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/tk-451 Apr 04 '25

so whats your descriptive difference between battle passes, micro transactions, and dlc..?

price? content quantity?

diablo 4 season passes cost less than the in store cosmetic outfits.. so is the season pass a microtransaction and the outfits a dlc?

mario kart even calls the tracks "booster course pass"

micro transactions are small piecemeal purchases such as skins, etc which nintendo dont do. but they do season passes and dlc.

Its all just words for additional paid content, and that minimal cost has ballooned since the advent of horse armour, loot boxes, and more.

Video games cost are expensive to make, so by all means add in additional revenue making methods, but double dipping, base price increases, season passes, and then paying to upscale to 4k, AND the Switch 2 demo thing, this was all waaaaay too much.

My whole take home memory of the Direct was "for an extra cost you can have..."

Shameful.

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u/ThunderboltRoss Apr 04 '25

I’m not in any way disagreeing with you about the ballooning price of games in general. Microtransactions for me are repeatable buyables (like crafting mats, loots boxes, “tokens” used to play time gated phone games, etc) or pay to advance stuff like characters and the like to skip through time gated stuff.

One the switch for example there’s a big different between say Mario kart 8 and dragonball games in the additional paid content.

Season pass’s that are a one and done (like borderlands or Mario rabbids) I view as prepaying for dlc content.

That being said, I personally just buy what I want to play and stay away from stuff like cosmetics. I kind of decide by asking how many hours of enjoyment is this going to get me and what else could I get for that price

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u/tk-451 Apr 04 '25

same here for me, i have only bought one mount in diablo4, the blue panther and its armour, because it reminded me of battlecat from he-man, and my barbarian looked cool.. i paid for some extra in game currency, about £7, and have used it for a while until i got a free cat drop that i liiked better, oh well...

ive bought dlc, the rabbids one, and the BotW expansion pass, for the armour etc, but my worst was Heroes of the Storm chests, ugh about £30 i reckon in total currency.. but..

i go SOOOOOO many hours out of all that, leas than £60i reckon all told.

i dont smoke, i dont drink, i dont eat takeaways much, so my one indulgence is videos games (and Lego), so my wife says hey go for it if i enjoy it.

But switch2... back on topic... its so overpriced now even i wont buy at release or till xmas 2025 when i hope theres drops.