And on the American website, the MSRP is $80, with no distinction made between digital and physical yet.
Hope we don't have to wait for an emulator for too long...
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe MSRP at release (and also still now) was $60. Since the previous Mario Kart game they increased the price by 50%. That’s fucking insane.
Also, hot take, I don’t give a fuck about inflation; Games should cost less now than they did 20 years ago. The audience is bigger and the per unit cost is lower. You can make more money releasing the exact same game now than you could 20 years ago. They should cost less.
“Oh but ClimateChangeAnxiety, games cost more to make now!” No they don’t. You’re choosing to spend more to make them. You’re choosing to hire larger teams to make larger games with better graphics. Don’t do that. Make them the same way you did in 2010.
You have better tools now, you can make the same products you made in 2010 with less labor today. Do that. And charge less.
I want shorter games with worse graphics and I'm not kidding
I'll take longer games with even worse graphics pls
Reject modernity, retvrn to ASCII. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the letters. All I see is tree, zombie, plump helmet.
Caves of Qud is 
I keep getting all the pieces together to make myself OP as hell then dying by basically slipping on a banana peel.
It’s so good.
The video game industry is bigger than Hollywood. Imagine if they were charging $90 for a BluRay.
The audience is bigger and the per unit cost is lower. You can make more money releasing the exact same game now than you could 20 years ago. They should cost less.
How're those poor executives gonna buy a third yacht? Gotta buy back stock with that excess capital to drive up prices for ~~their own stock options~~ shareholders, did you ever think of that
Also the fuck you mean 90? We just jumped up from 60 to 70 a couple years ago. You can try 80 in 2030.
“Oh but ClimateChangeAnxiety, games cost more to make now!” No they don’t. You’re choosing to spend more to make them. You’re choosing to hire larger teams to make larger games with better graphics. Don’t do that. Make them the same way you did in 2010.
You have better tools now, you can make the same products you made in 2010 with less labor today. Do that. And charge less.
Outside of niche games and genres, those would sell poorly. Mainstream consumers will absolutely not accept stagnation. This argument always comes up with regards to game franchises that had their heyday 10-20 years ago, and the answer is the same. A lot of those games had mechanics, progression skips, and glitches that would be considered unacceptable in the modern market. That was fine back then as the internet and YouTube were no where no where near as big as they are today, so the knowledge of game breaking progress skips, extremely overpowered builds, and glitches was contained through obscurity. You had to either phone a hotline (remember those) or go on a niche internet forum to find out about these things. That's not possible anymore, someone will post a YouTube video within 24 hours of the latest exploit and it would be all over the internet within a few days. I say this as someone who is a huge fan of those older games and still plays them today.
The only series I've seen revive itself by making the same kind of game it made 15 years ago was Ace Combat, a niche franchise that was in a poor situation in the first place, because it tried to enter the mainstream and failed with it's Call of Duty clone with airplanes game.
And besides that, the Switch and Switch 2 is already a constrained platform. Most flagship smartphones are more powerful than the Switch 2. Nintendo is the only party around making games under such hardware constraints. That's because ever since the GameCube, they failed to compete against PlayStation and Xbox on the processing power front. So Nintendo competes in hardware niches, motion control with the Wii, and the portable factor with the Switch. Nintendo is the company making games with the technical complexity of those made 5-10 years ago. So if they're charging more, that means the industry is in big trouble. GTA 6 $100?
And to be completely honest, this stuff (consumer electronics and video games) has always been that expensive outside of the western/first world sphere. Cheap consumer goods in the western world is possible because of globalised neoliberal capitalism, a system that is now dead. The 2009 financial crisis was the big blow, and afterwards Obama, Merkel, Macron, Cameron, Abe, they all tried to revive this system and failed. COVID and the resulting inflation was the death knell. The Trump administration in the USA is trying to lessen the blow (for the USA) by taking direct control of the world's oceans and key points, along with tarrifs. If consumer electronics are considered expensive now, just wait for what the next decade has in store. So many potential flashpoints.
but it costs server money to run our panopticon skynet skinchanging marketplace to sell your data
“You’ll buy it anyway” and its consequences.
I hope that console will be cracked fast, those prices are completely stupid.
If the switch 2 isn't a catastrophic failure, the price of games is going to skyrocket 
Wishing a very Dreamcast
Dorks on reddit already crying about people talking about piracy on the switch 2. I'm not even considering touching the thing until I can mod it, paying 80$ a game is not happening lol.
every game company wants to increase the base price of aaa games
Nintendo will do it first, giving everyone else cover to follow
by next year it will be accepted for aaa games to cost $80 and have a $120 deluxe edition and a $60 season pass
not surprising tbh
Lol, lmao even. And to make things even more expensive, regular microSD cards won't work with Switch 2 games, so if you run out of internal storage you'll have to get a microSD Express card, and those are more than twice as expensive. What a shitload of fuck. 
Fuuuuuck that.
Would be a shame if somebody hacked the new Switch and torrented the file.
Everyone forgets that there were n64 games for $70 bucks back in the 90s.
Also adjusting for inflation, Atari games were $120.
How did we just get to a point where we collectively allowed even digital games to cost this much
Like, that’s incomprehensible. I think the ubiquitous digital age of everything is what fried people’s brains, not Trump
The immortal science probably has a better explanation though
Everyone made fun of horse armor. Everyone also bought horse armor.
Also worth remembering the time that Microsoft forced Valve to charge money for new Left for Dead maps that were free on PC.
It’s like when I used to play madden/nba games as teen, nearly everyone complained about getting the same game every year but gladly paid nearly 100 hundred bucks for nothing but roster upgrades
Like this is obviously small potatoes in the scope of things but why do people behave this way about all services that objectively fuck them over 
How did we just get to a point where we collectively allowed even digital games to cost this much
Antipiracy policies and propaganda
Lol and with the tariffs, it's probably at least 100 for physical if it's not accounted for it. Nintendo fans will still eat that shit up like republicans (not rich ones) when Trump literally shits on them and cycle continues.
Emulators take my energy destroy the pikamario company 
This is going to sell like hotcakes because everyone and their mothers loves Mario Kart. Nintendo will shut down any emulator attempt and every game will be $80 now. Kinda a miracle that games were about $60 for a decade.
Also everyone that says they will hold out will buy it launch day.
Pro controller with broken D-pad and no analog triggers? 90 dollars, Ned!
If it's this or live service free2play predatory multiplayer-only bullshit, I'll take this (not actually though because I don't have the money). I'd rather actual real games still exist that I'm priced out of than only slop that's designed specifically to fool poor people out of what little money they have.
Edit: and this should go without saying, but obviously this shouldn't be the choice one has to make and art should exist without a profit motive, capitalism needs to be abolished, ya know
just pirate it lol
Don't worry, if there is a switch 2 emulator I'll play the hell out of the next Zelda game on there
Its not on the card. Physical is just a bit of plastic for collectors.
You can get FF7 Rebirth for $40 on sale. (And it has Chocobo racing) I think Nintendo is over reaching quite a bit and under delivering with a really mediocre upgrade with way too many nickle and dime gimmicks.
They killed emulators for this side grade and I don't see the justification for it. Crap-it-all-ism of course, but I'm not impressed by it.
Switch Emulators aren't dead, only yuzu had got got. There are others.
ryujinx got got too, nintendo sent someone to threaten the lead dev at their house in brazil
the original dev was coerced into stopping, but the beauty of open source software is that you can fork it, so people did
it's still going today, the version i'm using had a commit 3 days ago
Ryujinx also got got, but in a different way. They did not get sued, but Nintendo tracked down the lead dev in Brazil and threatened him into shutting the project down
Real talk I'm digging the art style on the new Donkey Kong game, and I don't even like Donkey Kong.
But yeah fuck how expensive new games have gotten.
Interesting, as according to IGN the Switch 2 bundled with Mario Kart is $499, only $50 more than the Switch 2 without the bundle. They must be really pushing people to get the bundle version.
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