r/memes • u/Yolo065 • 1d ago

Leave them alone🤬🤬🤬

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u/Blue_Bird950 1d ago

DK costs $70

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u/theblackxranger 1d ago

Console costs $500

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u/crackity-jones 1d ago

With Mario Kart. $450 without.

I’m a big Nintendo fan and don’t agree with a lot of what Nintendo is doing at the moment but I also think people are being a little sensational and exaggerating many things. This meme is a good example. Mario Kart by itself is $80 and that is indeed fucked but DK is $70 which is what any other major AAA game costs. Video games are expensive to make and not getting any cheaper and inflation is a real thing however our wages (at least here in the US) have not risen at the same degree that inflation has. The price of the Switch one after adjusting for inflation is pretty close to what they’re charging for the Switch 2 and we have a lot of other factors that have caused the price to Be what it is.

I’m not trying to shill for a huge company but I do think Nintendo, while far from being an angel, is also not the worst company out there. Save this energy for the government, for Tesla, for Meta, for Amazon. Etc. Nintendo should not get a pass by any means but let’s also be realistic.

Fully prepared for a storm of downvotes and negative replies but I just really needed to get this off my chest.

At the end of the day we all just want to play games and escape from the world for a bit. Wishing everyone the best in this nightmare world we find ourselves in.

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u/Blue_Bird950 1d ago

$450

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u/theblackxranger 1d ago

Plus tax is 500

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u/Tolstartheking 1d ago

We don’t count tax. The PS5 with tax is still more anyways. If you count tax, you need to count it with everything, not just Nintendo.

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u/theblackxranger 1d ago

"we don't count tax" must be nice. I factor in taxes when buying products

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u/Tolstartheking 1d ago

Then how much does the PS5 cost with taxes? Still more than Switch 2.

Besides, the problem is the game prices, not the console.

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u/theblackxranger 1d ago

Idk I don't buy PlayStation stuff, their console is expensive too

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u/Blue_Bird950 1d ago

All consoles are expensive now, get over it.

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u/theblackxranger 1d ago

"leave the multi billion dollar company alone"

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u/TrueZach 1d ago

How dare company price their product in line with their competitors!

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u/National_Equivalent9 1d ago

Not anymore. YAY TARIFFS

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u/Blue_Bird950 1d ago

It’s still $450, isn’t it? When did they change it?

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u/National_Equivalent9 23h ago

Preorders in the US have been delayed while Nintendo reassess the price. https://www.reuters.com/technology/nintendo-delays-switch-2-pre-orders-us-tariff-uncertainty-2025-04-04/ Meaning the price is going to go up.

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u/Blue_Bird950 23h ago

We don’t know for sure that they’ll raise prices. They might just shift production to another place with lower tariffs