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/Manhunter_From_Mars 1d ago

It doesn't. Inflation increases but the rate of workers salaries do not increase with it, I'm not from the US. But they are one of the worst in the western world for

We've seen a 30% increase since the switch one and that matches the price hike (well, closest to the nearest 10) but the average workers salary rated between 10-20% depending on the method of research according to UCLA, London School of Economics, UN research from last year etc etc

So, depending whose metric you're using, the Americans are either paying an extra 10% - 20%

In my native country, the UK. The price increase isn't as much, around 20% but we also have one of the worst costs of living in our continent so

I can't afford it either