Not so much defense, more like "uhh, yeah, things cost money, inflation exists, welcome to the real world", and I can't disagree honestly. People gotta use an inflation calculator on old games.
This meme does have real "too late, I drew you as the soy cuck and myself as the chad!" energy.
I don't really think anyone is saying it doesn't suck for the consumer. It's not really Nintendo's fault that wages are stagnant. I personally would like for the price of games to be relative to how much time and effort goes into them. I'm fine with paying more for games that they take a few more years to make and polish.
And BG3 cost 60 dollars with the amount of time and care to create the game. I'll assure you, you will spend more time in bg3 than any other Nintendo game
Yeah I think a lot (most?) of Nintendo games are overpriced. I guarantee a lot of the $80 games don't belong at that price point. The Pokémon games definitely don't.
It's pretty inconvenient for us, but if people are still paying that price I don't see why they would stop. Same thing for them pumping out low quality Pokémon games every year.
If people keep buying it and going back for more then they aren't deeply upsetting their audience - big caveat we haven't seen the new price increase in action so that definitely could change things, but at least previously Nintendo not lowering their prices certainly hadn't upset the majority of their audience enough to stop buying.
My little soapbox is that this isn't a big deal though. It sucks, but the best games were already indie and small studio games that sell for far far cheaper. There is very little passion that makes it to the end game on large studios and it's getting more and more obvious.
Their games still sell like hot cakes even with them not lowering prices. Pokemon games still sell like crazy despite them being messes.
Yes people are complaining about the price increases on social media, but we don't know how that's actually going to translate to the real world when the people online are the minority. Until their actual sales are affected clearly Nintendo isn't upsetting their audience all that much
Nintendo used to have two major price points. One for handheld, one for home console. When they consolidated lines, I really wish they had kept the two level pricing system so smaller games like Link's Awakening, FDC wouldn't be priced similarly to big hitters like Odyssey and MK.
Anything like that would be great. At this point it just feels like an arbitrary price point that incentivizes companies into churching out low effort trash.
Yes, if they charge 80 for the next pokemon game and it's in the state of violet/scarlet, they can't really justify the price.
They should let Monolith Soft collaborate on their next game, they know how to make most of Nintendo hardware.
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u/Avnesya 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is there actually "people" unironically defending em at this point?
Legit asking
edit : typo