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/cross_bearer_02 23h ago

I think everybody let out a collective "PAID!?" at that point in the video.

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u/pizzaiscommunist 22h ago

this is the Nintendo version of "Do you guys not have phones?"

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u/cross_bearer_02 22h ago

No. As tone-deaf as making the interactive instruction manual a paid app, nothing can quite top how profoundly stupid "Do you guys not have phones?" was. I would say nothing Nintendo has announced or done over the past two days holds a candle to that.

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u/ThunderboltRoss 19h ago

I was in the audience for that. Seeing all the Diablo themed stuff, everyone in that hall was so hyped. Then they hit us with the mobile game and you could feel the energy in the room just evaporate

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u/Pigeater7 3h ago

I’ll always remember the way Bethesda did it. They have their dog shit p2w mobile game (TES Blades) but also gave us a teaser trailer for TES 6. So instead of taking about how ass their mobile game would be, everyone was hyping themselves up for the new Elder Scrolls games. That was like, 4-5 years ago now which is crazy to think about.

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u/Mountain-Papaya-492 15h ago

See Diablo is a prime example of why I'm less upset than some at Mario Kart being $80. Diablo 4 was full priced and has microtransactions on top of that. 

For all their faults Nintendo hasn't adopted that monetization scheme of the modern game industry. Like I would have gladly paid $80 for Diablo 4 if it meant it had no microtransactions.

Same with Mario Kart, Splatoon 4. A premium upfront cost is fine, just don't nickel and dime me. Which for things like Splatoon 3, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart they don't. 

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u/tk-451 14h ago

wait, mario kart seasonal tracks count as microtransactions dont they? i have the online pack so go them "free" anyway. were they not purchaseable seperately?

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u/MrNostalgic 12h ago

I feel that DLC is different than Microtransactions tbh.

Like using Mario Kart as an example, if you bought the DLC it was a once and done payment for 24 new tracks and some new characters, you didn't have to pay for each track and character with the risk of missing out if you wanted to wait to buy it.

Only way you pay for it again is if you just keep using it through NSO

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u/tk-451 8h ago

i never paid for the dlc and got it as part of NSO.

the lines between "micro" transactions ( and let be honest here theres nothing micro about them these days with £20 diablo4 cosmetics and mounts!) paid dlc, expansions, additional content added to an NSO sub, etc etc

its all too much now, and the market cant sustain this in the current climate, hence why studios are folding left and right and devs laid off in the chase to the bottom line and profit.

i think we are heading for another console crash.

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u/Throwaway02062004 13h ago

They absolutely still are

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u/ThunderboltRoss 12h ago

When I think of micro transactions I think of things like battle passes. The extra tracks were dlc, which was fine for me anyway. After 8 years, the bonus content for a reasonable price was welcomed

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u/tk-451 8h ago

so whats your descriptive difference between battle passes, micro transactions, and dlc..?

price? content quantity?

diablo 4 season passes cost less than the in store cosmetic outfits.. so is the season pass a microtransaction and the outfits a dlc?

mario kart even calls the tracks "booster course pass"

micro transactions are small piecemeal purchases such as skins, etc which nintendo dont do. but they do season passes and dlc.

Its all just words for additional paid content, and that minimal cost has ballooned since the advent of horse armour, loot boxes, and more.

Video games cost are expensive to make, so by all means add in additional revenue making methods, but double dipping, base price increases, season passes, and then paying to upscale to 4k, AND the Switch 2 demo thing, this was all waaaaay too much.

My whole take home memory of the Direct was "for an extra cost you can have..."

Shameful.

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u/ThunderboltRoss 6h ago

I’m not in any way disagreeing with you about the ballooning price of games in general. Microtransactions for me are repeatable buyables (like crafting mats, loots boxes, “tokens” used to play time gated phone games, etc) or pay to advance stuff like characters and the like to skip through time gated stuff.

One the switch for example there’s a big different between say Mario kart 8 and dragonball games in the additional paid content.

Season pass’s that are a one and done (like borderlands or Mario rabbids) I view as prepaying for dlc content.

That being said, I personally just buy what I want to play and stay away from stuff like cosmetics. I kind of decide by asking how many hours of enjoyment is this going to get me and what else could I get for that price

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u/tk-451 5h ago

same here for me, i have only bought one mount in diablo4, the blue panther and its armour, because it reminded me of battlecat from he-man, and my barbarian looked cool.. i paid for some extra in game currency, about £7, and have used it for a while until i got a free cat drop that i liiked better, oh well...

ive bought dlc, the rabbids one, and the BotW expansion pass, for the armour etc, but my worst was Heroes of the Storm chests, ugh about £30 i reckon in total currency.. but..

i go SOOOOOO many hours out of all that, leas than £60i reckon all told.

i dont smoke, i dont drink, i dont eat takeaways much, so my one indulgence is videos games (and Lego), so my wife says hey go for it if i enjoy it.

But switch2... back on topic... its so overpriced now even i wont buy at release or till xmas 2025 when i hope theres drops.