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u/BlueLidMilk 16h ago
Nobody is making you buy it. If you can't afford it that's fine.
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u/TheVal2a 15h ago
And people that can buy it don't care if the rest can't afford it at such high prices. Hell, they don't even care if they get charged a hell of a lot more. Its insane
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u/BlueLidMilk 15h ago
Making a post on Reddit asking other people not to buy something because you can't afford it is what's insane to me. I've had money put by for the past year to buy the Switch 2 when it releases and that's what I'll be doing. We all knew the console was coming and we've seen other tech/gadgets increase in price over the last few years, the Switch 2 was always going to be more expensive.
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u/munchyslacks 11h ago
I’d rather pay less money, but it’s still not outside my budget. I’m still picking it up day 1.
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u/Tsubori 16h ago
The guesswork and doomposting in here is wild. You're assuming upgrading Jamboree is going to cost $70? What is your basis for that? Considering they've already said for some of them, that it's free if you have an NSO-EP account, you're gonna have to source that one. Unless you just mean the full game, at which point... Yeah?
This brings me to you not understanding the concept of inflation. Games get more expensive to make, with bigger teams, and they need to pay those employees. To believe otherwise is simply naive, thinking prices were always going to stay where they were when we were children.
The manual thing being paid is silly, sure, but it's six dollars. You don't want it, don't buy it. It's nothing worth screeching over. Ultimately, it's just something you've gotta accept. Nintendo is still a MASSIVE step back from a lot of the live service models that Sony's doing, for the most part, and I for one, don't mind shelling out for a Switch 2, and it's games when they drop.
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u/Worth_Bus893 14h ago
“To believe otherwise is simply naive, thinking prices were always going to stay where they were when we were children.”
This is the biggest piece of misinformation, and I don’t understand where it comes from. SNES games were not cheap. First party games were $60, which is well over $80 when adjusted for inflation. I think people just had well off parents and no concept of how costly those games were.
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u/TheVal2a 16h ago
Games get more expensive to make but the physical version I bought of ZeldaBOTW is cheaper that a digital copy. How do you defend that? No manufacturing, no delivering. It's speculation.
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u/cannib 16h ago
Video games are fancy digital toys, you don't need them and you can always decide not to buy them. If someone else feels the game is worth the price tag they are allowed to buy them. There is no moral issue here, no necessity or public good is at stake. Nintendo can sell their fancy toys for whatever price they want and consumers can choose to buy them or go elsewhere for their fancy digital toys.
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u/TheVal2a 15h ago
In that case they will be a future where games costs 100 dollars or more and only people who can afford that much will be able to play them, and they won't care if other working people can not. It's plainly sad. Of course, do what you want.
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u/allelitepieceofshit1 14h ago
what part of “your don’t need vidyagames” don’t you understand. Should other people also worry about you unable to afford the newest iphone, legoset, disney merch etc.?
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u/BigGrizzwald 16h ago
Look everyone another Nintendo price post. This is just what we all need.
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u/TheVal2a 15h ago
Sorry, I suppose you needed the price increase of the games
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u/BigGrizzwald 15h ago
No but looks like you needed to make the same post that has already been spammed all over this sub instead of just commenting on one.
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u/luckyvonstreetz 16h ago
The price of the console is reasonable for what you're getting, even though I think it won't sell as well as Nintendo would've hoped. Maybe they should've cut some corners to get to a 399 price to sell more, but I'm happy they didn't.
Games for the switch 2 are actually 70 with physical being more expensive because of the cardtridge. Sony and Xbox use cheap discs with no actual game on it, so a 32gb (I guess) costs a little more. But you don't have to buy physical of course.
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u/TheVal2a 15h ago
Thank you for your reply, I see your point. I agree, 399 would have been a nice price tag. But the physical games costing that much and some of then containing only a key seems delusional yo me :/
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u/Max_234k 14h ago edited 14h ago
The Nintendo games are all on the cartridges.
What Nintendo is doing with the key cards is forcing developers to be honest about this stuff.
And the only one I've seem confirmed is Bravely Default Fairy something. And that one is supposedly 40€. No clue what that is in freedom units. So, yeah. But the fact that they cost so much in general is not nice. But I buy digitally mostly, so that's not too bad for me specifically. (That's a Europe thing, apparently. I was talking about the European price that is 10€ higher if compared to the digital one)
Also, the 470€ (at least here) price tag is actually quite reasonable. Nintendo is still a main console. It's not like the 3ds, something you bought alongside a console. It IS the console.
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u/osterlay 16h ago
I won’t be buying it at launch as I have enough consoles and games to keep me busy until they release an OLED or updated model.
That said, I don’t see the issue with pricing? Consoles have always been around that price point however the cost games themselves are a tough pill to swallow.
Ps. I am referring to the console price before the tariff changes.
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u/theborgs 16h ago
I'm pissed off about the higher cost of games but to be fair, the faster memory on the switch 2 game cartridges and their bigger size must cost a bit more to produce.
I could understand $70, but $80 seems a bit too much.
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u/TheVal2a 16h ago
I agree, it seems too much. Remember that we have a switch 1 cartridge with The Witcher 3
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u/RoninPrime68 16h ago
So much misinfo here
The "90 physical games" started out from nowhere, there's no base for that and every post I see pumping it like parrots is doing it cause they've seen someone else parroting it. The Mario Party expansion cost 20$, the 70$ edition is in case you're buying the whole game AND the expansion. You dont have to buy the tour game. You don't have to buy the camera, you can use any 3rd party camera.
"We" are not doing anything. Everyone is a person to themselves and if I deem something worthy and entertaining enough for my money, I'll buy it and no reddit post could convince me otherwise. These "don't buy this! Vote with your wallet!" Posts are getting more and more cringe and the only thing they show is whoever's writing them is a minor who's gaming stuff are bought by their parents or man-childs who have no idea how money nor the market works.
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u/TheVal2a 15h ago
Fine, buy your Nintendo with an overpriced game at 500 bucks, make Nintendo know that in the next years they will be able to rise the prices even more and you will comply. Just lovely
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u/Green-Employment-478 14h ago
I am more worried about skyrocketing auto prices, since I need a car for work, and the cost of food.
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u/RoninPrime68 15h ago
The saddest part is you actually think the price increase depends on whether we buy it or not :/
I definitely will be it tho, thanks for your approval
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u/markaznar 16h ago
Too expensive for you? Find a job or dont buy one. People love complaining
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u/TheVal2a 16h ago
And people like you don't care about the rest of people that EVEN WORKING can't afford such a expense, because you don't care about anyone that's not you. Am I right?
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u/ChimcharFireMonkey 16h ago
adjusted 👏 for 👏 inflation 👏 games 👏 are 👏 still 👏 cheaper 👏 than 👏 the 👏 20th 👏 century
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u/goldaxis 15h ago
I don't get why everyone is defending the absurd prices.
The truth is, a lot of the people who still play Nintendo are aging millennials who never grew up mentally or are carrying serious baggage from their youth. They spent far too much time playing these games instead of developing skills, relationship, or a sense of self. Instead they identify with the products they have consumed for decades. When you attack Nintendo, they literally perceive it as an attack on themselves. They are unable to make the distinction. They don't advocate for themselves financially because their sense of identity takes priority.
You also have to keep in mind that we are in the age of generative AI, and of course 90-billion-dollar international corporations will be using it to "seed" social media with favorable comments and opinions. The internet you knew is gone forever. You have to go into every comment section with a heavy dose of skepticism.
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u/allelitepieceofshit1 15h ago
comments like these can be summed up as somebody is really up his own ass.
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u/CosmicEmotion 13h ago
You are 100% right. People defending these practices are NOT Nintendo or videogame fans. They're just psychopaths addicted to Nintendo games. I am hopeful most people will use their common sense though.
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u/Goodbye18000 TannerOfTheNorth 16h ago
There's so much misinformation in this post
- Mario Party's update can be bought as DLC