| Mummelmann said: For me, the biggest issue is pricing on software and peripherals, it's crazy to charge full price after years on the market for games. When the Wii released, the cost of a single controller was almost half that of the console itself. |
| shikamaru317 said: I must say I have always hated Nintendo pricing. Pretty much every other publisher, Microsoft, Sony, and 3rd party, will eventually drop the price of their $60 games to $20, sometimes even $10 or $5 if you catch a good deal. But Nintendo games stay at full price for years, sometimes hitting $50 or $40 on a sale, or $30 permanently if Nintendo does a Selects collection (though they have yet to do one of those for Switch afaik, the last new Selects additions were in 2016 on Wii U and 3DS I think). I hate it, as a gamer who is on a tight budget. There are several 1st/2nd party Nintendo games I would love to buy currently, but I just can’t afford them currently, even though some of them are years old now and could be grabbed for $5-20 by now if they were games released by any other publisher. Just looked up the price on all of the Switch exclusives that interest me that I haven’t bought yet, they all range between $45 and $60 even though all of them are more than a year old now. |
It's the razor and blades business model, but Ninty's necromancers managed to make it even more evil than Gillette. 
