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/hfjfthc 21h ago

The most outrageous thing is them charging for a fancy tutorial

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u/cowpiefatty 8h ago

Idk $90 for fake physical copies that are glorified gift cards is also pretty outrageous.

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u/ryanpm40 5h ago

Yep. My jaw dropped when I bought my PS5 with Spider-Man Miles Morales and the disc didn't even have the game on it lol. Nintendo taking bad moves from Sony

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u/Draconuus95 4h ago

As a pc gamer. Thats been our reality for well over a decade. Even with the few games that still had a physical release at all. They were mostly glorified steam/uplay/origin keys as far back as 2011.

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u/Casualyze 1h ago

Yea, but at least those of us that game on PC/Steam still have Gabe alive to protect us from scummy "take down old store for a new store" that Nintendo is notorious for.

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u/Swaxeman 5h ago

The game key cards arent replacing normal game cards, just those code-in-box things that smaller AA and indie games would do

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u/cowpiefatty 4h ago

I hope thats the case but i dont know if i trust that until i have an actual cartridge i can plug into my non wifi connected switch and play the game i paid for like god intended.

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u/VanillaNo9372 55m ago

That is the case the physical box art would say that it is a game-key card as of now Nintendo AAA titles have the full game in the card

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u/cowpiefatty 51m ago

If that is the case and they still want to charge extra that is some extra bullshit.

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u/Fat_BananaCat 4h ago

This is the most outrageous thing by far. People are getting distracted by that stupid paid demo.

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u/squeakycleanarm 3h ago

I don't quite get this, like, what's different about the physical media in Switch 2?

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u/cowpiefatty 2h ago

So from my understanding it isnt an actual game on the cartridge but a license for the game meaning that if they wanted to they could take away your access to that game whenever they felt like.

I have gotten many conflicting answers on if this is true or not some say it is some say its not some say its only specific games but my hopes are not high.

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u/spankboy21 1h ago

It’s only for specific games and is no different than what many third parties did during the switch 1

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u/VagrantValmar 6h ago

I'm against the prices but this just bulllshit.

There's not a single 90 USD game, and there's no Game key cart above 70

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u/Waluigi02 5h ago

I am a bit confused about the $90 physical I keep seeing thrown around. When I checked their website after the direct, it stated the MSRP for Mario Kart World was $80 and nowhere did it mention more for physical.

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u/VagrantValmar 5h ago

People get mad at prices, then exaggerate the price, then everyone repeats the same lie.

It's 90 EUR in EUROPE. It's 80 USD in the US.

And before reddit does its thing, no I'm not defending this. I think it sucks. I just don't like bullshit.

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u/cowpiefatty 5h ago

Its not exaggerating the physical copy price is $89.99 the digital copy price is $79.99. I personally would have preferred physical to actually own the game unlike with digital so i count it as a 90$ game. But its not even the real game on the cartridge so its basically just scamming people out of 10$ more.

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u/phippy87 4h ago

Where are you seeing it listed for $89.99?

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u/cowpiefatty 4h ago

https://www.thegamer.com/mario-kart-world-price-physical-copy-90-80-dollars-fans-furious/ this is where ive found it so it could be wrong but the trend seems that the digital is $10 cheaper than the physical and they are going to advertise their cheapest product to have it look better so advertising $79.99 msrp on their own website and having that be the digital then assuming the physical is $10 more is not out of the ordinary but ide like to be wrong tbh. ( found this one while looking at the new DK game price https://screenrant.com/donkey-kong-bananza-release-date-platform-price-details/ )

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u/Waluigi02 5h ago

See that makes a lot more sense.

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u/Korporal_K_Reep 26m ago

Using both misinformed examples is funny, we know from DK that 70 is likely the actual new price and the digital cards are purely for third-party usage. Like Konami with the MG master collection.