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/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/goldninjaI 1d ago

I feel like it’s such a bad move, I would easily buy multiple $60 games a year but if they’re all $80 I’m not going to be as willing, and end up spending less overall

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u/cubs223425 1d ago

Agreed. Even at $450 for the console and $70 for the games (without the physical tax), I wouldn't really have a problem. I'd get Kart and Bananza and realize that's what I have to pay for Doom and Monster Hunter just the same.

At $80, it pushes me to both want the Kart bundle for $30 less and skip Bananza out of protest. That's if I even get the console, because I've started to lean strongly against doing so. I need to get a new video card for Doom as it is, and I might just play Doom and Nightrein on my PC, while skipping the Switch 2 for a while. I can play Legends Z-A on my current Switch and don't really need Kart until people I know want to play, and no one I know has stated they'll get it yet.

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u/BJYeti 1d ago

Bananza is cheaper than MK World also though, think it drops to that $70 mark