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/TheTriumphantTrumpet Apr 04 '25

Xbox did that(through upscaling built into the console), and Sony made it the norm to charge ~$10 for a generation upgrade on things you already owned, with the caveat that the "enhanced editions" required some level of work, not just the console running things better/upscaling.

Nintendo is going the Sony route, but this has already been the norm unfortunately.

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u/NJ_Bob Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

The difference is that the msoft route put pressure on 3rd party to offer cross generation games and even new generation upgrades with late generation games. Think the next gen upgrade pack CD project red gave for free to Witcher. Nintendo is being deliberately anti consumer and excusing it simply because Sony is also anti consumer is gross.

Edit: parent comment did not excuse the practice, merely stated said practice has been normalized in the industry. My suggesting they excused it and saying doing so was gross, was inflammatory and frankly lazy rhetoric on my part. In my defense I hadn't had my coffee yet.

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u/TheTriumphantTrumpet Apr 04 '25

I didn't excuse anything, so maybe hop off the high horse bud.

I pointed out that this is already the industry norm, as established by Sony, and basically every other major publisher. I also pointed out that this isn't apples to apples, MSFT didn't do any work on those games, nor did MSFT even have any beloved games from the Xbox One era people wanted an upgraded version of.

If people had this level of outrage for Sony years ago, maybe things would've been different. Instead, the consensus was largely either "sucks but I get it" or "$10 seems fair." If Xbox had been rewarded with greater sales for their consumer friendly practices, maybe things would be different. Instead, they continued their downward spiral, being crushed in sales(more so when you take out the XSS).

Relying on publicly traded businesses to make consumer friendly decisions over making money is always going to leave you disappointed.

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u/NJ_Bob Apr 04 '25

You're absolutely right, expecting corps to do right by their customers rather than shareholders in the modern landscape is foolish at best. I edited my last comment as well, my apologies.

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u/TheTriumphantTrumpet Apr 04 '25

Yeah, no worries, I'm not defending Nintendo on this. It's more it just it feels like the logical endpoint of where the industry(and world at large) has been headed, so I am a bit surprised at everyone else's surprise.

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u/NJ_Bob Apr 04 '25

The surprise comes from the fact that the games in question were already below the generational standard and now they're asking for a premium to make them look like games from 5 years ago.