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> I'm sure it'll be fun, but I'm not thrilled about Nintendo bumping the price up to $80. At that point you can live a perfectly happy life only playing games
by StopDisinfo910 1y ago
> I'm sure it'll be fun, but I'm not thrilled about Nintendo bumping the price up to $80.
At that point you can live a perfectly happy life only playing games that are years old and buying them deeply discounted or second hands for peanuts.
It’s a mystery to me who spends 80 bucks on a game which is approximately the same than the previous one itself the same than the one before.
- TimorousBestie 1y agoUnfortunately, Nintendo doesn’t really do sales. Not at the same scale as Microsoft, Sony or Steam.
- bee_rider 1y agoIt is actually kind of surprising to me that the convention of dropping prices after a couple years has persisted in games. I mean, it made sense in like 2005. Back then, an older game looked much worse and every game was bumping up against the limits of what was possible on the hardware/in the engine. Nowadays a game from 4 years ago looks ~about the same as a current one, might have the same gameplay, and doesn’t suffer as much from the constant progress in monetization strategies. Plus you know if a community will grow around it. And, relatedly, mod support has developed if it ever will. The only reason to play a game that just came out is if you are into a specific pseudo-competitive scene; the “recently released matchmaking game” genre (and, it should also be noted that this isn’t the real pro-competitive scene, that’s MOBAs and Counterstrike).