Nintendo Is Raising the Price of Games with Switch 2

If this price becomes the new norm I will just never buy games during their release windows and wait for discounts. They can F right off with that price point.

Pretty hilarious the corpos decide to test that water with a friggin kart game though 🤣

Oh and spare me the inflation myth. Also start matching the increase in wages to that ever increasing price hike scheme and we'll talk. For corporations and billionaires that has been the case and much more for a century now.

I won't be your malnourished cow you continue to milk until death.

Remember Nintendo games also rarely go on sale..... sigh

Cue the "aaah sh** here we go again" meme

I'm not paying £75 for any game. And no, I don't care about how much more expensive games used to be in the 80's or whatever.

Wait is it really 80$ in the US too? Like there's not some price conversion going on or a collectors edition or something? It's flat out 80$ and thats not even including the taxes? If that's true that is literally insane

There’s no way GTA 6, for example, will be priced lower than Mario Kart World.

Almost certainly true, but we're talking about two games that couldn't be further apart in development cost and scope. I'm not defending it, I fully expect to get bent over by Rockstar, but that price range just seems excessive for a Nintendo game.

Edit - I just remembered, I paid £65 for Ocarina of Time 27 years ago, so I guess Nintendo paving the way for this isn't that surprising.

@Judal27 its Nintendo's website for the game.

Playstation games go on sale fast.not Nintendo.🤔.Word up son

And the trend of never buying games on release or new continues.

I've been looking for the price of the Switch 2 is apparently £499.99 a place holder price on some website's, as Nintendo hasn't released an official price yet. But I can definitely see the Switch 2 being £400+.

People were in an uproar about $69.99, but "Nintendo is different."

I'm fine with paying more for AAA titles in general. $50 when I was a kid = $125 today. But yeah $80 for Mario Kart; no thanks.

@DanteDevilHunter they already confirmed it's £395

@anoyonmus @get2sammyb that's crazy. That makes the thing about gta being $100 even more likely. I was only half serious when I said I'd buy gta6 for that price if it was really all that lol. No way I'd pay almost $100 for a Mario kart tho

Lmao, GTA6 being a $100 is now plausible💀

Yea I'll buy used. That way they ain't getting my money. That's wild that they cost $80 now.

And People Say Sony are the Arrogant Greedy ones lol Nintendo is smoking that good stuff if they think people are going to buy their games at that price and their games never drop in price.

Why PC is my main gaming system I wait about 4 months and I get a new ish game for about £30-35 from CDKEYS

I'm not surprised if Nintendo don't get a lawsuit like Sony in the UK about digital prices soon and you know GTA6 is going to be £100 it's called now I'm sorry but it is

Don't know how but I'm sure some will twist this as a Sony fault. I mean, From announced a new multiplayer title and I already saw some YouTubers saying it's Jim Ryan's fault.

Free to play games are getting even more enticing each day .. 😂
Jest aside, already gave my opinion on the poll comments~

We're you getting this price from? What's your source?

@Judal27 You're better off getting the bundle instead of the regular option. The bundle is actually much cheaper.

@Now-Let-Me-Say01 Nintendo's own website for Mario Kart World said so.

Switch 1 thrived because it was such a low cost barrier to entry. They definitely losing the younger generations and people buying 3-5 switches. The youth will further pushed towards the free to play titles

The game is standard price on the E-Shop. But isn't it illegal to charge more for your game at competing retailers?

@anoyonmus true it makes the game $50 instead of 70 or even 60. But still, not everyone loves Mario kart (even if 8 sold a gazillion copies 😂)

@Judal27 Mhm.

And again, Nintendo is being more flexible on the pricing. DK costs 70 dollars here so far.

I’ll only buy used at those prices

Video games have slowly risen in cost the past few decades. Contrast this to the increased entertainment value that they provide. Gaming studios have increased expenses like normal people like you and I. In the grand scheme these are still modest increases for the value that consumers get. We have always had to choose how carefully we spend our spare money on hobbies so folks will just have to choose more wisely.

Lastly I don’t believe that video games need to all follow a similar price structure. I always found it funny that a simple 1v1 fighting game costs as much as a game like Skyrim new. I say let studios set their own MSRP for individual software.

@RagnarLothbrok gaming has always been an expensive hobby. I remember growing up my dad didn’t buy my siblings every title we wanted. Just a selection of games he wanted and some for us. It wasn’t only till I started working in my teens in which I got to buy more games whether new or used. So people need to realize that gaming as a hobby does have a cost. Just like anything else that is vanity at the end of the day. I think switch 2 will be successful initially with hardcore fans. You know the folks whom will buy a new console at launch regardless of what is presented. Now after that we shall see if people can be convinced to get a switch 2. Nintendo has an uphill battle to climb.

I haven't seen anyone mention it either here or more surpringly on NL but if Switch 2 requires Express SD it's possible their carts got more expensive as well. Hence the game being $10 cheaper digital.

Maybe Nintendo just really wants people to go digital? You guys probably missed the "digital swap cards" info over here last week. Digital will happen next gen, Nintendo just getting a head start getting people asking them for it.😂

@Vaako007 But a good 1v1 fighting game is a massively complex thing to create.

I won't pay those prices. I'll wait for sale pricing.

@Vaako007 Gaming as a hobby when compared to the number of hours of entertainment you can extract from it is relatively cheap.

The amount of money I've spent on CDs, records, audio equipment, going to gigs, and musical instruments over the years dwarfs what I've spent on a sizeable gaming set up.

Sony regularly proclaim Nintendo aren't really in the same market as Playstation and not a direct competitor and thus they shouldn't be copying their practices either.

If they do all it's going to do is create an even bigger divide. The blockbuster tent pole games will continue to be bought in their millions regardless of price and the rest will suffer a decline in sales at full price as even more people wait for sales or for it to come to services instead.

That's how it's going already, a price bump will just accelerate it. I've bought precisely 3 games this decade, nioh 2. Gow ragnorak and elden ring and I haven't once been short on something to play because of the services. there's really no need for me to buy anything anymore with Playstation premium. Especially not at full price.

So we're gonna be seeing standard games costing 100$ sooner than I expected.

"Just imagine how bad uncontested Sony would be!"

Nintendo: Hold my beer!

F them. Seriously. 90€ for the game that requires the least amount of work. Theyre testing the field. One can only jope thet no one buys this

Well, this is gonna suck...

Rockstar Games and 2K are giving Nintendo some high fives as we speak.

With no final fantasy IX remake, I have no reason to buy NS2. I will buy GTA6 with £100 instead.

Switch 2 = Wii U?

Given nintendo rarely if ever discount first party titles, this is a concerning development

Hmmm. This has me concerned. Have been really looking forward to the switch 2.. but those prices are steep. Thought at £330 it would fly off the shelves. O.G owners of the switch, secondary consoles etc. At this price I'm not sure. Sure I could pick one up still with Mario kart... But those game pricings. I'm not paying £75 for a game. Only expensive titles I've bought this and last generation was the final fantasy 7 remakes.. and even then they weren't full price shipping around. Will very much hinder how much it gets used if they are going to stick with that on all their releases. Not to mention all the kids they are going to exclude jacking the prices up so much. Quite the miss 🤔

@Meowmixes98 ...this is Nintendo.it will NEVER go on sale. Mario Kart 8 is still full price after all these years and still selling in the millions. Even pre owned copies are not much cheaper. MK World will do the same

Mario Kart 9 ain't worth $80, unless this is Nintendo's way to create price drops over time so it's eventually $65 and we all feel grateful about their benevolence. MK8 is 11 years old and still retails for full price, heck it's even more expensive than it was before if you count the Expansion Pack they still sell you separately.
IMO this is just going to encourage 2K to actually price GTA6 at like $100.

Given Ninty games won’t cost half of what a AAA current gen title will to make, this is particularly bad from them.

Wow. $80 is a lot.

But i fear everyone will follow Nintendo so thanks Nintendo 😡

Well with the current exchange rates Nintendo Switch 2 will be $110 CND. And if the could be even more.

At those prices, they can forget about the Switch 2 reaching the same popularity as the original. No way!

Those there are Liberation Day prices baby!

@MrPeanutbutterz I’ve done coding before and am not taking away from any software developer. I’m just saying that not every game is created equal nor provides the same amount of hours for new content.

@MrPeanutbutterz Gaming is one of the cheaper hobbies anyone can do. Which is why I defend every few years when developers ask for more coin for their products. I’m in agreement with you. Like you I have spent and still do buy CDs and physical movies. The price of a new 4K UHD sometimes is like 30-40 USD. Only giving me maybe 2 hours of entertainment and perhaps I’ll never visit that movie for a while. Contrast that to the average video game.

Anyways, My point was really for the family man whom has other more important expenses. As overall in the world gaming is still a luxury.

Nintendo can get away with it because people are going to buy Mario Kart, Mario Party, Smash Bros., Zelda, Pokemon, etc no matter what. If their even is a loss in # of sales, they’ll make that tiny difference up with the increased initial price more than likely. Plus, their flagship games don’t go on sale often

I very rarely buy games brand new as like most I have a huge backlog and fomo doesn't really bother me. I think the last two games I got day 1 where FF16 and Elden Ring, and I got them on disc to get a better price.

What I will say is that some companies just seem far more greedy. I picked up Elden Ring Day 1 on disc for £40, the Dark souls trilogy collection on PS4 for £35. When games like those are so cheap it does make me question some of the £70 releases.

Will it also be £70 for the ports of the ps4 games? If so, then they are really joking.

Eh, if it were just a base price increase I'd be ok with it, inflation and all, but it's on top of all the other money siphoning tactics which are implemented in games nowadays ...

@Shadcai yep pay more for a old inferior version

with these prices it just makes things like game pass an even better deal

So I'm supposed to pay 80 dollars plus tax for the base game AND buy DLC? That's insane.

This is why I've been mainly a Playstation guy since Wii U. Nintendo is a nickel and dime company. A year of Plus Premium, on a machine that isn't 2 generations behind, or 2 Nintendo games. An upgraded rerelease of BOTW being $80 is insane.

GTA 6 is certainly $90-100 now. The floodgates have been opened.

@Vaako007 Get you on both fronts. I guess my comment about fighting games is more to do with the level of nuance and fine tuning that they require to be great. It's a different skill than say designing an engaging open world, but it's one that takes skill and talent to pull off.

Take a look at the current narrative around Tekken 8. It's become an absolute mess of a title due to the changes the developers implemented this week. I played a bit of it this week after the update launched and it has effectively doubled down on all the things people criticised the game for originally.

It's simple, wait a few weeks/months and then purchase a physical copy for much less than the store price.

At least Nintendo are attaching a physical drive for the price...