Can Nintendo turn Switch 2's pricing disaster around? And how?

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Manlytears said:

RolStoppable said:

You aren't the only one who doesn't get it, that's why Take Two gets away with it. GTA VI won't be only $80, it will have an avalanche of microtransactions whereas Nintendo games don't have any.

Let's be fair, in 2-3 years after lauch GTA VI will, likely, be sold at 1/2 the initial price like GTA V and RDR2 did.

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I think you are one of the Reasonable Nintendo users whose judgment is usually reasonable, can you see my point?

Your point is that you deliberately ignore how many hundreds of millions Take Two will earn with microtransactions and how they've already integrated psychological mechanisms to drive players to use them in GTA V.

Nintendo doesn't have microtransactions, they don't have Digital Deluxe Editions and they rarely have any kind of special editions for their games. They forego to do pretty much all of the money-grabbing schemes that are standard practice in the video game industry. When you are confronted with a $10 increase for games or the alternative of seemingly limitless exploitation, that's an easy choice.

Darwinianevolution said:

The more I think of it, Nintendo wants to make the Switch 2 a digital-only console. Extra price to the physical games, cartridges being only glorified download codes, micro SD Fast memory only...

You don't give me the impression that you are thinking about all of this. The extra price on physical games will likely be completely shaved off by retailers over time, because that's what retailers do. Only game-key cards are glorified download codes whereas Switch 2 game cards are the same thing as they were on Switch 1. By only making the much more expensive micros SD express cards compatible for games on Switch 2 (including the requirement to put Switch 1 games on them too), Nintendo is hampering the desirability of digital games as opposed to making them more appealing.