Well, I'm not jumping for joy at that idea of paying more for games but it's not that big a deal either. It's quite surprising that video games have been immune to inflation for so long really.

For Nintendo's case it's particularly rough since Switch 2 games are way more expensive than 3DS games were and it wasn't that long ago when that platform was very relevant. Like just 9 years ago someone could've bought two 3DS games for the price of just one of the more expensive Switch 2 games. The Switch bringing things up to what others were charging was already a significant cost increase but now they're going beyond the current standard with at least some of their games physically.

If it wasn't for that last part then people wouldn't have been nearly as pissed off I think since it made sense for Nintendo to charge the same as others with the Switch since Switch games were kinda like PS4/Xbox One games just on much worse hardware so if was just the expected increase of 10 for the big games to bring things in line again then there would be some annoyance but probably not much more than that.

Okay why not get it digital on switch to encourage 3rd parties? Forget the cartridge just go on the e-shop! 😅

That wouldn't hurt Nintendo for allowing key card games :P

might consider changing my mind if they lower the game prices but I doubt they will

To be frank, the key cards are litteraly the only possible way they found to compromise with some third party games insane data load. We've only just got the 64GB cartridges to be "viable". But so many of them are past the 100GB mark.

What were expecting to happen there ?

Still will not forgive publishers like Crapcom and Square Enix being cheap ass mofos for games that could easily fit on these.

If Cyberpunk 2077 with all it's DLC can fit on the 64GB cart, there can't be more than a handful of games that can't with enough compression. They're just cheap.

In the case of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom... Nintendo did not add any new content, they just changed a few triggers in a text file to run it at a higher resolution with Anisotropic Filtering and higher framerates.

To be fair... I refuse to pay for subscriptions, I don't like losing access to my content if I cancel my subscription.

I will probably buy them all and make a clean break between Switch and Switch 2.

Profits.

They have shareholders that they need to appease... And considering they sold 60+ million copies of Mario Kart 8, how do you think they will make more profit on it's successor? They are unlikely to outsell those numbers, so they need to make more money off each individual customer instead.

So no... They didn't need to go beyond $60, they would have been profitable at that level... But for the sake of profits for the shareholders and other bean counters... They had to.

I'll be buying the Switch 2 physical copies and keep my Switch 1 and Switch 2 libraries separate.

I will be reducing the number of purchases though to must-have first party exclusives and play other games on other devices.

Padib. We have had this discussions so many times, you need to stop lying.
Steam Deck, Rog Ally and more exist.

Back in the 80's and 90's Australia had Tariffs on most imported goods... And as a result the cheapest Super Nintendo games were often around $76 which would be $170 today adjusted for inflation.
Something like Mortal Kombat would be around $130 which would be $290 today.

Back then though, we actually got a mostly bug-free and complete game though.

Today? Most games are unplayable on release day, need tons of updates and end up being "completed" via DLC at a later date for another fee.

Also... Fuck Tariffs.
We were behind the world by 20 years in adopting colour TV's because of Tariffs prioritizing inferior local manufacturing over superior and cheaper overseas alternatives.
People have short memories on how crap tariffs were for us, the consumer.

At this point in time there's probably not a single game that wouldn't fit in its entirety on a 64 GB card. Compression rates that halve a game's file size don't require wizardry and on Switch 1 we've already seen third parties accomplishing compression rates that have a file size go down to a quarter of its PS counterpart.

And while a 64 GB card is more expensive to use, the general price increase of $10 per game at retail more than covers the added production cost of a 64 GB card in comparison to 16 GB and 32 GB cards.

On Switch 1 it took a few years until CD Projekt Red destroyed all false assumptions about game cards with their port of The Witcher 3. But on Switch 2 they'll do it on launch day.

A console I'd buy 2 games a year is worthless to me already seen how the Switch became an indie machine for me and I found playing those indies for trophies on PS more satisfying.

I feel like a lot of people are forgetting that a lot of companies have been putting a games launch behind an extra paywall over the last few years. More and more games are charging an extra 15-30 extra to play the game "early". The new doom cost €110 to play at launch. I'm not defending nintendo here either I still think they went too far with the pricing of games, but we do need to start treating all of this the same. When we let some things pass we are giving these companies permission to keep pushing further and further.