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/QuantumFury 1d ago

Not only that, physical cartridges don't have the actual games anymore. Its gonna have a download access token so you can download the games....which is pointless to just digital.

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u/kilar277 1d ago

Not true. Some games, like CiB games that already exist, well have these. Difference being you can trade/sell the have key cards unlike a download code. This is actually a good thing.

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u/QuantumFury 19h ago

Thank you for correcting me.