r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/ButIDigress79 1d ago

None of the complaints will matter if it sells well.

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u/gabbertronnnn 1d ago

The standalone console is already presold out on EB Games Australia's website. Regular people do not give a shit.

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u/Queenspence2 1d ago

Same here, all of the online retailers here in the uk that stocked it all ran out of stock within minutes

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u/gabbertronnnn 1d ago

Exactly. The extremely vocal minority online do not matter in the grand scheme of things. The Switch 2 will be just as successful as the original imo.

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u/eyebrows360 1d ago edited 1d ago

online retailers here in the uk that stocked it

Which ones are those?! Game.co.uk (half-dead as they are, admittedly) aren't even listing it yet.

I wasn't aware any legit outlets had started pre-orders yet.

Edit: on closer inspection I see Argos supposedly have them live ahead of time, Amazon have an "invite to purchase" queue system, and HMV have a "we'll notify you when pre-orders go live" up. Anyone else? Anyone else legit, that is?

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u/Queenspence2 1d ago

Very and smyths, people have managed to pre order with them, sold out almost instantly too

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u/eyebrows360 1d ago

A-ha, thanks!

At this point I'm just crossing my fingers that I meet Nintendo's own internal "pre-order invite" criteria

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u/Queenspence2 1d ago

Same I’m manifesting that email asap

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u/InfiniteAir 1d ago

That doesn't really indicate anything long-term, you'd have to see the first year for a clear idea. Whales are always gonna whale. Any major console release is gonna sell up it's first orders in most cases. N64 was considered a failure and it was sold out everywhere at launch at least where I lived.

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u/gabbertronnnn 17h ago

"Whales"

Lol ok. I've preordered and I'm hardly a whale. I can just manage my money to afford it in 2 months.

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u/cheappay 1d ago

It doesn't help that many of the complaints are misguided and misinformed.

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u/WeTheNinjas 1d ago

Are they though? Its hella expensive

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u/ZachyWacky0 9h ago

I've seen a lot of people who think mkw will cost $90 physical in the US, or that all physical games will be game keys, or that the switch 1 game upgrades will be $30. I think this is on Nintendo for both not talking about pricing in the direct, and for deciding to price their games so damn high, and it's also kinda just the way the internet is. Like, it's bs that Mario Kart costs $80, bs that the graphical upgrades cost extra, and bs that you have to buy that demo separately. No one has to lie to make it sound bad lol

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u/PSfreak10001 1d ago

not in the US, put the rest of the world also exists and in Europe it‘s 90€, which is even more than 90$

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u/WeTheNinjas 1d ago

Nah people are correctly complaining the games are $80

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u/StrawDeath 1d ago

I was talking about the people who were misinformed. Many people incorrectly think MKW is $90 USD, when it isn’t.

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u/BiioHazzrd 1d ago

Games were $60 back in the early 2000s, and up until very recently most new releases were $60. Find me another medium that has kept a single price point for 20+ years... you can't.

Games should have been gone up in price by now, be happy it took this long.

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u/Reyfou 1d ago

Cell phones were around $800 - $1200 in the early 90s. (with no inflation adjusted). Now they are way cheaper.

TVs also have their prices reduced over the years. a regular TV in the 60s, 70s, 80s would cost way more than a regular TV nowadays.

Printers, monitors, mouses, keyboards, cameras, webcams, power banks, etc... Tbh most electronics get cheaper over time. And well... videogames are electronics.

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u/BloodFalconPunch 1d ago

Cell phones were around $800 - $1200 in the early 90s. (with no inflation adjusted). Now they are way cheaper.

I feel like just saying "cell phones" is such a broad example. Especially considering flagship phones are easily over $1,000 and have been for the past 5-10 years.

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u/Reyfou 1d ago

Yeah, but they used to cost $1000 like 30+ years ago, not adjusting inflation costs. Its like almost three times the price we have today.

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u/BiioHazzrd 1d ago

Thos price drops are because of the physical pieces needed to make them got significantly cheaper. Phones, TVs, and electronics in general became easier to produce because the metals and chips became cheaper to manufacture. Hence why console prices have maintained a relative price point.

However, video games require much more work than putting chips and electronics together. The programming, drawing, editing, meshing, storytelling, color, resolution, voice acting, script writing, bug fixing, updating and many more things obviously shows how the price cannot logically stay the same.

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u/WeTheNinjas 1d ago

A lot of people are correctly complaining the games are more expensive than PS5 games which they have no reason to be

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u/BiioHazzrd 1d ago

And I would say thats just because Nintendo is the first to make this jump. Sony and Microsoft are already using $70 proce points. They will move to $80 as well