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I am very curious how they’re going to tackle regional pricing on games. $80 USD converts to $115 Canadian. No other console is pricing their games that way. At least not yet (thanks nintendo) But that would be a $25-35 increase compared to Ps5 and Xbox games.

For being a family console, it seems like a very weird decision when we’ve been hit with such bad inflation and wage stagnation in the past 5 years. I cannot see as families springing for a switch 2 as they did for the switch 1.

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_Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I feel like that kind of price increase would encourage illegal downloads too. Especially for countries with weaker currencies

I wonder if that’s why they’ve been more aggressive against emulators lately.

But yea, same for me: there’s very few games I’d spend that much money on, and I can’t imagine myself paying 80$ for something I don’t even know if I’ll like. I hope it doesn’t become the new standard.

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