Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2

hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• calabast@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As relevant now as it was over a decade ago.

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  • technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nintendo fanboys are notorious suckers

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are lots of people with disposable income who don’t have the technical capability to pirate.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I played it six years ago, but with a better experience than switch 2… thank you, cemu

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been wanting to play botw so I tried it on cemu awhile back but couldn’t get it to work. I’ll have to try it again and see if I can figure out what I was doing wrong.

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.

  Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch

    A new one, but pretty soon the market will be flooded with second hand switches

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are Switch games being released in 2026. I expect new Switches will continue to be produced at least until then.

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.

      There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yup, which is exactly how Nintendo wants it. I feel like they’ve always had things that mitigated their BS “never lower the price of games, EVER” philosophy, most notably cheaper hardware than the competition and a lower price point for games ($60 rather than $70). Now they have a console that’s almost as much as a PS5 AND are charging MORE than $70 for some of their games? Maybe the market can handle their excessive pricing, but I hope they get knocked down a peg.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t pay $90 for it, but Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition was definitely fun enough to keep playing.

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