To me the dead giveaway that the game prices are a matter of greed and not necessity is that Nintendo reps have actually been trying to justify charging money for Welcome Tour in the media. This is software that isn’t even a fraction as much of a “game” as something like Astro’s Playroom based on the gaming press who’ve gone hands on with it. And even Reggie is coming for them about this on Twitter now, pointing to why Wii Sports as a pack-in was necessary.
If they are greedy enough to charge $10 for a glorified system tutorial app, that tells me the game prices could stand to come down by a solid $10 or $15 as well. I think making Welcome Tour a free download and setting the standard first party game price to $65 (with $70 reserved for TOTK style epics) would turn things heavily back in their favor here. The console price isn’t as big of an issue considering the hardware looks worth a $450 price tag (though if the tariff crap comes back around in 90 days, then they’re back in a big problem situation).
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