| Vodacixi said: Can we talk about amiibo prices? They went from 12,99-14,99 for the normal ones... To 29,99? I purchased the Samus + EMMI amiibos for 29,99 like 3 years ago. And now JUST Samus is 30? WTF? |
Nintendo has gone full on into pure greed mode in 2025. We all saw that in early April as soon as we saw the $450 system and $70-$80 game prices for this gen.
Nintendo made a very conscious decision to turn their back on the past two decades of being the only affordable gaming option. In some meeting room Nintendo clearly decided 2025 was the year offering affordable products ends and everything now comes with a big markup. Of course the prelude to that was them never dropping the price on the Switch, even post-TotK as system sales really began to fall, and never did a Nintendo Selects to drop the prices on old Switch games to $30.
The console makers used to be a competition to make things cheaper to sell more, these days they are in a race to one-up each other in raising prices to become the most unaffordable ecosystem.
This whole craziness is why, after getting every other Nintendo console on launch day or as soon as I could get it (except the WiiU which I skipped), I feel no desire to buy Switch 2. Maybe that changes once a new 3D Mario and 3D Zelda hits in a handful of years, but even if I do eventually get the system, I'll probably end up with like a fifth of the number of Switch games I own, only getting absolute must-buys, and honestly if that day comes I may go for a used system to avoid their retail price which may never come down. And I could easily afford S2, I could go out and buy it today if I really wanted it, but I'm not gonna reward Nintendo for blatantly choosing greed over their consumers. Nintendo does NOT struggle to make profits, they make huge profit at the prices they already had before 2025, and yet they still chose a strategy to rip their fans off from now on. While I've always been a Nintendo gamer and a huge fan, I have the sense to not give into their absurd greed.
