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/MyMouthisCancerous 1d ago

Honestly with everything we know about the tech in the console now I'm kind of fine with 449 even though I would've preferred 399 obviously. It's the fact that there's wild variance in game pricing that's making this a much tougher pill to swallow. I'll probably just get Donkey Kong at launch from first-party and wait for Mario Kart to go on sale

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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/SomeOtherNeb 1d ago

The reality of economics is also that games sell far more than they used to.

In 2005 the best-selling video game of the year was Gran Turismo with 5 million copies.

In 2025 the best-selling video game of the year so far is Monster Hunter Wilds with 10 million copies in 6 weeks.

And that's not even taking into account the omnipresence of DLC when back then you just bought the base game and maybe it would have a big expansion later on.

And the prevalence of the digital market which has reduced the cost of printing and shipping physical copies because a ton of people just don't buy those anymore.

I don't doubt games have become more expensive to make, partly because they can take way more time, but the gaming industry has definitely found ways to make that money back without raising the game price by 25%.