Former PlayStation boss predicted the Switch 2 would be $100 cheaper than it is, but isn’t irked by $80 for games like Mario Kart World as publishers shouldn’t be “limited to a fixed price”
Former PlayStation boss predicted the Switch 2 would be $100 cheaper than it is, but isn’t irked by $80 for games like Mario Kart World as publishers shouldn’t be “limited to a fixed price”
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Publishers aren’t limited to a fixed price. That’s how big mobile games operate nowadays. Unlimited spending.
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Games being too cheap compared to what they are costing to make is pretty obvious at this point though many dont want to accept that reality
we’ll see how well that works for them.
Problem it’s almost never an 80 dollar
Game. There’s the in game store this makes it a 500 dollar game over time.
They shouldn’t be. I absolutely agree.
It should be a free market.
And you know who controls a free market when it comes to video games, which are mostly digital now, thus infinite?
The consumer.
In fact, regardless of the supply, if we don’t pay the prices, they either come down, or they stop making money. This could lead to a loss for us as well, but if you have a problem with prices going up. Stop paying these companies no matter what they do.
Stop buying into their battle passes, mtx, and price hikes. You stop doing it, and then enough of us stop doing it, we are the wins who will win.
After all, they are raising prices despite already having high profits. The only excuse here is money. Money to appease shareholders. Shareholders who have ruined the medium as a whole.
Not paying them will choke them out. We all just have to stop being chumps.
Of course, you all won’t stop doing this. Sadly, even if everyone on reddit did stop buying in, it wouldn’t be enough. Too many people have more money than sense.
I’m tired of hearing from “former X bosses” they always seem to be in favor of more and more money. Maybe that’s why they’re former? Like fuck off. Idgaf if one “isn’t irked” about game prices. Consumerism mind set is toxic af man.
I’m sure Playstation are ecstatic that Nintendo went to 80 dollar games. Took away any heat they had for their 70 dollar games.
Accounting for inflation, this Mario Kart is cheaper than the last at launch.
Of course they are happy about the price tag, those greedy pigs
I swear.there’s a new “former Playstation boss” headline popping up every alternate day now.
Not so far from now will be paying 100$ for a single game
400 was possible but that was an optimistic take, got to remember Nintendo likes to make a profit of their consoles.
The price of Mario Kart surprised me but probably just makes sense to Nintendo, games like Metroid Dread cost like 60 bucks and are significantly cheaper to make, so why you Mario Kart which cost more…be the same price?
Uh hey yea my former competition has over priced hardware but software for $80 is a great idea because ummm well we want to do that to 🤣
Of course the rat C suite member is going to say 80 dollars for videogames is fine.
That means nothing.
I do agree with him. Sony was the first in North America to do fixed pricing @ $49 for PlayStation games. That was a huge deal. Look at old Super Nintendo and N64 ads. Games were all over the place in pricing and a lot higher than $49.
I agree because publishers have gone so crazy with figuring out other ways to charge more for games meeting the fixed price point. $130 editions, $30 season passes, $5 horse armor. The reality is that many games we play already cost more than $69, they’re simply sold to us in ways that fit that price point. I’d rather pay $89 for a polished and feature complete game.
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I’m personally really looking forward to pirating some more Nintendo games
Yaaaay…. ✨✨✨P R E M I U M ✨✨✨ Games!!
aren’t you all excited??