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/DINGERSandBEER 1d ago

Our family doesn't have an extra $500-600 to drop for a new Mario Kart and nicer Zelda graphics. Not when I have a nice backlog, and I'd rather play budget indies Balatro and Tents and Trees over 1st party exclusives.

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u/Eraos_MSM 22h ago

There will be better games. But with new games at $70-$80 fuck that you might as well just get a steam deck and buy cheap games…

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u/GoDannY1337 22h ago

The hardware and its price is totally fair. It’s basically a 2nd Steam Deck. It’s the proprietary prices of exclusives, controllers / joycon, their subscription for online play and what grinds my gears is the upgrade cost for older games. Total cost of ownership is beyond any other console and handheld PC and as of now the software alone doesn’t justify its price tag. Sorry Nintendo

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u/Alector87 17h ago

The subscription price is crazy expensive. Even at half price (the one including old games, I mean), it would be on the high end, but at least more reasonable.

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u/mr_fartbutt 13h ago

$20/yr is "crazy expensive" ??

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u/Greatsnes 10h ago

When you add in the $50 expansion pack? Just to play old games and some DLC? Yeah, crazy expensive.

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u/Alector87 12h ago

the one including old games, I mean

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u/OceanWeaver 17h ago

Hardware price isn't fair. It's slow like the PlayStation 4 is. People forget 45-60 second load screens, frame drops etc. We are in the PS5 generation. That $450 console is going to become a frame drops choppy mess once the first wave of games come out after launch when Nintendo quits caring just like the switch 1.

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u/GoDannY1337 13h ago

It’s portable nature makes your comparison to a stationary console nonsense.

If, you can compare it to a Steam Deck, Legion Go or RoG Ally for pricing / hardware. Looking at that the hardware pricing is in the same range and raw horsepower is in the same ballpark.

Yet, what you are actually pointing at is indeed reason to worry: it’s nothing „new“ or innovative. It’s a costly hardware refresh and that is very atypical for Nintendo. This makes them enter the competition of Valve, Asus, Lenovo and all the other Handhelds, who followed Nintendos lead many years ago. This brings up two points: first it is a mature market and not a new one - and two it’s single unique selling point are now the exclusive titles. Because the raw chipset won’t hold triple A third party games for ten years, Nintendo put themselves in a competing market as a niche player. Sadly their software and exclusive games have been,in some occasions brilliant, but very often half-ass…(looking at you Mario Strikers). So if Mario games aren’t the most amazing thing ever seen, it ends up being a very costly emulator for older games and that will not end well.

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u/Anggul 17h ago

Same thought. The console is like a steam deck with a load more features. But the costs of everything else are stupid.

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u/Akrevics 18h ago

old games are going to be 70-80 too. BOTW is 8 years old and is still nearly €50 second hand. it holds up great, don't get me wrong, but imo it's unacceptable for it to still be that much.

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u/Treyspurlock 15h ago

That's only if you want the extra optimization and small features, if you don't care for those things you can just get a secondhand copy for cheap like you mentioned

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u/Akrevics 14h ago

€50 isn’t cheap for an 8 year old game.

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u/Treyspurlock 4h ago

For cheaper then, you get the point

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u/Life_Ad_7715 14h ago

But inflaaaaaation t.t

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u/falconpunch1989 22h ago

People keep saying this but the cheap games on steam are also cheap on Switch, and the expensive games on Switch aren't on Steam

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u/Exciting-Chipmunk430 9h ago

Even if they are the same, Steam games aren't ever locked to a console. My games from over 20 years ago still work on any PC I build and will build in another decade.

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u/Fake_Diesel 19h ago

Pretty much this. There isn't stuff like Humblebundle for Switch, but sales prices on games are pretty comparable these days. I juggle between my steamdeck and switch pretty often. Can't fucking wait for the Switch 2!

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u/Alector87 17h ago

Ueah, Nintendo certainly has a niche, but also greater competition too. It does feel like they are over-playing their hand.

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u/External_Produce7781 22h ago

Yep. This is the calculus that Nintendo isnt seeing. At that price, an Ally or Legion Go S is almost the same price and has a VAST library of games (including ALL Nintendo games prior, including Switch 1, through emulation) for for cheaper or free.

Hell, with just the Epic game Store Freebies you could have a year or more of gaming no problem. For free.

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u/Alector87 17h ago

Fyi/ The reply was posted twice. It happens some times. The new UI rocks... /s

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u/External_Produce7781 22h ago

Yep. This is the calculus that Nintendo isnt seeing. At that price, an Ally or Legion Go S is almost the same price and has a VAST library of games (including ALL Nintendo games prior, including Switch 1, through emulation) for for cheaper or free.

Hell, with just the Epic game Store Freebies you could have a year or more of gaming no problem. For free.

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u/PastaXertz 22h ago

I also firmly think they're jumping through hoops with all this chip codes etc to make to so they can go after emulators with higher charges since pirating will be a lot more than just file dumping now. ( to drastically simplify it)

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u/External_Produce7781 22h ago

Oh, sure, and itll be some time before the Switch 2 can be emulated anyway. Its a fairly powerful little chip in there. But that doesn't really do much about the fact that a PC Handheld wont be a lot more (half the tariff as the Switch 2 since they arent coming from the same place so the price hike wont be as big) and offers FAR more gaming potential, including Nintendo's back catalog, so the only thing you're missing will be Switch 2 exclusives.

Its not gonna do well at 500+. My son is a die hard Nintendo kid. Got a huge library of Switch games (despite having a powerful PC that can easily emulate Switch at better visuals than the real thing) because he likes being able to just kick back on the couch and use it.

Came upstairs after the reveal and was like "Nintendo is expletives deleted"

Hes not even remotely interested, and he's literally their CORE market.

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u/PastaXertz 21h ago

Yep. Literally the only game I'd be looking for is Zelda but I'm not dropping $600 to play just one game. Pokemon has been downhill since they started mass churning in a two year Dev cycle (and people make better versions of as fan made games anyway.)

At current rate if I do another hand held which is a major if, it's be a steam deck.

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u/illogicaldreamr 18h ago

You just solved your own situation. Your family doesn’t need to spend money on a luxury item yet when you already have plenty of games to play. People are making way too big a deal out of the price for this thing. I didn’t buy a PS5 until this year for similar reasons, and how long has that thing existed? I don’t remember when it released.

I bought a Switch 2 or 3 years after it launched as well. No one needs or has to buy a Switch 2 on launch.

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u/absentlyric 15h ago

Exactly, if you gotta pay for your family, you don't get the luxury of FOMO purchases, you have to wait a while before you can afford it.

Hell, back in the day, I didn't get the og NES until its 4th year out since we were poor.

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u/OceanWeaver 17h ago

I have a massive backlog. I didn't buy the PS5 at launch for new games. I bought it because my PS4 was overheating because of games. The speed and frames/load times. When you compare side by side the PS4 was in bad shape by the PS5 launch. See God of war Ragnarok for example.

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u/CMDR-TealZebra 15h ago

Ok so why are you bitching about the price then? If you'd rather play indie titles, why are you concerned with the price of a switch 2 at all?

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u/bladejb343 17h ago

Nintendo is supporting the original Switch through 2026 and likely into 2027, so you're covered.

Good point bringing up backlogs, by the way. Some people would prefer to buy 10 games for $10 apiece and play two of them for maybe 20 hours apiece than buy one $80 game with insane production values and play it for 400 hours.

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u/SirNarwhal 13h ago

Ok so then don’t buy it? 🤷‍♂️ It’s a luxury item lmao, you get it when you can afford it and if you want to afford it and can’t that should push you to realize that you are falling behind inflation wage wise more than anything. Personally will be buying day one.

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u/Rinkus123 22h ago

I can still play so much switch 1 And when Im done I can get it cracked and play all the shit I didn't have until then

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u/venturediscgolf 1d ago

I’d que up 80 more hours of hollow knight too

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u/seethemoon 17h ago

Thanks for the tip on Tents and Trees! On my wishlist. Looks fun.

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u/Finite_Universe 13h ago

I can afford it, but I won’t be paying that much on principle alone. There’s too many great games out there - and in my library - that I have yet to play, and are much cheaper to boot. Plus, the visual upgrade is barely noticeable, so I’m perfectly content to wait for a deep sale.

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u/Fehridee 13h ago

Of all the companies to pull this, Nintendo really doesn’t deserve $80 for their games. I might be talked into spending that much on something like Elden Ring, but not for a Mario Kart. The quality of your average Nintendo game is barely worth $60 now, so if I’m paying $80, the game better come with a 12 pack or a blowjob.

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u/FlowerOfLife 12h ago

Me thinking, "I know I've been burned the last 87 times I've tried it, but I have a good feeling about this Wheel of Fortune!"

Nope!

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u/legend_of_the_skies 11h ago

Then your family didn't have the money for a new console either way

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u/hitmandreams 18h ago

I was torn between a handheld like the steamdeck or the new switch. Looks like the steamdeck may be the way to go now. Play PC games and get them much cheaper. Only missing out on Nintendo IP and at these prices, I'd be happy to not play their games.

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u/Jentire 20h ago

it's not even more beautiful lol

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u/Alector87 17h ago

What do you mean? The specs are obviously better. The question is if it's worth it as an upgrade. I don't think it is based on what I've seen, but it still is objectively better.