| Darwinianevolution said: It's not the 90$ rise what makes me the most angry about all this (though it is egregious), it's the fact physical games are getting absolutely gimped. Physical games being much higher price than digital while also being just glorified download links is basically Nintendo making a digital-only console. In comparison to that, the demo being under a paywall is just a bother, though people should absolutely complain about it. |
Physical games cost like $20 more on the production side though (in this case physical cartridges, especially newer high speed ones are likely costly).
You can't expect publishers to just eat a $20 difference in production cost, that's wiping out most of the profit margin for most publishers straight up when selling a physical copy vs a digital one.
Cartridges especially were never going to work unless they were dirt, dirt, dirt cheap. Like a 5 cent plastic disc is one thing, but a cartridge that even adds like $7-$8 of cost to the package is too much. That's $8 out there, then $10-$12 maybe to the retailer + packaging and shipment costs.
Nintendo honestly should've just gone digital only and ended the whole charade.
