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Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming

arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What’s annoying about this is that (at least for me) the switch 2’s price is not the problem (outside of the USA, good luck to American Nintendo fans, you’ll need it), I get that it is expensive for a Nintendo console (I probably couldn’t afford one) but it has hardware worth the price (from what I have seen, feel free to correct me). The problem are the overpriced games, £75 is too much even for a Nintendo game

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piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Also the greed. Charging for the virtual tour game (however cheap it may be), charging for performance updates to existing games (not extra content, only performance). Switch 1 games should just run better on the new console by default.

I’m not even sure hw is fairly priced. They’re able to sell the same thing in Japan for 100$ cheaper. I don’t think they’re losing money there.

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Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not to sound like a fanboy, I mean I am but that’s not why, but I get the Mario Kart price tag.

I’ve had a switch from day 1 and look in the e-shop charts about once a week, and Mario Kart was consistently in the top 20 most sold games of the past 2 weeks.

From a switch perspective, you paid $70 for MarioKart + $25 for the DLC and got a single game a lot of people played since April 2017. In that same time you got 8 Call of Duty games for $70 each ($560) - with the later CoDs charging you $30 for chores or “Battle Passes”. Or you could have paid 95 Fortnite Battle Passes (total ~$950) since the launch of MarioKart.

I forgot the point I wanted to make.

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- Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  if only MK, Fortnite and CoD would be the only three options for gamers then probably MK would win this round.
  
  Unfortunately you comparing your favourite game to two vomit piles full of microtransaction and battle passes so cant see your point there.
  
  If you enjoy the games Nintendo sells go for it, in my opinion the inflated new prices are ridiculous and will have a negative impact on the gaming industry in global as other big corpos will start copying them if Nintendo can get away with it.
  
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- chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  MK 8 is also a previous generation title that Nintendo got to double dip on already.
  
  MK night be a good value proposition for some folks. It’s still too expensive. I have games that I’ve paid $20, $10, sometimes even less for that I’ve gotten more play time out of. Play time to cost is not a good argument.
  
  Let me also contrast with some of Nintendo’s worst practices, like selling 3 old Mario games with no enhancements, that are just emulated, for $60.
  
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- FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, but somehow I doubt they’ll pass on an opportunity to double dip and release DLC.
  
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