| Sephiran said: According to Circana's Piscatella, most console gamers in the US buy 1-2 new games every year, which means it makes no difference for the average console gamer if a game cost 70 instead of 60 because they don't reguarly buy any games. Its mostly core gamers that buy new games every month that gets a bigger impact from games costing 70 instead of 60, which is why its a topic that reguarly comes up in gaming forums, because those forums consist of people that buy new games all the time. When every major third party publisher price their games at 70, its ludicrous to think Nintendo should be the odd one out with permanent 60 priced games, does anyone really believe Sega, Atlus, Capcom etc should price their games at 70 and the much bigger Nintendo should go permanently below them in price? When Nintendo is a vastly bigger publisher than them? Sure, give us 60 games, but why single out Nintendo? Shouldn't the argument be that everyone should price their games at 60 instead of only complaining about Nintendo while everyone else are free to price their games at 70 with no criticism? |
1. Other publishers did get a lot of criticism for the $70 price point. The first being Activision, Take Two, and Sony iirc.
2. Nintendo's physical games jumped from $60/€50-60 to $70/€80 or even $80/€90 (Mario Kart World) overnight. This was bound to generate negativity. Now the main reasons they're raising prices that much are cartridge costs and poor digital sales, but most people are ignorant of these details or just don't care about them.
3. Nintendo's game are perceived to not cost as much to develop as most AAA games. And many of them sell gangbusters and retain their prices extremely well. By comparison, most AAA games get multiple discounts a year, Cyberpunk's price for instance often goes down by 80%. Nintendo doesn't do this partly because many of their games are highly desirable, and many/most fans are simply conditioned to accept it. But lots of gamers including some fans find it exploitative. So the rising prices add insult to injury.
Last edited by Kyuu - on 27 December 2025
