Topic: Are these prices making you cancel your purchases?

I do think I've become more selective with what I buy for sure. Part of that is due to increased prices for sure, but also due to getting older and becoming smarter with purchasing decisions over time. But when it comes to if I'm going to buy a game or not, it comes down to what value does it offer at the price, and will a better price be available in the future. Sony's PC ports are a good example. In most cases, I'm willing to wait a bit because they go on sale so often. But, I did buy Spider-man 2 the first day it was out on Steam, because I love the series and didn't want to wait on it. It offered more value to me personally then the other PC ports. Then there's something like the Galaxy 2 port coming out. To me, it probably offers great value because it's one of my favorite games of all time, and I'll probably put a lot of time into a more easily accessible version of the game. I also have no idea when and if it will go on sale. So, I'll probably buy it day one.

It has changed nothing on me. I'm already paying 1400 Mexican pesos (roughly $70) for games here in Mexico since I think 2021. We even had to pay 1700 or 1800 pesos (cannot remember the exact price, around $85-$90) for Paper Mario: The Origami King and New Pokémon Snap at launch, and then some months later they went back to the usual 1400 pesos.

For better or worse, over here in Mexico our only "dedicated gaming store" is GamePlanet (and, yes, the quotations are because they're now more merch and Funko than gaming), and often they have 1st-party games slightly below MRSP, just not at launch. Same deal with Amazon Mexico.
One of the rare occurrences happened in 2014 with Smash Bros. for Wii U, they had very limited units of the game, GC controller and adapter bundle for 1800 pesos instead of the 2000 it would have costed everything back then.

As others have said, it's a matter of playing your cards (or in this case, spending your money) strategically.

I'm ready to spend 1600 pesos for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - NS2 Edition (the overall cost on the Mexican eShop), but stores over here in Mexico cannot be arsed to open pre-orders beyond the NS1 version (pun intended).

Honestly kind of. I would’ve happily paid 5-10 for DK but the lack of content (plus the fact that the island was likely held back for dlc) has put a sour taste in my mouth. I’ll still pay $70 for any games I’m really interested in, but $80 will make me reconsider

I’ve only bought one $100CAD game so far(Donkey Kong Bananza). It’s not making me cancel but rethink my purchases..

@Duboiss It definitely is time to rethink everything. Too bad 95% of people don't want to think about anything. They may say they do, but they just say that as a reason to turn off all news and just watch streams of content to ignore the world.

I would love to have video games to distract myself from the world and now they won't even let me have that. Instead they want me to spend more money to do everything with a server that uses more electricity than ever.

This may not be the most important crisis, but it's one that does have a lot of emotional impact. It's depressing and emotionally charged as it applies to something that used to be an escape. Now it's another source of stress. This is spitting in our nostalgia.

Games have always been expensive, but when I used to eat less to save for games in the past, it wasn't compounded by everything being more expensive with less quality across everything. Housing, food, transportation, it's all more expensive. Furthermore people are getting violent from the pressure.

It's starting to feel like the only good thing left in this world are these little experiences like Bananza. But then Nintendo says, hey we want you to spend 90 bucks on this and the magic fizzles a bit. I buy the game for 70 and think that was good and it was like a dollar an hour. What a good value! But then I think about the fact the water bill is 80 bucks and I start thinking am I stupid? Is this game a good value because it's cheap as water? But I need water and I don't need this game. And that's just the water. One meal for me is now basically 15 bucks.

Idk, I get mad every time I see some jerk brush this off because they're not facing hard times. Because the times are going to get bad for them eventually. How the lack of strife because they make 100k could vanish if things go slightly wrong. But they don't even care. The hubris and pride are maddening.

I feel like we all know the walls are closing in and the people who have a bigger house spend all their time encouraging others to ignore the walls. It's just more painful when it's the one company I used to trust pushing inward.

I have had to jump through the hoops of setting up a Japanese account and Japanese Amazon account to be able to play switch 2 games. But, I have to hope that the games I want will be available on amazon.jp as digital download codes or else I don't get the game. I feel like this may be my last Nintendo generation if the prices rise again. They have shown no sign of "dynamically pricing" their announced games , which I think speaks to their intentions for the switch 2.

@brendathecat yeah I don’t know what dynamic pricing is other than we fd up our own game drag and drive and now we’re going to charge something for it but we know we can’t charge full price. And welcome to Nintendo why don’t you try our welcome tour at a price that is more than it should be. Free is what it should be btw.

@Kwyjibo_Kitsune so this is what we’re doing. Comparing our shopping skills of who can get better sales and or making it seem like those who don’t have that time or energy are lazy and entitled.

It costs less to make digital games. If you’re managing to buy these games cheaper physically at stores that means that Nintendo can make a profit selling digital for less. How bout we do that. Nintendo simply charge less versus their customers jumping through hoops to support them.

@sixrings Stores typically takes a 30% cut but Nintendo loses no cut selling from their own eShop. And no cost of materials. So Nintendo makes a massively larger profit margin from digital sales of first party games than physical sales. Like 20 or 30 dollars more on a $70 game.

@sixrings
People who buy stuff (almost anything, really) at full price ARE being lazy or have enough money to not care.

Deals are out there. Always. Even on new, physical games.

@rallydefault the deals were Nintendo selects, gold coins and vouchers.

Let’s move forward 10 years. It will be completely digital. There will be no way to go to your store or buy used. You will be dependent on Nintendo for your deals. On that day I will quote my favourite unknown author….“deals are out there… always.”

@sixrings
Except no. Even if you’re only talking Nintendo games, outlets like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, GameStop always run their own deals.

And if you’re doing the all-digital boogeyman, you still can get deals on gift cards and stuff like that. Those things are never going away. Nintendolife regularly does their own eshop gift card/code deals.

So hey, come back in 10 years and yea, my quote will still be true.

If you’re not lazy or too rich to care, of course

@rallydefault Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart will not be selling games. Game stop will be out of business. And Nintendo will have a monopoly. Perhaps there will still be deals on gift cards. But once there’s a monopoly there’s a lot less deals.

Digital isn’t the boogeyman. It’s the future. This is more than likely the last Nintendo console with physical media.

sixrings apparently hasn't heard of the recent renewed interest in physical media, ok

like people always say X is the future, and it never happens, especially in gaming. Mobile gaming and VR and cloud gaming are all gonna replace what we have...or not, oops. I don't take any of it too seriously. It's as imaginary as the future were we all eat dippin dots instead of regular ice cream. It's cute. "Aw, whose a fad pretending to replace all entertainment. It's you wittle guy, yes you are, you wittle fad :3 "

Anyway Ps7 will have physical games, calling it early.

I rarely buy games when they are launched but play the waiting game for big discounts however this doesn't really apply to Nintendo first party offerings much of the time. However I bought my Switch secondhand and it came with those games, some I kept and some I sold on and that bought the price of the console down to a very low level. As ever if you think the pricing is too high then vote with your wallet and don't buy the game. There is zero chance I would ever pay the amount Nintendo want for the Mario Galaxy and Mario Galaxy 2. I bought mine very cheap for wii when the wii was end of life and games went super cheap for a while. Such games have recovered in price now a bit I guess because of scarcity but still a lot cheaper than the new Switch prices. I struggle to find time for all my free epic games on pc and all my existing steam titles. I have so many games in reserve I've yet to start playing. Many of the free epic games are games also available on Switch (ok maybe a half a dozen to a dozen). If Epic are happy to give away some great games for free I'm happy to have them.

As ever gaming is as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. You can play free games through the browser or pick up a old pc for free (freecycle etc) or buy the latest amazing PC for 5 grand etc. You can game at any price point. The vast majority of people in the world are gaming on their phones or PCs, billions in fact. Specialist gaming consoles are in the minority of what gamers use.

@rallydefault what do you believe is the chances Nintendo still has physical offerings in 10 years?

Just a thought exercise but 10 years is PlayStation 7 territory. Do you think Sony will be offering physical media in 10 years?

I always try to buy games physically. The reason is so that I can sell the game when I'm done with it, which is what these companies are trying to prevent by going fully digital. Growing up, pretty much all my games came from relatives, garage sales, and second hand stores. In a purely digital world, that wouldn't have been possible and I would have been priced out of gaming. So, of course physical media will go away because it's consumer friendly and the ceo needs his fifth mansion.

@WaveBoy Thats why I go digital mainly. Most games I dont trade in as I stated before so rather then take up space on a shelf collecting dust they are on a hardrvie. If I do want to go back and play them, I can, but very rarely do I. Yeah having the physical item on a shelf invokes warm fuzzy feelings when you gaze upon them and take you back to another time, but I still have those memories. I just dont have the space physically anymore for 40+ years of memories lol.