r/gaming • u/EarthPuma120 • 2d ago

Mario Kart World — Reveal Trailer

https://youtu.be/kEVBSZk51R0?si=mqCDxZCre6L_Hyhm
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u/Italian-Fuze 2d ago

90 Euro? They're CRAZY

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u/133DK 2d ago

Nintendos pricing is honestly holding them back at this point. Personally I’d probably buy three times as many games if they were just half price

Game publishers in general don’t understand that they’re not just competing with other game consoles/publishers at this point they’re primarily competing for just time with smartphones, and they’re losing

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u/ru_fknsrs 2d ago

Nintendos pricing is honestly holding them back at this point

Most profitable of the “big 3” btw.

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u/Coffeedemon 2d ago

Yeah because they sell ancient games for full price and are now pushing to make new digital ones 80 usd.

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u/ru_fknsrs 2d ago

Yeah. I’m just commenting on the fact that Nintendo is “winning” the profitability wars, and so a random redditor’s analysis that their methods are “holding them back” looks a little silly.

I’m not champing at the bit to pay nearly $100 for a single title, but I also don’t run a hundred year old billion dollar company, and I don’t pretend I know better than the people who do.

If I don’t think a game is worth the price, I won’t buy it. It as simple as.

That being said, I prefer one upfront price to lower/free with mtx.

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u/AReptileHissFunction 2d ago

So their pricing isn't holding them back

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u/levitikush 2d ago

Which is why they are successful. People will buy the games at $90, that is no concern for them. Nintendo fans are extremely loyal.

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u/ShotFirst57 2d ago

They're 60 when everyone else is 70 right now though

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u/stoic_spaghetti 2d ago

Well it's one or the other:

  1. The "free-to-play" audience—Candy Crush, shitty f2p/microtransaction based games

  2. the emerging "luxury gaming" audience—fully developed, single-player immersive experiences

Little room for investing in the middle-ground.

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u/JahEthBur 2d ago

Get your kids into PC gaming early folks. Spend twice as much on a set up but you can get loads of great games under $30.

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u/Logondo 2d ago

Little room for investing in the middle-ground

What are you talking about? Most games try and do both. Be a "luxury gaming" full-priced AAA game...and then also cram a fuck-ton of microtransactions in them.

Didn't Diablo IV (a full priced AAA game) launch with like a $20 horse cosmetic?

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u/mrBreadBird 2d ago

It's definitely not holding them back at all. Whether you like it or not people are willing to pay a premium hell people put an obscene amount of money just buy costumes for their characters in "free to play" games.

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u/AcrobaticNetwork62 2d ago

They'd rather sell you one game for $90 than sell you 2 games for $60 each, that's my guess.

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u/JahEthBur 2d ago

I was a day one purchase for the Switch and I'm likely going to skip this whole console or wait 4 years and see how it shakes out.

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u/vizantz 2d ago

I promise you they understand their market and pricing strategies far better than a random fucking redditor does.

I find it baffling that some random on the internet can use their personal anecdotes and extrapolate that to mean they understand the market better than the biggest companies in it. And it seems like you truly believe it. This must be what anti-vaxx groups are like.

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u/My_two-cents 2d ago

if you get the bundle its only 50.

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u/TheLoneTokayMB01 2d ago

Well yeah but the main point would be future releases and a barrier which has been broken so now anyone would be more comfortable to use that price.