• lobut@lemmy.ca
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        I consider myself a Nintendo fanboy. I’ve owned every console.

        Would not jump off a bridge.

        However, these game prices are too high. I don’t think third party games will be that price but first party games will be there.

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          Something tells me all new AAA games are going to be touching that price. I mean, they already do if you factor in the stupid elite wtf editions and deluxe pro plus editions. Hell, they’re more like $130-$150 after DLC is all said and done.

          MH: Worlds on PC for example

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          Same, owned every console since the NES. This one’s a pass for me. Maybe Nintendo will be humbled and bring their pricing back down to Earth in the future, but I doubt it.

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            Too young to have owned every console and don’t care enough, but I am a fan of many games and the community. Nintendo the company hates its fans, that is widely known.

            I’m not gonna buy it for that price. Especially not as a student. Especially not while ☠️ isn’t a thing yet.

            They have gotten greedy. There needs to be a Wii-U era again.

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              There needs to be a Wii-U era again.

              I agree, they need to be humbled, but I have no idea whether they will or not. While the economy is working against them, a LOT of people liked the Switch, and this is a more powerful one rather than a hard-to-understand mess like the Wii U. Genuinely curious to see how the Switch 2 does. My best guess is “modest success.”

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        I crave for the earlier days of the 3DS to happen again, please Nintendo fan base, I have a bit of faith.

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      Let’s not pretend every publisher isn’t planning on doing this. Nintendo just happens to be the first here.

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          The other publishers were all eagerly waiting for gta6 to take the blame for the price increase. Nintendo just doesn’t care about that and weren’t gonna wait for a third party before announcing their new prices.

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        All it takes is for a major corporation to pull the trigger. Since Nintendo is willing to take that step, other companies are going to be observing to see if it’s worth the temporary backlash.

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        I get the MSRP outrage, but I mean it’s not an unusual cost for launch day titles, especially for physical media.

        I don’t think I’ve ever paid full retail for any game or console I’ve ever owned though. And I do like to own my games by buying physical media (or at least the installer files).

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          Thing is that they even do this shady thing now where retails is 10 bucks more than the digital version.

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            Usually because you actually own the retail/physical version but they can rescind access to a digital copy at any point.

            But I usually buy old games or new ones second hand, so, I exist on a slightly different market place…

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      The funniest part is that the best selling video game of all time (Minecraft) currently has an MSRP of less than $30, which technically gets you 2 games because Microsoft/Mojang maintain 2 completely separate codebases for Minecraft (Java edition and bedrock edition) and has to design, program, test and debug everything twice, once for each codebase