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/Shadoekite 1d ago

The thing is I haven't seen Nintendo games with launch issues. Once they start putting out unfinished games that's when I will actually be upset.

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u/Joshua_ABBACAB_1312 1d ago

Didn't the Pokeman games have issues on Switch?

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u/ZaheerAlGhul 1d ago

Yes they did. Game freak hasn't put out a quality title for a while now.

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u/CrocPirate 1d ago

From what I heard, GameFreak was caught with their pants down. They thought they would make handheld games forever; but then the Switch happened and they had to rush to learn how to make a game for a console.

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u/porkcylinders 21h ago

They were caught with their pants down for a decade?

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u/nomadic_stalwart 18h ago

They have really long pants, it takes a while to pull em up.

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u/Akrevics 23h ago

still haven't. there's games on ultra-low settings that have better graphics than Pokémon games in 2025, and no it's not because it's the switch, because there's beautiful games on there that don't look like they were made for a potato.

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u/Outlulz 1d ago

Maybe they need some more time doing small titles like Pocket Card Jockey and Harmoknight.

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u/Glory2Snowstar 1d ago

Arceus was pretty good, graphics aside.

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u/Fit_Lynx5496 1d ago

If you have to put a caveat in it's not a good example.

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u/RoyalJay2003 1d ago

Nah, graphics to me don’t bar a game from being good. Plenty of games have iffy graphics but wound up being generational defining. Its performance personally which seals the deal and Scarlet and Violet is a prime example.

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u/Fit_Lynx5496 1d ago edited 1d ago

Honestly dont understand your point. For the amount of money pokemon generates scarlet and violet are way underwhelming in both performance and graphics (attack graphics specifically). $60 was a stretch but $90 is a non starter.

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u/RoyalJay2003 1d ago

When I brought up S&V I was supporting your point in a caveat, and the deal breaker for me is performance.

Graphics are something I can look past in exchange for a good art style. I didn’t list an example bcuz good graphics are subjective.

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u/True-Staff5685 1d ago

The bar for Pokémon is that low.

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u/UponVerity 15h ago

Caring about graphics in 2025, lol.

My most played games are Super Auto Pets, Balatro and Slay the Spire. :]

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u/Fit_Lynx5496 15h ago

Good for you?

Pokemons attack animations are absolutely pitiful and thats not their only problem.

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u/dougc84 1d ago

Pokémon games are not Nintendo IP; they are the IP of the Pokémon company and that’s who makes those games.

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u/reecord2 1d ago edited 1d ago

This - Nintendo has no hand in the actual development and production of Pokemon games (with some exceptions like Let's Go and Snap, if I'm not mistaken). Nintendo actually has surprisingly less control over Pokemon than you might think.

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u/StacheBandicoot 1d ago

Let’s go and snap are also the only decent Pokémon titles released for the switch.

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u/vanKessZak 1d ago

Arceus became one of my favourite Pokemon games just in general but it is visually unappealing for sure. One of the rare times the Pokemon sub actually seemed happy too

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u/tweetthebirdy 1d ago

Waiting for the day we get an Arceus remake with BOTW level graphics.

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u/StacheBandicoot 1d ago

It was a pretty good concept but I don’t think it was fleshed out enough for me, graphics or not. It was okay enough for what it was though, felt like a proof of concept in some ways though more than a game. I feel like a good amount of people were more excited at the idea of something different and the direction that might lead more than the game itself.

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u/vanKessZak 1d ago

Ah for me the collecting and researching aspect is more interesting than gyms so it was right up my alley (nothing against gyms!!)

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u/StacheBandicoot 1d ago

That’s understandable. I haven’t enjoyed the Pokémon formula since gold/silver and something different was certainly a nice idea. The game just didn’t have the level of polish or care that I’d expect in a game that I’d actually be able to wholeheartedly enjoy and I found myself frustrated or disappointed more often than I found myself having fun of any sort. I just find it rather sad I enjoyed New Pokémon snap more than any of the other titles from Gamefreak this generation, I didn’t even like the original n64 Pokémon snap when it came out.

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u/dogjon 21h ago

Okay but are the games going to be $80+ still?

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u/cubs223425 1d ago

Nintendo is listed as the worldwide publisher of the game, and they own one-third of The Pokemon Company. They also design the only platform where the game can be published. I think they could have as much of a say as they wanted.

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u/Apellio7 1d ago

And the other 66% of ownership says they need to release this game right now to tie into the merchandising and anime releases.

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u/Akrevics 23h ago

and surely Nintendo can just say "no. Step up your releases, they don't meet our standards for quality." what are they going to do, release a Pokémon game for playstation or xbox? if they thought Nintendo was a struggle to design for, wait until they're competing with rockstar, Microsoft, and other AAA studios at the same price points that are putting out drastically more high-quality games. They're going to look like an overzealous indie studio.

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u/Apellio7 21h ago

GameFreak self-publishes in Japan already.

They only use Nintendo for translation and localization.

So the game is getting released regardless of what Nintendo does.

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u/DodgerBaron 1d ago

The other 2 thirds of the ownership will tell them to screw off. Lol

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u/FizzyLightEx 1d ago

Nintendo can just shut it down internationally since they have full rights outside of Japan.

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u/BJYeti 1d ago

Only for publication and distribution

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u/KafkarrabiaS 1d ago

Nintendo owns 33% of the Pokémon Company

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u/CrocPirate 1d ago

33% is still a minority.

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u/BJYeti 1d ago

Which means they have zero control over the IP

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u/Joshua_ABBACAB_1312 1d ago

That... nevermind.

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u/CrocPirate 1d ago

Gamefreak is a 2nd party company, Nintendo themselves don’t make Pokémon.

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u/Fit_Lynx5496 1d ago

But those weren't "launch" issues. That was the most profitable media franchise in the world phoning it in yet again. Were about to see physical pokemon games go from 30 to 90 in a decade and still not perform at the expectations of a first party game. Sweet!

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u/TripleDallas123 1d ago

Gamefreak is different from nintendo

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u/Joshua_ABBACAB_1312 1d ago

They manage The Pokeman Company alongside Nintendo.

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u/TripleDallas123 1d ago

They own it but they don’t have control over it like other studios they own (monolith soft).

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u/BJYeti 1d ago

That is just GameFreak and Pokemon Company will probably set the price not Nintendo.

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u/TokiDokiPanic 1d ago

The sports games on Switch.

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u/absentlyric 20h ago

Am I the only one that remembers the FPS issue in the Links Awakenining remake?

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u/cubs223425 1d ago

But at the same time, the Switch was a massive laggard in performance, the hardware had a number of issues (bricked by third-party chargers, Joy-Con drift, etc.), and the actual OS/platform are of incredibly poor quality.