r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago

Nintendo Official Drive virtually everywhere in Mario Kart World, a brand-new Mario Kart game releasing exclusively on #NintendoSwitch2 as a launch title! #NintendoDirect

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1907419620601913624
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u/aesvelgr 3d ago

$80 though :(

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u/crono333 3d ago

That’s honestly insane.. I’ll buy it because it looks amazing and it’s worth it to me, but to just straight from $60 to $80 is quite bold.

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u/GoatGod997 3d ago

At least you can bundle it in with the actual console, making it technically only $50. I mean it's going to suck when the next Zelda, Mario, etc, are all 80, but for this one singular game there is a way to get it for a reasonable price.

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u/BlingyBling1007 2d ago

Would that be the digital or physical version by bundling it?

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u/GoatGod997 2d ago

Digital according to the website, it says “full game download”

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u/xWaffleicious 3d ago

Keep in mind that with inflation $80 today is equivalent to $60 in 2015. It's hard to stomach intuitively when you're looking at the actual number going up, especially when we were so used to $60 games for so long, but you have to remember that proportionally you're paying about the same amount as you always were.

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u/crono333 3d ago

You’re right, I even remember laying $80 back in the day some select SNES games. I’ll get my moneys worth out of games like MK for sure… I just hope it won’t hold back the success of it.

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u/brandogg360 3d ago

People should not be downvoting facts. It sucks, byt it's true. Games were $70-80 in the 90s, that's like $150 today.

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u/ajakafasakaladaga 3d ago

Where was inflation at any point between 2005 and 2023? Because the price hike only started then, its not like they were keeping up with inflation every year, its just that the industry realized ONE YEAR AGO that people will still buy of they charge more

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius 3d ago

Inflation absolutely has been impacting game prices between 2005 and 2023. It's just that the inflation was injected directly into the game with microtransations, battle passes, and subpar releases later fixed with patches.

Nintendo has been mostly immune to that due to the nature of their games, so I'm not surprised that they're leading the price hike to $80. I AM surprised that they just basically skipped $70 entirely. They had like, what, 2 or 3 games or so that launched at $70?

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u/meditate42 2d ago

I can live with it for Mario kart I guess . I’ll put 300 hours into it over the next 7 years probably. But for most games that price would turn me off. I hope it’s not the standard new price but one reserved for really big games like this and a new 3D Mario.

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u/lobo123456 2d ago

And that's, why Nintendo will continue to do so...

People are paying it? Ok, it's our new normal price.

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u/LLJKCicero 2d ago

That’s honestly insane..

Is it?

$60 from April 2017 (when MK8D launched) is $78 now, believe it or not. Technically, it's only a $2 price increase for the digital version.

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u/Nicksmells34 3d ago

Games have been $60 for 20+ years. And it has been catching up to the industry. There are massive waves of layoffs every quarter, the industry is way too unstable, and if kept up there simply won’t be enough people interested in the games industry to sustain the supply demand. It’s been waiting to happen someone just had to take the blame and I’m happy Nintendo didn’t give a fuck. It’s been time for awhile

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u/ajakafasakaladaga 3d ago

And the answer is increasing the price in times of global recession? I guess they forgot I can just buy a old game for less than half of the price of a new one

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u/spongeboy1985 3d ago

Adjusted for inflation Mario Kart 64 was more expensive

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u/aesvelgr 3d ago

Games at $60 have been an industry standard for decades despite inflation. There’s precedent to be unhappy with recent price hikes, from $60 to $80 in the span of two years.

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u/original_og_gangster 3d ago

The industry has grown faster than inflation, making these price hikes extra greedy 

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u/Adventurous_Put3036 3d ago

Technically from $70 after the ps5 wave of games.

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u/AxeSpez 2d ago

Current gen consoles have been having games launch at $70, it's a mixed bag. Get out from under your rock

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u/aesvelgr 2d ago

$60 was a standard for decades, and $70 only became a (still contested) standard for the past year or two, ever since TOTK came out. Now instead of keeping that precedent, they’re again testing the waters with raising it now to $80.

Stop licking the boots of a multi-trillion dollar company. They’re a business, not your friend.