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@BenGrimm Its not about thats its about Nintendo pricing issue that they have always had. 6 year old games should not be full price. Its pretty much a middle finger to the fans. You wouldn't buy a 6 year old console for full price because even a year or 2 in they drop by $50-$100. God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 stayed full price for just a few months before going on sale and wont be long before they drop to a new permanent low. No other developer prices there games like Nintendo does. The only exception is COD which stays at a high price an that is not a model you want to build you franchises on. Look at Red Dead 2 as an example. Came out in October, AAA game with extremely high budget, one of the best looking at highest rated games on the market. $80cdn or $60usd, it is now on sales for between $15 and $20 less and most retailers it will drop to that pretty quick an that is a brand new title.
This is a 6 year old game in a new package for full price and as its Nintendo its likely to never drop. It isn't economically wise to do jdjkakhdksjnsg like that. They could sell loads more if it was a cheaper game but full price tag is BS. If Sony, MS or Steam did that you can bet there would be social media posts blasting them.

I mean come on, look at Spyro Reignited, the full retail is $40usd. That is 3 games rebuilt from the ground up from scratch, new audio, voice acting and graphics. They didnt even have the original code they had to rebuild that too. So why is Super Mario Bros U Deluxe a full price $60 game when all they did was repackage it?

@Cosats Dont get me wrong I love Indie games, some of them make my list of favorite games easily. But on the Switch its extremely hard to sort the good from the bad. How many damn times have I seen Astro bears own the front page of the eshop. I'm not saying that there aren't good Indie games I'm saying its extremely hard to find the good ones. I always find myself looking at youtube videos for reviews and then going to the eshop specifically to find the good ones. The same low price garbage games always appear at the front of the eshop because they are cheap while the good ones are buried. It's a pretty common complaint. Even when you look at Youtube video talking about consoles and the UIs and shop that's always a good eshop complaint is having to siphon through the shovelware.

@Medic_alert The only thing I had wrong was the patent. I should have said copyright the dance move an not patent it. You can trademark a name as well as a logo an branding. As per below the product is technically the dance. So they could trademark "Flossing" or "The Carlton" as a name and then copyright the dance associated with it.

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a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product.

@WOLF13 Very true but sad as well, in the end all it does is hurt them and damages their sales but die hard fans thinks it helps them. I refuse to buy most games full price or cant afford to which means they make nothing of me. I only buy games on sales and im not the only one. Its how they work but its entirely wrong by todays standards.

@Tsurii Weirdly enough a quick google search make it seem possible. Normally you cant as its just a move not a product. However, you can trademark a name of the dance move and you can patent choreography so with some clever wording an lawyer moved you probably can.

@Romeo-75 Not sure where you have been looking but Amazon and EB are $60 US and $80 CDN. The official RRP of the game is $60 and $80. If you say it for $40 it was likely a special deal of some kind but certainly not the official retail price.

@IHateTombs In Canada its $80 which is about $60 US.

@MrMetroid I am 100% with you on this one. Its a total scam.

100% big fat no from me. I refuse to pay $80 for a game that came out 6 years ago that is nothing more than a port. How does Nintendo still not understand, thats not how the damn market works.
Games like Shadow of the Colossus were full ground up graphical remakes and were $50 and that is the same across the board. You can get HD remasters of the first 2 Batman games, highly rated classics for less than $30 for both. This is a total ripoff

@misterMike and as we all know by now, Nintendo almost never discount first party. I picked up Odysee a few weeks back as it was the first time i had ever seen it on sale in the entire year of its release. I like my Switch but thats why i will also pick my PS4 over it. I know that AAA titles will drop in price within a few months and i cannot afford a full $80 price tag of new releases in Canada.

@misterMike Actually i just checked and the NA one doesnt seem too bad this time. Normally the EU get some of the higher end games on sale whereas NA gets a crap load of Indies and not much else. Nintendo seems to have an issue with quantity over quality, unfortunately. Th amount of Android and iPhone games on Switch is staggering and most are utter garbage at 4 times the price.

I really wish Nintendo would fix their pricing on games when compared to everyone else. I can get Yooka-Laylee for $32Cdn on the Eshop right now. Oh ya know..get it for $16 on Xbox or PlayStation. That counts for virtually every game. Its digital, it should be the same price across the board. Nintendo know that they are usually a second or third system for the majority of gamers but the pricing always means i buy my games on other systems.

I keep wondering if Nintendo just hates North America in general. The EU always gets better sales, more content everything.

@codyf I totally goofed on that one my bad.

Just in case people aren't aware if you have a PS4 its one of the free games for PS+ subscribers for December.

They priced themselves out of the market. Its a gimmick nothing more and you can only get them when paying for online its kind of insulting. Oh not to mention that you cant charge them properly like you can with joycons.

@Audigore0733 My assumption is you didnt read it an neither did the 2 people that liked your comment. The issue isnt the preorder, the issue is that Nintendo refuse to refund preorders when people want to cancel them which is very much against consumer rights.

Oh you mean the game that every single Pokemon fan has wanted since the N64 days but Nintendo keep throwing portable game reskins into the ring and odd games like Pokken tournament.
Nintendo doesn't like money it seems, thats the only reason for not having this in the market yet.

I dont see a damn thing wrong with this and i was a sonic fan long before anything else.

I think my biggest issue with Xbox UI and the store is the in your face advertising. On PS4 and even Switch all i see are my games and my content. On Xbox its just adds for junk everywhere and pushed content. That drivers me insane that its so cluttered. The PS4 i have folders for games and thats it. The store is its own thing and it works. I still dont understand why the xbox doesnt have an add to cart feature, thats the early days of the internet tech and it still doesnt have it.

I will agree on the page cannot be displayed issue on the web browser but i haven't had it for a while now. Everyone has their own tastes of course an thats fine. I just dont understand anyone that says the PS4 UI is garbage and hard to use when saying that the xbox one is easy and nice to use. The Xbox One is a lesson in how not to design a UI for anyone, opinions aside its terribly designed to any standard. I will say that as much was i want more from the Switch the system itself is clean and quick. It shows my games, no advertising, no garbage, is just works.

I love my Switch but the OS and the shop feel years out of date. The only other exception would be Xbox, that store is a mess.
I still dont understand how people say the PSN store is bad compared to Xbox. But the Eshop just constantly shows terrible phone ported games for 3 times the price. All the good stuff is buried under mounds of terrible games and its near impossible to find what you want.

@Broosh I would love that. Never got around to playing 2 but 1 was amazing.

@RoadieRunner Honestly i loved both but for me the pacing in RDR2 was off sometimes. You could suddenly find yourself riding the horse for half hour just trying to get somewhere to start a mission. I loved it but that was my major issue with it.

Finally things that are on sale that should have had sales months ago or dropped in price. Mario Odysee for sure for me. Everything else is still miles cheaper on other systems.

@DarthFoxMcCloud Such BS Canada always get screwed by Nintendo for no good reason.

I would but still cant. Im in Canada and the store says i do not have a compatible device. It's not like i have some obscure phone its a Google Pixel 2.

@Captain_EO There is no logic to that though. Mario Odysee sold about 10 in its first 4 months of release. Red Red 2 sold 17 million in its first 2 weeks and is on sale for Black friday. There are hundreds of examples like this. Same with God of war and anything else. Mario Odysee sold well by console sales comparison but thats it.
Rockstar knew they could keep making money but still put it on sale.

I will never understand how Nintendo figures out its pricing. Games like Mario Odysee are over a year old now and I have only seen it on sales once. Now its on sale in NA at 2 retailers and not the ehsop. I mean come on really? There are zero other companies that do colorless slimy frogs like that.

@kamikazilucas Price fixing and stupidity

@Yasume Nothing there says its going to be easy in all fairness it just won't take weeks to get them. You can finish most 60 hour games in under 10 if you ignore all the content as well.

@Rhaoulos Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Just Cause is out soon and so is Kingdom Hearts 3, Life is Strange 2, Octopath...id say for the most part they are going pretty well. All of those either did very well in review and sales or are some of the most highly anticipated games for the coming months.

@Wintersoulis Pokemon never had a challenge so i never did understand this argument. I had Red and Blue on the original Gameboy an never once was it a challenge. For the most part you could always use the starter..just like every single other pokemon game. I did that in X as well. I've seen a lot of people argue that this one as too easy but they are all easy. They are meant for children not adults.

Utterly stupid. If you dont like the game and have played it fine, g ahead and review. But doing it just for the hell of it doesn't help anyone. The developer cant improve a game if they cant tell the real review from the fake so you accomplish nothing

What is Nintendo's problem with listening to fans, they just dont seem to give a damn. Everything from poor online ability and apps to game priced and even available of old titles. People want the new other generations like SNES much more than NES an thats the overall opinion not just mine, so what do we get..NES.

So people turn to pirating and ROMs because there is no official way to get those old games not unless you managed to find an old system..so what do they do? Sue the ROM sites to get it all removed and still not provide a way to play classics. If they gave people an option pirating would drop, it wont stop dont get me wrong, but it would certainly decrease for those systems.

i love my Switch but it just feels like Nintendo exists in an age where the Internet doesnt exist, just like the way they treated youtubers.

@NEStalgia My issue with the gear was price, same as you, but also no one vendor sold what you need. You had to remember what cities and axes, or swords or bows and what cities has body or leg or arm gear.
I sometimes got to a city got all the good stuff, had no money left, then the next city for the same level, but a different character arc, and the gear was better and i had no idea.

@NEStalgia Agreed some just lasted far too long. I understand the challenge but some of them are challenging regardless of the length of the fight it was just rinse and repeat.
The other issue with bosses i found was that you might be dealing ok with enemies, you are just about right for the dungeon just challenging enough..but then the boss seemed like it was designed for a dungeon way off in the late game content. There was sometimes this odd jump of level.

I also wasn't a fan of the magic system, that someone can cast fire but not fire on all enemies, but someone who could do light or dark was one or all. Same with Ice as well.

I was hoping for a bit more depth of skills as well. It seemed like a really shallow system.

Octopath traveller. The music and graphics were stunning, the stories were sometimes interesting. But i had 2 major complaints with it.

Even if you were multiple levels above enemies the battles just dragged on an on sometimes with no end in sight. Even with the double classes and the gear it was wouldn't stop. The other is the level gap between story chapters. I could beat the bosses at chapter 4 around the right level but then the final chapter was miles above my level and even the small enemies on the path to the new area could destroy me in a split second. The level gap was just way off. The game forced you to grind just to do the story. I know its JRP culture but it can be done in a fun way. But long drawn battles you can easily win just because the enemies HP is insanely high but hit low made the battles feel like chores.

@OorWullie Exactly which is usually about $9.99CDN as well. Personally i still find that a little on the pricey side given how old the game is and most version if it nothing has changed. Some have even been emulated versions which have cost pretty much nothing.

@Bunkerneath and yet they will charge far too much for the millionth re-re-re-re-release

@shaneoh Hey come on, she was in Resident Evil and that was true to the Source mater....sorry i cant keep a straight face..this is going to be terrible.

Sure i will get hate as usual, but The World Ends with you is a joke of a price. Why does Nintendo keep charging insane prices for old games.

Just dont sway too far, look at Microsoft, they tried to go all in on a multi-entertainment platform and the Xbox One is doing terribly in every single market. All they did was focus on sports and media and the sales suffered.

Not higher specs, we saw this with the 3ds and then a few new games only worked on the NEW one forcing people to upgrade the basically the same system.

I think the screen is fine, people are asking for 1080 which make no sense in a screen that size as you wont really see a difference.

Internal storage would be a great idea.

Either way..just..maybe finish the current version before you ship a new one. The UI is still missing some major features that people want, get that done first before you announce a new system.

For some reason, it says it isn't compatible with my phone so i haven't tried it. I have a Google Pixel 2 XL there should be no reason why it doesn't work unless they didnt make it for Android Pie which seems like a stupid move.

The only thing stopping me getting VR is the price. I want the PSVR as thats an easy sell just dont have spare money laying around. PC VR is still way too expensive for the average person..with a life..and a house lol

I never had the chance to play this. I had the Gamecube but in the UK where i was it became an extremely rare game. It was near impossible to find and when you finally did find it was a premium price. I would love the chance to play them.

So Nintendo life posted a Youtube video talking about how Sony Copied Nintendo blah blah blah and only 1 or 2 points were valid. Do we get one about how this is obviously copying Xbox and then Sony? lol

Ok, I agree Smash Bros and the move controllers but the rest are a bit of a stretch.

@jockmahon and Microsoft needs to de-Americanize itself and so does EA.

@Aven That's way too good of an idea for Nintendo to make happen.