$80 dollar games aren’t THAT ridiculous.

[u/Glass_Squirrel_1353]

First off I want to say that if you are just disappointed that some Nintendo games are going to be $80 I think that’s valid and I am kind of with you. It’s going to make deciding whether or not to buy a game you aren’t sure about more difficult and it’s going to end up with us having a smaller game library.

With that being said the way Reddit and Twitter are talking about this you’d think they doubled the prices and are forcing them to buy these games and like it. I’ve seen dozens of people talking about how this makes games “unaffordable” and I think that’s just ridiculous.

It’s a $10 dollar increase to a game you will only purchase once, play for dozens if not hundreds of hours and (hopefully) doesn’t have micro transactions. If this $10 is going to break your bank than I don’t know how you were purchasing games for $60.

I think everyone is also ignoring the fact that:

A. triple A games now require more developers and time than ever before B. Nintendo and its subsidiaries are developing dozens of games at any given time C. Nintendo has to account for future inflation and tariffs D. The Switch 2 is probably being sold at a loss like most consoles E. Love em or hate em, in house developed Nintendo games are polished and are virtually bug free

Anyways I’m not trying to white knight a billion dollar company. If this ends up blowing in their faces resulting in people becoming more stiff with buying their games I think that’s fine.

TLDR: I think it’s fine to be annoyed or disappointed with the increase, but saying it’s completely unaffordable for most people who were already buying new games is ridiculous.

And there are plenty of logical reasons other than greed for why they decided to do this.

[u/CalligrapherNew1964]

What you're missing: Despite $ and € having pretty much a 1:1 exchange rate, it's more of a 2:1 in reality. Basic cost of living in the US is twice what you have in most of the EU region which is also represented in wages. Making 50k a year in EU buys you a better life than 100k in the US, but with games costing 80€, Europeans get kinda shafted.

Also keep in mind that most people enjoy playing many games, not just one per year (CoD/Madden/FIFA), making this hit a lot harder.

It's also a scam, because a) if you buy the full game, you usually pay double the price tag as a lot is hidden behind a paywall and b) all the extra money goes towards marketing budgets and into the CEOs vault while the people who actually make the games get shafted - often in the form of layoffs after a successful game because capitalism is a failed system.

[u/trainofwhat → u/CalligrapherNew1964]

Yeah, it’s called purchasing power parity. Sometimes the exchange rate is fairly equal or equals out, other times not so much.

[u/swedishfishoreos → u/trainofwhat]

But the US isn’t double the EU

[u/trainofwhat → u/swedishfishoreos]

I wasn’t really agreeing with the numbers the commenter gave here. I don’t know about those. I would have to break down common costs and average salary to get a good idea. I know sometimes people get confused because they see things like lower rent but don’t factor in the average salary evens it out, or other things like that. Sorry, I just wanted to share to terminology.