| h2ohno said: The game prices are a big problem, but I do not think they will affect console sales that much. I think they will cause a significant drop in software sales. A lot of people who buy Mario Kart will then buy fewer additional games, and the attach ratio will be worse than the Switch's is. Whether the game sales will decline enough that it would be more profitable to have kept the price at $60 or even $70 remains to be seen. I'd actually like to see those game sales decline enough to do that to give Nintendo a little kick in the teeth to stop acting so greedy, but we'll see. |
Not trying to defend the price increase, obviously I would prefer games to be cheaper, but I honestly don’t see it affecting them to any noticeable degree.
The people who bought Mario Kart (67 million), Animal Crossing (47 million), Smash Bros (35 million), Zelda (33 million), 3D Mario (29 million), Pokemon (26 million), etc. aren’t going to skip the next entries because of an extra $10-20.
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