Former Nintendo PR Explains Why Switch Games Rarely Go on Sale: ‘This Isn’t Ubisoft’
Former Nintendo PR Explains Why Switch Games Rarely Go on Sale: ‘This Isn’t Ubisoft’
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Lmao Ubisoft catching strays, they really are the joke of the game industry
You could just subscribe to them on YouTube, there’s no reason for articles like this to exist.
She’s not really wrong but that’s an inflammatory headline if I’ve ever seen one. Keyword former.
Switch Games rarely go on sale because that’s their business model and it’s worked wonders for them.
No other explanation needed.
Bit of a weak excuse, innit? Like, you want to keep the price for a few years? Go right ahead. But lowering the price means a new wave of sales, instead of the relative trickle. Remember, it IS a luxury product in the end. Money is precious, and people are more likely to buy the new games instead of the old. FOMO and Hype-Train and all that.
No incentive to because people buy the games
This argument would make sense if it was their console exclusive games, I remember waiting so long for Octopath 1 to go on sale on the switch I ended up getting it on steam because I got sick of waiting.
I feel like no one cares but this benefits the consumer as well if you buy physical copies, I turned in my copy of Mario Party every time they made a new one and got like thirty bucks each time, we only play the latest one we have anyway it’s worth it. Same with Pokémon but some of those are worth keeping
Kinda just feels like you don’t respect the customer. My last Nintendo console was the 64 prior to getting a switch for my kid and most of these games aren’t worth the $60 price tag in my opinion. I didn’t switch to game cube because of their price hike bullshit and I guess I’ll have to do it again.
This is by far the dumbest excuse I have ever heard in my entire life, but I’m guessing plenty of people here will eat it up because of some lazy “fuck ubisoft” reason.
Ubisoft doesn’t have a console that you have to buy to play their games exclusively, so this doesn’t make sense.
Her quote feels like it was pulled from a decade-old time capsule
Nintendo is starting to really show their greed.
While I respect that they value their product, squeezing customers for full price games that are years old is just wrong. And saying they’ll just buy it anyway is a fast way to start driving people away.
Example would love to have played Mario Odyssey but I’m not paying $70 cad for it, especially now that is like 8 years old.
Kid named the orange box:
Greed and because they can
No sale = no buy. No game is a must play for me, and my backlog can last me a decade easily.
Ubisoft shot themself in the foot.
Everyone is waiting on a pricedrop for those games.
I mean sure Ubisoft games go on sale really quickly after releasing, problem is Nintendo games don’t go on sale at all. When I see the price of Switch 2 games, I just think that the cheapest i’m going to see any of them go on sale for the about the full price of a Switch game.
Hell just bring back the Nintendo Selects line which conveniently disappeared with the Switch, when they ported titles part from that over from the Wii U for full price. Sadly I doubt that’ll happen because the Switch succeeded and they got greedy.
Essentially “the prices may be high but customers keep buying” essentially taking the blame off the company and placing it on the consumer.
Them keeping years old games as expensive as they were at launch is why I haven’t bought a Nintendo system since the Wii. It’s fine if that’s how they want to run things, but I have a finite amount of expendable money I can spend on the hobby and I’m gonna go where I get the most for my dollar.
They control the hardware and the software and there’s no alternative.
That’s why
I mean, he’s not wrong. But he’s not completely right either.
Am I going to pay a steep price for the next mario kart or metronidazole game? Probably. Those titles are consistent with what they deliver.
Am I going to pay a steep price for the next mario party or princess peach thing? Definitely not.
With ubi soft I’ll wait for the price to drop to $20 on their most recent AAAA game and I’ll pick it up out of curiosity, knowing I’m getting a piece of crap, but at least then it’s an affordable loss.
Ubisoft: what he say fuck me for?
Exec isn’t wrong, people are gonna buy no matter the cost…to an extent. Folks will still pay whatever price Nintendo throws on their stuff so this trend WILL continue and look for MS and Sony to follow suit. The gaming community as a whole is terrible about unifying unless it’s political in nature so at this point suck it up because it ain’t gonna change.
End of the year sales drop the majority of 1st party titles to $25-40. That’s when I buy them.
Rarely going on sale is fine.
Still being 60 dollars when the third sequel is releasing is not.
Because their games cost a third of what other AAA studios spend on development, and they always sell at high price.
It really isn’t science or magic, its basic math.
The reason is it’s because they make great game compared to slop Ubisoft makes…