People were generally willing to accept the increase to $70 because games had been $60 for decades so it didn't seem too horribly greedy to finally bump it up a bit. But now it's just been a few years and Nintendo's already experimenting with $80 and $90 price points. Should we just accept games going up $10 every 3 years or so? And for a game that's just going to be another basic iteration of Mario Kart, most likely with more paid DLC on the way? Not even going to get into the paid tech demo they revealed. Nintendo's getting greedy and they deserve the criticism.
no, pay what the game is worth to you, but im pointing out that the comment I was responding to is inaccurate.
And for a game that's just going to be another basic iteration of Mario Kart
for most people thats enough, but the implication that it would be more worth it if the game had more in it actually supports nintendos position that games should be priced according to demand.Â
sony doesnt sell GOW at 20 bucks often because they are nice, they do it because not many people are willing to pay full price for that game many years later. MK8 is the fifth best selling game of all time and has not had significant discounts during that entire period. we will see if people have the same sentiment with a 80$ price point, but of course, i have to imagine even if it sells many copies a large majority of those copies will be the bundle
Should we just accept games going up $10 every 3 years or so?
No, you should be pissed off at the policy decisions driving rampant inflation. But Nintendo isn't your/a government. You may as well be pissed off at time for passing as at Nintendo here, the fault lies elsewhere.
I saw someone on tiktok say it's absurd for mario kart to be the same price as gta6 and they compared that to saying tacobell should be the same price as a high end steak dinner
I pointed out that gta6 doesn't warrant the high price either. It's more like tacobell verses McDonald's. It's a gta game. I haven't got a response to that.
Disappointment? I didn't hear that at all. I heard the opposite. MonHun also does free updates that add more content into the game for quite a while after it comes out. One just came out today, if I'm not mistaken.
The community was really disappointed by the performance on pc alone. Even console players had problems playing at resolution mode and pc players are still required to have the newest gear to play 1080p or above. The game itself is mostly loved but there still was much disappointment
I've noticed performance issues seem to be kind of a theme with Capcom games on release. Sometimes they patch them...
Actually, now that I think about it, most games that I've recently played that released on PC and console at the same time had, and continue to have, some performance issues.
Yup. All it takes is one of these companies pushing for it for everyone else to pile in behind them following suit, and then it's a shit standard. And then they wonder why people are starting to sail the 7 seas again.
I didn't say there are no games above 30€ on the PS store. I bought Ghost of Tsushima for 16€, and Ragnarok for 24€. Every single steam game of mine was bought at a 60% discount minimum. How often do games like Mario Kart and Pokemon go on an 60% sale?
Here I can look at the Playstation and Xbox game stores and see games have crossed $100 dollars and a lot are in the $80-90 range, it all happened shorly after Sony made a push for the $70 standard years ago.
Not really. If you look at Steam, or the PS5 Store you'll see a ton of games currently available for $80-100+ right now. They just market them as the "premium" edition or whatever bullshit they want to go with - where you get the base game + pointless digital bonuses or battle passes. They do sell base versions for $70 or so, but these are not the first prices over $70 that we're seeing people pay.
I get that and remember it. But I don’t think that necessarily holds relevance to the conversation being had which is firmly in our current era of game prices.
Agreed brother I'm seeing a frightening trend with each generation the games are bumping up £20 or so the standard on the 360 was 40 and since then we'll it's gone to shi*
Also I think a lot of people are glossing over the fact that they are offering upgrades for switch 1 games, instead of just making us buy them again for 80 bucks.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy with the 80 bucks for Kart, but the Switch 1 upgrade packs definitely seem like a "they didn't have to do this" kind of thing to me
No, you see it's okay that Sony and Microsoft released $500 consoles with $75 controllers, $70 games, and mandatory $10 online subscription five years ago because those are big boy consoles!
500? On release ps5 was more like 700+ and not even from resellers but at hardware stores and there have been more than enough 80+ games for both consoles but nInTeNdO iS eViL cOrPorAtIoN
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u/Kenny-KO 23h ago
I hate to break it to people, This isn't a Nintendo only problem.