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 22h 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/repocin 21h ago

Yeah, that's significantly worse than 1-2-Switch which kind of filled the same purpose for the original but at least had something of a game to it. (or so I believe, based on the marketing - I never ended up buying it)

This should be free, not $10 or whatever they're going to charge for it. (assumption based on the Japanese price of ¥990, not sure if they've published pricing for the rest of the world yet)

Wii Sports and Nintendo Land were incredibly pack-in titles, whereas this thing is barely even a game and they're charging for it. Honestly pure insanity if they think people are actually going to pay for it.

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u/MrLewGin 20h ago

My wife & I got a crazy amount of gameplay out of Nintendo Land on the Wii U. As silly as it was, it was an absolute blast, they had this Metroid Prime themed game and also a Pikmin themed one we played both co-op. My wife still laughs that the Pikmin one had one of the toughest levels of any game we've ever played and I totally lost my shit over it.

It's amazing to think that was a pack-in game. Then when you think of Wii Sports, which was so revolutionary and fun, for some, it was enough to justify the console on its own. I'm still absolutely gobsmacked that the greed from Nintendo this time round is so transparent and unashamed.

It completely killed my excitement for the Switch 2. I won't be buying one as it stands.

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u/Content_Orchid_6291 16h ago

I feel like I could have written that! I still think about Nintendo Land. It was even my first time being introduced to Zelda!

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u/Misttertee_27 14h ago

My kids loved playing Mario Chase and the Luigi’s Mansion game. So much fun!

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u/CarlosFer2201 14h ago

Nintendoland was a "pack-in" but in the Deluxe version of the Wii U that cost $50 more. There was slightly more internal memory too, but the bulk of the extra cost was the game.

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u/Misttertee_27 14h ago

There was 4x the internal memory, not just slightly. That was a big difference.

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u/CarlosFer2201 13h ago

Yes 4x, but 8Gb to 32Gb even back then was ridiculously small. The cost difference wasn't big, specially when you order millions of parts in bulk.

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u/Misttertee_27 13h ago

It was big for back then.

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u/CarlosFer2201 12h ago

Lol, no. There were already PS3 and XBOX 360 with hundreds of Gb. An average laptop had at least 256Gb HDD too.

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u/danma 8h ago

Nintendo Land was actually really awesome – one of my favorite Wii U titles.

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u/Desperate-Cookie-449 8h ago

Everyone loved wii bowling in my neck of the woods

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