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@Matt-e-r Yeah, I think I’m mostly in agreement. Nintendo have basically priced it at what they believe they can get away with charging and that’s their choice of course. Apple have been doing this forever and it doesn’t hurt their business, but Apple have a very different client in mind.

Time will tell, but I think Nintendo’s pricing strategy could prove the defining matter of how well they perform this generation.

@Akeratsu I note that the PlayStation boss is quoted in another article on this site as backing up the idea that scarcity = value. He says that Switch 2 exclusivity will justify the price hike of 1st party games.

I think this is beginning to digress from the topic though. Nintendo has always had apologists rooting for its worst ideas and that won’t change this generation. Joy con drift doesn’t exist etc.and of course 80 quid for a game is very reasonable when you consider that it took some skill to make and will be fun to play.

@Akeratsu It’s the very basics of economics. Countries keep gold reserves because it’s a rare, desirable metal and its price is stable because of it.

Bitcoin has to be mined and therefore has a value. Digital items have can be more valuable than physical equivalents.

You’re right though that a game download has little value, yet somehow people are willing to pay too much for it. If you had to choose between 2, would you invest your life savings in Mario Kart World downloads, or gold?

I’m not a believer that the monetary value of an item is directly influenced by the entertainment value. The value of an item is literally the scarcity to desirability ratio. Mario Kart world may well be desirable, but it certainly won’t be scarce. 80 quid is plain greedy.

Somehow, Nintendo managed to perfectly sum up in an accessory precisely how I felt about the Switch 2 reveal.

I’m not planning on getting a switch 2 for quite some time and I don’t subscribe to online, so gimme HD Windwaker on Switch please!

Hope it has an option to make the screen 14” so we can really feel like we’ve travelled back to the days when our hair and teeth were all accounted for.

I’m dubious of the comment about having to run at full power to fully emulate. I highly doubt that the switch 2 could emulate switch at anywhere near an acceptable level. Looking forward to finding out if I’m right over the coming months and years…

That’s a shame, because Super Soccer is a fairly big part of the SNES story. It was a launch title in my country and Nintendo advertised it as if it was their own.

A SNES library without Super Soccer, is like when Mario loses his cap in SM64. Nothing is broken, but it just feels wrong.

It finally happened. Nintendo ran out of ideas.

Lawyer breaks down what makes an emulator illegal by saying…

“ "While you can’t immediately claim that an emulator is illegal in itself, it can become illegal depending on how it’s used"”

Here’s a quick list I compiled of other things that are very similar.

Spoons - perfectly legal, unless you maliciously poke someone in the eye with the handle end; should be banned.

Chicken drumsticks - perfectly legal, unless you remove the meat and maliciously poke someone in the eye with the pointy end; should be banned.

Paper - perfectly legal, unless you roll it up into a point and maliciously poke someone in the eye with it. Should be banned.

Thanks Nintendo lawyers for clarifying that emulators are indeed legal.