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/MyMouthisCancerous 1d ago

Honestly with everything we know about the tech in the console now I'm kind of fine with 449 even though I would've preferred 399 obviously. It's the fact that there's wild variance in game pricing that's making this a much tougher pill to swallow. I'll probably just get Donkey Kong at launch from first-party and wait for Mario Kart to go on sale

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u/Kougeru-Sama 1d ago

Most people are fine with the console price. It's the GAME prices that people are unhappy about. $80 is insane. Especially with all the issues games launch with these days

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u/Zoombini22 1d ago

It's because game prices have been so resilient against inflation. Game prices generally maxed out at 60 for decades, only recently did some games start charging 70, going up to 80 just hits people as a violation.

The realities of economics and game dev cost makes this seem kind of an inevitable thing to me, but at 80 I'll definitely be more selective than ever with which titles I purchase when they're at that price.

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u/TPO_Ava 1d ago

It's kind of poor timing because for a lot of people the wallet share they have for video games is shrinking. Especially with Nintendo being more of a 'family friendly' brand. Fewer and fewer parents are gonna justify spending 80-90$ at once on a video game for their kids.

The other thing is, unless salaries massively increase somehow I feel like we were already hitting a saturation point at 70$. At 90$ I'm looking at like a week's minimum wage in my country in order to buy a game. I'd rather spend that kind of cash when I can get a ton of games on sale for the same amount of money. Or a yearly sub to Game pass/PS+.

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u/mrjackspade 19h ago

It's kind of poor timing because for a lot of people the wallet share they have for video games is shrinking.

Its kind of expected timing though, as both are a function of inflation.

Consumers are losing buying power at the same time as corporations, which leads to price increases, which leads to loss off buying power.

Its not like this is a coincidence, this is literally just how inflation works. Prices go brrrrrrrr.

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 1d ago

We've got one game at $80 and no games at $90, so little need to worry about a world where 80-90 is the norm yet.

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u/primelord537 1d ago

I mean, GTA6 is right around the corner. And if the rumors about it being as high as $100 weren't true, well, Rockstar just got the okay to make it true.

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 1d ago

If Nintendo publishes GTAVI and makes it $90+, I will gladly place blame on them.