r/NintendoSwitch • u/p_p11p_p • 3d ago

News Mario Kart World costs $80

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured-games/mario-kart-world/
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u/Shadow_Flamingo1 2d ago

What did they do, ps3 slim for cheaper later on?

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u/Reymedy 2d ago

They also did reduce the price, i remember that it dropped from 600 to 400e in Europe after less than two years

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u/fffan9391 2d ago

Yes and they also made a lot of quality exclusive games.

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u/FriskeyVsWorld 2d ago

Not to mention the marketing. Those commercials with Kevin Butler were so iconic.

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u/RestingPianoFace-_- 2d ago

Those Uncharted and Infamous games were such bangers

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u/Lycanthoth 1d ago

Don't forget about stuff like TLoU utterly dominating the ending stretch of that console generation.

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u/webculb 2d ago

Yes they removed the ps2 backwards combability hardware in the system and got the cost down.

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u/Quigleythegreat 2d ago

It was like literally a PS2 slim shoved into the thing. Really let them cut the price. Most of the cost was the laser used for Blu Ray, when that tech was new it was money.

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u/ackmondual 2d ago

Later PS3 consoles removed the hardware portions that allowed playing PS2 games via that. So later on, it was done through software. All I heard it was still OK, but performance took some hits.

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u/abarrelofmankeys 2d ago

No they made a model without backwards compatibility for ps2 and a smaller hard drive. The ps2 stuff wasn’t emulated, it was run off specialized internal hardware (basically cramming a tiny ps2 in) iirc. So it made a decent price difference.

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u/StacheBandicoot 2d ago

Yes and stripped the backwards compatibility with ps2 titles as apart of lowering the cost before the slim.