Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2

Unpopular opinion: Nintendo is overrated and is no longer innovation.
- I haven't bought anything Nintendo in years... but I can't lie, that open world mario kart game looks sick.
- Quite a popular opinion actually.
  There's even websites like https://www.suedbynintendo.com/
  
  Huh. I guess it's not as unpopular as it once was. I'm glad to see that.

The steam deck is way better anyways!

I'm done buying games from these corporate fux.
Only indie games for me from now on.
- Last 2 triple A games I've bought (Dragon's Dogma 2 and Civ 7) have both been awful. Meanwhile I spend 15 on a game like Roboquest and play it for 30 hours.
  
  The last triple A I bought was on a big sale because it's long past its release date. Mostly ignoring modern ones, the only one I have wanted was BG3 which I am fully happy playing the many years waiting game for because I have so many other games to play first. c/patientgamers
- I'm happy that I bought Baldurs Gate 3, but otherwise I didn't buy anything and I am happy about that too.
- You said that last time too 😛

I'm dancing happily into the €20 game era with my Steam Deck.
- You're paying double digits for your games?
  
  For some of them, they're worth it.

Bringing you, maybe. I'm out ✌️ I'm not giving into the inevitable pre-planned reduction from 80/90 to 70/80, either.

Can't remember the last time i payed full price for a game.
But i don't buy into the Nintendo ecosystem anyway, so

I'll start by saying I loved Nintendo games. But I think I'm done. They can offer the games at $80, but I will pass. Oh well.
- Same boat. I love my switch. Their direct said all the right things. New Mario kart looks great. I have faith meteoid and that new dk game will be fun. But the pricing makes it a no go. There's just no way I'm going to pony up that much for one game.

I haven’t paid full price for a game since I bought my Steam Deck.
Sorry Nintendo - it’s going to be a hard pass for me. I think I can live without Mario Cart for $80

Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.
Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it's all organic consumer demand.

lol not for me, thnx

I'm not defending this behavior but keeping up with inflation games that cost 60 bucks in the early 90s would cost well over 120 today.
I know they don't do physical media as much or at all in some cases.
I'm just pointing out that technically 80 bucks for a game is still a good ways behind inflation.
Not defending it. Just pointing it out.
- Digital distribution is far less than it was in the 90s, many games sell in far higher numbers they did in the 90s, plus a ton of other cost savings due to scale exist on the distribution side. Yes, costs are higher to develop some types of games, but quite a few studios are able to put out profit generating games at far less than $60 per unit sold.
  Cost comparisons over time tend to not be very informative when it comes to products that have significant changes in costs over time, and games are one of those things.
  
  Which I recognize. I still feel like there is a weird disconnect between gamers and cost. If I spent 80 bucks on a game and I get hundreds of hours of fun out of it that was easily worth the money. I have spent far more on significantly worse fun per dollar events over the years.
  I just find it kinda funny how gamers get with the costs of games when compared to their spending on other media. Like how many people complaining about the 80 dollar games have rented a movie on Amazon for 5 bucks or something. That's a 2.50 an hour for entertainment at best.
  I won't be buying the console or the 80 dollar games but I find the conversation and interesting one.
  
  Also not accounting for the fact that most games now release feeling half finished and are only made feature complete through patches (if the game sells well) or paid dlc.
  New horizons released with large features missing from new leaf that were added in overtime, and then had a paid dlc pack. Smash ultimates new roster additions felt rather lacking until the dlc passes added in a number of long clamored for characters. And of course whatever is going on with the new pokemon games, now using dlc and paid home services to essentially hold peoples old favorites hostage.
  Cost may have increased, but I seem to get less value for my money with every new release.

No thanks, I’m good with my Analogue Pocket and Steamdeck.

Hardly kicking and screaming when you can just turn away.
My game purchases this year have all been under £10. Last year the most expensive was Factorio: Space Age which I bought directly from their site. Most of my playtime this year has been in FOSS games and a few small indies like Soldak games.

No thanks.

This was likely done in anticipation for the tariffs.

laughs in PC
- Chuckles in Steam Deck

*$90

I haven't owned a Nintendo console since the halcyon days of the SNES and shit like this doesn't encourage me to break that habit.
- Held off on the switch at Christmas in anticipation of switch 2, mostly for the kids, think I'll try them with PC gaming and see how they get on. I'll get a lot more bang for buck upgrading my graphics card.

I'm weirdly okay with this?
I get most of my gaming on the cheap on PC, so I feel fine splurging for the occasional Nintendo title.
But as with all things, no reason to buy something you don't want to pay for. If enough people can't or won't pay $80, then so be it.
- Sorry you are being downvoted for your honest opinion. I'd understand if you had some nasty sentiment about people who find $80 too expensive in there, but you have no ill will or dim views of anyone expressed here… I'd like Lemmy to be a nice place and part of that includes not downvoting views that are unpopular but also not cruel towards anyone. Especially when the popular view is "I'm mad!" Dismissing everyone's anger without trying to understand why they're angry or where they are coming from isn't the move, but this person isn't doing that. The only "crime" they committed is not sharing in the anger themselves. And in a world full of algorithms pushing outrage, where lots of people on Lemmy came here to flee that very trend, I'd like non-anger to not be disapproved of.
  I am honestly curious if them not jumping on the hatewagon and being personally okay with this is being interpreted as them saying "because I'm fine with $80 everyone else has to be too" or whatever. I want to know where the downvoters are coming from. Is it just simple "do not like their take! Downvote!"? Is it "since they are okay with this, they must be well-off and thus an out-of-touch bad person who deserves disapproval for being richer than me?" Is it some honest belief that this person is inadvertently advancing a harmful view to be complacent against ever-increasing prices and companies squeezing average people harder and harder?
  I am not fine with the $80 increase, I just also see what seems to be an innocent take getting disapproval and I honestly want to know what they did wrong. Both so I can know for the future so I do not do it myself, and so if they didn't actually do anything wrong there is something on record speaking up for "hey leave them alone." Genuine question.
  EDIT: Just realized. Is this a place where it is okay (or should be okay) to express dissent, or is this more like a case of entering c/racecarsarecool and posting about why you think racing is stupid? I can tell the latter is a dick move, but I am not sure if this is. It does involve going into a community whose views you can probably predict if you have been on Lemmy for a bit and telling them "yeah I don't share your anger," which could be likened to "hey c/knitting! Knitting is kind of boring actually," but this doesn't really come off as intentional pot-stirring bait or invading a community clearly intended for enthusiasts to be a hater to me.
  
  Beats me! But I'm unbothered, so no worries.