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zarenki@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

too long have we accepted 60$ games with 20$ DLC, I’m glad if this means devs can just charge 80$ for a full game.

Breath of the Wild was a $60 game with $20 DLC when it launched in 2017. Eight years later, its Switch 2 Edition is now a $70 game that (seemingly but not yet 100% confirmed) still has the same $20 DLC sold separately. This is a game that sold enough copies in 2017 alone to earn back about 15 times its development cost, and plenty more in the other 7 years since.

As for Mario Kart World, I’ll be surprised if Nintendo doesn’t announce DLC plans in its upcoming presentation two weeks from now, but that remains to be seen.

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