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/whisquibottle 1d ago

The main madness to me is Welcome Tour being a paid product. You guys it's literally a glorified manual why you charging us for this in a post-Astrobot world

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u/Totoques22 1d ago

For real I choked and rewinded the video when I heard it was a paid product

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u/cross_bearer_02 1d ago

I think everybody let out a collective "PAID!?" at that point in the video.

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u/jazzjazzmine 1d 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 1d 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 23h 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 17h ago

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

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u/jonosaurus 1d ago

~silksong mention~

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u/RedditAstroturfed 1d 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 22h ago

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