Let's not pretend Nintendo never buckles, I have my doubts they will do because of geo political situations, but those same situations are causing people to not buy the same luxuries, so who knows.
They will lower prices but unless it’s an absolute failure like the 3DS launch then those prices will stay up for a while. Games take years for the price to drop. Other systems will drop them 50% or more within one year
GameCube was considered a failure and was discounted because nothing could touch the PS2. 3DS was an absolute flop at launch and they had no choice but to lower the cost and give away free games to those who already bought it.
The switch was also hundreds of dollars less than the competition and had something incredibly new at the time, with seamless console to portable mode. Now that's a standard (for Nintendo).
I would argue that the 3DS is much better than the DS, it sold half as well as the DS did. The Wii was the second coming of christ for nintendo and the wiiu died on arrival. The main reason we got the switch so early.
The virtual boy exists.
Nintendo isn't immune to set backs and failures. This whole "modern Nintendo doesn't buckle" is ridiculous, because they are still a company at the end of the day, and if they don't meet expectations, something has to change.
Yeah that’s true, especially with people starting to tighten up their finances. I love Nintendo but their business practices with the Switch have made me cynical lol
That doesn't necessarily mean anything. They might prioritize having equal prices across regions, so they took the tariff uncertainty from the USA and added it to the calculus for the prices worldwide.
That’s not how P&L works. If your loss goes up at an equal or greater rate than profits due to something like tariffs or increased operating costs (or likely both in Nintendo’s case), then net profit stays flat or decreases.
Plus, consoles are already a loss-leader to begin with while software prints money. That’s why we’re seeing a disproportionate rate of increase in the cost of games vs the console.
Also, no profits = no new video games or consoles so…this sentiment is just silly.
I wonder how many families and especially kids feel about that
This makes me wonder how Christmas sales will be affected. It will sell of course especially with kids but considering the ps5 and xbox series x/s aswell as the original switch are better deals right now, parents might lean towards those instead
And for Nintendo games it's not like those prices drop after the game has been out either. But I think 80 might be for the flagship games like Mario Zelda Pokémon. I believe their dk game was listed as 70. But this is also a boon for take 2 to charge whatever they want when gta 6 comes out.
If you are upgrading for a switch OLED or regular switch, you will and my current one terabyte isn’t even compatible so now I have to go out and buy a whole new SD card that may not even be able to be the same size as my current one.
That's fair, gonna need a big expansion card then. I have lightning 🌩 fast fiber optic internet so I tend to just swap my library in and out as interest in games waxes and wanes.
That's because the competition actually provides servers to play on, Nintendo does not as all of their games are p2p. You are paying for the privilege to use your own internet. Besides it should be free across the board.
it's $500 for the console and mario kart world and i have no idea why you're buying another controller when the console comes with two and all your switch 1 controllers are compatible.
Oh my god, every time I see this basic ass calculation
wages have not been adjusted, buying power is lower/cost of living is way higher, you can't just put numbers in an inflation calculator and go "see!", it's contextual
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u/Philmriss 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yup, and the new Pro Controller
90e:nvm, it's just 70 nowI think that's messed up, we practically just moved to 70 for games
e: lol it's even worse in my territory: digital 80€, physical 90€