Nintendo Games Are Too Expensive: Something Has To Be Done
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 2020
- How I feel about nintendo's prices for nintendo switch games. These games never drop in price for games that are over three years old, and it's time someone spoke up about it.
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Nintendo is basically the apple of game consoles
I’m telling you man people gotta start realizing it!
@@thatguybis1997 ye
Well their consoles arent that expensive, but the price adds up with accessories and games, even if you get 2 games a switch and a pro controller, the "300 dollars" turns to 500!!!
That's because nintendo fans are the apple fanboys of consoles. For them, Nintendo's words and decisions are God's words and decisions and cannot be judged.
Finally!!! Someone said it!!!
Sony: hmm, interesting
Activision: I see...
@@brobunni Activision is almost like Nintendo, not full price but their old Call of Duty games are still more expensive than other publisher games.
I got god of war for 15 dollars as it's PlayStation hits and spiderman at 20
Horizon was 10 bucks
At launch ps5 games are 70 dollars but the price drops on sales or as time passes by.
Sony seems to discount games after they've been out 3 years or so. I don't like Sony, but at least they realize they'll force people to go pre-owned
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a port of a Wii U game is priced at $79.99 while the Wii U retail price was $64.99. Same thing with Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. They increased the price instead of decreasing it. A good chuck of my switch games have been bought second hand. $80 is too much for a game. Then there’s talks of Sony and Microsoft possibly increasing the games to $70 USD which would be $90. People are not going to be spending that at all. Movies and tv shows have always been under $50 excluding complete tv series. Why do those get cheaper prices, but video games have to be expensive? Doesn’t make sense. Don’t get me started on those people who say “Oh it’s actually cheaper by inflation.”
You make a good argument
Game development is more expensive that it even has been. I'd rather buy a game for $70 than buy one for $60 riddled with micro transactions. I think game devs also need to calm down on their budgets if a game like minecraft can become the best selling game ever. Which is an indie game. Clearly budget means nothing to consumers.
@@MikeRitiques love and passion means the most in game development, seeing how great valve has done for a while now.
@@MikeRitiques Nintendo games are not expensive to make because they are on weak hardware
And because TV series get constant money from commercial ads when shown on live TV, and movies make most of their money in bulk at movie theaters, DVDs are sold but everyone gets a cut so not that lucrative.
I was able to get Horizon Zero Dawn, Ratchet and clank, and the Nathan drake collection for absolutely free during the play at home initiative from last year and this year. I can’t even imagine Nintendo entertaining the thought of giving away a free n64 game.
I remember they gave a Jumping Rope game it was awful in my opinion, it is a high score game lol
In fact the new N64 addition to Nintendo online comes with a larger price tag.
@@yderga8707 and PER MONTH. You can literally buy a used N64 and used games for less than $300 on eBay
@@ManiaDorkTV can't play on the go
@@angelvillegas9604 better than wasting $10,000 a decade on 1996 games
I agree with ALL your points, something needs to change with how Nintendo prices these old games as brand new.
It's definitely something I just realized while I was browsing the eshop recently. Would love to play more of their games but they're just too expensive to justify.
Easy fix just don't buy if you think they are too expensive
@@johnmurdock5710 Haven't bought Nintendo anything in 19 years... But they still do it.
@@johnmurdock5710 poor
@@johnmurdock5710 or pirate them on PC even better
it just sucks because of the amount of playtime compared to the price, and sometimes I dont really play the games more than once
itz knot abowt da pwice itz abowt da games
And thats exactly why you buy physical copies of your switch games. You can just sell them at the exact same price as you bought them
Just get only 2 games like my sister some games like just dance and animal crossing
@@pinkperfumefairy9205 then how are you going to justify your purchase of an entire console?
@@karanveercheema2975 Why need to justify it tho?? If she is happy with that what's the point??
If someone spend 1000$ for a phone every year just to use social media and post pictures on it and he/she is happy with it.. Why need to justify?? To please other people?
Unfortunately you're preaching to the converted.
Even if the Nintendo fans actually grew a spine and commit to a boycott, they'll still be outnumbered by the casual consumer and in the end that's Nintendo's true target customer.
It was worth a shot I guess...
well a lot of people just don't want to buy that console, cus of the price you have to pay for each game, i think that they are really missing out
@Mid Quacker Emulate them
I'm emulating every Nintendo Port they do as Karma
@@segaspice4062 And mods!!! Try the Relics of the Past mod.
Well well well, maybe it’s time to make a video on the 10 year-old game that’s recently gotten an HD remaster for a full $60, as if this wasn’t bad enough.
A remake? Which one? The "remaster" old games all the time.
I'm more upset that I tried the release game ARMS.... and that mofo was still 60 after 3 years. Smh. And it was boring to say the least
I assume this is talking about skyward sword?
@@snowthewolf9816 And let's talk about the new fast travel feature locked behind a 25$ Amiibo. Nintendo are greedy bastards, they need to be taken down more than a notch. They are abusing as much as they can get away with, because who know, their next system could be another Wii U. They don't care about fans goodwill, and I really hope this will bite them in the ass someday.
@@Emanouche I agree. I really don't like this. I'm a grown man and have no need for Amiibo toys. It's a classic Japanese tactic.
Cod never discount games lol
This is one of my main gripes with Nintendo every platform games drop in price but not Nintendo its kinda frustrating.
It's very frustrating. Definitely a topic that I think needs to be talked about.
@@thatguybis1997 I agree with you!
It doesnt help the fact the only way you can play nintendo games is on their consoles
@Logan McGlynn yeah but i mean all Nintendo games are only on switch.
@Logan McGlynn also there is a possiblity of it being on xbox soon sooo
Nintendo does the complete opposite of everyone else . They figure why put games on sale during the holidays knowing around this time people are going to be more willing to open up their wallets to buy these games and stuff for family and friends.
Well its been proven that people are likely to buy more when on sale that full price. People tend to regret it later.
Actually, the problem is not the absence of discount, but the fact its only 30 to 33% three to four times a year.
Funny you say this cause holidays are the only time their games are on sale
It’s actually because the PlayStation and Xbox consoles go on sale, hence people can take an economic advantage of planning to purchase inclusive games. However Nintendo thinks this can mess up the console’s legacy since its sales will drop as more consoles prices drop
I finally got a switch this year and completely agree. It's infuriating having to save for every single game because they are so damn expensive. Even third party games normally cost more on the switch (a normally worse running version of the game) compared to the ps4. At this point my switch is purely so I can (eventually) play their exclusive titles, for everything else I'll play it on the PlayStation or PC.
True fighterz is like 70 fucking quid on the switch while on base ps4 and ps5 it's like 10 it's fucking sad
Nintendo literally took a free Spongebob mobile game and charged $30 for it on the eshop. Seriously Nintendo?
@@dandansoysauce8762 maybe with the steam deck they'll have some proper competition and be forced to rethink some things. Anyone with both consoles won't buy anything other than nintendo exclusives on the switch and get everything else on the steam console.
Same, I got a Switch a couple of months ago but it's only for the exclusives, all future multi-plat games I'll just get on the PS4 or Xbox/Gamepass.
I agree I bought a switch just for exclusives. I play everything else on my PlayStation
Mario Kart 8 will still be 60 bucks when Mario Kart 9 comes out.
itz ok tho
Or when Mario Kart 99999999 releases
Your are 100% right. I've wanted to get a switch for so long, but I can't afford to be paying $60 for old games.
But a used Wii U. You’ll save so much money
Try living in Canada where every Nintendo switch game is $90.10
In Iran with all the sanctions and inflation it’s like paying $400 for a full-priced game.
Unless you include taxes games in canada cost 80 canadian dollars (65$ USD) which is slightly more than in the US but what is infuriating is the fact that games never go on sale and when they do instead of giving us some original or recent releases we ALWAYS get the same thing (which is like LM3 SMM2 splatoon 2 Link’s awakening and sometimes more) and there’s nothing wrong with these games but once you bought them all that’s basically it... like you will never see interesting sales or at least it’s that way where I live.
Try living in Brazil where every Nintendo switch game is half of ya paycheck lol
@@nazaritubes wow
In Denmark, new releases cost 500DKR, equivalent to around 80 US Dollars. Very rarely are games cheaper for the Switch.
They're full-priced because a lot of their sales come from parents buying their kids the games. Parents don't really care for how long the games have been released, they buy it regardless of the price as long as it shuts the kids up.
A lot of parents actually do care tho. I remember my parents never really bought me a full priced game no matter how much I cried about it.
@@akkibajaj705 I dont know if that's smart or cruel
I think it's better not to have kids ✨✨
@@professionalclown7166 idek but my parents were just being cheap Typical Indian parents lol
@@akkibajaj705 Oh that's why!
Meanwhile im 2089: hey why is mario odyssey still 60 dollars?
I’m just going to emulate it if it’s full price
cuz itz a reely goode game
@@gamerwolf3392
no itz wong datz steeling!
Ebay is a great friend of mine. I still use the 3DS and instead of paying like $40 for these 7 year old games, Ebay sell used ones for like $10-$20.
You can get them free if you mod your 3ds
@@mikkelstrumer8628 Does it cost extra money?
@@torrent7474 no
Nice but I would actually buy new untouched copies outside of eBay, because I can’t trust resellers
We’re not saying drop prices like others but atleast drop them when they hit a certain age by like 10-20 smh full price is ridiculous
Yup, you sir are reasonable. Because you understand that having 75% discount in its first year is not healthy at all. Something that i find a lot everywhere else. But they should reduce their prices for at least up to 50%.
@@ct2651 it's understandable for the first party games exclusives but they should be discounted after the second year ffs it's even worse for 3rd party games like dragon ball and lego that never go on discount for some reason
@@yxrackman2397 well, i did say that they should at the very least have 50% discount. Nintrndo never did that because even in the gamecune era, their prices didnt drop unless a game just didnt leave the shelves.
I don't own a switch yet but I'm thinking about getting one for the exclusives but then again... I don't want to spend $60 on every Nintendo© game, especially the third party games which i can get on steam for 1/5 of the price
@@FALLORaicer I just got splatoon 2 a game that came out in 2017 for $80 with the octo dlc😐🤦♂️
May I introduce the comment section to the glorious world of steam sales
If the Steam Deck wasn't so highly priced, I would've been on board.
@@SlingMeAWebbetter buy a laptop than steam deck. Steam deck definitely cant run upcoming titles. Where as a rtx 2050,3050 laptop can do. And it costs 450-550
The thing is we can shit on Nintendo about this stuff for eternity but until more people start to not buy this games Nintendo is always gonna be winning.
Just bought an old switch and h4ck3d it, TOTALLY worth it lol!
@@jordigarcia4495 I wish I could have purchased an old one but my dad got in from GameStop which was brand new so lol
Nintendo switch is garbage 😂
I don’t think *any* game is worth $60, but that’s just me.
Yes they are but only at release only after like 1 or 2 years they should go on sale regularly and after like 3 or 4 it should drop in price really often or forever
"nintendo makes quality games and their games are good" Pokemon sword and shield ahem.
Oh yikes, you said it, not me. I haven’t even bought sword and shield cause of how bad it looked though.
Pokemon needs a new team. It should be more like BOTW, or something because the formula is dated and boring now. Last one I played was Y. Simply because I made my own income and could finally buy a system. Haven't touched a pokemon game since
Not developed by Nintendo tho.. Pokemon fans just doesn't care with he quality of that game also.. Tbh my last pokemon is Emerald. 😂
Gamefreak made pokemon and it already sold over 20 million
Pokemon is not developed by Nintendo, the pokemon brand is split between three different companies, if Nintendo had the full rights they wouldn't let a game as unpolished as sw/sh release.
I sold it after owning a Switch for 4 days. I'm done. Bad hardware, full price and they charge a monthly fee to play online.
I have no games on my switch because they’re all 60 fucking dollars
I am with you 100%. I haven’t bought a good game from them in months because I feel that they are way too expensive. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was trying to buy zelda skywards sword and seeing they were charging full price for a 10 year old game. Really? I have the PlayStation five as well I can play great games with my membership or wait for a game prices to fall before I make a purchase. The way I see it in tendo is kind of losing a customer right now
Also Sony gave away free PS4 games on PS5 like God Of War, Persona, Uncharted etc. Nintendo is getting away with ripping off their consumers.
No they are not
@@maplemiles3381 okay Nintendo fanboy
@@maplemiles3381shittendo fan spotted
This aged extremely well
nintendo deserves piracy
You know what sucks I live in Canada so I have to pay 79.99 for a Nintendo game Nintendo really needs to change their prices
Oh god. That sounds absolutely terrible. I'm so sorry lol
I’m from Canada too after our taxes it actually comes to an insane $90 This is why I’m leaving console for PC gaming With the increasing game prices for PlayStation that’s now $100 Canadian per game I just refuse to pay that anymore And yeah I could wait for a sale but it usually goes on sale on PC quicker
I have a problem with the pricing because Nintendos brand is so Deeply rooted in being family friendly and parents only have so much money to spend Especially these days nintendo isn’t hurting for cash lowering their prices could Do wonders to booster their reputationBecause they’ve been making the news for all the wrong reasons lately they need to treat consumers better
I am so sorry for you
It is the same price. $80 Canadian is $62 USD
@@Unmployable lol ye
A friend of mine just got himself a nintendo switch and he was extremely excited to play both BoTW and Mario Odyssey (and willing to pay for them). At Nintendo they are fully aware of the fact that 8/10 people (made up statistic but quite accurate) who buy their consoles want to play these games, hence their value doesn't decrease until they stop selling as many consoles, right? The same thing doesn't happen with Crash Bandicoot games. They can be purchased in three different consoles and they are not as "essential" as the italian plumber.
You are right! I just bougth the console to play MK with my sister...
@@gotoyourmomgo3767 MK
The funny part is that games like FIFA played on a PlayStation/Xbox are literally sold at $60-80 with exclusive and inclusive content for them, while the Switch version is literally $40-60 for a game that has nothing other than Kick-Off, Career Mode, Seasons and FUT. Good thing Nintendo is discounting the old editions of FIFA on the Switch and later removing them from the eShop, but that doesn’t mean they can’t discount exclusive games.
@@ManiaDorkTV and they do. Every now and then you can purchase the big IPs with up to a 30% discount on the eshop. That's how I got the ones I wasn't so eager to buy on release date.
MK is for mortal kombat ......just kidding it is mario kart 😂😂
This is why in my friend group we all just buy a few nintendo games each and share them all.
I haven't bought a Nintendo console since the 3DS. They've fallen from grace.
Best to shop at Walmart where just about all the best Nintendo switch games are $50 most of the time, to circumvent the retail pricing.
Yeah mario kart 8 deluxe is currently on sale or $50 at target. You are right that physical comparisons can help given Nintendo does the expansion pack bs (let alone overpriced expansion switch online where it is easier to buy booster courses) over digital deluxe. I'm just glad 2 consoles can share the same digital game on the switch online family plan, let alone those who bought a switch with digital Mario kart 8 for black Friday sale years ago.
I am annoyed Mario and sonic Olympics is $40 on sale and I lucked out getting physical for $20 on my switch when sonic 1 movie came out years ago. At least, starlink battle for atlas I got for $1 physical (though gamestop lied about the toy on xbox) and I can get digital deluxe routinely for $20 on switch and have star fox guests.
I got Sonic Mania for $25 (because of taxes lol)
20 bucks a game is good for nintendo.
Why one should pay 60 for witcher wild hunt who can get 640p 30 fps
I bought my son a PlayStation cause I was sick of paying ridiculous prices for Switch games that have been out for years.
It’s definitely less pricy overall even if the initial price of the console is more expensive.
@@thatguybis1997 the ps4 is sometime less expensive than the switch thought.
I really hope my brother gets his Xbox granted for his bday. Because I, as an underaged idiot, can’t also handle the ass prices Nintendo has marked. Because it’s funny to see that third-party games like Sonic Mania were meant for Xbox and PS but that game literally got a 91 in Metacritic for the Switch port. Compared to Nintendo releasing 30 FPS game for an ass price
I bought a Switch this past weekend, had it for a day and a half and returned it once I saw the ungodly prices of their games.
And this is why I'm a PC gamer who refuses to buy a Switch. I'm spoiled. I'm accustomed to buying AAA games at $9.99 on PC that can support 2-4k graphics and 60fps on ultra. Now imagine the pain I felt when I wanted to buy a Switch and went over to the Switch games section. $59.99 for 720p 30fps multiplats that have been out for half a decade. Yea, I don't care about portability THAT much.
I have a Gaming Laptop, it's portable and runs my favorite games like Sonic Generations, Jet Set Radio, and all my favorite games through emulation.
@@segaspice4062 I don't see a laptop as being portable in the same way a Switch is. Could you play games on your laptop on the bus?
I feel the same exactly. Nintendo's pricing disgusts me. For example Crash Bandicoot's trilogy I bought it for $12 along with 11 other games from Humble Bundle! Means I paid for it $1 only. I mean Sony's $29.99 is quite expensive for me. Nintendo's prices makes me want to throw up. Paying a lot more to experience a lot less. Nope. I don't need that shit.
Rumors say that Valve is already working on a handheld to play all your Steam library. Now I want something like that. The Switch does not even exist for me.
Nintendo has never been about the resolution, always about the graphics and gameplay. I still rather play Goldeneye or other RARE game, any Zelda game, any Mario, any 2d Metroid, etc over 99.9% of games that all have better resolution. Crysis and Metro suck compared to Nintendo games.
@@lordbunbury boys we got ourself a poor boy who only owns a switch
I'm actually trying to stop playing Nintendo games and move on to Microsoft and/or Sony games, not just because they're a little cheaper, but because they still offer a great experience and high quality.
the more i look at nintendo game prices the more i appreciate steam sales
Here hoping steam deck lits a fire under nintendos proverbial rear end
I have a personal theory as to why Nintendo keeps being like this and annoying people with their practices
Nintendo pretty much has a monopoly on some of the biggest gaming series of all time (Mario, Zelda, Pokémon) that the other game console companies… simply don’t
There are quite a bit of games that USED to be longtime exclusives on PlayStation and/or Xbox systems, but they eventually get ported to other systems, including Switch (even games that are actually OWNED by Sony or Microsoft)
but you’ll never see the likes of “Super Mario on the PS4” or Samus in the non-Nintendo versions of Fortnite
Nintendo doesn’t HAVE to make things better to remain successful, because they still have the benefit of having the ONLY systems on the market that can play certain beloved games, and some people will do anything to keep playing them
A year later but I’ll also add on, Nintendo want to keep the value of their games so they can sell them for more in the future. If all of a sudden they make a Mario game $10 dollars even if on a sale, in 10 years when they port said game to their next big console and sell it at full price nobody would buy it because “this was worth 10 bucks at one point”, if they stick their price points people accept the reality of their prices as commonplace e.g. instead of “this is expensive I won’t buy it” they say “I gotta save up for that new Nintendo game”.
Typical Nintendo fan boys overhyping their games
Proves that Nintendo switch fanboys will accept anything that the devs throw at them with shoddy graphics of games you can find better on other systems
Disgrace on shittendo fans. They need to be cancelled
In Canada, these games are $80, the economy and dollar here are different, but still, it's so much. And feels like too much.
no i live in canada and they cost 100 D:
@@stickzak7235 whaaaat?? Fam what part of Canada, I live in Alberta, and most AAA games are 80 here, same except for some special titles with dlc or game of the year editions.
I bought a switch recently. I wanted one since it came out. My last console was a 3ds and before that i had a Ds and a game boy advance. Nintendo has been doing this kind of thing forever. Just think about New super mario bros 2, it's still at full price at e shop or at gamestop (even if you buy it used) even though it came out 8 years ago and let's face it, it's a 4 hours long game and it's sold at nearly the price of a ps4 game. Nintendo games for portable console where never worth the money, but they reached a ridiculous point with the switch. They are selling ported games from wii u that are more than 5 years ago for wii u at nearly the price of a ps5 game. Name me a game that is a Nintente exclusive, other than pokemon and animal crossing, that didn't come out for wii u with the exact same quality.
@@shrodingerscat8940 v2?
@@JechtNH no v1
They've not "been doing this kind of thing forever" I remember getting good prices on GameCube games years ago, after I bought their Zelda collection limited run GameCube for only 90$ on a black Friday at Walmart. I had ton of games on it because they weren't super greedy like they are now.
@@Emanouche but that’s different from buying reskinned games full-price in a previous gen console. Since your precious GC is dead people can literally sell its games for $5 since the console no longer has new games for people to scalp online.
Nothing makes me angrier than looking through Nintendo's e shop. Prices are criminal.
This has actually been a big deterrent to me getting a Switch even though there’s quite a few games I’d like on it. After being used to extremely cheap pc game sales and even PS/XB have quite cheap deals these days, I can’t justify $60+ tax for years old Nintendo games
I will say their physical games often get cheaper. I got Mario Odyssey for 38 a few weeks ago
Let’s boycott the Nintendo Switch and stick to the 3DS that’ll teach them!!!!!
I miss the 3Ds ill never forgive them for discontinuing it
@@gdawg1585 I agree
As I have gotten older and don't have the need nor time to play a game as soon as it comes out, I learned you can save a lot of money for your games if you just wait.
Are people not buying all of their games for the year during black friday?
I am serious. If you don't care about getting a game as soon as it comes out, you will save money, regardless of the developer or publisher.
$35.00 for Mario U deluxe.
$40.00 for DK Tropical Freeze
$45.00 for Mario 3d world and Bowser's Fury
$40.00 for BOTW
$45.00 for Kirby and forgotten land.
$45.00 for Bayonetta 3.
All from either Amazon. Target and Best Buy.
Even games like GOW: Ragnarok will be 50 dollars soon.
I only buy games when they are on sale. You just have to be patient and vigilant for deals.
Take a look at halo mcc, then take a look at 3D all stars. The gap in value between those collections shows you all you need to know about Nintendo’s pricing vs other companies
I got horizon zero down for free for freeeee, and a looot of other games for free with my PlayStation membership, and this suckers pretend people to pay $60 a year to play Nintendo 64 games, Breath of the Wild is worth $60 bucks is a staple of the company is true, but so is it God of War and you can get that game for $10 Then beside all those games is Mario Golf for $60… really!? They’re nuts, I bough this Metroid game just so I can se another one but if they don’t make it longer and more replayable I’m not buying it. As the same I’m not paying $100 for smash bros
$60? Here in Canada it’s $80 plus taxes so $90! 😄👍🏽
goode stuf eh
This is the exact reason why I’m moving on to Xbox. Because seeing that Nintendo is desperate for sales during next-gen years just means to pay a $500 to play 3rd-party $70 games that are enjoyable, or just get Xbox Game Pass and download a few X360 classics 🤔
they DEFINTELY need to be taken off their high horse. games are already too expensive as is. no way am I paying close to 100 bucks for a single game. utterly rediculous
I've been thinking the exact same thing. I'd love to own Mario 3D + Fury, Luigi Mansion, Mario Kart, Paper Mario but everyone of them are €59.99. No way I'd pay that much for one of them, let alone all of them. And the thing is they never seem to be on sale ??? I think if people stop buying them they'll eventually start dropping the prices, thing is I don't think that'll ever happen.
the catch will always be the initial console price, as soon as some sucker buys into the console its pretty much a win win for nintendo, since most people only care about short time investments instead of long term
That's $300 and here I'm hating the fact I'm going to spend over 110 just for the new 2s Mario and 2d Sonic. I still have seen a time in my life to get Oddasy no cash to spare
I agree with but I think its fair to point out how this only really applies to the eshop as you can find physical copies of these games for a pretty decent discount around £20 ($27) if you go onto other websites and get new physical copies of these games unless the game is very new like Pokemon Legends Arceus
Totally agree. Fan of Nintendo since the NES era... bu the prices these days for older games or even worse... HD remakes of even older games from the Wii U and still priced at 60 dollars (60 euros even - 72.45 dollars as we speak)... wtf.
New video on that ridiculousness coming out soon
They do but you gotta find it at the right time, it’s super rare but you can find a really good deal, I brought Mario oddeys for 40 dollars and I saw Zelda breath of the Wild for the same price
If you’re patient enough you can get them at cheaper prices, but it is very rare
@@thatguybis1997 facts, but a lot of third party games always go down in price
Yeah like black Friday lol
And skyward sword is even worse. It’s an HD remake that is more expensive than the original, and one of the features is blocked by amibo. Like Jesus
I made a video on that atrocity as well.
Agreed, I want that Mario kart but DAMN I can't afford rn
I caved and bought it, shame on me.
@@thatguybis1997 was it worth it when it comes to enjoyment?
Nintendo:
-Only pays its employees the bare minimum "fair" pay
-Mostly ported games that took little to no effort to bring over
-worse processing
-10 times more likely to crash and usually having port exclusive softlocks, corruptions and glitches that are never fixed
- Charges more
Logic 100
It’s called quality and ageless art forms
Almost 3 years later and its still the same old story lol what a joke
You're right I have Mario kart 8 when it was half price and still see that crap later at the release price, I don't even play it anymore
Nintendo: please dont pirate our games 😢
Also nintendo: 60 dollars. Take it or leave it.
also nintendo: removing all 3ds games
All i want to play is Breath of the wild 😭
I got it it’s worth it
Getting an emulator is cheaper...
@@aslambagdadi4522 if u can afford a pc that can run breath of the wild, i think u can buy a 60 dollar game
@@richguy9992 True but I still think that owning a PC equals endless amount of free games which people generally pay 60 dollars for each time (granted I am a filthy pirate). Might be worth it tho in the long run. Not to mention you have access to xbox exclusives and emulated switch games as well as a work station. But yeah I get it, if you thinking of getting one now in our current economic crisis, then its a bit too late
@@richguy9992 pc?
Hmmmmm xbox series x/s
This one reason why i respect sony they gave so many good games for $20 and under i love that
All you can do is wait and buy used. I got a wii u near the end of it's lifespan and got all my games for a decent price. I'll do the same for switch.
They Still selling the Nintendo 3DS games with the release date price
I owned a switch for a short 7 weeks before returning it, not only over priced games but most of them don't play properly.
i remember when Nintendo released super Mario all-stars (switch verison) and saw it at 60 bucks and i was very confused cuz they didn't even change the games at all tbh that game should have costed 30-40 bucks to me
It comes with 3 different 3D mario games over the years. I was expecting 50 dollars for it not full but even that isn't as bad as only skyward sword for 60 bucks. That remaster should have been 40 at the very very most. I got 3D allstars as I never played any of the games in that collection and it was only 10 more dollars than what I thought it would be. Didnt get skyward sword remaster though. That one is a scam of a price for only one old game.
Aren’t standalone GameCube copies of Mario Sunshine still $60?
It’s a weird case of, “they can get away with jacking up the price because it’s technically cheaper than getting a used copy of the original”
People are less likely to complain about EarthBound being $10 on the Wii U Virtual Console (most other SNES games on Wii U are $8 instead), because at least it’s not as expensive as spending $200 on an original cartridge
@@jomaq9233 I got earthbound 50% off using a coupon on 3ds virtual console. I think earthbound is great and fine being only 2 dollars more than regular snes games. It's a quality game so I think it's fine but not including it on SNES online because it's a quality game is not ok.
@@AndroidHarris No, it’s probably the legal issues creeping up again, possibly like the original Wii days again
The Beatles references, the samples of other copyrighted music, the weird debacle with Sony owning distribution rights to the soundtrack
EarthBound may have just become the new Sonic 3 and Knuckles (since Sonic 3 and Knuckles is finally getting an official rerelease for the first time in 10 years)
Boycott nintendo :)
Let’s band together people
nearly 3 years after this video's release, Mario Kart 8 is still 60 F***ING Dollars.
Did you know they have discount events where they discount games
Its 2023 and Nintendo is still selling old games at full price.
They cost $80 in Canada on top of that too. 😅
You can get a lot of games used for $40 dollars atleast on ebay. Which was the price of a 3ds game so pretty good deal.
Can’t wait to get ripped off lol
I only buy switch games used, never experienced anything bad because of the cartridge durability
I believe it because they do a limited run on some of the more popular game's because of the expense of the cartridges they price can also sky rocket. Harder to find...if you can find them at all.
Here in Europe, i buy the Switch games secondhand. Mostly around €15-20. Have had some luck finding Mario / Zelda / Pokémon games for around €5-10.
If a game comes out, I just wait it out. Buy it later from someone when they dump their games on secondhand websites. The full retailprice of €50-60 is not worth it. For that price, you find 3 to 4 games secondhand in great condition 😊
I've never bought any Nintendo game for full price,I am sorry I do think they deserve 60£ for it but I will never spend that much,I do think that over the time they need to be reduced,and I mean permanently reduce not only during sale,problems is that the majority of Nintendo fan are fine with the pricing of their exclusive and port
Not necessarily the fans, do you really think there was 30 millions animal crossing fans? Its the general market that nintendo seems to be able to convince that their games is worth that much. These people are not on youtube at all and are not that informed.
The lowest I saw MK8D sell for was $45 at Best Buy. Most 1st party titles have gone down to $30-40 during sales. And the likes of Mario Kart and Smash Bros. hardly ever go on sale, whereas Mario Odyssey and Zelda go on sale frequently (often once a month or more).
they dont go on sale, at least in europe.
Agreed everytime I go on there I honestly skip buying them in the store on the console and go on eBay or something even Amazon I’m not paying 60 bucks for a old game even yet a game that isn’t worth the price and hype of that much money. I get so many good deals on ps4 console and they still continue to sell
Nintendo moves to the beat of their own drum. Nintendo is capable of selling 10 million copies with just 15 million user base. Sony on the other hand can only achieve this with a user base of around 80 million users.
Yes because there is only nintendo games that are worth to play on their console, unlike sony with so much variety ofc it’s not gonna sell as much
If I wanna play Smash only, just one game I have to buy the Switch Console $299.99, the game itself $59.99 AND Nintendo online $19.99.
That's $380 just to play smash and that doesn't even count the DLC or any accessories!!
Of course if I want anymore games for my Switch I have to pay full price for those too plus the DLC that comes with it.
I’m trying to buy Smash Bros for a decent price. My budget is £30 but prices are like £40+
I’m sorry man, I hate Nintendo sometimes
@@thatguybis1997 😂😂Do you remember when they said Mario 3D All Stars is a limited time only!!! 😆😂😭😭😭
Ssbu has like 100 fighters, thousands of songs, and stages. IMO the price is justified. If you cannot afford it then try to get it secondhand
@@Kira-eh8vj ended up buying it for £20
@@Kira-eh8vj You need to keep in mind there is paid DLC that puts that game up
The pricing is why I never bought more Nintendo games, I but the stuff I really want on release and then never bother to even look in the shop since I know nothing will be lowered to a price I might actually want to buy it for, this also means that besides the big releases I have no clue what even is on the Switch as I am not invested in the eco system and never will be, but I guess Nintendo is fine with losing out on sales and straight up money because of this.
Yeah I still want to play the mario games but i'm not spending 60 dollars. Nintendo doesn't care about the gamers.
@@th3rd3arplan3tradiogiven the sales your in the minority
*Every Big First-Party Nintendo Game*
Starting at: £49.99
Ending at: £49.99
For nintendo games I've learned that your gonna either buy it or dont. There is no waiting for price drops.
That's some of the reasons why I don't get some of their titles like dkc tropical freeze, warioware, mario sports like tennis/golf, rhythm heaven, any yoshi game, tomadachi life, ect. I have to pick and choose. Although I would have never played mario + rabbids if it was always full price instead of me getting it for 20 bucks so there is benefits for them if their prices did lower I'd get more of their games but they dont usually do that. I usually only get the games I really want to try out like smash, botw, mario odyssey, mario kart 8, and kirby.
Tomodachi life is $20 bucks wdym
@@flippinmegaman gamestop & amazon have that game priced at 45-50 dollars what are you referring to?
@@AndroidHarris eShop
@@flippinmegaman ok you found 1 exception on the digital store. I was talking mainly physical anyway.
The reason why they don't comes down to the fact that Nintendo has managed to maintain this image of not being direct competitors to Microsoft and Sony's consoles. When people talk about the console wars, they're directly comparing Xbox and Playstation, and thus those two must engage in more similar practices(including how they price things) to stay competitive.
Especially with the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles, Nintendo can lose money. But they can just give up and sell their games for less than $30, because I ain’t gonna pay $50 for Miitopia the childish game
In the Netherlands, most older famous switch games are around €50 now (cartridges)
It's the first thing I noticed with my switch this is mad I have a pc and I'm used to steam sales.
But if you ignore the Nintendo games there are always loads of games on sale in the Switch store.
@@Ian45968 yeah that's true but a decent amount of those games I'm not interested in like a few are very good and I mainly purchase it for main stream nintendo games.
Even skyrim is 60 dollars... skyrim!++
This is why I have no problem emulating nintendo games/modding nintendo consoles.
I have a switch, and dont even have any exclusives because the prices is ridiculous. And funny thing is you can have the same game-on one on PS4 other on Switch- and the switch version is always more expensive or still original retail price.
I would at least expect them to do sales as time passes honestly it’s greed but also like bad business practice.
The game has already made most of it’s profit the first few years, that’s why Sony games and other developers discount their prices. This all changed with the newest president and staff at Nintendo I mean what happened to Nintendo selects of the Wii era
Meanwhile you can see Sony keeping their greatest hit even giving some games at times to attract and please their costumers.
Nintendo could be reaching larger audiences by making their games go on sale with larger discounts, make the game more accessible to other people will bring more customers which some of them might eventually buy a full price game, yeah some might wait for sales but again that cost will be repaid with new customers and some of them becoming loyal. Plus sales numbers please investors no matter what the customer payed as price it looks good on paper.
Now seeing the New Zelda priced at 69,99 USD is just disappointing and scary if it becomes the new standard as like the video points out they almost never go on sale and when they do it’s not by much.
People should stop buying them at full price yes I agree but it will keep willing regardless by fans. Nintendo probably will only be discounting their games more once they have a failure console like the WiiU again that’s the only time they will be “generous” towards customers because they will be hungry for sales. But again also the management then was different and they have other visions.
I mean just look at the switch UI and the e-shop, everything feels more bland now.
I wanted to buy switch today and I had no idea about this situation with prices and I went to their eshop and I was like WTF is going on there!! I'm glad that I didn't get this console jeez what a greedy fucks!
there's a price tracker website for sony playstation games. so you know when is a good time to get a good game.
but there's no price tracker for nintendo games. you know why ? it's simply because the prices never drops.
at least sony is a respectable company for their summer sale and many discount event.
that's why I hope steam deck launch would change nintendo's stingy practices.
Microsoft is very reluctant with prices but they’re still enjoyable and most of the time the discounted their games nothing went wrong. But because Nintendo doesn’t wanna look small to the next-gen consoles, oh well.
ok i know it is VERY rare but i saw mario kart 8 on sale a couple times while i was buying other games i wanted. it is rare but the big popular exclusive titles do go on sale sometimes. i dunno if pokemon ever will though maybe someday after yet more pokemon games come out.
Not gonna lie, I ended up splurging and bought mario kart 8 at full price. Oof.
@@thatguybis1997 mario kart 8 was 30 to 33% discount 3 to 4 times a year. Thought, so im sad you miss it.
@@thatguybis1997 idk how but at one time like on march 10, all the mario games price drop to like 35 dollar
Their games may not be on discount, but their shares became ~15% cheaper since I bought them. 😓
I only buy games on cartridges because their re-sell value is also quite high.
It is weird . I just got a switch OLED, and with a memory card and game it was almost $600 . It’s more expensive to own than a PS5 😒 Nintendo is taking advantage of its Mario/Zelda/Metroid fans because you have no other choice
I love my Switch but dear Lord. Those games are too expensive. I'm not buying any games off the eShop. All my games for Switch will be from eBay auctions or whatever. Nintendo has lost one costumer with me.
same. i wanted to buy the switch and older games, but i wont buy it anymore. i now buy a ps5 and keep playing with my older ps4 games on my ps5. i dont care for nintendo ,they suck
@@heroldjaras9909 ps5 is even more expensive your logic Is dumb
sure. but the ps5 games get cheaper over time, ps5 games have 60fps and better graphics. even games like witcher 3 on ps5 are cheaper than the switch version. so your logic is dumb because you just dont get it. nintendo is milking their fans because their fans are allowing it. even 7 year old switch games still 60$, come on @@angelvillegas9604
@@heroldjaras9909the person who replied to you forgot that despite being more expensive at first sony ps5 games drop in price for physical and digitial unlike nintendo games
Its the differences too... ob steam skyrim is obtainable for 19,99€ but on eshop it values 50€... and we all know how crappy the Hardware of the switch is compared to the rest. I would say it doesnt stand a Chance against a ps3 maybe ps2 too of you Consider non drifting Controllers for a must have
Ya know games are still £50 in the Wii u eShop...
Shittendo selling games for 60 bucks which gt 710 can run at 169 fos. What a disgrace. Nintendo should be cancelled
Cry more
To be fair, you can find these first party games discounted at big retailers around the holidays, or on Amazon during special sales. I never buy these games at full price.
Nice spin Nintendo switch fanboy lmaoooooooooo