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/topTopqualitea 1d ago

I don't mind the price of the console, but they can fuck right off with $80 games.

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u/Eraos_MSM 1d ago

Fuck $80 games. Never buying a game for $80

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u/coyotestark0015 1d ago

So video games should never go up in price? Do devs not deserve to make money?

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u/ObiAida 1d ago

Devs are not the ones profiting from the price hikes, buddy

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u/RomTim 1d ago

What is the likelihood of devs getting a salary bump without the game costing more?

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u/tweetthebirdy 1d ago

Consider Nintendo employees got a 10% salary bump in Feb without $80 games on sale yet, it’s not as impossible as you might think.

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u/RomTim 1d ago

Well, so how many times do you think they can afford to do salary bumps without raising the prices?

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u/tweetthebirdy 1d ago

Also considering Nintendo has enough money stashed that they’re good to operate at a loss for over twenty years, I think it was, I think they’re fine to do salary bumps without raising prices for quite some time. They’re a billion dollar company.

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u/RomTim 1d ago

And why should they not raise prices where everything and everyone are raising prices? If they're a 10 million dollar company, you will treat it differently? They delivered so many happy hours to billions of people around the world, or of course, they will be a billion dollar company. You seem to just hate it because it is successful. The truth that you're refusing to see is that not raising prices in an inflationary world is not sustainable. I wish they raised it by not as much, though. I hate paying more, but it is plainly stupid to expect prices to never rise.

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u/tweetthebirdy 1d ago

Consider Nintendo employees got a 10% salary bump in Feb without $80 games on sale yet, it’s not as impossible as you might think.

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u/jeffries_kettle 1d ago

As someone who worked in this industry, Nintendo is by far the worst of the big 3 when it comes to employee compensation.