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The President of Nintendo said:
The Switch 2 is excessively monetized in a different way. They are raising the base cost of their first party titles - Mario Kart World, for example, will be $80. They are charging for the Switch 2 tech demo. They are charging to upgrade Switch 1 games to their Switch 2 equivalent. The peripherals are all extremely expensive. Charging for online play. Paywalling access to retro titles behind the online service. This is on top of a console that costs $450.
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what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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Because Zelda BoTW released years ago for $60 dollars. Now they’re re-releasing it with the ability to maybe sometimes hit 60 fps at 4K for $70 dollars as the switch 2 edition. Literally just a change in a configuration file.

If they came out with a new Zelda Game maybe it would be more palatable but as of right now most of the switch 2 launch lineup are overpriced re-releases.

Credit where credit is due at least they’re offering a $10 upgrade pack to owners of the switch 1 versions. But this kind of garbage used to come out at a reduced price (with all DLC included, you need to pay almost 90 dollars for the complete breath of the wild switch 2 edition!) with a free update for pre existing owners just a couple years ago.
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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I've always pointed to this video as a good deep dive into the arguments.
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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It depends on the game, the dev, the reach, and resources. Plenty of Indy teams that consider 100k sales a SMASH HIT sell for 20 or 30$ tops. And Nintendo and crap DOES sell, like unless they UTTERLY shit the bed, Mario and Zelda just prints money. They know this.

So it's really expected sales x expected price - dev cost and decent profit margin, but I think a lot of companies charge more PURELY to see if someone pays more for it. Sure maybe some huge games might need that cost, but surely some games are over priced.

Oblivion remake being a good example, a ton of texture boosts, and updated graphics/tweaks but still BASICALLY the same game. You cannot tell me they "need" it to be 50$ to recoup costs on that, especially with how much it sold, they just think they can fleece people for basically slapping fresh textures and latest filters / graphics in a 20 year old game. 30$, or even 35, 40 might make sense, but we know damn well Bethesda wasn't down to the wire financially making it.

we already know they made an insane profit, we know the cost of business is front loaded where it costs millions initially but THEN rakes in even more , and we know that typically they make far, far more money back than needed. So charging less has no risk of shutting Nintendo down, they just refuse because they think they can do 60 or 70. Even more so when lower price means more sales to an extent, and games with digital distribution have basically 0 sales cost.

TLDR looking it as purely inflation is stupid, it's video games which have IMMENSE profit margins if done right, not a fucking burger joint with a 30% margin for the BEST spot. and if a company knows it can get a 1000% profit margin, YES, they damn well could charge 30% less and be just FINE, but they don't.

I'm not even really mad that they do, but companies could totally sell for the less without financial hardship
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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Easy, because $50 in 1990 purchased a game in its completed form. Breath of the Wild is $70 for the BASE GAME. Tack on $20 for the DLC which, by the way, you have to buy in order to unlock the full power of the Master Sword. Oh, and if you want to unlock Link's iconic horse, Epona, that'll be another $15 for the Link Amiibo.

Complete price $105 for the game in its complete form. The game is 8 years old.

With Mario Kart World, Nintendo wants to raise that BASE PRICE to $80. Being an industry leader, every other platform/publisher will want to follow their lead.

Imagine a publisher like Ubisoft. $80 base game, $50 season pass, additional costs for cosmetics. A game in its complete form can cost you well over $100 with literally no upper level cap if you include MTX.

It's a death by 1000 cuts situation. Jim Jimmy Jim Jam James "Stephanie" Ster-dust Sterling had the right idea about this back when he was a sexually deviant MAN instead of a sexually deviant MAN in a dress.

It's a shitty thing to do, because videogames are making more than ever. Videogames make more than the music industry and movie industry COMBINED. As you've mentioned yourself, the single most profitable media release of all time is a video game (GTA5).

At the end of the day, Nintendo can do whatever it wants, and people can spend their money however they want - I'm sure $80 Mario Kart is going to sell like fucking HOTCAKES, nigger-cattle gonna nig and all that, but it's the obsession with "monetization" and "player engagement" and all that bullshit corpro-speak faggotry that has sucked all the joy out of videogames.

Videogames should be fun, gay hobby for nerds.

Edit - Oh yeah I forgot to add piracy is a moral obligation. Do your part, download and emulate. Don't be a faggot.

Double edit - Also, @Null you once played "Mindful Solutionism" by Aesop Rock on MATI. Here is another good song about the dangers of digital escapism featuring Aesop Rock which you may enjoy and is appropriate considering the topic at hand:


Triple edit - At the end of the day it doesn't matter how much Nintendo games cost because your wife's boyfriend is just going to buy it for you anyways.
 
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Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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The whole #droptheprice thing is a gay little crusade by gamers that think they can pressure a company into changing prices by spamming youtube and twitch comments. The price increase between Switch 1 games and Switch 2 games has less inflation than just about anything else in that 7-8 years period. You would have to be a gamer neet living off bennies and/or parents to not see the inflation everywhere else. Nintendo games were also already overpriced compared to most as they kept their value and didn't give deep discounts to try and get a few more sales after a few months/years. Anyone mad about the increase should have been playing 5-10 year old discounted games on Steam or pirating not buying the latest bing bing wahoo on release.
 
In defense of that one woman who took issue with Jersh 'enabling manchildren' because he failed to seethe at anime when presented with an opportunity via the 4chan hatsune miku shit. She does have a point in that his recent tune in regards to vt uber shit and animes really is a drastic shift from his past content when mentioning it. It was only about 2 or 3 years ago when he narrowly skirted the edge of going full Dr Pizza. And to someone who doesn't watch the show every week, this shift might be a bit of a shock.
 
Yours Truly 2095 said:
I don't have any lolcow drama but I've been watching a lot of BattleBots and i really like this Blip fella he's fun to watch. He just throws bots up in the air. I thought you may find it amusing

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L-V1reWrbNc
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bot battles got boring the moment flipper and spinners became the meta.
everything else sucks and only way for the "other" to win is for the meta bots to somehow break themselves
 
Null said:
my allergies have been killing me today and i'm trying not to take pseudofed unless it's a day i have to meet people or stream.

Any requests for the stream? It didn't feel like a lot happened this week.
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Join the PWRMY. He's a hot young (35yo) dude, wrestling and Burger King fan, former DSP dent, dunked on the gunt on stream, hasn't had a piece of ass since 2013.

He's a genuinely entertaining new cow and there are lots of funny clips about him on his thread
 
Null said:
what is the gaymer answer to why a video game shouldn't cost more than $60 when Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990 was $50 and Pokemon Blue in 1996 was $30? especially for a nintendo game like Zelda BotW with no mtx, why not let them charge $90?
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Late request, but how about stuff about Shondo? She's that lolicon VTuber who got phonebooked recently and she's returning to streaming. We got info like:
She's planning to sue a doctor for letting her mom out of the hospital after her suicide attempt and has a worsening family situation.
Has a history of mental illness on both sides of the family.
I was going to say she had a codeine addiction, but the guy who started that conversation deleted his post, so I feel like that's too shaky to say for certain.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Steve Lightfoot moved to Colorado, so here's a compilation of clips for what the locals of Grand Junction can expect at their city council meetings. He's a very old school lolcow, which is in short supply now. Kinda like Fedsmoker, but old and obsessed with John Lennon getting killed by Stephen King.
Steve telling everyone they're Satanists, he'll put Stephen King in front of a firing squad and change the world, and prays that humanity kills all of humanity for them letting King kill Lennon. Also talks about the assassination attempts on him.


Steve says that Putin killed Navalny because Joe Biden was about to extradite Julian Assange as a cover-up for Putin's actions against Navalny. He also talks about his avenging angel.


Steve busts out a tape recorder that he used to record a conversation with a police officer and goes on a rant against the Monterey Police Department.


Steve Lightfoot talks about the communists infiltrating America and accuses the city council and the police chief of corruption and also being part of the Italian Mafia.


Steve talks about the super natural forces that protect him caused a storm that hit Monterey.


Steve compares himself to Jesus Christ and talks about how the meth-head woman he rented a driveway from for his van got hit by bad karma.


Steve talks about how everyone in Monterey is trying to stop him and talks about how Paul McCartney was punished by his avenging angel. He also gives a really brief overview of his conspiracy theory and talks about how he hasn't had sex since 1995.


Steve threatens to go to court because the council limited him to two minutes and talks about the JQ, calling Israel a white supremacist state and Jews white supremacists. He says Israel will fall like the Berlin Wall.


Steve exposes the mayor's homosexuality. He threatens to continue to expose the embarrassing facts about the mayor the every time he's cut down to two minutes.


He outs more homosexuals and talks about how California has too many homosexuals. He also serenades the council with a song about Kamala Harris.
 
I'm a Silly said:
There will be a moment in which their shared hatred of Great Britain might make Null embrace a fellow Aryan:
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Lord Balldo Crackieta Esq said:
A population of more than 1 billion and the only person of note they have for a bill is Ghandi.
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Yea as unfortunate as it is he was a fabricated messiah kinda like MLK in murrica, His face is the only in legal currency notes. Although there ae some commemorative notes that feature other actual brave freedom fighters from that era as well, Damnit I wasn't able to find em :(.

Dead Lion said:
Hindoo hands typed this post.
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Dead Lion said:
And you’re clearly also at least partially illiterate because you failed to understand the hyperbole I used ;).
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Saar I feel totally devastated by your remark saar, Please don't be so rude saar.
Ayyo dude jokes aside I knew you were being hyperbolic nd sheeit but I just thought you'd appreciate the info, since you fwelt so bwed foe us at the end of that post.

Dead Lion said:
The reality is that India has an adult literacy rate of 75%. Basic arithmetic is taken into consideration when assessing literacy. In some states the literacy rate is as low as 60%.
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I dunno which pozzed neghole you're pulling this out of dude. Also maybe you didn't read the part where I talked about literacy rate. As far arithmetic goes I feel poos are doing fine in that department as well.
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Dead Lion said:
But if a quarter of your country can’t fucking read, let alone have access to healthcare maybe you need to reevaluate your priorities.
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Again with these weird ass claims lol.

Dead Lion said:
That’s the irony about Hindoos trying to convince people on the internet that they’re a modern country that deserves respect.
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Look I am not here to convince anyone of anything bro. I know people will never change their mind, I am a practical guy, at least I try my best to be. India has had a colonial hangover for the past 50-60 years which stopped it's growth and Since the previous governments had taken advantage of communal resentment amongst diff groups by pitting them against easch other, No progress happened. Instead it just led to a decline in every thing. Since the last two decades however I now see a patriotic unity(at least amongst hindpoos), I am not saying my country is perfect like it has major flaws but, It's still a developing nation and the actual development only started from the two previous decades. So it will takes it's time to return to it's former glory that the jeets always keep boasting about everywhere, Oldest religion saar and all that...

At the end It's completely respectable for anyone to hate or love whoever they want to. Go ahead but at least don't pretend that you're doing it for some moral reason, Instinctual hate is completely natural to have towards those that you deem to be outsiders or somehow inferior, That's just something coded in our DNA. Just be honest with yourself that you hate certain people for not looking like you. I just wanna say this was all in good fun and banter and I have fun replying to people like you that don't agree with me. Don't take any of my responses as attacks. People can hate all they want but they'll only receive honesty and charity from my side. So g'day cunt where ever you live.
Peace ✌️
 
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