What was a WiiU game? In Australia, the price has kind of been the same for the last 2 generations, so no inflectional increases till now.

But what makes profits even more irrelevant is... When a company is literally backed into a corner, that is often where we see the most innovation, the most risks. - Do you think we would have gotten the Switch like we did if the WiiU went gangbusters? No. And as consumers we would be worst for it.

Rather what we are getting is the exact same games at a higher price and I honestly hope Nintendo see's a significant reduction in sales from it, consumers do vote with their wallets, they have voted against Nintendo using their wallets before. (See: Virtual Boy, Gamecube, WiiU and more.)

And Nintendo would have no one to blame but themselves.

But when we have people like yourself who would rather promote Nintendo's billions that it's taking from consumers through high prices and then channeling it to shareholders and not their games? That is where the real issue lays.

We aren't getting better consoles. We aren't getting better games. We aren't getting a better service out of the higher price. It's the shareholders who are reaping the rewards.


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In other news, Sony is also raising the price of the Playstation 5 in a heap of regions, which is also an anti-consumer move and I hope Sony falters for doing just that.

And when Microsoft does the same, they also deserve the same level of ridicule and ire for a similar anti-consumer move.

Well for comparison, here in Canada:

Switch launched at CAD 399, BotW CAD 80 for physical edition
Switch 2 is set to launch at CAD 629 (+58%), physical games are not priced yet $80 USD is currently CAD 111 (+39%)

Canada inflation from 2017 to now is 25.7% (According to Bank of Canada)

So Nintendo prices are going up over double the inflation rate here for the console, 150% over for games.

And no discounted Nintendo games here, second hand only.


(Correction, MKW is $80 in USD)

I just saw from other sites that the price was $80 for digitial and $90 for phyiscal 

If you want to play the new Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart, prepare your wallet: the physical edition will cost $90 - Meristation

this is just one example, i also saw youtube videos mentioning this price as well. BTW, I live in China, however, im American.

Your point is completely and utterly irrelevant.

I already outlined where the prices should fall relative to their included content and extent of the port, it applies to all games releasing on the Switch 2, not just Kirby.

You aren't being clever as you think on this point.

You are spending an inordinate amount of time and effort defending the indefensible.

It's literally in the title of your thread, highlighting the fact you specifically don't have an issue with pricing, which insinuates that others actually do.
Otherwise it would be an irrelevant post to make.

We have been down this path already, the companion app is not real new content.
Other games which added that SAME CONTENT over the decades, also did it for... Get this. 100% free.

That is why the price increase isn't justified for a port of a 2 generation old game with no new content.

It's a zero effort port, Nintendo put their effort into their smart phone app.

Nintendo has posted the biggest profits it has ever posted with the Switch era.

It did this not from higher prices, but for good games, which sold higher volumes.

Yes Nintendo failed with the WiiU, yes they failed to bring the casual audience forward with the Wii, yes the 3DS was but a shadow of the DS.
Those were Nintendo's mistakes because they weren't listening to the market, it's customers or locking it's audience into an ecosystem, price played a role in all of those to some degree.
The Ecosystem is the important bit, this is what Microsoft failed with the Xbox One... And why they couldn't transition gamers to the Xbox Series.
It's why Apple and Samsung keep churning over the same customers every year, they lock their customers into iOS or the Android ecosystems.
Buy a Samsung phone? Chances are you would buy a Samsung Smart watch, not an Apple Smart Watch.

Ecosystem.


But what makes profits even more irrelevant is... When a company is literally backed into a corner, that is often where we see the most innovation, the most risks. - Do you think we would have gotten the Switch like we did if the WiiU went gangbusters? No. And as consumers we would be worst for it.

Rather what we are getting is the exact same games at a higher price and I honestly hope Nintendo see's a significant reduction in sales from it, consumers do vote with their wallets, they have voted against Nintendo using their wallets before. (See: Virtual Boy, Gamecube, WiiU and more.)

And Nintendo would have no one to blame but themselves.

But when we have people like yourself who would rather promote Nintendo's billions that it's taking from consumers through high prices and then channeling it to shareholders and not their games? That is where the real issue lays.

We aren't getting better consoles. We aren't getting better games. We aren't getting a better service out of the higher price. It's the shareholders who are reaping the rewards.


*****

In other news, Sony is also raising the price of the Playstation 5 in a heap of regions, which is also an anti-consumer move and I hope Sony falters for doing just that.

And when Microsoft does the same, they also deserve the same level of ridicule and ire for a similar anti-consumer move.

You made it 2 1/2 years.  Welcome Back!

True, doesn't make it any less awful for those who don't own the game.

I own BotW, and I still care. Just because something doesn't directly harm you doesn't mean you can't still recognize and criticize awful practices by companies. And again, just because something only applies to a small group of people doesn't make it any better.

At the end of the day all the Switch 2 Editions are just a continuation of the ongoing complaint that Nintendo doesn't drop the prices of their games like the video game industry does, with no appreciation whatsoever for Nintendo making most of their profits by selling games instead of microtransactions and subscriptions. That's why Nintendo's profits are of my concern and why they also should be of yours, because we are seeing two different paths to make console gaming financially viable. Something has to give, one way or the other. I prefer to pay for games.