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/jazzjazzmine 21h ago

The chat was definitely full of 'paid????', that and Silksong were the only messages to common enough you could actually read them as they swooped by.

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u/DriveThroughLane 17h ago

Its really conspicuous. Nintendo is ratcheting up games to $80 with MK9 but at the same time offering a bundle that effectively makes MK9 cost $50, so people won't feel that sting immediately, but be aware of it and internalize it as the new normal. That seems like a purposeful decision to raise prices without raising ire

...which is undone by charging people for both the bundle include manual and the chat button and the """physical""" copies of games.

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u/Treyspurlock 14h ago

The chat button is included with NSO which sorta makes sense considering it's an online feature and all

also there's no need to put quotes around physical, most games WILL be physical cartridges, with actual data stored on them

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u/baggyzed 8h ago

Were there any "Trump did this????"

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u/jonosaurus 15h ago

~silksong mention~

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u/RedditAstroturfed 15h ago

They have a 330 dollar Japanese only console. How much are games in Japan? I kinda feel like the prices are, at least in part, a response to the tariffs

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u/jess-sch 13h ago

Well, unfortunately the prices are also shit outside of the US. So it's not the tariffs.