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Yeah, Nintendo is smoking unfiltered crack, lol. Who the hell has $80-90 to throw at every game in the midst of an unnecessary economic downturn and possible worldwide meltdown?
Oh no, just a USA meltdown. Trump isn't great for other economies, but we still have the rest of the world to trade with. The only thing he is achieving is making the usa less relevant by the day.
Stocks are down all over the globe, not sure if you noticed.
Not to mention, Nintendo games usually don’t go down in price over time as much.
As much? I don't think ever. Breath of the Wild is still it's release price despite it's sequel, in the same world but with more content, being out and the same price. They're insane.
And Pokemon games only increase in price over time.
In the Switch era, they don't at all. Nintendo Selects isn't a thing any more.
Yeah, the company has gone full greed mode since Iwata's passing. I know the point of a business is to make money and all that but he at least kept things fair for the consumer.
This kinda feels like Sony's PS3 announcement, but Nintendo can get away with more than Sony could then.
Hopefully this system isn't the smashing success that the first Switch was and it humbles them a bit. Beyond the price gouging, the novelty of the concept has worn some and this system really doesn't do anything all that exciting beyond improved visuals (which doesn't excite me as somebody who already has a good PC).
I'm a really huge Nintendo fan who has owned every one of their systems besides the Virtual Boy and bought most of those at launch. I was almost certainly going to purchase a Switch 2 as soon as I could... yet yesterday's lackluster software reveals followed up by the outrageous pricing has me saying the scalpers can have this one and Nintendo can go to hell.
It's likely that you're right and people are going to line up to reward them for this and it will lead to price increases across the entire industry unfortunately.
I even had a Virtual Boy! Although I bought it for like $25 after it had already failed.
I guess we'll see just how much of Nintendo's market is made up of fans with lots of expendable income vs. parents buying stuff for their kids.
Yeah, I think that's another huge factor that made the Switch so successful! It was priced at a point that households had multiple units and multiple copies of games like Kart and Smash. Only people doing really well are going to be able to swing that at these prices.
How does one filter crack? I need to know for my pulmonary health.
They sell brillo used by crackheads as filters right next to the crack pipes at gas stations in the hood.
Gotta burn it before inhaleing to test it. Some of that shit is fake and just some steel wool with a coating. Remember to be safe while smoking crack!
I could be wrong, but doesn't the process of cooking the cocaine into crack kind of "filter" it so to speak?
Not in the slightest. It only cuts it so you can increase your yield at the cost of needing to sell a fundamentally different product.
I've never been good at chemistry, so I'm probably misremembering...
My understanding was that the cocaine's chemical structure is what reacts with the baking soda (and heat), leaving the adulterants to burn off. I guess unless they share the same property that binds the cocaine with the baking soda. The baking soda isn't meant to increase weight, there is an actual chemistry-based reason that it's used.
It's why people stopped "free-basing" cocaine once crack came around. "Free-base" is a chemistry term, and the reaction with the baking soda is what makes it no longer "free-base."
It weighs more because of the baking soda, but that's just like a substrate to deliver the cocaine, not an adulterant meant to make it weigh more.
Again, could be wrong and don't feel like looking it up because I don't really care about crack or cocaine
Worldwide? Trump is ruining the US economy only
Oh, my sweet summer child...
Lol another person that thinks he's smart by being rude. No wonder Lemmy isn't attracting more people
I'm just pointing out your naïveté. What happens in the US naturally affects the rest of the world. We're all dependent on each other. No one will be isolated from this.
Like the recession of 2008/2009. It was America that cause it and the whole worked suffered.
Leave Lemmy out of this! It’s innocent!
Point at the doll where you were touched by Lemmy
Remember 2008/2009 recession? This was cause by the USA economy, but affected the entire world.
Even if you think it's not worldwide, you do realise some countries and regions rely heavily upon trading with the US. And it will cause inflation, though how much depends on what will actually happen now.
As others pointed out, it's not only the US economy that will be hit, but also everyone that trades with them.
To illustrate some examples, Canadian aluminum might end up with 25% tariffs. That means anything made within the USA that uses said aluminum will get a price increase. Canadian companies might end up with a surplus, since their main customers won't be buying as much (instead of paying 100 dollars for a tonne, 'mericans will pay 125 dollars per tonne). That surplus will drive prices down if they can't find someone else to buy the aluminum.
Since the tariffs aren't only on Canadian aluminum, but a lot of stuff from a lot of countries, some of that stuff will end up with a significant surplus and no new buyers. For smaller countries that rely on USA exports, that's going to hurt a lot.
I also saw one analysis that suggested the increased cost of buying could decrease trade and therefore shrink the economies the US usually buys from, depressing the shrunken economies dollar values and effectively cancelling out the cost of the tarrif
ROFL you really have no idea how things work huh
The world economy is dependent on countries like the USA.
Lol
I get your point, but I'll probably end up paying that. The exclusives are pricey but I almost always end up playing them for 50-100+ hours each, so I can't really complain 🤷♂️
This line of thinking is why we are being price gouged to begin with.
"it's $20 for a skin..... Eh I'll buy it." I have friends that do that. Meanwhile I almost never buy a game at launch because I'll just wait for a sale and for the game to be fixed post launch.
The trouble is, Nintendo games don't even go on sale, so you can't do that. Nintendo used to be the affordable accessible console. Now they're the opposite.
I haven't had a desire to play their games luckily, but the emulators are good. I tried Pokémon Arceus with one and it ran flawlessly. The game was boring as hell from what I played, but I wanted to see how it functioned compared to the older games I know.
Yeah. I was providing context and a small joke in relation to the comment about how we got here. I mostly play Steam games anyway.
A few years ago my wife bought a switch, we occasionally play it, but yes I saw the games were basically never on sale.
At this point in the world I just want to reward one of the few companies that has yet to screw me over. Everything I've ever bought from Nintendo still works to this day, and I'm generally expecting it to work forever. No one else is making products like that, it's all short-term shareholder profits-- who cares about the customer? If you want to pay what garbage is priced at, you'll get garbage in the end.
Imagine simping for a soulless corporation who doesn't give of fuck if you exist. How is anything nintendo doing consumer friendly? You're definitely on that copium, champ.
I'm just speaking from personal experience, friend. I understand someone will probably have a list of like 10 links of counterexamples handy but I can say with fair confidence they probably haven't affected me. Hell, my original joycons actually still work, though I did buy my Switch a couple years after release. And I'm not simping for anything, I will 100% change my stance the day Nintendo starts screwing me over 🤷♂️
You do realize that video game prices haven't increased with inflation in years, right? A $60 game in 2008 would be $88 today just from inflation. This isn't price gouging, it's inflation correction.
It doesn't matter if a $60 game in 2008 is worth $88 now if wages haven't gone up to match that. Did you know that (at least in the US) food prices usually aren't included in inflation calculations because they fluctuate too much? People have other things to pay for with their wages that aren't video games, and those costs aren't going down either.
Literally nothing ever has stayed in lockstep with wages, that's not even relevant to the discussion at hand. Not sure why you think video games would be special, especially video games by Nintendo, solijce they're literally the last ones on the "raise video game prices" train.
Entertainment is not a necessity, it's not like people need it to survive. When it doesn't move with wages people find ways to make it affordable (e.g. piracy, 2nd hand markets, or sharing physical copies with friends), or they find something else (steam, indie games, etc.). Wages are directly responsible for game prices in a lot of ways, and there are pretty good Steam statistics on this as well (which is why a lot of Steam games aren't priced with 1:1 conversions in different regions, because doing so would basically price entire regions out of buying games).
Pricing fans out of games is exactly how AAA studios go under. A big AAA game flopping is basically a death sentence for a studio in the current landscape, and if Microsoft isn't immune to that then Nintendo definitely isn't.
And in addition to what Zangoose said, your argument ignores the basic principle of technological progress: as industries mature, costs typically decrease, not increase. Economies of scale, automation, and digital distribution should all lower the cost of making and selling a game over time.
A $60 game in 2008 had to be printed on physical discs, boxed, shipped to stores, and supported with traditional advertising. Today, most games are sold digitally, cutting out huge portions of that overhead. Studios also reuse engines, assets, and development pipelines now more than ever.
Sure, inflation is real—but so are productivity gains. If your costs are going up despite all these efficiencies, that’s not just inflation—it’s mismanagement or greed. Consumers don’t owe companies an inflation-adjusted price just because they want to maintain record-breaking profits and raise prices.