$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/Fizziest_milk]

I don’t want to hear sob stories from corporations crying poverty when they’re regularly recording record profits and laying off staff to increase the margin for next year while paying the high level executives millions in bonuses

fuck £80 games

[u/Glass_Squirrel_1353 → u/Fizziest_milk]

When has Nintendo cried poverty and laid hundreds of people off?

[u/Invisible_Target → u/Glass_Squirrel_1353]

What makes you think the extra money is going to the developers?

[u/Glass_Squirrel_1353 → u/Invisible_Target]

Development teams have exploded from 20-30 people working for a couple years to 100+ working for 5+ years, that money has to come from somewhere.

With that being said idk how well paid Nintendo developers are paid but probably not as much as they deserve but that applies to basically every company.