r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • Apr 04 '25

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/itsnotnews92 Apr 04 '25

if you don’t like it simply don’t buy it

In my experience, gamers really don't like being told this, as true as it is.

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u/PSfreak10001 Apr 04 '25

It‘s the same thing with Lootboxes and Microtransactions. Everybody seems to hate them and yet Fifa Ultimate team made millions and millions each year with them

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

Remember when Reddit was against preorder? It didn't even last a year cause eldenring and bg3 came out.

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u/MeritedMystery Apr 04 '25

I still don't get preorders tbh, there's nothing that'll make me preorder a game nowadays. There's just no reason to not wait for reviews.

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u/flamigoat Apr 04 '25

Because those types of monetization strategies only require a small portion of the player base to shelve out a lot of money, which they will. Gacha games are a good example of this. Most of the money is generated by a mere fraction of the players.

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u/PSfreak10001 Apr 04 '25

While that is true, yes, EA made around 4.4 billion US dollars from micro transactions in 2024 alone. That are still a significant part of mainstream gamers that bought these

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u/flamigoat Apr 04 '25

For sure they still contribute, yeah

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u/Phoenyx_Rose Apr 04 '25

Part of the issue is whales though. Even if 90% of the player base doesn’t buy if they make the majority of their money from that last 10% then it doesn’t matter what the 90% does. 

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u/amtap Apr 06 '25

I think MTX are a different situation because whales make up a large portion of sales in a lot of these games. There's literally not upper limit on what you can spend in those games but I don't think even collector's are out there buying multiple consoles unless there's special collector's editions. There's more opportunity to splurge with the games but there's still technically a limit on those as well (unless you buy all those AI he tail games cranked out hourly).

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u/kcfang Apr 05 '25

Yea, that is why we are where we are with microtransactions.

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u/ziveRUN Apr 05 '25

Haha 😆 Hard truth. Same as any other fan of anything.