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Slownenberg said:
Yeah game looks cool and unique, but $70 is a joke. Should have launched at $50 at absolute most, and probably be dropped to $30 in a year or two. It's a cutesy cartoony offbeat niche racer with no mass market brand, having only one very old fairly obscure game before it, and with Mario Kart World already being the main racing game people will get on the new system. Selling this game above $50 is just asking for low sales. Also, Otter, in two years you'd still be hard pressed to find this, or any first party game, at $50 even during a rare sale. Best bet is a used copy at GameStop. Remember the little Kirby fighting game on Switch that Nintendo randomly released for $20? I'm not saying Air Riders should be quite that cheap, but the same kind of thinking that led to that price should have been used for Air Riders. But in 2025 Nintendo is so focused on getting every last cent out of every individual purchase that they are charging way above what they should be for this game. Nintendo's every-game-must-be-$70 strategy combined with their games-must-never-drop-in-price strategy is really gonna kill more niche games like this. |
Nintendo knows Kirby Air Riders isn't appealing to western markets, they made the game to sell Switch 2 consoles in Japan. Expect to see a big launch week in Japan for Air Riders. There are several Nintendo games that get carried by Japan like Splatoon and Pikmin as well, so for them its nothing strange to make some games they know is mostly for the Japanese market.
