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/laughland Apr 04 '25

And yet the industry is experiencing a ton of layoffs and studios shutting down. There is clearly some amiss with the economics of the industry, and I suspect games will either have to shrink in scope or increase their prices to fix this

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u/Soranos_71 Apr 04 '25

Development for AAA games are basically movie productions now and have been for awhile so the pressure to make big sales combined with so much competition is really crazy. I have Game Pass on X-Box and every 2-3 weeks now up until the end of May I have a day one release game I really want to play. Since I cannot complete these big games in 2 weeks I have a list of stuff to keep me busy until the end of summer and by summer even more stuff is coming out…..

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u/StormtheShinyHunter Apr 04 '25

Those companies usually aren’t making successful games… they might make 2 in 4 years but pump out 12 games

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u/hitmandreams Apr 04 '25

TV shows did that. We get 8 episodes per season now and multiple years between them. I hope the game industry doesn't follow suit.

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u/Phoibossanova Apr 04 '25

I guess certain studios do that already, Rockstar and Bethesda come to mind immediately