“We’re greedy shits,” Trinen said. “The holes in our souls are bottomless and we hate our customers."
Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN
Submitted 1 month ago by jordanlund@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Makes sense, but if it’s only $10 it should just be free. Not worth the bad PR and they should want this game in as many hands as possible.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is one of the dumber decisions Nintendo has made, and they put out the Wii U.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nintendo is being exclusively run by suits now. The era of a game company built by gamers is over.
Steven@lemmy.studio 1 month ago
Nintendo was never ran by gamers.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You’re thinking iwata, but that was a brief blip on Nintendo history. The OG CEO was a straight up suit. The man had no interest in videogames, only business. Which is why they practically had a monopoly over their hardware in the 80s and 90s.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It wasn’t even a bad system, just marketed terribly.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I would dispute the claim it wasn’t a bad system.
The gamepad as a mandatory component really gimped it hard.
midori_matcha@lemmy.world 1 month ago
$10 is the “go fuck yourself” price for things that would otherwise be free.
You’ve already spent $450 on the console, $90 on a game, and $50 for the full online subscription. What’s $10 more dollars for the welcome demo? Go fuck yourself, pay the plumber man.
Hoimo@ani.social 1 month ago
Yeah, I expected them to ask the full $60 for it, which would be completely unreasonable, but at least I understand why they wouldn’t give it away then. But 10? They could easily eat that, they just don’t want to.
Either way, I can’t imagine anyone paying for a “game” that’s nothing more than an instruction booklet. If it were free, maybe someone would open it while Mario Kart is downloading.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You expect Nintendo to do MULTITASKING? ;)
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
I feel like they’re trolling us at this point. There’s no way they’re this stupid.
weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
How is this stupid? Call it greedy or anti-consumer, but in the end it will increase Nintendo’s profits so it’s far from stupid from the company’s perspective. People buy consoles no matter how bad they are treated.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 month ago
No, disrespectful business practices don’t make the public stupid
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
The problem is that a company can only push their greed so far before they start losing people. Up until now, most of the Nintendo hate came from their anti-emulation crusade. Now, it seems like everyone and their brother is talking about just how absurd the entirety of this launch is.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Nintendo can and has pushed the greed too far for even Nintendo fans before. Wii U and 3DS at launch being fairly recent examples.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think this money grab wouldn’t have gotten as much run if it hadn’t been front and center in the Direct. Feels like a misstep, but then, so does €90 Mario Kart…
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Nintendo thinks very little of the intelligence of their customers”
Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 month ago
And rightfully so…
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, they do spend a lot of fucking money and put up with a lot that a rational person really wouldn’t stand for
Vopyr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damn, Nintendo is such a crap company… What the heck is wrong with them?
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
Greed.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
thequickben@lemm.ee 1 month ago
At least Sony had some justification. A new and expensive cell architecture. It was ground breaking for its time but cost too much.
Nintendo is giving us something the steam deck and other pc handhelds can do, and trying to charge $80 for games that will almost never go on sale. I can buy old steam titles for less than $10, show me an old Nintendo title that can ever sell for that amount. It’s just not a good enough proposition just to have access to a handful of $80 Nintendo titles.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
"Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is described as a “virtual exhibition” of the new hardware. Per Nintendo: “through tech demos, minigames and other interactions, players will get to know the new system inside and out in ways they may never have known about otherwise.”
So its basically just something that goes on about how great and wonderful switch is? And they want you to pay for it? This is so stupid I’m not sure if its even anti consumer anymore but somehow managed to go beyond to new and exiting levels of awfulness.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s kind of like the Valve demo that’s free on the Steam Deck to go through all the features on the machine, except not as interesting.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I was on the fence about Switch 2, leaning toward not getting one. This just solidified that position. No way I’m paying for something that charges for the instruction manual.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“Because fuck you!” -Nintendo
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
-the children’s toy company
Flemmy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’d rather pay for a large pizza tutorial. And eat it.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“This is the stuffed crust… filled with cheese and pepperoni. It’s like calzone in a bread stick form factor!”
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This demo/manual and the driving basketball game should be included in the system.
Think back to the 3ds with head wars and AR games, no way I’m buying such games but having them makes the system a bit more valuable.
anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I jumped ship from Switch to handheld pc. The pc game prices was a big part, especially older games don’t hold value. For example I got Middle Earth shadow of war for like $6. I still sometimes miss my switch but I will definitely wait a while before I decide on a switch 2.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
which handheld pc did you get?
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Steam deck maybe
Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I am genuinely surprised that they’re suggesting physical games that act as keys for digital downloads. What is the point of getting a physical cartridge if you can’t play the whole game offline? I guess they’re just trying to kill physical media, and this is the first step in this direction.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
resale
mlg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like how there’s so many fees on this console that we haven’t even gotten to the $50 skype webcam accessory which they spent a solid third of their direct showing off.
I miss the DS era :/
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All the important people at nintendo have been separated from reality by their own fame and success for so long that they’ve lost their common sense and rationality.
But despite it all, their absolute contempt for their costumers and supporters continues to get rewarded by masses of fanboys/fangirls who keep unloading dumptrucks of money on Nintendos doorstop out of some obsessive nostalgia, and thus keeps nintendo from ever actually learning an actual fucking lesson.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or how the “Chat Button” is pay gated after the first year…
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Who’s going to buy that camera though? It’s only so you can talk to 3 other people , and none of the games that make use of it look any good.
klobuerschtler@lemm.ee 1 month ago
TLDR: They’re greedy Bastards
bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t care. Still no.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 month ago
“Well, you see, if we give away anything for free, it has to be your organs! Our law whor… I mean lawyers cannot afford to be some of the worst people on Earth unless we make things so expensive you have to sell all your organs on the black market!” ~ Them, probably
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There isn’t one reason they could give that would ever justify this for the consumer. Absolutely unacceptable and anti consumer.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 month ago
I feel stupid but I have only ever bought devices that are open or able to be jailbroken. I don’t get how sometimes when the jail walled garden bdsm relationship punishes it’s people, they react with a gasp, as if they thought their locked hardware that isn’t open to their owner that they “have” isn’t made for exactly that purpose?
It’s like yeah Janet. It’s why you brought it. So you can play only their games and watch their movies and enjoy things that they decide the price and allowance of. You selected that? You chose to hire this device? Well I split mine open to use it for what it can do. No drm has ever succeeded. It’s a grift protected by laziness and - as always, lawyers and lobbyists who have yet to grow up
ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nintendo explain: " It’s not free… we want your money… all of it"
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The more Nintendo talks, the worst it gets.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It should be free
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
May I introduce you to their last launch day tech demo… 1-2 Switch?
Yeah. You forgot about $60 launch day tech demo 1-2 Switch, didn’t you?
jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only reason they sold any was because the console released with like one game, which seems to be the same strategy this time around too.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Okay?