Did Nintendo have a hidden price hike this gen?

Games like Advanced Wars and WarioWare would've been $40 on the 3DS. But now that Nintendo has only one system, they're charging the full $60. It seems to me that Nintendo had a hidden price hike, and their fans didn't even realize it 🤣 Meanwhile, Sony raises the price of their games by $10 and that causes a stir despite their games being extremely polished, well fleshed out, and not pilfered with microtransactions. If anything, the next God of War is rumored to have 40 hours of gameplay! It seems like cost of gaming is going up for all gamers. Do you agree, SW?

They also lock content behind $20 happy meal toys. Nintendo is the absolute worst when it comes to milking their customers.

Have you seen those Advanced Wars visuals? They call this a reboot🤭

On thread, yes, there's a price hike. Nintendo is doing everything in their power to milk their fans dry. Ask mesome713, he knows what milking means.

Yall are nuts if you ain't dropping $60 for Warioware. Hell, I'm gonna tip the cashier another $20 just for the privilege to buy it.

Nintendo Switch is helping normalize "contemporary prices" for old ass games. Nintendo users don't know any better, they are either children or indoctrinated adults, who need help.

Remasters on Steam jumping for £20 to fully blown £44.99, with anime assholes defending it with any shit they can dream up to justify it.

And this is why I only buy PC games, haha.

Its $40 on 3DS cause all games on 3DS, Vita and other handheld games used to be $40 and $50?

What is funny though how Nintendo still charge their exclusive at full price and their fans defended those as "value reflecting quality". Guys, you used to be able to get Mario or Zelda for $10 after a few years.

Personally I think people have just been spoiled by Nintendo games MSRP lower than other console titles, especially with their handheld titles. And now that Nintendo is rightfully capitalizing on the Switch's runaway success people are feeling burned and are taking their frustrations out.

Personally I can understand if you don't want to pay $60 for a game (much less $70 PS5 exclusive) if you feel it isn't worth it. It's your money and you have every right to spend it however you want. I honestly hope that gamers complaining spend their money on something they'll enjoy. It's only when they turn around and start demanding everyone else not to buy something just because the said so that gears start to grind. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You're not my mom/dad, you're not my legal guardian. I'll do whatever the hell I want with my money...thank you!

$50 for WarioWare isn't much considering it's a party game.

I'd happily pay that much to have a good time with friends and, family.

Wii U games used to cost 40-50 euro

Zelda Breath of The Wild on Switch was 70 euro

What the hell?

Complaining about $40 but is okay with $70 games. 🤔

I probably wasn't getting it anyways but definitely not at those prices, and probably won't in future as Nintendo almost never lowers the prices of their games.

Wait I thought cows were ok with paying more, why are they still making butthurt threads about other platforms' prices?

When does Nintendo even lower the price of their games? Breath of The Wild is still being sold at full retail price.

@Pedro: Yep. Cows conveniently gloss over Sony’s price hike this gen.

In this thread... a System wars user arbitrarily makes up what a game is worth to them, then claims it was a price hike.

Ok sure

These games aren’t $60, nice fail troll. Good luck next time on your Sony price hike damage control.

@SolidGame_basic: That’s two games in one. So the game is actually $30. Stop playing yo self.

No. For that to be the case then all their games would have to have a relative increase across the board.

@Pedro: 70 dollar games that have way more development time and more expensive to make.

@lebanese_boy: to show how BS the argument is. All the concern trolling over Sonys expensive to make games (which lower in price quickly) vs Nintendo rehashed games that never reduce price but are low in price to make. Take a logic class if you don't get it. Fake concern trolling and fake outrage.

That is not my problem or the gamers concern. We buy games to play and not here to balance the books for any company. We also have the right to claim that a game's price is too much. However, when you complain about a cheaper priced game but greenlight a more expensive game at a factor of 16.5% more, it reads rather ridiculous.

Still not the most expensive, that goes to rip off Sony.

@Pedro: Well going by your logic, it's not Sonys problem that you and fake outrage Lems complain. They're the biggest software sellers of the big 3.

Nintendo gets away with it because they're consistent with the quality of their games.

Nintendo games are consistently more valuable through the years than other company's games. More news at eleven.

You're probably the only poster in the history of SW to take this place dead seriously.

I've thought the same myself.

Animal Crossing and Pokemon? $60? lmao

Doesn't justify the $70 Sony is charging of course... and i bet that Nintendo will go up to $70 in a few years

Hidden? Does not seem all that hidden to me. One the up side, I want the Wario Ware game. I love those games.

@shadyacshuns: I wouldn't say only poster 😆

Once we got to disc based software for consoles only- I remember when I was younger that Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox games all cost $50 new at your typical big box store or eb games/gamestop. Then when Xbox 360 came out it went up to $60. PS3 followed suit, but Nintendo stayed at $50 for new Wii software. Then Nintendo matched $60 with the WiiU. Now PS5 is the first to go up to $70. I would assume new Switch software (major releases) will remain at $60 and then Nintendo's next system they will follow suit and go to $70. Xbox is interesting. I think we'll see a mix of $60 and $70 this gen and then all $70 next gen.

(Funny enough, most new software is $10 cheaper in-store at Walmart which can add up to some nice savings if you buy all your new games there)

Now more on topic- It's fair to speculate on actual worth of software. It seems indies have mostly settled in the $10-30, and new 1st party and major 3rd party studio releases are $60-70.

But re-releases/remasters have mostly landed in the $30-70 range which is all over the place. Nintendo in particular has mostly locked in to their $60 price point for their first party software and that is high if you ask me, but that's why I'm still waiting to buy a lot of those games like DKC Tropical Freeze, Pikmin 3, and Mario 3D World. The prices will come down eventually even if it takes a few years.

Well, Sony is learning from Nintendo. That's not saying that their games are as low effort, but they've recently gone back on their promise for update patches. If Nintendo can charge exorbitant prices and lock content behind toys, Sony sees no problem charging for patches that should be free.