also, at least ubisoft shit goes on sale, and the used copies are less expensive…
for nintendo, once in a blue moon the game will have a 10$ discount and that’s it
Note: before tariffs
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carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
yonder@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I bough Farcry 5 for around $10 CAD a few years back and that’s about how much value I got put of it.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I will admit: I’m in this picture.
Game developers have to eat, too, so a (!) price hike at some point was expected, the price for AAA games was set to 60$ before smart phones existed. They only stayed at 60 so long because gaming got much more popular in that time, driving sales. IF (!) this increase would allow developers to pay their employees more and eliminated the crunch culture, I’d have no problem with it.
But we know this is just corporate greed. Pay extra to own your game physically, pay extra to play your old games, join our subscription program. Oh, you’re in Europe and your wages kept up with inflation? Forget the 33%, you can afford a 50% price increase instead.
With the Japanese-only model being the singular exception, you’d think the directed by 3 new faces just so Nintendo could put the blame on them when the thing doesn’t sell well because of the price.
Oh, and Skull and Bones was dog shit, of course everyone hated it’s ludicrous price point.
Shirasho@lemmings.world 14 hours ago
As you alluded to, the developers will get exactly 0% of the profits from that price hike. Games today are very profitable at $60. The problem is that execs are eating into those profits before pissing the rest down to the developers. There is also a really shitty tech bro culture that many game studios have, decorating their studios with overpriced and expensive tat which should have been spent on employees.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
You know the tariffs mean the Switch 2 may actually now cost $600, not $450, right?
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Oh I know. Would suck to be American right now 😎.
I instead get to pay a converted 98$, 50% more than Xenoblade X or Brothership cost here…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
With the more robust tools developers have available now and the reduced need for optimization due to more powerful hardware games should be cheaper to produce, not more expensive. Especially if you use a cartoon art style like most Nintendo games.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 15 hours ago
I think a big part of it is that a lot of gaming companies keep wanting to make AAA gaming, but no one wants to pay for AAA gaming.
Mario Kart 8 was already a recycled game from the Wii U and it sold well. After it stopped selling copies, Nintendo sold more DLC with the Booster Course Pass.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
And Nintendo lawsuits going after grandmas.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What are “saleries?” Something to do with sales?
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Me misspelling salaries.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
konalt@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Places where saled goods are saled. Like bakeries.
accideath@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Eh, there‘s some truth to either one. Game development is expensive and pricing hasn’t kept up with inflation ($60 in 2010 are almost $90 today). But also, games are ridiculously expensive at full price, especially in todays economy and especially if they’re as badly received as Skull and Bones, while Nintendo games are at the very least usually pretty decent.
I’d recommend voting with your wallet and only buying games on sale or used. Just wait a little. (Or pirate them, if you can live with not supporting the developers at all).
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“games are ridiculously expensive at full price”
A board game with paper and plastic pieces can range from 12-45 dollars
People will go spend $20 at the movies for 1 night
Hell I’ll pay 100 if it’s a good game
I have 1200 hours in Overwatch. $60 (free now). I have paid 5 cents per hour to play it. I am completely happy with my purchase even though it’s free now.
If the game isn’t worth it, don’t get it. But to complain about it is ridiculous.
Some N64 games were $50-$60 dollars back in the 90’s
I feel like we are fortunate
Devmapall@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
I agree with this. I have quite a few games I paid 60 dollars for that per hour entertainment makes it insanely cheap. Smaller cheaper indie games are even cheaper per hour.
It does suck though paying full price for something that will not fulfill that. I bought star wars outlaws or whatever for half price. I knew it wasn’t good but man it was worse than I expected. Not with the price to me even though I probably played 10 hours or so. I read some reviews but I should’ve read more.
accideath@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yea, I don’t generally disagree. Especially if you‘re someone who plays games for hundreds of hours, instead of dozens.
But $100 is still a lot of money for a lot of people. I‘d have to save up for months for that (I’m a trainee and have less than 1000€ per month for rent, food, internet, gas, etc.), so I rather wait until I can get games cheaper.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
At least Skull And Bones is a AAAA game smh my head
pjwestin@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m a big Nintendo apologist. I’ve argued in the past that their consoles are the only ones worth buying over a gaming PC (not including Steamdeck there), and while I have never defend their terrible IP practices, I have been willing to overlook them and continue buying their products. This shit is indefensible. The price
ftbd@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I’ve always felt the other way around: If you’re trying to sell me games, make them for PC. I’m not buying a new device just for Mario
Owlboi@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
sure, but that doesnt even mention the difference in quality and value that the pile of dogshit “pirate game” has compared to the latest innovative mario kart.
mlg@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
latest innovative mario kart.
This is literally the Cars videogame but with Nintetendo IP and Nintendo Proprietary TCP pos p2p online multiplayer.
I used to play that game for free with my friends at the local library 2 decades ago.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Genuine question: How is MarioKart 10 different from MarioKart 9? Or 7? Or 4?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
I still haven’t gotten an answer to how BotW innovated open world except for a list of features that were already in other games.
big_slap@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
unpopular opinion: the quality of Nintendo games are worth the cost of admission, and they know it. there are very few bad nintendo games.
super hype to play the new Mario kart for years like I did with 8
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
I have played a couple when someone has brought a switch over. They are ok but you can fuck off if you think I would pay £90 on it. Even £30 and I would look at something else.
More likely to get a steam deck instead. There are plenty of incredibly high quality games there that cost so much less. Just don’t buy games on their launch week to avoid the crap. Wait until it’s well reviewed and been out for a while.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
This isnt really on topic but what we wanted was a more realistic Sea of Thieves and Skull and Bones was like ship arena battles, it was bad.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
It’s funny, because I actually enjoy the less realistic versions, like ship of fools. Void crew was fun and all, but didn’t tickle my biscuit enough. Sea of thieves was just sort of… boring. It took too long to get into the fun, and then the fun was over too quickly.
Glide@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
While I am not okay with the game price hike, you’re comparing genuine dog shit to actual good games. It’s like asking why anyone would ever order a steak when they can just go to McDonald’s. Sure they’re both food, but they’re not really comprable.
That said, I am not trying to justify Nintendo’s pricing. They’re asking for too much of a leap (+50%!!!) in too short of a time frame. But this meme is a bad argument.
rabber@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
That’s because Nintendo makes the best games
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Even tho mario kart is and probably will be an extremely fun game, its still such a fucking scam. Im gonna buy a switch 2 but to be fair i skipped the switch because i suspected at the release that there will be backwards compatibility and seems like i was right. Even tho i only have a gba and 3ds and then the switch 2 ill buy, i can basically play the entire handheld line of games that nintendo released. This was my tactic but im still dissapointed at the prices even tho i skipped a gen.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 13 hours ago
i suspected at the release that there will be backwards compatibility
I suspect that they will make you pay for the backwards (enhanced) compatibility.
yoshisaur@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
The amount of bootlickers I’m starting to see in Nintendo’s YouTube comments is pathetic
mlg@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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Pay to use hardware button that offers 10 FPS pre-skype era fidelity is totally a good thing to show off, and Nintendo has totally never been the only company to notoriously harass, litigate, and shutdown mods, tournaments, homebrew. emulators, fan projects, and literally anyone who so much as so glances at their Intellectual Property.
Utterly delusional
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
Same for AC Shadows. “You don’t have to buy the cosmetics!” Motherfucker every single bit of content should be in a game that you paid full price for.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Its Todd’s fault.
Fucking horse armor.
viopercus@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
They are the equivalent of Disney Adult
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
The Nintendo fanboys/girls are the real, true, ‘winners’ of the console wars mindset, the last holdouts.
Almost nobody really gives a shit anymore to tie their personalities to Sony or MSFT… because basically, console exclusives don’t really exist, and almost everything is on PC as well.
But Nintendo? Nope. The company still holds a death grip on their inhouse titles being exclusive to their consoles, and the nostalgia/stolckhom syndrome is apparently the strongest with the Nintendo crowd.
It took almost a decade for people to finally be able to admit that GameFreak is basically incompetent. You could not say that even 5 years ago w/o a deluge of insults.
The cope is strong with these ones.
_____@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
Nintendo titles are on PC. See: emulation.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
You’ve never noticed before? This ain’t a new argument
AllTheKarma@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
The amount of angry gamer nerds is even more pathetic.
Psythik@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
And in the Nintendo communities