad at it, then at least be mad at what it actually is, yeah?
I think an explanation of the rage piracy people have is that they want to not pirate but prices keep going up so they are even more mad that they "have to"
And no that's not me. I pirated games long ago when I was broke but frankly it's easier now to just buy games. I don't buy too many and I wait for sales when I do. I get not wanting to pay these high prices though. Even broke people ought to be able to play a year old video game for God's sake. There are some games I waited several years for. Because a $60 game really is worth $40 4 years later, right?
That's totally fair. I, like many, have watched in horror as games get more and more expensive. I dont buy that many anymore either. I dont have as much time to play as i used to.
If i am being fair, though, the scope of games has changed significantly since the early days of gaming in terms of hours of content and quality of graphics and what they can do. Storylines, cinematics, everything has been slowly becoming bigger since the days of playing streets of rage on a sega genesis and completing it in a few hours. With 3 characters to pick from and a limited set of moves with enemies that get more health, they hit harder but are just a reskin of a previous enemy.
I dont think 70 or 80 dollars is a good price. It's too expensive. But i also dont think games should be 30 or 40 dollars brand new.
But in saying that. There were games back then that cost more than 80 dollars. And n64 games used to cost in the 60 dollar region when they were new. Same with ps1 games. I think over 20 to 30 years for the price of games to have risen by between 10 and 30 dollars is not that crazy, even if they are too expensive now. 60 dollars was a lot more in the 90s than it is today.
The original ps1 would cost almost 800 dollars in todays money.
Overall i think nintendo are greedy and they go to far with raising the prices. I just think everyone pointing at nintendo need to remember that its the industry as a whole that has raised prices to where they are, not just nintendo.
I'm with you. I feel like games could sanely cost $50-$80 brand new, depending scope, like you said. But I also think keeping those high prices for years is bullshit. It is greed. Honestly though in some cases they could probably make more money (particularly on steam) if they had cheaper prices over time. I waited a very long time to buy RDR2 because I just couldn't stomach the new price. Took yeaaars to get to . I think $40 on sale. That's some bullshit. If they dropped like $5 every 6 months they might make even more money and people like me wouldn't have to wait so long.
Nintendo never dropping the price is the worst. If some of those games weren't so good they'd obviously go out of business doing that. They found their niche and exploit it with greed galore. And then despite piracy being hard on their consoles out of the gate... They still ruin lives over it. Fuck that. Pick one Nintendo, never lower prices or prosecute hobbyists. Can't have both unless you want people to hate you
No it isn't $80 minimum
It is for certain games only - the games that everyone will be getting a Switch 2 to play.