Yup. Good job Nintendo have an excellent track record of not shutting down their stores prematurely and making it easy to transfer your purchases to new consoles.
Oh wait.
Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They really wanna phase out physical games.
JamieT@lemmy.world 3 days ago
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Goddamn.
You’re not wrong and Nintendo could go bankrupt tomorrow for all I care, but if this isn’t the precise thing people have been harping on about for a decade now, and here we are with someone doing the thing and there’s a immediate complaint.
Dammed if they do, dammed if they don’t. We should have stopped at arcades. Maybe paying per character life and without save states was the peak.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 days ago
They’re damned if they do because it’s too little too late and most of their carts are just a keyed license to the game and not the game itself anyways, which kinda’ begs the question why they’ll remain higher priced. They’re damned if they don’t because people don’t have as much disposable income as they used to and Nintendo is wonderful at not enticing anyone with new IPs these days anyways.
They’ve hoarded their wealth too long, and now they get to pay the price, one way or the other.
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 3 days ago
I’m not defending Nintendo, game pricing or whatever, but “begs the question why they’ll remain higher”? Really?
You can’t think of any reason why a physical product that has to be manufactured, shipped, unpacked, stocked, and sold by people would cost more than a download?
Game pricing has become obscene and there is no way on God’s great earth I’m dropping $80 on any game, but I think a $10 lower price point makes some sense. I’d love it to be more.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 days ago
It begs the question why the key carts even exist.
slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is about their own first party games (not counting Pokémon) and they are on proper carts, not key-cards.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 days ago
They aren’t lowering cart prices, so see the rest of my post as to why they’ll still be paying for their decisions.
lemmyng@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And when they do, mark my words, they’ll raise the price of digital games to $70-80 because “we’re Nintendo, what the fuck are you gonna do about it?”
Well, Ninty, I have a Steam Deck loaded with cracked games, roms of your old shit you refuse to rerelease, PC ports of said roms, fan games, and games I’ve bought theough Steam that will literally last me several generations at this point, and that’s not even counting the games that have yet to release.
Yessir, I have enough PC games to never touch a Nintendo game ever again. And if I ever do feel the urge, there are tons of fan games, ports and roms of Nintendo IP accessible via web browser.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Look, I have the same setup as you and I also have a Nintendo Switch 2 with which myself and my kids are getting hours a day of wholesome constructive fun together in Pokopia. I don’t think “well I can just steal stuff” is the great argument you think it is.
They know. They don’t care. You are on a report. You are shrinkage.
lemmyng@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fair, I also have a Switch 2, and Pokopia looks like tons of fun.
My argument was moreso “I have other options” apart from Nintendo if they ever go the “you will own nothing and you will be happy about it” route, which they seem to be inching towards.
What’s this about me being on a report and shrinkage tho? Genuinely asking.
uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 3 days ago
He’s implying that you (and those who take the same approach as you) are a footnote on a sales report - that the foregone sales are insignificant.
Shrinkage is a term for an unaccounted reduction in inventory (usually due to theft, lost, or misplaced inventory).