Are these prices making you cancel your purchases? - Nintendo Switch 2 Forum

Misima · 2025-09-13T07:11:55+00:00

Is anyone else fed up? I watched the direct today and was excited. I planned on buying Prime, Fever. The DK DLC, Fire Emblem, RE 8, RE 9, Galaxy 2, and maybe the Pokemon games, the FF 7 remake, and I was even thinking the Dragon Quest Games and Stardew as I hadnot bought it. Then I looked up prices and started realizing that this was way out of my price range. I was thinking to myself, half of those games are old so it wouldn't be that expensive and then almost every single game was 10-40 dollars more than I expected. The DLC was something I thought would be 5 bucks and it is 20. The Pokemon DLC is 30!!! Honestly I didn't buy Galaxy 2 back on the Wii because I was poor and had to pass, it was a 50 dollar game so I assumed that it would be 40 dollars for the two games, but it's 35 per game in the bundle. 40 for Galaxy 2 alone. FF7 is a key card so that's out. I watched that direct and said I think there's 8-10 purchases there and after the sticker shock I think I am getting Prime 4 and Fire Emblem if it's like 3 Houses, and just waiting until RE 9 is cheap on PC. I got RE7 for 20 bucks, so maybe Nintendo just talked themselves out of me as a customer. Don't get me started on the Virtual Boy. 100 bucks might make sense if it was a quality headset that you used like the Oculus by sliding the switch 2 in, provided every VB game was on a physical cartridge for game preservation. But 100 bucks for the same awful design from 1995 and you still have to pay a premium subscription to play the games. This might be the worst move Nintendo has ever made Is anyone else feeling the same way? I was so excited after Cyberpunk, thinking I was going to be using mouse mode to play games on my huge TV from here on our, but the PC is just so much cheaper for games. 65 minutes and after all that I might buy 1 or 2 games because there is no value anymore. Could we at least get sales? Sorry I don't have more money, but horrible corporations ruined the economy out of greed, and now apparently you're one of those companies. I bought over 600 games from them and every system including the Virtual Boy. But now I seriously am wondering if my Switch 2 is going to continue to be a Balatro machine due to cost. I am already eating just rice Nintendo and polycrisis is just starting. I didn't even bring up my electric bill... I hate the future.

Topic: Are these prices making you cancel your purchases?

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rallydefault
Yesterday, 1:05am

@sixrings
The cartridge production prices will only get lower over time. The tech will advance and the stuff they’re using now will become “old” and get cheaper to produce.

rallydefault

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sixrings
Yesterday, 2:07am

@rallydefault as a uhd blu ray buyer I have skepticism

sixrings

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rallydefault
Yesterday, 10:43am

@sixrings
Nobody wants blu rays anymore, man... so yea, if the same happens in the video game market, prices will go up and not down. But so far, we're not seeing that.

rallydefault

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BonzoBanana
Yesterday, 11:35am

I would strongly suspect Nintendo want to go fully digital and to completely lock down their games systems against modding etc. They want to protect their IP and maximise profit as much as possible and provide the bear minimum rights and convenience to consumers. However there is a lot of competition in the gaming sector and other options are available. It's for consumers to resist excessive pricing and poor access to the content they purchase. When I tried to re-download wii content I purchased sometime ago it wasn't possible and assume this is still the case but not sure. It feels to me any content purchased from Nintendo has a limited shelf life compared to something like Steam.

Basically I trust Steam more than Nintendo to be fair with regard the content I have purchased. That is my big issue with Nintendo, I just don't trust them at all to be fair.

BonzoBanana

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FishyS
Yesterday, 1:13pm

BonzoBanana wrote:

When I tried to re-download wii content I purchased sometime ago it wasn't possible and assume this is still the case but not sure. It feels to me any content purchased from Nintendo has a limited shelf life compared to something like Steam.

You could definitely still redownload Wii games back in April of this year and the Nintendo website says you still can. Either you tried during an outage or there is something wrong with your Wii. So far Nintendo has not taken anything away even once as far as I know. Since Switch games are based on an online Account like steam rather than failable hardware like Wii, Switch games may still be redownloadable essentially forever — we certainly don't have any reason to think they won't be.

FishyS

Switch Friend Code: SW-2425-4361-0241

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Jarodlaraus
Yesterday, 10:13pm

The prices are here to stay because of Tariff wars are what they are. So once those are gone we can see what prices the market forces shows what the cost to consumers are. But at this age and time prices are because of Tariffs.

Jarodlaraus

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sixrings
12:09am

@Jarodlaraus I’m liberal or democrat. You cannot blame everything on trump even if I don’t like him. Share the blame around. Surely coorporate greed is a thing.

sixrings

@sixrings
It’s both, for sure.

But it also takes us as consumers to actually have a backbone and not pay 50 dollars for a Kirby amiibo.

rallydefault

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