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Who the hell is paying 90EUR for switch games?
Nintendo fanboys, they would jump off a cliff if asked.
I consider myself a Nintendo fanboy. I've owned every console.
Would not jump off a bridge.
However, these game prices are too high. I don't think third party games will be that price but first party games will be there.
Something tells me all new AAA games are going to be touching that price. I mean, they already do if you factor in the stupid elite wtf editions and deluxe pro plus editions. Hell, they're more like $130-$150 after DLC is all said and done.
Same, owned every console since the NES. This one's a pass for me. Maybe Nintendo will be humbled and bring their pricing back down to Earth in the future, but I doubt it.
Too young to have owned every console and don't care enough, but I am a fan of many games and the community. Nintendo the company hates its fans, that is widely known.
I'm not gonna buy it for that price. Especially not as a student. Especially not while ☠️ isn't a thing yet.
They have gotten greedy. There needs to be a Wii-U era again.
I agree, they need to be humbled, but I have no idea whether they will or not. While the economy is working against them, a LOT of people liked the Switch, and this is a more powerful one rather than a hard-to-understand mess like the Wii U. Genuinely curious to see how the Switch 2 does. My best guess is "modest success."
I crave for the earlier days of the 3DS to happen again, please Nintendo fan base, I have a bit of faith.
Well no one is paying that for PC games either so
Let's not pretend every publisher isn't planning on doing this. Nintendo just happens to be the first here.
I genuinely thought GTA6 was gonna beat them to the punch.
The other publishers were all eagerly waiting for gta6 to take the blame for the price increase. Nintendo just doesn't care about that and weren't gonna wait for a third party before announcing their new prices.
All it takes is for a major corporation to pull the trigger. Since Nintendo is willing to take that step, other companies are going to be observing to see if it's worth the temporary backlash.
I get the MSRP outrage, but I mean it's not an unusual cost for launch day titles, especially for physical media.
I don't think I've ever paid full retail for any game or console I've ever owned though. And I do like to own my games by buying physical media (or at least the installer files).
Which game has been launched at 90 bucks before?
Thing is that they even do this shady thing now where retails is 10 bucks more than the digital version.
The funniest part is that the best selling video game of all time (Minecraft) currently has an MSRP of less than $30, which technically gets you 2 games because Microsoft/Mojang maintain 2 completely separate codebases for Minecraft (Java edition and bedrock edition) and has to design, program, test and debug everything twice, once for each codebase
I know my work colleague is not. His Switch was cracked for I think 100+ eur which seems quite high, but since you can afterwards download pretty much any title from some pirate marketplace, that investment has been covered at least tenfold.
Me and millions of others. If you account for inflation, there has been higher prices in the past.
Being rude for no reason is a bad look
My question was genuine, and not rude at all, absolute majority of people can't afford to buy $90 game every month, nor should they.
Your question was a good one, but still rude. You're more likely to get a satisfying answer if you don't pose the premise that the person you're replying to must be dumb if they're not rich.
Because inflation applies to all products equally and there aren't ever relative adjustments /s
What games currently cost that much though, is my question really, I guess. The last expensive titles I can see right now for standard editions of games is like, 70Eur equivalent for AAA type titles.
Nice to see an adult reaction in this thread. You have a good point and I'm very curious why Nintendo made these choices. Maybe it could have to do with the current value of the Japanese yen? I'm not an economist though, so I'm just guessing right now.
Wild. Possibly market rates are different - don't know if the EUR is particularly weak right now? I don't follow the conversion rates...
I mean I own a switch, and I've never paid anything close to that for games... I've gone to maybe £45-50 for launch titles but what games cost £70?
But if you account for average wages, the prices are higher now.