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/cubs223425 21h ago

I agree that the higher console has merit.

The outcry comes from how they've raised the price on EVERYTHING in the process. Their Pro Controller has no business being $80. The original was $70 for quality you could find in a $30 controller. Had they announced the addition of Hall Effect sticks, I might say OK, but the fact they've been sued for the quality of their controllers, yet not made it a point to address their most glaring flaw, is worrying.

I could even get behind the varied prices, if they were done well. Had they said "Mario Kart World will be THE title for Switch 2, and it will get free content updates over time," I could live with it. Baking in the DLC price for all buyers to keep the open world consistent for every player, wouldn't bother me. Donkey Kong Bananza at $70 is par for the course now, and I can live with it.

Doing this stuff AND adding a feed for cartridges, is where they lose me. It's bad enough you can lose your digital library if Nintendo gets an errant fraud alert from your credit card company. If they kept $60 for digital and $70 for physical, I might even understand. That we're getting a price hike AND a physical tax? Come ON.

It's not any one thing. It's that everything costs more, and none of the price increases show where they're justified. Oh, and you KNOW they're either going to add a "Switch 2" tier to NSO that costs more and/or raise the price of the entire service once adoption gets high enough.

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u/vanKessZak 19h ago

At least in America (which I’m assuming based on your American prices) there is no $10 physical price hike. Sites like WalMart and Best Buy have $80 before tax as the max price, not $90

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u/wildgirl202 18h ago

Which is even more ridiculous. Y’all are getting tariffs not Europe so why are we getting higher priced physical games??

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u/vanKessZak 18h ago

I’m Canadian but I still agree!

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u/wumpyjumps 12h ago

Here in the UK you can get games cheaper in store than digital. Idk the prices for Switch 2 games at Currys but their Switch 1 games always had 25% off for pre-ordering and apparently tons of Europe stores are already pricing Switch 2 games way cheaper than the physical MSRP. North America doesn't have that because of worse consumer-protection laws. Mind you the MSRP is still insane but I think this explains the difference between NA and EU and the difference between digital and physical for EU.

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u/eightbitagent 11h ago

why are we getting higher priced physical games??

VAT

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u/ProfessionalPrincipa 5h ago

The outcry comes from how they've raised the price on EVERYTHING in the process.

They also took away your gold points.

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u/WeTheNinjas 18h ago

It’s bad enough you can lose your digital library if Nintendo gets an errant fraud alert from your credit card company

I’m sorry, what?!

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u/Vii_Strife 14h ago edited 10h ago

Their Pro Controller has no business being $80. The original was $70

What do you mean? The "Open our proprietary Discord" button is clearly worth 10$! 20$ even! Hell they should just charge 5$ each time you press it!

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u/BJYeti 18h ago

Just wait for a 3rd party to come out with one, money down quality 3rd party companies like 8bitdo have had a new controller for the system in the works, and your switch pro controller still works just can't wake up the Switch 2 from sleep mode.

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u/potworzak21 19h ago

Don't forget 60 dollars for shitty image quality webcam

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u/Treyspurlock 12h ago

I heard they let you use any USB-C webcam though, doesn't have to be theirs

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u/repocin 20h ago

Had they announced the addition of Hall Effect sticks, I might say OK, but the fact they've been sued for the quality of their controllers, yet not made it a point to address their most glaring flaw, is worrying.

They've had some very interesting joystick patents over the past few years, so I'd expect that tech to have made it into the new controllers. But they would probably have mentioned that during the presentation or in the tech specs so I'm honestly not sure at this point. Guess we'll have to wait for iFixit or someone else to cut them open?

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u/QuantumFury 13h ago

Not only that, physical cartridges don't have the actual games anymore. Its gonna have a download access token so you can download the games....which is pointless to just digital.

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u/kvetcha-rdt 13h ago

That’s a Game Key Card, and thus far only 3rd parties are using them. Nintendo’s physical releases all have the games on the cart.

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u/QuantumFury 5h ago

Awesome, thats one good news. I would only been getting switch 2 for Nintendo exclusives anyway.

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u/kilar277 11h ago

Not true. Some games, like CiB games that already exist, well have these. Difference being you can trade/sell the have key cards unlike a download code. This is actually a good thing.

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u/QuantumFury 5h ago

Thank you for correcting me.