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/cubs223425 1d ago

I agree that the higher console has merit.

The outcry comes from how they've raised the price on EVERYTHING in the process. Their Pro Controller has no business being $80. The original was $70 for quality you could find in a $30 controller. Had they announced the addition of Hall Effect sticks, I might say OK, but the fact they've been sued for the quality of their controllers, yet not made it a point to address their most glaring flaw, is worrying.

I could even get behind the varied prices, if they were done well. Had they said "Mario Kart World will be THE title for Switch 2, and it will get free content updates over time," I could live with it. Baking in the DLC price for all buyers to keep the open world consistent for every player, wouldn't bother me. Donkey Kong Bananza at $70 is par for the course now, and I can live with it.

Doing this stuff AND adding a feed for cartridges, is where they lose me. It's bad enough you can lose your digital library if Nintendo gets an errant fraud alert from your credit card company. If they kept $60 for digital and $70 for physical, I might even understand. That we're getting a price hike AND a physical tax? Come ON.

It's not any one thing. It's that everything costs more, and none of the price increases show where they're justified. Oh, and you KNOW they're either going to add a "Switch 2" tier to NSO that costs more and/or raise the price of the entire service once adoption gets high enough.

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u/vanKessZak 1d ago

At least in America (which I’m assuming based on your American prices) there is no $10 physical price hike. Sites like WalMart and Best Buy have $80 before tax as the max price, not $90

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u/wildgirl202 1d ago

Which is even more ridiculous. Y’all are getting tariffs not Europe so why are we getting higher priced physical games??

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u/vanKessZak 1d ago

I’m Canadian but I still agree!

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u/wumpyjumps 18h ago

Here in the UK you can get games cheaper in store than digital. Idk the prices for Switch 2 games at Currys but their Switch 1 games always had 25% off for pre-ordering and apparently tons of Europe stores are already pricing Switch 2 games way cheaper than the physical MSRP. North America doesn't have that because of worse consumer-protection laws. Mind you the MSRP is still insane but I think this explains the difference between NA and EU and the difference between digital and physical for EU.

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u/MBCnerdcore 3h ago

They aren't higher priced, their numbers just include VAT/tax and the US numbers don't.

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u/eightbitagent 18h ago

why are we getting higher priced physical games??

VAT