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      • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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        9 days ago

        It’s odd because Donkey Kong is $69.99 and the MK console bundle gets you $30 off. My guess is that they are pushing the MK bundle hard because $450 is probably close to break even or loss leader for them. And going $530 was too high for the sticker price. Those that buy later will likely also get MK outside the bundle and then they are in the green. I bet the MK attach rate is going to be insane.

        I also think the $10 more for physical versions is solely to push consumers to digital only. Also it frames the $80 price point as being “$10 cheaper” rather than “$10 more than normal”

          • Moog Muskie@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            8 days ago

            Same tbh. I bought Metroid Prime Remastered and Tears of the Kingdom brand new in 2023 but it was not long after that I decided to stop buying their games brand new entirely. My thinking was that I’ll buy a Switch 2 brand new maybe a year after it comes out, unless they really mess up with physical games as much as Xbox has, requiring internet, or something stupid like PS5 slim/pro’s DRM in the disc drive that demands a one-time connection. Those hopes about physical games being good seem to be okay, but the pricing of the Switch 2 has completely soured the idea of buying the console instead. And the sheer price of the games makes me know I won’t even be able to afford to buy games if I even got the console years after release (because they never drop game prices).

            • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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              7 days ago

              Yeah, I could stomach a big upfront cost for the console (a year or so after launch, when you can just walk into a store and get one), but the $80 and $70 price points combined with Nintendo never putting their games on sale makes it so, so not worth it. Third party games you can play elsewhere, even portably, so that’s not nearly as much of a selling point as it was in 2017.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m all in, baby.

    I’m really excited for an official way to get TotK in 60fps. No, I don’t want to emulate. I still sometimes turn that game on to walk around and stumble upon stuff. It’s great. And with that app, I may actually try to get all the Korok seeds.

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    At the current conversion rate for just the console that’s nearly $730 CAD after taxes.

    Hard pass for me this year.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I wouldn’t worry too much about the exclusive, it’s a Nightreign-style game with a Bloodborne skin that isn’t your standard RPG fare.

      I am looking forward to Nightreign, and I’m sure this is a game I’d also enjoy, but one that I feel I am not missing out on as much if I don’t pick it up.

      • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Wages have not kept up with inflation though, and the price of housing and everything else has skyrocketed

      • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Follow up: WiiU retail price

        • Price at launch: $300
        • Price adjusted for inflation: $336

        Original Switch:

        • Price at launch: $300
        • Price adjusted for inflation: $316

        Honestly, I think anything over $325 is too expensive for this. It’s just an iteration of the previous model. It will be interesting to see what happens after the early adopters grab the initial shipments (how much will price go down, will sales drop precipitously if price does not go down enough?).

        https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/every-game-console-price-from-nes-to-switch/

        (Also, how depressing is it that the price of things has doubled in just 20 years?)

        • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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          9 days ago

          For Switch: $300 from 2017 is $388 today.

          For WiiU: $300 from 2012 is $415 today.

          Don’t get me wrong though, the economic outlook today is bleak, I don’t disagree. And it seems a lot of people think it’s too expensive and it is rightfully theirs to believe so. We all need to make the best financial decisions for ourselves. At the end of the day this is a luxury product.

          Ultimately I think price will be the subject of the conversation up until and after release, and only one thing will change the conversation and that is if the games are good. If Mario Kart World and DK Bananza knock it out of the park, people will not be talking about price, they will be talking about how much you need to play these games.

  • sacbuntchris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m so torn, Nintendo makes such great products especially for a family with kids but they’re such an awful company. I really don’t want to support them and their habit of suing everyone

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      If you can’t resist then I guess a compromise might to be buying used where possible, getting cross-platform titles on other platforms.

      Personally a couple of my various regrets have been getting Nintendo stuff new in recent years. My lightly used New 3DS d-pad bugged out, I replaced the d-pad for it and barely used it only for it to partly break again.

      I got a Switch, new, before they went ballistic with lawsuits and the screen had a dead pixel out of the box. Probably a matter of time before it develops stick drift. The battery also gives the whole device a limited time to work, unless it can still work via the dock without a battery (or with and without charging capacity), but I’m doubtful of that…

      The Switch 2 being a similar design carries on that same battery problem as far as I’m aware.

    • Coyote_sly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Get into PS5 for cheaper, too. I can only assume the built for $350 and priced for tariffs, but if that were true you’d expect to see lower relative prices elsewhere. Hell, you can get into a real handheld PC gaming there if you’re patient.

      I have zero interest in that product at that price. None.

    • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Nintendo consoles for me are just for playing Nintendo games. So it’s all about the exclusives. For 3rd party I have so many other places to play.

    • StereoCode@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      How? Xbox launched at 500(if you account for inflation it’s closer to 6) the PS5 also launched at the same price. Which again if you count for inflation is closer to 6. So this is coming in under those prices by quite a bit. This is a launch console price point.

      Now if you were complaining about the cost of the game then yeah that would make sense because I don’t think Mario Kart has the same production cost as say Forza or Grand Tourismo.

      The consoles price point is actually in line with how much the original switch cost(if you take into account inflation).

  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    So…what’s up with the Japanese language & multi language systems they get over there?

    Is putting in multiple languages really that much more expensive? Or put another way, why do they get a 330$ version for those who only speak Japanese? The language restriction must be just so people don’t export them… was there a scalping problem?

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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      9 days ago

      It’s ostensibly to stop the huge scalping and reselling problem here. Also, then yen is kinda shit right now.

      Foreigner in Japan groups are pretty pissed since it’s not currently clear that, if you have a Japanese account but also a foreign one, whether you won’t even be able to connect your other account (i.e. lose access to all your old games). Anything that relies on system language to determine game language also suddenly becomes Japanese-only since this version will only have Japanese. It’s really shitty for people who want to do anything in their native language. My wife also sometimes tries to play on my US account to work on her English.

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    If nintendo’s price points are anything similar to Lenovo’s from last week, ~50$ US of that is from darth cheeto and his tarrifs.

    Not trying to be political, lemmy sorta has that covered already, just pointing that out.

    (Source: Linus’s crew pointed it out earlier in the week Link)

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Honestly considering his just-announced 24% tarrifs on Japan right after this price came out, I would not be surprised if we get more of a price jump before release.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 days ago

      If that were the case, only the US should have the higher price. But the whole world does.

  • Sepix@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Currently i don’t see why i would invest so much besides owning it out of principal. The OG released with 2 exclusives or 3? That would be a whole other story but with Mario Kart alone?

    • CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, it’s basically Mario Kart World and then Donkey Kong Bananza shortly thereafter.

      As a reminder Switch 1 had the following first party titles in its launch window:

      • BOTW
      • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
      • 1-2-Switch (meh)
      • Snipperclips (meh)
      • ARMS (meh)
      • Splatoon 2

      So knowing how those games went, and excluding the meh games. Switch 2 is really only missing 1 first party like Splatoon.

      Also Metroid Prime 4 is in the middle space of being a crossover title.

    • ivanovsky@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Another reason I can think of is that usually launch versions sometimes have vulnerabilities that are harder to patch (which let you jailbreak, if you’re into that)

  • ‮redirtSdeR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    What kind of rich ass people are they trying to appeal to with this console?! The switches advantage was that it was cheap and aimed at a general audience.

    500$ for the bundle is crazy I can’t afford that.