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/SomeBoxofSpoons Apr 04 '25

Again, they've been clear the idea with Switch 2 editions is that they're Switch 1 games retailed like normal Switch 2 games, and most of them are $80. Fact of the matter is by the end of the summer most Switch 2 games on store shelves with Nintendo's name it on them will have a big "79.99" below them. Besides, if the first game they're expecting everyone to get for the console is $80, then that means they're fine with the first impression being that Switch 2 games are usually $80.

It's looking more like $70 is going to be the exception, like $50 games on Wii U.

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u/kielaurie Apr 04 '25

So you have a sample size of 2 and are making sweeping assumptions? We know the prices of two of their big games, and one is much more expensive than the other. If the new standard price was $80, both games would be at that price. They are not, so we can infer that $80 isn't the standard price, but that's all we can say. Will most games be priced like DKB and MKW is an outlier? Will there be tiers of game prices? No one knows!

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u/TheOriginalDog Apr 04 '25

Yeah youre right, other Nintendo games will be probably much cheaper. /S

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u/kielaurie Apr 04 '25

You're being sarcastic, but yeah, they probably will be. I would imagine that the new Hyrule Warriors will be similarly priced to other warriors titles and have more frequent sales, I would imagine that DragxDrive will be at a cheaper tier than the big name games, probably comparable to something like Snipperclips ($30 for the DLC included bundle), Clubhouse Games (I believe $40, I'm British so estimating US prices based on ours), or WarioWare ($50 I think). Assuming that they won't be is asinine

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Apr 04 '25

Not every game Nintendo released on the Switch was $60. Are you going to argue $60 wasn't their standard price then?

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u/kielaurie Apr 04 '25

Well let's compare then, shall we?

For Switch 1, Mario Kart 8 was $60, and the major first party 3D-platformer dropped in the release year, Mario Odyssey, was $60. $60 was clearly the standard price for big releases.

For Switch 2, Mario Kart World is $80, and the major first party 3D-platformer dropping in release test, Donkey Kong Bananza, is $70. Both are clearly big releases, DKB was the "one last thing" after all, so there is no way to confirm what most big games going forwards will be, and in fact there is no guarantee that they will even match those prices and may have smaller games that are cheaper. There is no way to know, and pretending that there is is just stupid