WHY ARE WE YELLING?
Didn’t plan to buy one, before the S2 was announced.
The number of anti consumer actions they take is amazing. They still hate YouTube. Instead of making their games not suck, they sue anyone who dares to try. They have a handful of console exclusive that even interest me, everything else I’ll get in Steam and it’ll play better, have cloud save, and a refund policy.
I bought a NES in the 80s because it was the most amazing, magical thing. Now I’m at the point of ‘Fuck Nintendo, let it fall’
Stop posting this garbage to every community
Wasn’t going to, it’s such a dumb purchase unless you have money lying around.
Why? The first Switch is pretty fantastic for my use case, which is casual gaming w/ my kids, their friends, and my nephews/nieces.
I also have a Steam Deck and most of my gaming money goes to PC games. But I do like the Zelda series, so I’ll buy a handful of games now and then for the Switch (usually as gifts to my kids for X-mas or whatever to kill two birds w/ one stone).
Mainly the price of games and the other price gouging tactics they’re trying out
Sure, if it’s not a good value for you, then don’t buy it. Console games have never been cheap, and consoles have generally been affordable (not cheap).
IMO, the prices aren’t outlandish when you take inflation into account. Here’s an article that goes over it:
- OG NES - $180 in 1985, ~$480 today
- SNES - $200 in 1991, ~$415 today
- N64, Game Cube, Wii - ~$330, give or take
- Switch - ~$440
And this page lists game prices:
- NES - $146
- N64 - $120
- GameCube - ~$90
- Wii - $80
- Switch - $77
So generally a downward trend. The Switch 2’s expected prices are a bit of a correction to $80-90, but still pretty much in line with recent consoles.
Here’s the image for reference:
No, I get it. You really don’t need to post an entire breakdown when I can read it on any gaming site. These never seem to take into account that manufacturing games has become much cheaper or that the majority of games are sold digitally which have negligible costs compared to physical. Maybe I’m wrong about that but at the end of the day we are still getting used to $70 when it comes to modern consoles—so Nintendo thinking their games are worth more than that on top of being a generation behind? It’s a shitty look, honestly, especially combined with the other crap that’s come out about pricing since the reveal
manufacturing games has become much cheaper
Sure, the physical distribution is cheaper, but the development is way more expensive. That’s largely offset by more sales, hence the gradually reducing real price of games.
Yeah, it’s never fun seeing prices go up, but they tend to stay pretty flat during a console generation. So at the start, they’re making more than at the end, when inflation has chipped away at the value they’re getting per sale.
I’m not saying it’s “good” or anything, I also prefer cheaper games, just that it’s understandable when looking at pricing history compared to inflation.
I’m getting one on launch. Love my OG switch and got many cherished hours of gaming out of it.
I haven’t decided yet, because it’s not available yet. Once it’s available, I’ll check reviews and whatnot to decide whether to purchase it. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t, it depends on a bunch of factors.
Yeah, Nintendo sucks right in the legal department. But whether I buy their products has less to do with their legal department and more to do with the quality of the product.
They didn’t even fix the annoying joystick issues.
Me, not being a little baby man, am going to buy one at some point because I want to play the Zeldas and the Marios and no one is gonna keep me from enjoying those games when they come out—and I’m still gonna emulate on my Retroid ‘cause fuck Big Gaming.
lol, ok. /s
OK. Never bought anything from Nintendo, so that’s not a great sacrifice.
