Mario Kart World MSRP is $79.99 USD.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured-games/
You have to have balls to charge money for a tech demo
Yeah, some are speculating it’s only $5-10 which honestly is even more of a reason it should be free.
As someone who is lucky enough to probably afford $699 CAD it’s just too much. I don’t expect this to sell well at all. I’ve bought all Nintendo consoles on release and this is just crazy expensive
In Australia, its cheaper to get the Steamdeck than the Switch 2. Sorry fromsoft and The Duskbloods, I dont think the game is worth the $699 AUD.
I’m in Australia too. Did you notice that they increased the price of the slightly-improved Switch 2 Pro Controller to $120 AUD compared to the Switch 1 Pro Controllers $99. What a load of crap. How much is the dock gonna be separate? $200? Plus, if you wanna buy Breath of the Wild with the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition pack included, it’s going to cost you
$120$110… a game from 2017 that only had a value for the resolution tweaked and an increased framerate cap…One thing I did notice is that if you own the zelda games on switch 1, and have the online sub +exp, you get the upgrade for free. I’m still not sure that justifies it of course but it’s something. Still not sure I can spend that much on a console.
(Correction: BOTW + Switch 2 Edition pack is $110, not $120)
If you only get the upgrade for the duration that you have the subscription, then that definitely doesn’t make the one-time-purchase cost justified in my opinion. If you consider that Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom is (still) $90 on it’s own, the upgrade being included for $110 means that the upgrade alone will be at least $20. While I was watching the direct, I thought it was stupid you had to pay for it at all, but honestly expected it to only be $5 at the most. After all, when you buy a Switch 2, you’re paying for the power the console has in that purchase. You shouldn’t be forced to then unlock that power through a further DLC; it’s not like they remastered the game or something. This is like Tesla making you pay extra for features that are already built into their cars.
However, I do think that the Switch 2 Edition packs like the one in Kirby and the Forgotten Land are justified to cost money, because they actually include a new campaign like a normal DLC should. Even with Kirby though, the actual graphical enhancements should be free. The new campaign should be the only paid part.
That is way too expensive. I’m not paying $450 for a switch, or $80 for Nintendo games. Trump can also shove those tariffs up his fucking ass, I’ll buy my expensive shit in a foreign country before I bend the knee to his idiocy.
450
glad i dint buy one when SWSH came out, such a terrible game, for 400$ console on top of that+ more for dlc. it was a pure money grab. and every game that came out for pokemon was sht.
I’m so torn, Nintendo makes such great products especially for a family with kids but they’re such an awful company. I really don’t want to support them and their habit of suing everyone
If you can’t resist then I guess a compromise might be buying used where possible, getting cross-platform titles on other platforms.
Personally a couple of my various regrets have been getting Nintendo stuff new in recent years. My lightly used New 3DS d-pad bugged out, I replaced the d-pad for it and barely used it only for it to partly break again.
I got a Switch, new, before they went ballistic with lawsuits and the screen had a dead pixel out of the box. Probably a matter of time before it develops stick drift. The battery also gives the whole device a limited time to work, unless it can still work via the dock without a battery (or with and without charging capacity), but I’m doubtful of that…
The Switch 2 being a similar design carries on that same battery problem as far as I’m aware.
What kind of rich ass people are they trying to appeal to with this console?! The switches advantage was that it was cheap and aimed at a general audience.
500$ for the bundle is crazy I can’t afford that.
I would buy it in instant for 500$ but here in Sweden its over 700$. F that.
C’mon, you don’t wanna be a WEENIE, do ya??
That’s a wild price point. You can get Series x for the same money, series s for practically half
Get into PS5 for cheaper, too. I can only assume the built for $350 and priced for tariffs, but if that were true you’d expect to see lower relative prices elsewhere. Hell, you can get into a real handheld PC gaming there if you’re patient.
I have zero interest in that product at that price. None.
Nintendo consoles for me are just for playing Nintendo games. So it’s all about the exclusives. For 3rd party I have so many other places to play.
And this is why they can keep the prices high for an inferior product
How? Xbox launched at 500(if you account for inflation it’s closer to 6) the PS5 also launched at the same price. Which again if you count for inflation is closer to 6. So this is coming in under those prices by quite a bit. This is a launch console price point.
Now if you were complaining about the cost of the game then yeah that would make sense because I don’t think Mario Kart has the same production cost as say Forza or Grand Tourismo.
The consoles price point is actually in line with how much the original switch cost(if you take into account inflation).
Original Wii retail price - $250 at launch. Included Wii Sports and controller.
$250 in 2006 is equivalent to about $400 today.
Wages have not kept up with inflation though, and the price of housing and everything else has skyrocketed
Very true. No disagreeing there. I just put the info for context
Follow up: WiiU retail price
- Price at launch: $300
- Price adjusted for inflation: $336
Original Switch:
- Price at launch: $300
- Price adjusted for inflation: $316
Honestly, I think anything over $325 is too expensive for this. It’s just an iteration of the previous model. It will be interesting to see what happens after the early adopters grab the initial shipments (how much will price go down, will sales drop precipitously if price does not go down enough?).
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/every-game-console-price-from-nes-to-switch/
(Also, how depressing is it that the price of things has doubled in just 20 years?)
For Switch: $300 from 2017 is $388 today.
For WiiU: $300 from 2012 is $415 today.
Don’t get me wrong though, the economic outlook today is bleak, I don’t disagree. And it seems a lot of people think it’s too expensive and it is rightfully theirs to believe so. We all need to make the best financial decisions for ourselves. At the end of the day this is a luxury product.
Ultimately I think price will be the subject of the conversation up until and after release, and only one thing will change the conversation and that is if the games are good. If Mario Kart World and DK Bananza knock it out of the park, people will not be talking about price, they will be talking about how much you need to play these games.
$250 in 1915 is equivalent to about $7,900 today.
Mario Kart World MSRP is $79.99 USD.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured-games/
Not excited for this to become the new trend from Nintendo
My new trend is not buying from Nintendo.
TotK was the last time I anticipate Nintendo getting any money from me.
Same tbh. I bought Metroid Prime Remastered and Tears of the Kingdom brand new in 2023 but it was not long after that I decided to stop buying their games brand new entirely. My thinking was that I’ll buy a Switch 2 brand new maybe a year after it comes out, unless they really mess up with physical games as much as Xbox has, requiring internet, or something stupid like PS5 slim/pro’s DRM in the disc drive that demands a one-time connection. Those hopes about physical games being good seem to be okay, but the pricing of the Switch 2 has completely soured the idea of buying the console instead. And the sheer price of the games makes me know I won’t even be able to afford to buy games if I even got the console years after release (because they never drop game prices).
Yeah, I could stomach a big upfront cost for the console (a year or so after launch, when you can just walk into a store and get one), but the $80 and $70 price points combined with Nintendo never putting their games on sale makes it so, so not worth it. Third party games you can play elsewhere, even portably, so that’s not nearly as much of a selling point as it was in 2017.
It’s odd because Donkey Kong is $69.99 and the MK console bundle gets you $30 off. My guess is that they are pushing the MK bundle hard because $450 is probably close to break even or loss leader for them. And going $530 was too high for the sticker price. Those that buy later will likely also get MK outside the bundle and then they are in the green. I bet the MK attach rate is going to be insane.
I also think the $10 more for physical versions is solely to push consumers to digital only. Also it frames the $80 price point as being “$10 cheaper” rather than “$10 more than normal”
80 dollar vidiya games?!
When did we get here folks?
And apparently $90 if you want it physically 🤡
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Shut the front door
People voted with their money for tears of the kingdom.
I’m out of the loop, what do you mean?
When the tears of the kingdom came out, some people complained it was too expensive (at least on R- ). Some hinted it could (would/did) lead to higher prices. In the end, sales did well enougb (I think). And so here we are. But also tarrifs.
Best you don’t look up Super Nintendo prices then. ;)
Cartridges cost a lot more to produce than cheap, plastic discs or modern, SD card-esque flash storage.
Games in 1994 cost on average $60. That’s about $128 today. The cost of production of those games was at most a few dollars more in materials. Not nearly enough to explain the price difference. Games were simply more expensive then than they are now.
Aging urself mate
If nintendo’s price points are anything similar to Lenovo’s from last week, ~50$ US of that is from darth cheeto and his tarrifs.
Not trying to be political, lemmy sorta has that covered already, just pointing that out.
(Source: Linus’s crew pointed it out earlier in the week Link)
If that were the case, only the US should have the higher price. But the whole world does.
Honestly considering his just-announced 24% tarrifs on Japan right after this price came out, I would not be surprised if we get more of a price jump before release.
Right after they announced a FromSoftware EXCLUSIVE.
Very not happy about this.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the exclusive, it’s a Nightreign-style game with a Bloodborne skin that isn’t your standard RPG fare.
I am looking forward to Nightreign, and I’m sure this is a game I’d also enjoy, but one that I feel I am not missing out on as much if I don’t pick it up.
So…what’s up with the Japanese language & multi language systems they get over there?
Is putting in multiple languages really that much more expensive? Or put another way, why do they get a 330$ version for those who only speak Japanese? The language restriction must be just so people don’t export them… was there a scalping problem?
It’s ostensibly to stop the huge scalping and reselling problem here. Also, then yen is kinda shit right now.
Foreigner in Japan groups are pretty pissed since it’s not currently clear that, if you have a Japanese account but also a foreign one, whether you won’t even be able to connect your other account (i.e. lose access to all your old games). Anything that relies on system language to determine game language also suddenly becomes Japanese-only since this version will only have Japanese. It’s really shitty for people who want to do anything in their native language. My wife also sometimes tries to play on my US account to work on her English.
At the current conversion rate for just the console that’s nearly $730 CAD after taxes.
Hard pass for me this year.
That’s a lot of dough. I won’t be picking this up at those prices. Shit is getting way too expensive.
