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For reference sake I have like 60 of these games. But I can’t support this price. But I will for 3d classics like ridge racer.

The pricing is crazy. I essentially avoid things like the capcom collections because I like the individual icons on my menu screen. But this is like half of the capcom fighting collection which will eventually go on sale.

@Haruki_NLI all we were asking for is to be able to message people and to chat with a headset. No one asked for this. Oh look Nintendos doing it so it’s cool. Wait a second this is going to effect games performance. Now you have to ask yourself is it worth it. Nintendo clearly thinks it is. But Nintendo also thinks a whole bunch of other ideas of theirs are great which I’m sure many of us would question.

This is like how Xbox one has resources dedicated to Kinect. Even when they stopped selling Kinect the resources were lost and the ps4 games ran better. For instance black ops 3 is 1080p on ps4 and only 900p on Xbox one and you can notice the difference. This isn’t a feature I will use and guess what I’d always rather the performance.

@Monkeido not too long ago you were paying $60 a game. It wasn’t that long ago. They sold 68 million copies of Mario Kart 8. How much do you think it cost them to develop MK8? How much do you think it cost them to develop MKworld? Well according to this price increase at the same sales rate they will make an extra billion dollars in sales. I highly doubt that’s about inflation. It should be obvious it’s about profits.

Make way for Nintendo to keep justifying porting games at full price while even companies such as EA or Activision, which this community hates, remasters and releases games in a 2/3 pack bundle at often less price.

Or is this just inflation again. I have a hard time understanding when it’s greed versus, shrug everything costs more and live with it, inflation.

Not only does ea not raise the price of their games. They are notorious for dropping their major sports games by 80% at the end of the year. That to me is a good deal but ok Nintendo fans who might get 33% off for remastered wii or wii u games I guess ea sucks.

@Aerona speak for yourself I’m rich. Naw I’m just joking. These prices are crazy even with inflation.

@electrolite77 I should have replied to your comment I guess first. I have 7 TVs because I prefer to buy one ever other year that’s a mid level tv than to buy the very best and be all in. The other thing is tv size prices go down all the time.

@jfp yes because I buy a new tv every few years and rotate the old tv somewhere else. It doesn’t mean I’m rich. I’d rather buy the mid level tv and upgrade it every once in a while than buy the best tv money can buy and be all in.

@electrolite77 maybe I’m strange. But our house has 7 tvs yet only 4 people. The fact that the switch 2 comes with a screen doesn’t make It cheaper for my house. We have more than enough TVs that a tv only version would be cheaper to us.

@jfp I think we picture corporate scenes from the movie “elf” or “big” where companies are there to make as much money as possible. I’m ok with that but don’t pretend you’re our friends and anytime you explain why prices go up I can’t just accept that as truth since I know that making money is the ultimate plan so you will likely lie in order to make that end goal.

“According to Activision’s current Call of Duty head Patrick Kelly (via the court filings,) we now know the development cost for those three specific CoD titles ranged from $450 to $700 million. These figures were included in files for a lawsuit against Activision surrounding the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting filed in May 2024.
For Black Ops III, the game was developed over three years for over $450 million and has sold 43 million copies since it launched in 2015. 2019’s Modern Warfare remake had a similar multi-year development cycle but jumped to over $640 million in associated costs and is now around 41 million copies sold”

Sports illustrated.

Are we suggesting that Nintendo is spending 200 million developing a Mario game? I highly doubt that.

@larryisaman can someone compare the standard size of a Nintendo developer team to a triple A call of duty game or any other franchise. I somehow think that making Mario kart world 8 which has no licenses actually takes a smaller development team than say forza horizon. Yet here we are with the price increase and fans justifications.

@Hwatt I do think Mario maker could use that mouse support though. Would have been nice on the original switch if I could have plugged in a usb mouse. It really shouldn’t be this complicated.

@Hwatt there’s no way they’re upgrading Mario kart 8. They want people to move on from that as fast as possible.

@NintendoWife the display must technically be about to do 120fps so let’s slap that on the box but there’s so few Xbox series X games that support this at a decent recoslution it’s as useless as ray tracing. At the rate nintendo develops their systems it will be switch 4 before there’s actually a good amount of 120fps games and or ray tracing.

@Spider-Kev my mom had a windows phone and I really liked it as well. At that time I was a blackberry user.

@Jester676 I have an iPhone 11. I still have to pay for lightning to aux adapters.

@Spider-Kev turned into an apple product. Maybe the phone you can justify but everything else is robbery disguised as inflation.

@electrolite77 sorry I didn’t see him reference wii u numbers. That’s insane.

@electrolite77 you share nintendos same confidence and or pride. And we all know pride goes before the fall.

@Solid_Python except how many casuals buy $500 systems. And then get to me how many casuals buy $500 in uncertain economic times?

Enthusiasts have to buy this for it to be successful.

@Jhena when people like me say $80 is the end of my gaming days people laugh me off. We shall see how they treat your kind on your way out.

@Banjo- paid DLC got you covered

@sanderev wait a second. You don’t want the billion dollar company to treat the customer like a charity but you want the customer to treat the business like a charity as if the money from these increases will go to the developers. It’s going to the shareholders holders.

Other companies sell a fraction of the units that Nintendo games do and then they eventually go in deep discount. The fact that they are selling way more units plus only go as low as 33% off means that Nintendo has a winning strategy. Take away gold points and vouchers and Nintendo is even better off.

The very best selling call of duty sold 43 million.
Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold 68 million.

Nintendo has its money right. They just want more money.

@sanderev you need to continue to eat. But you could continue to play Mario kart 8 deluxe.

@Zufolobelisk at 13:34 in the Nintendo of America mario kart world direct when discussing local wireless play in small font at the bottom of the screen…

“Additional games, systems and or accessories may be required for multiplayer mode. games, systems and some accessories sold separately.”

Good job Nintendo. Good Job.

Sounds like you need multiple copies of the game to wireless local play. Good work nintendo. Good work.

Must be inflation not greed

@electrolite77 every year gas and wages go up. Yet prices fell. You have to solely lean on semiconductors as your argument. Tv prices continue to fall. Other electronics have gotten cheaper. I’m confused why these electronics are the outlier.

I’d also like to hear about these wages were talking about when discussing china electric company factory workers. Not too long ago apple employees were committing suicide at work. Am I to believe that the Nintendo factory is paying a respectable wage at the assembly factory?

@electrolite77 it’s greed. This is the first console generation ever that consoles went up. People are greedy in 2025. That doesn’t mean it costs more to make.

Doesn’t really matter anyways since Xbox and PlayStation have been selling consoles now for five years. Those that wanted one have one.

@Nintoz why do you really want to like it?

All of the comments of I never want to play a person in a wheel chair is partially how I believe Nintendo got to the art style. They wanted one to be inclusive and help those with accessibility issues to feel included and cool. Two they wanted the general public to look at wheelchairs more favourably than pity. I don’t mind the art direction but the game itself looks terrible and I’m never using mouse controls. Bring back punch out please.

For the record in my complaints about pricing I said I didn’t need gimmicks. I just wanted a system to play first party games in 4k. A tv model would have worked for me. Based on the games everyone wants (Mario kart world, donkey Kong, breath of the wild 4k) I think even if most of you want traditional games too. Gimmicks tend to suck.

@KingMike you’re buying it for Nintendo first party games. How many of us actually used the joy con as a controller off the switch. We could get rid of that gimmick like the lite did. How many of us played games with those joy cons that needed motion control like 1-2 switch, arms or the first Mario party? Not many and even though Nintendo pushed this there was no arms 2 and they eventually made a buttons only Mario party. HD rumble. It’s a big name but how often was it used. Just a lot of gimmicks which make the hardware more expensive and in the joy cons case with those sticks unreliable. When the Wii u was out people were like oh I can’t imagine playing mario kart without a map on my big plastic gimmick touch screen. Yet look at how well Mario kart sold. Apparently a big button to honk your horn was not needed and perhaps Wii u would have done better without the gimmick which added a cost to the console.

Id saw what Nintendon did with Mario Kart and had a brilliant idea. These people are suckers!!!!

@electrolite77 I think if Microsoft and Sony manage to take loses on their consoles then Nintendo can afford to do it. I think if Microsoft and Sony can manage to sell their games at 70 then Nintendo can afford to do it. Those game prices arent a loss so I’m very confused why it costs nintendo so much to make a game. Actually I’m not confused. They can get away with it so they are. Or they think they can get away with it.

What if you don’t care about open world? Everything open world. Yeahhhhj

@WiiWareWave there is no proof because no one has the console. Which is why digital foundry uses comparables. You can’t just take everything nintendo tells you at face value. The games are 4k or are they 4k through DLSS? That’s a big difference.

@molkom I have five switches. That sounds unhappy?

It is an improvement. Again I guess there’s just a lot of stuff I am never going to use but I’m being forced to pay for.

The screen. I only play docked
The joy cons. I’ll be using a pro controller
The battery. Don’t need that if it’s always docked.
The mouse controls. I’m more often playing at a tv on a couch so not going to use that.

I’d like to know about the wifi. You had to have every switch dock next to each other not to have communication breakdowns when playing system link. I’d like to know this is fixed.

Of course I am happy it’s 4k. I have a 100 inch tv. 4k matters!!!! But Nintendo fans for so long tried to make it sound like it didn’t. Magically it matters. No kidding. It matters when your company has it.

I’m going to be very honest. I can barely see the graphical update from Mario kart 8 to Mario kart world!

I also think there isn’t many first party games. Zelda spin off won’t buy. Donkey Kong is a yes. Mario kart only because it’s in a bundle. Kirby what are we doing. Why are we getting two kart racers in such a short time and the justification of no analogue buttons is crazy. They matter at least on a pro controller. I won’t be buying F1 on this thing that’s for sure.

@electrolite77 it’s a problem of the company if the people who once bought your products can no longe afford it. You have no one to sell it to or less people to sell it to.

@Jester676 you’re airing Nintendo prime as a reliable source e. Gtfo with that silly talk.

@ChakraStomps it is inline. However those techs were released before all this global uncertainty. Maybe I’m an old man with kids and responsibilities but I’m going to save money in such times not spend more.

Also I enjoyed Nintendo for its more often affordability. Now we’re here in apple territory and I have to rethink my priorities.

Also Nintendo fans one year. We don’t need ps4/5 graphics ours are good enough. Here’s a new Nintendo with ps4/5 graphics. Damn it I need that. Wtf did you think donkey Kong was going to look like. Of course it was going to look better. We all knew that. But we didn’t need it in this form factor if this was the price attached.

@Banjo- don’t worry. Wherever you work they care about your kids. Will send you an added cheque to cover the cost of this system and it’s games. That’s how this works apparently.

@Tober can I compare to happy meals. This is where my fast food budget has led me. Plus I get mindxraft toys. Again I’m in the over 200k territory. It’s not can’t afford it’s simply not buying things I think are overpriced.

@Dr_Awkward hey doc. I can afford it. Just because I can afford it doesn’t mean I think it’s good value. Just accepting prices the way you are suggesting emboldens companies.

@blindsquirrel I can love at the price for a hybrid at the power level but the price is so high they should have considered their family market and offered a lower price tv only version. Except that would be hard to do without showing the large discrepancy in price.

@Jester676 or you sell a console for a few select games and the rest of the time it collects dust.

In the good old days we could also rent consoles. Imagine that.

@Jester676 and eventually digital foundry can buy it and see all of its faults.

Car fax only shows so much. If you think that’s the whole picture I would not want to buy a used car with you. But you’re also the one taking Nintendo (the company selling you something) at its word and the neutral company with no horse in the race as spreaders of misinformation. Yikes.

@Citrus_Architect my dad worked for a tv channel and was always upset with Napster and stealing tv. He would always say who is paying for those billion dollar satellites. Except now he’s retired and every year the cable bill goes up. And he starts to complain. Wskmeone has to pay for those satellites dad. Those are long paid off and instead the customer gets stuck with more hidden fees.

Theres a reason iTunes took off. No viruses and reasonable pricing. There’s a reason Netflix took off. Simple to use cheap to subscribe. Once you hit a certain price though people are going to screw the man. That’s life. They don’t need to be this greedy.