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[-] [email protected] 181 points 1 month ago

$90 to replay a 8 year old wiiu game. Why would anyone?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Nintendo fanboys are notorious suckers

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

$10 to replay it, replay meaning you already have the switch version. Or free if you have switch online expansion pack. It's only going to set you back 90 (instead of 80) if you've never owned it and you want it on switch 2

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think breath of the wild has always been overpriced lol. And it's not news that Nintendo rarely ever discounts their older games. But the vast majority of people who are gonna want to play it on switch 2 already own a copy ( I hope).

I wonder what this'll do to the price of used physical copies

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This pricing is why Nintendo doesn't want emulation of its games, while other companies don't give a shit because they either figured out how to port their shit over to PC or did a multiplatform release to begin with. Steam was the largest reason piracy for games has literally shrunk and why so many from the scene stopped. Make it cheap and easy to get the game, no need for people to pirate it. Nintendo did the exact opposite and has tried and tried to keep it on a closed platform...yet it's one of the most emulated company out there.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Not if you bought it on the WiiU like I did.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I bought a physical copy of BotW while I was living Japan. My Nintendo account is U.S. My copy of TotK is Digital to boot.

Fuck me, right? lol. What an ass hole I am!

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I played it six years ago, but with a better experience than switch 2… thank you, cemu

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[-] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago

Nintendo is still justifying my choice to never give another penny to Nintendo.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

Same. I loved the Switch. My next gaming console will be the Steam Deck. Fuck Nintendo, it's over.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You can play Switch games on Steam Deck! At least I do. Some play even better than on Switch.

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

that's gunna be a lot of sad kids on Christmas when the great depression 2 has settled in

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

better framerates, higher resolutions, and HDR support

Interestingly you can get all that for free now. Yarr

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Kinda expected when you pull an CEO from EA

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Yeah, you can really see the AAA cooperate enshitification taking hold.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wow, I had actually never heard that Doug Bowser was formerly at EA. Ooof

I get that it's more fun to point out his name, I'm just surprised I hadn't seen the comment made before.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Existing owners can upgrade to the Switch 2 version for $10, gaining better framerates, higher resolutions, and HDR support.

I didn't realize they had this option. As far as legal routes go, that's not terrible (assuming there's no weird downside, like no longer being able to play the original on the switch 1). Free would be better, of course, but $10 certainly beats paying $90 just to play the improved version on switch 2.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's basically the PS4 to PS5 $10 upgrade thing. The difference is that Nintendo isn't dropping the price of their 8 year old game, unlike what the rest of the industry does. So it's $60 BotW + $20 DLC + $10 Switch 2 upgrade = $90. Absolutely ridiculous.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Honestly... Piss off with that Nintendo.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Steamdeck already has this experience for free 🙈

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

One of the issues I have with the new open-world style Zelda games is that they don’t have replay value. After finishing each once (which takes a lot of time), I can’t actually imagine wanting to go back and play them again. So yeah, Nintendo can charge what they want and it isn’t very appealing regardless. Increased resolution isn’t going to change the experience.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Increased resolution probably wouldn't make a difference, but keeping the framerate at a steady 30 (or even better 60) would make a noticeable difference. At least it did when I played it on PC

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I replay OoT and MM at least once a year. I can see myself replaying these new Zelda games at some point and enjoying them, but I won’t likely pay $90 for the privilege.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

IDK how to feel about rising video game prices. On the one hand, prices were stagnant for decades. On the other hand, companies can sell far more copies of games than they could back in the 1980s and 1990s. The cost of games is all in the development. The more you sell, the cheaper the price can be. They cost next to nothing to package and distribute (or are distributed digitally.)

On one hand, games are a lot more complex and expansive than they were back in the day. On the other, game devs now have tools the creators of old couldn't even dream of. No one is hand coding the next Mario game is assembly.

There's a lot of variables here. And it's really just hard to make a fair judgment about it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If they're turning billions of dollars in profit each year, there's no reason to raise the price. Fuck them

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

In many ways I think rising prices could be great, but in reality, they won't be. With the technology available today, we could have even cooler games than we do, and more games, and more great games. We could have more diverse and experimental games. It would be lovely if solo indie developers were able to make a living from making great games, rather than basically needing to chase a dream akin to getting drafted into the NBA. Game developers are seriously underpaid, it would be great if they got paid as much as other software developers, especially since their work is equally complex and usually more stressful.

In reality, rising game prices will not help with any of those things, and will just make the C-suite richer. The one silver lining is that this may allow small indies to start charging a more livable realistic price for their games.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah but BOTW has already made them rich. Development is finished and even the next game is 2 years old. I call it pure greed.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They'd make a lot more money if they priced it at the 20 - 40 range

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

They really wouldn’t. They would have to triple or quadruple sales to take that sort of a hit. As it stands it’s one of the best selling games of all time already, basically everyone interested in it already owns it.

Financially, they made the right decision. As annoying as it is from the consumer side.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

If I were to buy a switch 2, I might consider a rebuy at 20-40, but I've already beaten it and I ain't pain 90$ lmao

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

That assumes people actually buy it though. Everyone already has this game, so I would expect most of the sales to come from the upgrade pack and not the $90 switch 2 edition. Nintendo usually makes bank by selling old games at full price with a generational console gap.

Tons of the full price successful "remasters" on Switch were Wii games which people no longer used, and Wii U games which no one originally bought.

On the other hand, the last time I didn't see Nintendo make bank on literally zero effort was never, so I'm not that hopeful that people won't just shill out for this scam too.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The first and only console I bought was the original Wii. Games were expensive so I did not have many. I managed to install a few emulators and use it for older console emulation.

After some years they started pulling the plug on the online services. That's when I decided I would never buy another console again. I will not feed any more walled gardens. I have more games than I can play on my PC, a lot of them are DRM free.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Title is a bit misleading

There are a few scenarios here.

  1. You own the game on switch and already have the dlc so pay nothing unless you want to pay $10 or have the switch online subscription for the switch 2 edition if you want the enhancements. For a total of $0-10 depending on your choice

  2. You own the game but dont have the dlc so pay $20 for that and then $10 for the switch 2 version unless you have the subscription for a total of $20-30 depending on your choice.

  3. You dont own the game so you buy the switch 2 version for $70 and the dlc for $20 for a total of $90.

This is not the same as the $90 game lie thats being told, but it is painted that way. To get clicks.

Paying $70 for a game and then paying more for an expansion is nothing even close to new. For example, Destiny 2 is free but if you want the DLC its gonna cost you between $150 and $270 depending on when you buy it as there are sometimes deals on.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Breath of the Wild is 8 years old at this point. Asking $70 for that is pretty egregious in my opinion. Maybe for TotK that'd be more acceptable but for BotW I think it's a very steep price. Especially given that it's common that rereleases usually include dlcs by default.

I'd expected $60 for the full package, not $90, given that the amount of development work was likely pretty low (the game was finished years ago after all). So 50% higher than expected.

The SM64+Sunshine+Galaxy bundle game was $30, for comparison. That's three full games that they needed to put in effort for to run on the Switch.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

And, not that anyone cares, I vow never to buy another game from them- at least at that price.

Retaliatory non consumption.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My ol' good Switch 1 will keep rocking my TV set until it breaks apart. I never asked for a Switch 2 anyway.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

So sounds like a public library check out.

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