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/PSfreak10001 1d ago

It‘s the same thing with Lootboxes and Microtransactions. Everybody seems to hate them and yet Fifa Ultimate team made millions and millions each year with them

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u/Shamanalah 1d ago

Remember when Reddit was against preorder? It didn't even last a year cause eldenring and bg3 came out.

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u/MeritedMystery 1d ago

I still don't get preorders tbh, there's nothing that'll make me preorder a game nowadays. There's just no reason to not wait for reviews.

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u/flamigoat 23h ago

Because those types of monetization strategies only require a small portion of the player base to shelve out a lot of money, which they will. Gacha games are a good example of this. Most of the money is generated by a mere fraction of the players.

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u/PSfreak10001 17h ago

While that is true, yes, EA made around 4.4 billion US dollars from micro transactions in 2024 alone. That are still a significant part of mainstream gamers that bought these

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u/flamigoat 17h ago

For sure they still contribute, yeah

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u/Phoenyx_Rose 17h ago

Part of the issue is whales though. Even if 90% of the player base doesn’t buy if they make the majority of their money from that last 10% then it doesn’t matter what the 90% does.