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Who the hell is paying 90EUR for switch games?
Nintendo fanboys, they would jump off a cliff if asked.
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.
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.
I crave for the earlier days of the 3DS to happen again, please Nintendo fan base, I have a bit of faith.
Let's not pretend every publisher isn't planning on doing this. Nintendo just happens to be the first here.
I genuinely thought GTA6 was gonna beat them to the punch.
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.
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).
Which game has been launched at 90 bucks before?
Thing is that they even do this shady thing now where retails is 10 bucks more than the digital version.
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...
I know my work colleague is not. His Switch was cracked for I think 100+ eur which seems quite high, but since you can afterwards download pretty much any title from some pirate marketplace, that investment has been covered at least tenfold.
Me and millions of others. If you account for inflation, there has been higher prices in the past.
Being rude for no reason is a bad look
My question was genuine, and not rude at all, absolute majority of people can't afford to buy $90 game every month, nor should they.
Your question was a good one, but still rude. You're more likely to get a satisfying answer if you don't pose the premise that the person you're replying to must be dumb if they're not rich.
Because inflation applies to all products equally and there aren't ever relative adjustments /s
What games currently cost that much though, is my question really, I guess. The last expensive titles I can see right now for standard editions of games is like, 70Eur equivalent for AAA type titles.
Nice to see an adult reaction in this thread. You have a good point and I'm very curious why Nintendo made these choices. Maybe it could have to do with the current value of the Japanese yen? I'm not an economist though, so I'm just guessing right now.
Wild. Possibly market rates are different - don't know if the EUR is particularly weak right now? I don't follow the conversion rates...
I mean I own a switch, and I've never paid anything close to that for games... I've gone to maybe £45-50 for launch titles but what games cost £70?