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dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Unpopular opinion:

They could probably charge $100 and people would still buy them, despite knowing the games aren’t worth that much. Consumers don’t really care; they just want their dopamine fixes. Nintendo could wrap a literal turd up and label it the next Zelda game, and people would bum rush stores with fistfuls of money to buy it; just because.

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kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The opinion of someone who didn’t care for the new Zelda games (BoTW & the other one), is that they already wrapped a turd & called it the next Zelda game, twice.

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JayGray91@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got flack in a group chat for being highly cynical that the games industry, at least the “AAA” publishers, will adopt the new pricing standard.

Nintendo is doing it. They can use a flimsy excuse that they are using a stupid proprietary cart. Gamefreak was already doing it to save cost on higher storage carts. Even then they ship unoptimized shit and people lap it up like swines

GTA 6 will definitely be $100 and have no flimsy excuse

Ubitencent will get to it eventually I reckon after they finish fucking each other

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They probably will. It is kinda amusing to watch tbh
  
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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Which is why they’re upping the prices.

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parmesan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t think it’s as much of an unpopular opinion as it is just a thing that happens. If the Sims community has taught me anything, diehard fans of a franchise will keep shelling out hundreds of dollars for new content even if it’s dogshit

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- dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And unfortunately until the community puts their collective foot down, these game developers (Nintendo, EA, etc) will continue churning out dog shit.
  
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