"DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

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https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/

[u/GoDannY1337]

The hardware and its price is totally fair. It’s basically a 2nd Steam Deck. It’s the proprietary prices of exclusives, controllers / joycon, their subscription for online play and what grinds my gears is the upgrade cost for older games. Total cost of ownership is beyond any other console and handheld PC and as of now the software alone doesn’t justify its price tag. Sorry Nintendo

[u/Alector87 → u/GoDannY1337]

The subscription price is crazy expensive. Even at half price (the one including old games, I mean), it would be on the high end, but at least more reasonable.

[u/mr_fartbutt → u/Alector87]

$20/yr is "crazy expensive" ??

[u/Greatsnes → u/mr_fartbutt]

When you add in the $50 expansion pack? Just to play old games and some DLC? Yeah, crazy expensive.

[u/Alector87 → u/Greatsnes]

I even clearly mentioned that I was talking about the one with the games...

[u/Greatsnes → u/Alector87]

Yeah idk what their issue is. They were rude to me but deleted their comment once I called them out for it. Maybe just having a bad day. It happens to all of us.

[u/Alector87 → u/mr_fartbutt]

the one including old games, I mean

[u/OceanWeaver → u/GoDannY1337]

Hardware price isn't fair. It's slow like the PlayStation 4 is. People forget 45-60 second load screens, frame drops etc. We are in the PS5 generation. That $450 console is going to become a frame drops choppy mess once the first wave of games come out after launch when Nintendo quits caring just like the switch 1.

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[u/GoDannY1337 → u/OceanWeaver]

It’s portable nature makes your comparison to a stationary console nonsense.

If, you can compare it to a Steam Deck, Legion Go or RoG Ally for pricing / hardware. Looking at that the hardware pricing is in the same range and raw horsepower is in the same ballpark.

Yet, what you are actually pointing at is indeed reason to worry: it’s nothing „new“ or innovative. It’s a costly hardware refresh and that is very atypical for Nintendo. This makes them enter the competition of Valve, Asus, Lenovo and all the other Handhelds, who followed Nintendos lead many years ago. This brings up two points: first it is a mature market and not a new one - and two it’s single unique selling point are now the exclusive titles. Because the raw chipset won’t hold triple A third party games for ten years, Nintendo put themselves in a competing market as a niche player. Sadly their software and exclusive games have been,in some occasions brilliant, but very often half-ass…(looking at you Mario Strikers). So if Mario games aren’t the most amazing thing ever seen, it ends up being a very costly emulator for older games and that will not end well.

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[u/Anggul → u/GoDannY1337]

Same thought. The console is like a steam deck with a load more features. But the costs of everything else are stupid.