I get it, prices of games going up sucks but games rose to about $60 (cad) during the wii era. Put that into an inflation calculator and you end up with about $90 nowadays, it’s not really a price hike out of line with general inflation. The switch 2 pricing isn’t out of line with AAA PS5 games either ($80 for a digital copy has already been the case for a while there).
Games are not free to make and modern games have longer dev cycles and therefore cost more to make as well.
Consoles are also typically sold at a loss with the idea that software sales will make up for the loss. Were games to remain the same price the console would likely be significantly more expensive.
I get that consumer purchasing power is down due to wages not keeping up with inflation but sadly the reality is that if making a console and games for it are unprofitable then they’ll stop making them.
Props for a legitimate unpopular opinion! I do disagree, but I guess that is the point lol
Yeah I posted it here cause I know it’s a bit of a contentious opinion. I think the outrage is really more about the consumer market as a whole and not really Nintendo themselves.
The Switch 2 just happened to be something a ton of people are looking forward to and many of those people are upset with the fact that all prices are going up while their wages are stagnant and honestly rightfully so. I think people should be using that energy to lobby for change on a huge scale to make life more affordable (UBI systems, rent controls, tax the rich, etc.) instead of blaming one company.