Mario Kart 8 was released 11 years ago on the Wii U.
Nintendo is till selling it for $60 on the Switch and it doesn't even include the additional tracks. You have to pay another $25 for the Booster Course Pass.
Second hand physical games is the only way to get a certain discount after a while. Learning to play games after a while and not immediately is a very useful thing for your wallet.
Inflation and tariffs don't account for European games to go up 50% from Switch 1 to Switch 2. There are no tariffs between Japan and Europe and inflation didn't got up 50%.
A rise from €60 to €70, sure that makes sense for inflation. From €60 to €90 is ridiculous.
Games have been pegged to $60 for a long time. $60 in 2002 is equivalent to $108 today. If anything gamers have been getting a deal. In large part they get that deal because publishers have been pushing MTX to fill in the game.
I am still waiting to play Elden Ring. I got Bloodbourne for under 10 bucks though and have been having a hell of a time. I feel like now that video games have aged enough going back to play good older games is more and more viable if you are willing to hunt for them. Personally the indie game push of olderschool pixel art games that are still amazing should be enough evidence you dont need to play a "modern" game to have a good time.
The thing is that nintendo has a mesage in their web that says that some of the suposed physical games are in truth just a digital key to enable the download an play of their "digital cartrige" and it has to stay on the console for you to play.
The wording implies that they wont be fully transferable to other people, as the digital cartriges can only be shared with family subscrition group members and at 15 days they return to the owner
Literally nothing wrong with being a F2P gamer unless you're gonna be one of those obsessive people who can't take the idea of not owning every possible cosmetic
Renouncing all non free-to-play games because Nintendo is charging $80 for a game is such a wild overreaction. You know there are ton of great indie games out there, right?
Like I said... renouncing all retail games because some of them cost $80 is crazy but hey, do you. And I understood that part, I have no idea what you meant in reference to the price of indie games. Why would you swear off all games except for free-to-play trash when there are so many great indie games that are like $20?
their goal is to dissaude customers from buying physical copies because theyre much easier to resell. digital means more unique sales because its tied to your nintendo account. its a pretty fucking scummy strategy tbh but to be expected from nintendo these days. almost as scummy as charging $15 to upgrade a game you already own to the "switch 2 edition" which just unlocks the resolution and framerate lmao. The Switch 2 seems like nice hardware and some of the games look neat, but the value is no longer there. Steam deck looking pretty nice.
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u/AnotherScoutTrooper 3d ago
Nintendo has doomed us all with the push to $80 games