Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2

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• ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  no-pernalonga-3369907953

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• Erasmus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t paid full price for a game since I bought my Steam Deck.

  Sorry Nintendo - it’s going to be a hard pass for me. I think I can live without Mario Cart for $80

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No thanks.

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• ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unpopular opinion: Nintendo is overrated and is no longer innovation.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Quite a popular opinion actually.

    There’s even websites like www.suedbynintendo.com

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I haven’t bought anything Nintendo in years… but I can’t lie, that open world mario kart game looks sick.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The steam deck is way better anyways!

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• Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m done buying games from these corporate fux.

  Only indie games for me from now on.

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Last 2 triple A games I’ve bought (Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Civ 7) have both been awful. Meanwhile I spend 15 on a game like Roboquest and play it for 30 hours.

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  • technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You said that last time too 😛

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m dancing happily into the €20 game era with my Steam Deck.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bringing you, maybe. I’m out ✌️ I’m not giving into the pre-planned reduction to 70/80, either.

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• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll start by saying I loved Nintendo games. But I think I’m done. They can offer the games at $80, but I will pass. Oh well.

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• MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not defending this behavior but keeping up with inflation games that cost 60 bucks in the early 90s would cost well over 120 today.

  I know they don’t do physical media as much or at all in some cases.

  I’m just pointing out that technically 80 bucks for a game is still a good ways behind inflation.

  Not defending it. Just pointing it out.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Digital distribution is far less than it was in the 90s, many games sell in far higher numbers they did in the 90s, plus a ton of other cost savings due to scale exist on the distribution side. Yes, costs are higher to develop some types of games, but quite a few studios are able to put out profit generating games at far less than $60 per unit sold.

    Cost comparisons over time tend to not be very informative when it comes to products that have significant changes in costs over time, and games are one of those things.

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    • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which I recognize. I still feel like there is a weird disconnect between gamers and cost. If I spent 80 bucks on a game and I get hundreds of hours of fun out of it that was easily worth the money. I have spent far more on significantly worse fun per dollar events over the years.

      I just find it kinda funny how gamers get with the costs of games when compared to their spending on other media. Like how many people complaining about the 80 dollar games have rented a movie on Amazon for 5 bucks or something. That’s a 2.50 an hour for entertainment at best.

      I won’t be buying the console or the 80 dollar games but I find the conversation and interesting one.

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  lol not for me, thnx

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• ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.

  Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it’s all organic consumer demand.

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• bw42@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No thanks, I’m good with my Analogue Pocket and Streamdeck.

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• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This was likely done in anticipation for the tariffs.

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• vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m weirdly okay with this?

  I get most of my gaming on the cheap on PC, so I feel fine splurging for the occasional Nintendo title.

  But as with all things, no reason to buy something you don’t want to pay for. If enough people can’t or won’t pay $80, then so be it.

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