Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 2 days agoGoddamn.
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 1 day 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 1 day 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 22 hours ago
It begs the question why the key carts even exist.
slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is about their own first party games (not counting Pokémon) and they are on proper carts, not key-cards.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 day 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.