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u/KuntaWuKnicks 1d ago
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u/EventAccomplished976 1d ago edited 1d ago
Because nintendo knows that nostalgia is one hell of a drug, and countless suckers will happily pay any amount of money to play very slightly modernized versions of games they remember from childhood. Then they let their kids play those same games, and there’s another generation hooked. That‘s literally their entire business model.
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u/Ironic_Jedi 1d ago edited 1d ago
Every time I see this opinion that "nintendo just releases the same games over and over" it tells me that the person clearly hasn't played any nintendo games either ever or for a very long time.
Like first of all, every version of mario kart for example, has significant enough changes that from as simple as new race tracks, changes to mechanics, additions or modifications to items, etc.
Super maro kart and mario kart 8 are worlds apart.
As is super mario brothers on NES and mario odyssey on the switch.
Sure, there are familiar characters, enemies and mechanics, like jumping on goombas, but so many changes between each iteration makes them more than the same game.
At least nintendo doesn't Nickle and dime you with microtransactions. I can trust that nintendo will make an amazing 3d platformer, a great mario kart and an epic Zelda every time.
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u/SinisterCheese 1d ago
I had to google Finnish prices, and they are 79,95 € here (with 25,5 % VAT - thanks to the "economic conservative" + far-right government for bring that up from 24 %).
If I check the Finnish statistics agencies' currency calculator. 80 € in 2024 is equivalent of 66,04 € in 2017. When switch released. The games value has remained constant. You are just poorer, thanks to capitalist greed and corporate fuckery.'
But lets do the math without the VAT here. The game would cost 59,5 € and 2017 it would cost 2017. Lets add the 2017 vat of 24% and we get 61 €.
Would you look at that... Nothing has changed at all. We are just poorer. You can fight the system by not spending money. Assuming we live in that lie we been told about free markets, and supply and demand's invisible hand tickling balls of companies or whatever. If people don't spend money, the system starts to fail and prices need to adjust.
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u/ArcIgnis 1d ago
Whenever I wanted an expensive game as a kid, and as I was growing up poor, my mother always said "If you're hungry, you can eat your video games then."
Always sounded funny and silly, but I can understand why now, considering that is grocery money now.
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u/EloquentSloth 1d ago
I'd skip a day or two of eating now to buy a game lol
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u/LudusLive- 1d ago
Nintendo: please don't hack our Switch or emulate our games
Also Nintendo:
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u/howtheturntable808 1d ago
While using emulators when re-releasing their old classics.
such respect, much class
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u/Dumbledores_Beard1 1d ago edited 1d ago
Such surprise that Nintendo would be ok with emulating the games they actually own, and not the pirated copies that 95% of people run emulators with.
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u/assbutt-cheek 1d ago
if they want us not to pirate their shit they have to make it accessible. it costs at minimum 450 + 50/yearly to play wind waker, a game from 2003. there is 0 chance thats a reasonable price
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u/reddit_equals_censor 1d ago
"if they want us not to USE THE FREELY SHARED VERSION of the games....
i suggest to not use the language of the enemies.
freeing software from evil drm is not a crime. it is our right to do so.
don't use "pirate" when refering to your actual rights and to art preservation.
nintendo are giant art destroyers.
they are setting art on fire on mass! making games impossible to play at all.
this is nintendo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsXN1v8yuCk
people, who share roms, or create emulators are people, who are fighting the art destroying inquisition here and NOT "pirates".
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u/JimboTCB 1d ago
I mean, you could buy a gamecube and an original copy on Ebay for like half that much and play it forever for no additional cost
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u/assbutt-cheek 1d ago
if you have to buy a second hand 2 decade old piece of hardware for games this old isnt accessible. and im not sure what the price of a gc is nowadays but 225 dollars needed to play a 2 decade old game is insane
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u/BearFluffy 1d ago
Why not just whip out your original wii?
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u/HoneyBunchesOfBoats 1d ago
Yeah if the choice between paying premium official prices or premium collector prices... I'm gonna use a rom and an emulator. I personally own an N64, Gamecube, Wii, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, and a PC with a variety of games for both, I'm still gonna pirate and emulate because these consoles and games are all aging and degrading faster than we think, and I can play every single game from all of these catalogues on my easily replaceable pc, it's a no brainer for anyone actually interested in playing these games long term.
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u/NatomicBombs 1d ago
But Nintendo wouldn’t get the money anyways. So might as well emulate unless you really need to give money to a collector first to clear your conscience before playing a video game.
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u/penanceffect 1d ago
nintendo can be greedy but this isn’t the gotcha everyone thinks it is. The illegal part of emulation isn’t the emulation software, it’s illegally obtaining the games to play. Nintendo owns the games so if they’re distributing the games themselves through emulation they’re not doing anything wrong. I don’t see why people who hold Nintendo at fault for resellers pumping prices would be upset at Nintendo offering a cheap, official way to emulate games on their console. That being said, the switch 2’s pricing is nuts and unless GameCube emulation is coming to the first switch people are def right to be mad abt that
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u/Pattalus 1d ago
He says while Nintendo acitvely shuts down Emulators While also using non self-made Emulators on the Switch
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u/penanceffect 1d ago edited 1d ago
it took like two seconds of googling to see your statement is inaccurate
the emulators in question were taken down for doing more than just emulation, and Nintendo has admitted emulators themselves are legal
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u/alicefaye2 1d ago
Hilarious when their console can be hacked with a simple picofly soldered on from aliexpress. You should be able to do all this with a console anyways you paid for it. They want me to forfeit the £80 I could be paying on food for a video game? No.
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u/ripnotorious 1d ago
Not just food bills,clothes and family duties(if present)
It’s like they expect people to be rolling in dough with the state of the economy in this day and age
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u/alicefaye2 14h ago edited 14h ago
Despite that the economy is currently in fucking free fall. Less and less people are able to afford any of this anymore. It’s like people aren’t ever allowed to be happy at anything because they always announce and increase the price for things at the worst possible time to inflict the most damage and I hate that.
This is opinionated but even the ui and innovation has stifled, gone are the days of good theming, good music, interesting sfx for all tech. Now everyone aims for the bland, corporate, clean perfectionist look. The switch’s white theme makes me feel like I’ve been given it as part of some government issued program. Like tf?? That with the ridiculous pricing has been enough to make me go crazy. I just wanna go back at this point. There’s a reason I’ve been aiming to pick up 90s to 2013 era tech since, i have more fun with it.
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 1d ago
I'm honestly not even sure about the amount of responsibility retailers have against their purchase price, as wages remain stagnant and inflation/tariffs have and will continue to take effect on my wallet I'm going to wait.. until they come with a greatly enhanced lite or they play ball and sell shit for an affordable price to the average person.
I still don't have an X and can't even play Phantom Liberty though I've beaten the base game 10 times because, I refuse, even then, I can't play games I've bought and downloaded if my wifi goes out because it needs to constantly "verify licenses" I should already own because it's a product and I bought the shit
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u/TheBigness333 1d ago
I’m glad pirates are finally admitting they’re doing it because they want free stuff.
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u/MochaKola 1d ago
Remember when they publicly apologized for the price of the 3DS? Let's bring back that energy, please. 😂
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u/ABODE_X_2 1d ago
Just don't buy it
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u/Coaldigger_Jamal 1d ago
Sorry, the Nintendo fans can't hear you over all that deep-throating they're doing
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u/Lazer726 1d ago
I've honestly been pissed about Nintendo not seeming to care about quality and performance with their consoles and pricing, this absolutely seals the deal. They wanna charge 80 fucking dollars for Tears of the Kingdom?
That's a big ole go fuck yourself Nintendo from me
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u/ABODE_X_2 1d ago
There's always a good game you can enjoy a lot with less than 40$. No game is just THAT special. Only exception i can think of is GTA 6 because the budget 2 billion USD and it's once in a decade release. But even that you can wait for the discount.
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u/sumemodude Died of Ligma 1d ago
$500 console, $80 games, and $20-$30 add ons to make preowned games "compatible". We are cooked
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u/Flipercat 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nintendo should absolutely get criticized for their pricing, but please use the actual numbers/facts:
The console is $450, or $500 for the console + mario kart world.
The $80 seems to only be for their biggest games, so I presume Mario kart, Zelda, Mario, etc. Their smaller games will probably be $60-$70.
You can absolutely play your switch games on the more powerful system for free. The paid things are basically DLC (for example: a new world in Kirby and the Forgotten Land) (except BoTW and ToTK, the extra feature more or less useless and adds no extra content)
Edit: Apparently the prices I listed were only for digital games, and physical ones will cost an extra $10. My bad.
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u/JackTurnner 1d ago
Wait, so performance boosts arent payed? Only like dlcs and stuff and addons to what the switch 2 does?
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u/MisterRai 1d ago
From what I understand, upgrades that are purely performance enhancements like with Pokemon are free. The paid ones are upgrades that add new features like with Super Mario
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u/platypodus 1d ago
Next console generation you'll have to pay for patches.
"Hey, did you beat Super Metroid 17, yet?"
- "Nah, man, I'm saving up for the patch, I'm still on the 1.02 version, I got the wall bug, that makes progress impossible. They only fixed it in the 1.11 release."
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u/Flipercat 1d ago
I think that for the games without a Switch 2 Edition, you will get higher definition/frame rate (as long as they support it). Keep in mind that I have no direct source for this formation, just what I understood from the direct.
For games with a Switch 2 Edition, I don't know. ToTK for example will be less laggy on the Switch 2, but I don't know about getting higher definition/fps for free.
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u/JackTurnner 1d ago
I don't really mean higher definitions and stuff. But when I heard about the pay to upgrade pre owned games, i thought thst meant that you would need to pay for any upgrades the games get by nature of a better hardware
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u/allmond226 1d ago edited 1d ago
I also understand it as you have to pay for the performance boosts too
A thing that points to this fact is these games not showing in this list of free updates:
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/transfer-guide/games-with-free-updates/
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u/allmond226 1d ago edited 1d ago
The $80 seems to only be for their biggest games, so I presume Mario kart, Zelda, Mario, etc. Their smaller games will probably be $60-$70.
Stop making excuses for them already, and maybe you should too show the actual numbers if you criticize it.
It's not 80 for their "biggest games" only, it's for some games and it's 90 normally and 80 digitally and it's 80 normally and 70 digitally for others
There is absolutely no indication that there will be full Nintendo games for 60
Edit: I just learned that the $ are apparently 10 cheaper then the € prices so you are actually correct with the prices but not with the big/small games thing
Also a thing to keep in mind retailers normally don't accept cheaper digital version, because it makes them look bad, so maybe if they face problems/backlash from them the digital price could increase
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u/Jealy 1d ago
please use the actual numbers/facts
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u/Flipercat 1d ago edited 1d ago
I used some actual numbers and added my speculations and deductions, marked by those expressions. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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u/NoIsland23 1d ago
Stop glazing bro. Even modern tripple A games don‘t cost more than 70$ on PC. You meanin to tell me that Pokemon Shit X costs more to produce than The Last of Us 2?
„Smaller games 60-70$“ that’s price gouging
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u/HollowThief 1d ago
Beat me to it, thank you for defending my favorite multibillion company <3 I'm going to buy the 90$ dollar "physical" copies that have a download code inside, just to support them!
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u/SuperSonic486 1d ago edited 1d ago
That last bit of paying for compatability is insanely missleading my guy, there is no paying for compatability, its upgrading a game to its switch 2 version, which isnt needed whatsoever.
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u/Someonevibing1 1d ago
No it’s to make it have the upgrades you can probably play botw and totk on the switch 2 without the cool new stuff
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u/NeonPatrick 1d ago
In 1996, N64 games cost the equivalent of $180 https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/Prkq6EEgKK
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u/cokeknows 1d ago
Don't forget the nearly proprietary SD card that next to no one will have, having to pay for a launch day orientation demo, the fact that you need internet and an account to transfer games and saves between devices and a paid membership to voice chat. The enshitification of nintendo is here.
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u/NickSchultz 1d ago
What the fuck?! You have to PAY to play pre-owned games?
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u/Sea_Art3391 1d ago
You don't. You can pay to upgrade a few pre-owned games to have better graphics and some switch 2 exclusive functions (the Kirby game also includes a dlc), but otherwise you do not have to pay to play any pre-owned games on the switch 2.
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u/Satherov 1d ago
Some games like botw or totk offer extra stuff for which you can get an addon, but I imagine you can still play the game without those
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u/FriendlyDrummers 1d ago
Barely an add on tbh. But I guess I don't care since it's not necessary to get anyways
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u/dingusfett 1d ago
Kirby and Mario Party are better examples of them being expansions with new content that makes use of the new Switch 2 features
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u/JorgeMtzb 🏴Virus Veteran 🏴 1d ago
No, they are making switch 2 upgraded releases for some games (think ps5 vs ps4 of the same game) if you have the switch 1 version you can pay for just the upgrade rather than buy them. You can play all your switch 1 games for free, you only pay for the specific upgrades that gices new content better framerate etc
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u/Flaky_Grand7690 1d ago
Think the switch pro controllers are forward compatible!?
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u/shortish-sulfatase 1d ago
Is nintendo going to be the reason people finally realise how much better it is playing on pc?
I doubt it, but it was a nice thought for a second.
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u/notveryAI I touched grass 1d ago
Nintendo making all their games exclusive is basically the only thing that somewhat keeps their entire model afloat. Nobody really needs their crappy handhelds otherwise
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u/MegatonDoge 1d ago
Nope. Until Nintendo consoles have exclusive Pokemon games, people aren't abandoning Nintendo.
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u/la_mano_la_guitarra 1d ago
Really struggle to see the draw of modern Pokemon games. The fan base seems quite rapid but taken at face value these games are pretty terrible. Terrible graphics and performance; terrible, rehashed writing; mundane gameplay that hasn't really changed in 30 years. It feels like they are high on their own supply and need some humbling to be honest. You can pick up Cassette Beasts on Steam for somtimes sub £10 and it is a massivley better experience.
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u/Following-Complete 1d ago
Thank you so much. I have been looking for something like this for so long
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u/harmonic-s 1d ago
It's convinced me. Like I've been saying, $80 during a seasonal Steam sale can get me like 10-20 games lol. I got the entire Mass Effect trilogy for $5 and they're still my favorite games.
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u/capt-kweef 1d ago
I think nintendo found a specific niche long ago of mobile gaming and they've cornered the market that pc or most other consoles (with few exception) just dont fill
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u/TheKeiron 1d ago
Considering that the handheld pc market has grown loads over the past few years, the switch has lost part of that portable console novelty, the only thing it has is detachable joycons really.
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u/mdahms95 1d ago
This is the first jump in prices since mid 2000’s besides the 10$ jump a couple years ago for next gen consoles
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u/SjettepetJR 1d ago
People are just stupid. The prices of these games are not increasing (they are actually decreasing), it is their own buying power that is decreasing which makes it seem like game prices are increasing.
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u/ivornorvello 1d ago
Fuck that I’ll stick with my Steamdeck
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u/harmonic-s 1d ago
Absolutely. I got my SD for cheap on Ebay, and it runs like a dream with access to far more shit than the Switch could ever dream of.
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u/la_mano_la_guitarra 1d ago
Remember to set up emulation for all the old Nintendo consoles and enjoy those absolutely free of charge. Fuck Nintendo.
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u/Ok-Advantage6398 1d ago
Steamdeck is a dream machine, literally my favorite handheld since psp. I have 2 switchs even and they don't see nearly as much play due to nintendo games being way too expensive.
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u/Green-Shelter-6227 1d ago
Can you get Nintendo games on there? Genuinely curious if I should switch 2 that haha
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u/Aces_And_Eights_Rias 1d ago
Saw a joke about this
It's like : it's called the Switch 2, so you can switch 2 a cheaper platform.
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u/TA_699 1d ago
Do you all understand how long games have been $60 for? Did yall expect inflation to skip the video game market?
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u/xx_Chl_Chl_xx 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 1d ago
$90 for physical games. Except the cartridge is more like a download code you plug into the Switch to download the rest of the game instead of having the whole thing
Nintendo invented food stamps for video games
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u/These_Refrigerator75 1d ago
No games are announced as $90 yet, and the download code thing is only for some games as far as we know. The only confirmed cases are Bravely Default and Street Fighter 6
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u/Katzeye 1d ago
It’s not fun, but checking an inflation calculator. Back in 1988, NES games were $50. Which is $134 in today’s dollars.
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u/yourusualnekofemboy 1d ago
Buying power of the dollar matters too
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u/KnightOfGloaming 1d ago
Well no... it does not matter for a company. It's a general economic problem that has to be fixed by governments but not by Nintendo... they have to pay their employees and make profits to stay on the market.
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u/SjettepetJR 1d ago
This is what is so dumb about the "oh but they don't take into account buying power" argument. Of course they fucking don't.
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u/Krimmson_ 1d ago
The gaming market has also grown significantly & cost of distribution has gone from physical copies to Digital pretty much negligible.
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u/Annie_Yong 1d ago
Digital distribution is not a "negligible" cost. You have to pay for the global data centres and infrastructure that allows you to host the files and provide the platform for people to download from. When you buy digital games you're not just getting them transferred from a single hard drive stashed in Nintendo's basement after all..
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u/Roflkopt3r 1d ago
As a sum per game sold, it's entirely neglectible compared to the production and distribution of physical copies.
You need most of that infrastructure anyway to have adequate 21st century web presence, support, multiplayer services, and some amount of digital sales. The added cost of handling more users who download more game is small.
The numbers ultimately appear big for major platforms because they handle hundreds of millions of users. But the sum per game sold and downloaded is miniscule.
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u/apeironone 1d ago
We always see this stupid inflation conversion arguments and I'm sick of it.
How big was the market back in the 1988?
What was the feasible sales number for the game?
What was the cost of producing actual physical copies of the game and disturbing them to retailers?
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u/Zearlon 1d ago
do you even realize how much costs of making a game have skyrocketed since then? even when you consider the removal of physical copies costs? The only reason prices didn't increase, is because the market kept increasing (which probably doesn't anymore since covid). So what is your solution to pushing out games that get more expensive to make, while maintaining or even increasing profits (since that's how in today's world we judge if a company/person is successful)
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u/DinoStompah 1d ago
Cost to make games has also skyrocketed while prices remained the same. Distribution costs have remained similar if you take into consideration digital storage costs and them being sold through a third party (like steam) which is why we've seen a few big companies try their hand at making their own platforms.
Mind you I don't tend to play AAA games, so im not particularly affected. Its just something to keep in mind.
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u/KnightOfGloaming 1d ago
And how much does the quality standard raised? How much people have to work on a game today compared to 1988?
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u/iMythD 1d ago
Mario Kart World Tour is $120 Aud (Australia). As a Registered Nurse I currently earn $36/hr. That’s almost half my day tomorrow as a registered health professional, just to be able to pay for Mario Kart. Yikes. Things are getting bloody hard.
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u/Redeem123 1d ago
Working for 3 hours and 20 minutes to afford a video game that you might get dozens or even hundreds of hours out of doesn't sound so bad.
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u/Borderpolarmess3012 1d ago
I'm just enjoying the shitstorm not just for the game,but for
the price of the console
upgade generational is gonna be payed
useless accessories and cotrolles expensive
chat limited to online
they keep saying that this console is not for harcore game that want power (then who tf is the target? Why is it so pricey?)
mario kard bundle are limited and temporary
and of course the atrocious prize of the games itself
i want a 3ds magic
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u/CatalystsCompass 1d ago edited 11h ago
sigh 80$ game. One. And it's Mario Kart, which you can also get for 50$ in a bundle. The other game we know the price of right now is 70$, and that's likely what it will be for other games as well. Stop ragebaiting. It's fine to be mad, but at least be accurate. Please?
Edit: This meme is now accurate. :(
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u/Slick-Berry 1d ago
People just love to be mad. Triple A games were kept at 60 dollars for nearly 30 years. I think the bigger problem is that everything else is up in price, which therefore probably makes it harder for people to afford games and consoles.
But everyone’s losing their minds over a 10 dollar increase on one game, lol, which you can already get for cheaper in the bundle. And obviously the console was gonna cost more - it’s just switch 1 improved in every way.
I don’t get what the fuss is about. I’m excited for it.
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u/BiioHazzrd 1d ago
Do people not understand inflation? Games have been $60 since the early 2000s... No other media has maintained a price point like that for 20+ years.
Games should cost more, get over it.
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u/PewPew_McPewster 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cuz they know think they can.
Or rather: it's in every console manufacturer's DNA to fuck up every other generation. Sony does it. Microsoft does it. Nintendo has done it many times. They make a console that's so good that they get high off their asses and with the next gen they start toying with some anti-consumer shit. Like, I dunno, pricing it at USD599 (in 2006) and comparing it to a gourmet meal; or telling you that you can't share games; or making such confusing branding that people don't even know if it's actually a new generation or not. Then that generation goes so badly that they roll into the next gen scrappy and more accommodating of the consumer, which results in a console that's so good that they get high off their asses... and so on and so forth.
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u/Creeper_Gamer333 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 1d ago
wdym isn't it always 80$?
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u/Someonevibing1 1d ago
Most American games are $70 and until a couple years ago they were $60
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u/Appropriate-Fold-485 1d ago
Yeah they were $60 for 20 years straight. This is just inflation pricing. It's still cheaper than things in the 90s as actual purchasing power.
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u/Holy_Salamander 1d ago
Why? Cause people are gonna still buy em that's why, they do this cause they know they can get away with it
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u/IdealIdeas 1d ago
Call me crazy but $60 seems to be more than enough to make back what you spent on making the video game and in many cases, several times over what you spent to make the game. Unless you made a stinker of a game but then its youre fault
If anything games should cost less. Companies would probably make even more money by selling way more copies as more people could afford it.
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u/Alarmed-Change3240 1d ago
I was gonna say $80 dollars isn't bad until I realized that's not in NZD. Now I'm very worried.
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u/Username12764 1d ago
It‘s the same thing John D. Rockefeller did with lamps and printer manufacturers do with printers. Sell the one time purchase for dirt cheap but make the repeatet purchase ungodly expensive.
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u/Birdcrossing 1d ago
whats funny is that that 80/90$ is the price for the better and first party original switch games in Australia, thats the normal price in aud, im scared to see what the aud price for sw2 games is gonna be.
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u/EthanKnight86 1d ago
Because everybody will buy it and they know it. Nintendo been educating their consumers to do so like for decades. And the fanboys never fail to impress.
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u/Low-Carpenter-2997 1d ago
I mean 500 bucks for a hendheld PS4 is too much for me. Mario Kart for 90 bucks is also insane. Hard pass for me.
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u/Taningia-danae 1d ago
Xbox said it will be day one on the XBOX live (or whatever is the name of the service)
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u/DragantaMM 1d ago
On the one hand, I can perfectly understand that games have become more expensive as the process of making them simply has become more expensive as well
On the other hand: current games suck so much ass, they are in no way worth the price companies are asking for them (exceptions exist of course, for both better and worse)
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u/przemo-c 1d ago
Games are becoming more expensive despite it's easier than ever to do large project but the audience size for games is much larger as well. So I'm not sure overall the pricing should rise.
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u/nobody-cares57 1d ago
Is it confirmed that every switch 2 game will be priced at $80? So far I've only seen that price tag on the new Mario cart game.
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u/Deveatation_ethernis 1d ago
You know I realised that this price point didn't seem as high cus I used to buy games in singpore dolars. I'm realizing now its a lot more of a bump uo than I remembered
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u/Massive_Win_5958 1d ago
"stop the predatory marketing!"
"but then we have to raise prices!"
"reeeeeeeee"
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u/Dzeppetto Plays MineCraft and not FortNite 1d ago
I don't know how true is that, but I heard it's 80$ for digital and 90$ for physical
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u/Ateaseloser 1d ago
Not only that but the Japanese version of switch 2 is language locked and cheaper to prevent from importing...not that it matters due to where I live now ... Sigh
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u/rochakgupta 1d ago
Sucks to be Nintendo fanboy/girl I guess. Personally, I couldn't care less for such a greedy company.
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u/Original_Comfort4539 1d ago
oh boy! Can't wait to spend 140 dollars for a game that I'll probably get tired of in a week!
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u/DetOlivaw 1d ago
At the moment? The world economy is kind of going through it. Some decisions have been made that might affect pricing in the US! I mean, they could have been planning this anyway, but Nintendo tends to price more accessibly these days, so I think I’d blame more external forces here.
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u/nastynelly_69 1d ago
People complain, but these are going to sell like crazy and be ridiculously hard to find at launch
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u/DogsRDBestest 1d ago
Digital games which can be denied to you in the future anytime. So $80 for renting really.
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u/8champi8 1d ago
If Nintendo does it and people buy the games anyway, it’s gonna become the norm in the video game industry.
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u/Ocean_Man205 1d ago
Can we also talk about the fact that you need an online membership to buy the special GameCube controller? I had to rewatch that part like 3 times to make sure I heard correctly.
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u/humansperson1 1d ago
Nintendo makes games that are played largely by children. Can you imagine saving up your 5 or 10 bucks pocket money a week or month for 1 game. I would never have asked my parents for such an expensive game, and I wouldn't have gotten it u less it was my birthday, christmas, etc. Nintendo, you gotta remember who your target audience is.
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u/Hawkeye77th 1d ago
Switch 1.2 was obviously a cash grab. Add the $80 game and the story is complete.
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u/NunYahBitNizMuhFuka 1d ago
Greed, that's why. They know people will pay dumbshit prices so of course their gonna keep charging those ridiculous kinda prices. When people finally wise up and stop paying these prices is when the prices will finally come down, but not a second sooner.
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u/inquizit0r 1d ago
Because as long as there exist "loyal fans", same with Apple, they will get away with it. And on top of that, they will make profit.
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u/JonDCafLikeTheDrink 1d ago
There's capitalism, but there's also the tariffs too. Most of the manufacturing is going to be in China, especially the games. It's going to be expensive for a while
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u/CalligrapherFit2841 1d ago
Haven't games been like 50-60 bucks since sega genesis? Im suprised they haven't gone up till now, everything else has. Plus sega days had like 5-10 devs to pay not hundreds.
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u/kilertree 1d ago
I'm going to assume that the physical carts are expensive as shit and to protect brick and Mortar stores the digital price inflated because the bundle is only $50 more, It's not 80.
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u/chiBROpractor 1d ago
Look, I don't like seeing the numbers go up either, but this actually isn't that bad compared to the old SNES games back in the day. Inflation is a thing, especially in the last couple of years. $80 isn't what it used to be. Minimum wage should definitely be updated in the States, and we can argue that generally wages haven't kept up with inflation especially in the last 5-7 years, but for the most part people get paid a lot more than when games were $50 in the nineties.
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u/ClockworkCinder 1d ago
They're greedy mother fuckers that's why. Steam and GoG are the only ones who really gets us.
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