You WILL pay full price, goy

You WILL pay full price, goy

Ubisoft in shambles rn

From business' standpoint, it makes sense.
Why would you discount your own product?
What if customers only buy when it is on sale?
Who is paying for the discounts? Won't that hurt your business?

Yeah but people can't separate Nintendo (the devs) and Nintendo (the business)
Games are generally good, but the company knows that and prices it as such. They have the information that makes it so that we get a $80 game on launch and it happens to be the next entry in the best selling game on the previous console.

I'll pay nothing and watch as they lower the price because they aren't getting enough sales. I'm not paying $80 for games, especially if the game itself isn't even on the fucking cartridge

There's a certain segment of customers who will only ever buy things on sale. By never discounting the games, you lose them permanently. This is even true of the family types who would buy Nintendo games for their kids, as women are the primary purchasers of goods, and many of them are intentionally thrifty.

60 dollars is affordable if you only buy 1-2 games each month. The fact that Nintendo still sells Switch for 150 million units means that Tendies are okay with this arrangement.

Nintendo does not make slop, their games are eternal classics that is meant to be replayed for decades. Making art is expensive and Nintendo makes art full of soul.

you don't need more than twenty "full price" games a year
technically you don't need any games at all
games are not steak and butter

It makes sense in a vacuum but when everyone else discounts their games then you have to ask, is Nintendo really twice, thrice, four times as good as everyone else?

This is exactly why I haven't purchased a single nintendo game ever since the GBA. I don't care, I'll pirate.
Tendies are paying more than triple the fair price of their games, meaning that they're also covering the bill for me, literally no one is hurt

Because things devalue as time goes on. Would you pay the same price for a 6 year old GPU?

That's a problem for tendies don't push things i don't want on me.

They won't have to apologize to early adopters this time around.

it's okay when nintendo does it, poopdickschizo

90 (ninety) hard cash american dollars for 33456th mario kart rehash

value

these sides of mine

it's worth the money because this time it's different, there's two new tracks and a new power-up
huge innovation

Weird, I've gotten plenty of Switch games on sales. Does he mean specifically Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon?

AI chudda

Cringe but I agree with your post.

Are you always retarded or only when you post on Anon Babble?

They do go on sale on a regular basis.
I never paid more than 40 bucks for a digital Nintenso game on the eshop.

Faster and more advanced GPUs come out every year or so and that is (supposed) to bring the value of older GPUs down.
Can you say that better and more advanced games come out every year? Games that essentially make older games obsolete? If anything it feels like the opposite.

thoses go on sale for -33% all the time
plus the 99$ for two games gives you 5$ credit and 20$ credit when it's on sale

Nah

Kind of, yeah, at least Nintendo prides themselves in making better games every time, so by that logic the new ones should override the old ones in value. Not to mention, by the time a new game from their IPs come out all meaningful profit from the launch release should already have been collected, a game going on sale is to keep the momentum going on for a little longer. Alternatively, if a game goes on sale pretty soon after their release, it's because the sales were terrible.

Ubisoft catching a stray is funny because nintendo's last good game was metroid dread in 2021

As much as I like Nintendo, I won't pay more than $60 for a game. If I can't get their games on sale or second hand at that price by retailers then I won't buy them.

this isn't ubisoft

Then what do they keep making ubisoft games?

This isn't true, Nintendo games sometimes go on sale for a limited time, but the games and time is always random. I think that's a good strategy, since people can't say "I will buy this when it goes on sale", since nobody knows if it will happen

Did they not respect the value of their games in the past when they had the players choice or Nintendo select stuff?

Nintendo’s first party output has been mediocre the past several years now. They are massively overvaluing their own games and what consumers are willing to pay for them.

there is only one game thats worth buying full price and thats factorio

No I'll just get a steamdeck lmao

No, I won't. Nintendo can go fuck themselves.

I mean in terms of AI generated everything, not just images. Eventually nobody will know what's real and what's not anymore, you can already see it happening. The only way to save humanity will be to smash every computer made after the 2000s.

They're some third-party games that are as good as Nintendo games but rarely, and even more rarely in the same genres. Astrobot is apparently as good as a Mario game. I'm willing to believe that, but how many are there out there? 1 every 10 years? What 3D platformer I am supposed play, Yooka Laylee? Same for kart racing games. Sonic Transformed was good, the following ones not so much. Then what? Chocobo Racing? That Disney kart game? Crash Racing remake at 30 FPS and full of microtransactions? What about social sim games? The Sims is nothing like Animal Crossing. There's been a couple of Pikmin clones, do they replaces Pikmin though? Smash Bros clones? Playstation All Stars, that Warner Bros one with Lebron James or some shit? What shooter is like Splatoon? Foamstars? There's just no alternatives.

You are only thinking in short term gains when long term is more important for a giant business.

Selling a game for $20 makes more money than not selling it.

Not when people realise the pattern and start waiting for your game to be $20 instead of $60 or $70.

Ok start with your computer

Why is it okay to bully Ubisoft now? Don't you ever wonder how a Ubisoft dev might feel?

Why would you discount your own product?

So that you could attract the people who want to buy your product but don't want to spend asinine amounts for them or can't afford the higher amounts for them.
Your game also does not hold the same value proposition years after release therefore less people in general will be buying the game unless you give it visibility such as sales.

What if customers only buy when it is on sale?

Then they wouldn't have bought it in the first place if it was a higher price. I only buy games in the $20-40 range and begrudgingly get Nintendo games after a year if they're not discounted (They usually are nowadays) if I really want it, or several years later if I'm not super crazy about wanting it. The people who are paying the higher prices are people who are either not patient, have the money to spend without a real care, or are willing to spend the money just to talk about it or play it with their friends.

Who is paying for the discounts?

The cost of games is mostly arbitrary outside of physical production cost, shipping, warehouse space, and servers to serve you the digital version. Many Japanese devs release games at $40-$50 constantly while many indies release physical copies of their games for $35, iam8bit is a great example of a publisher that does that. Discounts are at the publisher's discretion and doesn't affect anything.

Won't that hurt your business?

Only if you make it a habit to discount stuff almost immediately like Ubisoft. No other company does this outside of maybe Capcom and Sega and even they take around a year to start seeing genuine drops to their games, but they also do permanent price drops as well. All the Resident Evil remakes are $20 nowadays for example.

this isn't Ubisoft

Lmao

Hopefully suicidal

Ubisoft makes better games than Nintendo

I want to argue this bootlicking point but

What if customers only buy when it is on sale?

I think I agree on this. Because on the rare times a Ubisoft game or Square Enix game catches my attention, I wait for the inevitable sale that drops it below 20 within a year.
I get less games on Nintendo because I ain’t playing full price for that Princess Peach game or an empty sports game, but the ones I do want I bite the bullet and get at launch because I know it’s not getting much lower,

Why would you discount your own product?

Because it doesn't manage to sell well enough at the initial set price.

What if customers only buy when it is on sale?

Then it's on you to make a more compelling product on launch, one that will make the masses walk the extra mile on launch at full price.

Who is paying for the discounts?

Multiple parties- anyone involved in the creation of the wares, down to stocking and shipping to all intended retailers. Not to mention the cost on the retailer's part to keep it in their stores in form of physical space, the cost of all the advertisement campaigns surround it, all the good-boy pats from esteemed media firms of sorts, etc.

Won't that hurt your business?

It sure would. I mean, have you seen just how many people did a company upset due to one low-performing product above this paragraph?

I'll tell you what makes sense from a business' standpoint: the principle of supply and demand in relation to the endpoint price. Can you create an hi-quality product to the eye of the consumer? Put that big price tag. Can you only deliver a subpar/low quality up to your expectations? Keep it low. In either scenario, you don't get to complain at the end results if you either invested too much on the wrong areas or too little to the ones that really matter.

REPECT THE PRICE

Kek Trump cucked out and you're going to buy this shit amerilards

Normans have fomo and want to jump on all the trends right away. Most game sales are front loaded despite heavy discounts years down the line.

Why would you buy more then 2 games a month? Are you made out of time?

for 33456th mario kart rehash

NIGGA there are 9.
Hows final fantasy 16, or the remake of 7 again?
How's call of duty 18? Looking foward to dragon quest 12? Yakuza 13(if we include spin offs)?

Based.
Reducing the price now would merely punish those who bought it in the past. Nintendo is standing up for us.

"Respect the value"

Then why Pokemon games are not $1 dollar?

NINTENDO TATSUKETE MY YUZU IS BUGGED

inb4 disingenous that's gamefreak NOT Nintendo

you can't say anything bad about nintendo

REEEEEEEEEEEEE

I hope the next pokemon breaks sales records just to make you mad, lmao

mad

Where was I mad? I'm just mocking those with lesser standards.

havent touched a bing bing wahoo box in a long ass time, good luck with your overrated platformers

am i?

Anons will seethe at this but you are spot on. Ubisoft started discounting their games early and hard and look what happened, their sales cratered and nobody will buy them at full price anymore. Nintendo meanwhile shrugged and said they don't put games on sale, either you buy it or you don't, and now people will buy them at full price.

The market spoke. Game sales kill you more than they help you.

I'm just mocking those with lesser standards.

You're gonna be pissing your pants in rage as you fail to understand why Pokemon gen 10 is the fastest selling game ever and the cards make a combined profit larger than your nation's GDP

You're gonna b-

No, I don't think I will. I think you should work harder on your shitposting. It doesn't measure up as it stands now.

How are they wrong? Variable pricing has been a thing for a long time like since the 80s. Not even exclusive to gaming. Most companies will price things higher if they think their value is worth more than what the competitor is bringing at a lower price. It's up to you the customer to judge if that asking price is worth it to you. Basic economy. People overreacting to $100 games when they've lost on 2 fronts over this. You've already paid for $100 games with Starfield by accepting that 5-days of early access was worth it where the trend of 5-days of early access was acceptable for the price increase. The whole $100 GTA VI articles wasn't something that came out of nowhere. It's a very common tactic in movies to use journos to disseminate or push a certain narratives because the companies are also the ones who pay for their ads. People like to blame Nintendo but this was Rockstar just testing the waters to assess opinions. They already had it in mind to begin with and they can get away with it. You might hoot and holler but you aren't going to not buy a new GTA game. Even if they radically change the style to Roblox, you are going to pay for it no matter how high the price may be. They don't even need to say any reason why they are doing because you'll try to justify it yourself because the branding is just too strong for the IP. They know there are more people who will buy a new GTA game than those who will not. This is not a defense of their actions; it's just reading the tea leaves and knowing it's happening regardless of ones input on the matter.

Are they wrong? If you release a game and a few months later it's 50% off, that means the game is shit and was never worth the original price.

Why is it okay to bully Ubisoft now?

It's always been okay to bully Ubisoft, even the french people have no respect for them since all they ever made since the 80's was euro slop that clogs up the clearance bin in your local software store.

Kit and Krysta are both fucking retarded and their attempt to remain relevant as 'Nintendo Insiders' years after leaving a job that wasn't working close with inside information anyway is embarrassing to say the least.

"Pokemon games are now worth their value" discussion

SALESSALESALESALESALESALES.

Ubisoft started discounting their games early and hard and look what happened

Pro-consumer pricing is not what made Ubisoft collapse at all.

No, but it certainly didn't help that many people realized they heavily discount their games quickly. Assassin's Creed Valhalla was already $40 two months after release which is when I picked it up.

Underrated.

odyssey

shit

origami king

shit

3d world

shit

mario party

shit

mario kart 8

shit

botw

mid

totk

rehashed slop

pokemon

lmao dead

pikmin

mid

animal crossing

trash and dead

fzero

miyamoto would rather spit on your face

kirby

a bunch of mobile games that are ok
this is a fallacy because their games aren’t even worth full price new. the fact they are “pulling out all the stops” by reviving 3 dead franchises with halfass games to prop up the new console means they are out of ideas and have zero faith in the console.

in making better games every time,

hahaha

why would you discount a game that can be sold on the used market

You're going to lose again, to a toy tablet!

there are 2 billion Indians are you saying they’re the best and most powerful country on the planet just because there’s a bunch of them?

Free on Ryujinx dumb Japs. Cry about it

I mean Ubisoft is the king of mediocre games you should only get at discount.