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Yeah, I’m not watching a video with no description nor informative title, about an unknown topic, linked from a social media post that also says absolutely nothing about whatever is in there.
Three level clickbait/dark pattern engagement tactics are so 2020.
He is venting about a copy of Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 being $100, despite the age of the games. I imagine some work went into remastering, and/or some code to get them to run more natively on Switch (I have no idea if it’s just emulation under the hood or what), but paying the same price as the original games were in 2007 and 2010 when Nintendo didn’t need to create whole game mechanics, levels, etc. from scratch for this…
Here it’s 50€, many retailers have it for 70€. Still too much. Should have been 20€ top.
TIL imgur became a TikTok clone
This is why you get your nieces a modchipped Switch 😁
Nintendo gonna Nintendo as long as people keep paying them.
Wait, Super Mario Galaxy came out almost two decades ago!? Fuck me. I need to just stop using the internet, this shit just makes me feel old.
Why is it? It’s a video instead of text, and the video doesn’t even have subtitles
It’s a video instead of text because the person in the video made a video of themselves instead of writing something.
Because reissues of old games are overpriced.
The example given is Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 for $100
I found some articles which quoted release pricing at $70 and questioning that being a reasonable price, so $100 may be beyond the pale.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Especially when Nintendo seems to be creating scarcity by doing limited releases and such.
Thank you for explaining it! Even OP didn’t want to type it out, lol
You can unmute the video.
Not in public I can’t. Other people seem to be able to, but fuck them.
In addition to what others have said, I can read much faster than most people can speak. And I can’t really skim a video that’s a monologue the way I could skim a post.
Especially when it’s a video that has a point advertised in the post title.
I unsubbed from the Videos community for a reason! Haha
People can be hard if hearing or in situations where it would be impolite to blast your audio, like a bus or train
Isn’t this that Phil solo tv guy from Canada’s friend??
Marco
Wow I was trying to figure out why he sounded/looked so familiar but wasn’t ringing any bells. You might be into something there
That’s console pricing and that’s why I stopped buying consoles. Nintendo is especially bad with this. They make great games but always charge full price.
They didn’t used to. It used to be when a game made back its R&D costs it would get a price cut. The current management is ruining Nintendo.
I gave Nintendo one chance when I bought a Switch a few years back, and Mario Golf (because I loved the Gameboy game).
I did not feel like I got my money’s worth from that game.
well, technically, I gave them two chances, because I also bought a Zelda game for Switch, idr which, haven’t really played it yet. but I don’t count that because I bought that as a thing to do with my partner, not as an actual attempt to enjoy a video game (we had been working through the Zelda games from N64 onwards side by side)
I got the switch for 2 games and ended up owning 4 games in total. It wasn’t worth the price of admission.
Fucking doesn’t have sound?
It does. The icon was hidden behind the ticktock overlay.
Thank you found it, and that absurd, fucking Nintendo, they are 100% anti consumer company.
Did the shop add a significant markup here or is this some non-US dollar currency? Otherwise that price is $30 more than even MSRP. Right now I could buy it for 50€ here, which is still probably too much but significantly less egregious.
Its Walmart canada (based on the sign in the background) so 99.99 is the MSRP based on Nintendo.ca. that’s a little over 70 USD
You’re right, good catch. Canadian dollars makes sense.
There’s a scam by large companies, Apple included, where pricing globally is based on US prices. Even with tariffs by US on everyone, and no tarriffs in US colonies, companies boost prices everywhere to subsidize US customers. Our colonial governments say nothing.
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Bring the down votes: I find this price to be okay. What I’m buying, personally:
- two games, not one
- remastered games that look absolutely beautiful compared to their Wii versions
- nostalgia coming up the wazoo dude, I’m loving playing these games again
- being able to share this with my two kids who are loving these games as well, priceless IMO, sharing these moments together, them being proud of themselves for clearing the levels, me being proud of them for sticking it through
All that at $50/game, definitely worth it for me. (Actually in Sweden I paid $83 for the bundle so even cheaper. Very nice deal.)
I will happily give you a downvote only because you asked for it and you are basically justifying charging high prices for games that have not been truly added to or remastered other than higher resolution.
Also the game is US $59.99 at stores locally which to me is also overpriced for what you are getting. All Switch games are overpriced, but that still doesn’t justify it.
I think a good digital price point would be $10 or less for each of the games. Obviously a physical copy would need to add $5-10 for distribution.
I could see $29.99.
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It’s all relative. To me, these experiences I listed are worth that money to me. But I can understand that people without kids or perhaps means to but games don’t think it’s worth that much at all, especially if they are too young for the nostalgia. I think $100 is at the limit of what this should cost for me personally. Anything over is too much even for me.
If higher price points were truly affordable for most people I would agree with you. I don’t, because they are not.
I am of course okay with you paying whatever you want within reason. I am not okay with companies who are failing to innovate charging progressively more money because of a monopoly they have created.
I think it breaks and unspoken agreement between the parties around value. This is why I chose not to get a Switch 2. I sensed that Nintendo was doing yet another money grab without the development work they should have.
The lack of Switch 2 games really highlight this and it is very disappointing. I am hoping they can pull out of this greed induced slump and really spend a lot more on development of their IP.
I really do like Nintendo IP. I wish they would go to other platforms now though. If someone were to break up Nintendo (hint, hint) we would all experience a lot more of what we love.
I mean I agree with you on all points, it’s just that for this game bundle in particular, the value I’m getting personally is easily worth $83 or $50 or whatever it’s available for.
Normally I would never ever pay for a game more than $20 or so. But if it’s for my kids and I to create memories, the price limit goes up. 😬
So what? Don’t buy it. Do you NEED a video game that came out 15 years ago? Don’t buy it.
Do you need any video game? Don’t buy it.
Hence the emulation title, genius.
If it’s legally available for sale, it’s unethical for you to emulate it, genius.
Says who? Nintendo? You can fuck right off with that opinion.
Alright, thief.
But there’s also other options like emulation
They don’t NEED money for their old ass game, fuck em
Maybe that’s the reason it’s for sale, so they can take away the argument that emulation is ethical because they won’t sell their old games.
I feel like some of these videos are people just riding the hate train? Nintendo has always done this. Everyone agrees it’s a stupid practice. In Nintendo’s eyes their content is always about the software and not the physical aspect of it. The value of their IP never goes down, so they never lower it.
Until the Switch, popular first party releases received price cuts via Player’s Choice and Nintendo Selects re-releases. Getting rid of that, hiking Nintendo Switch 2 console and game prices, and pushing their Nintendo Switch Online subscription are all signs of increased greed on Nintendo’s part.
nintendo has always been shit in some ways, but super mario bros 3 and super mario world were around the same age when the wii released as both mario galaxies are now.
you could get those games on the wii eshop for like 5-10$ each
even with inflation, that’s a far cry from what nintendo charges now
They really should keep older released games at a lower price. The only time I think the argument for a justifiable price is in a case like Ocarina of Time DS, where they remade the game. Most of the time that isn’t the case.
It used to be a lot better. For the SNES they made a collection of all super Mario games (literally all up to that point) as a single game for the SNES “Super Mario All Stars +”.
I think the biggest issue with the Mario galaxy bundle, is they had released the “3D All stars collection” a couple years back (which got flack for not containing Super Mario Galaxy 2). So if you bought that game, you now have to pay $70 ($100 CAD) just for Galaxy 2 (Making the re-release of the game more expensive than the original).
with the fairness that nintendo doesn’t deserve, you can also buy the games separately
so if you don’t want to pay 100$ for two old games, you can also pay 55$ for one old game 🥲👍
Just for fun I ran the Mario 3 release price through the Bureau of Labor and Statistics inflation calculator and it came back with $127 today for what 50 bucks was worth in 1990.
I’m not saying $100 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 is good and correct but I will say I always find people wanking on about game prices to be a bit short sighted. Gamers are the most spoiled price point consumers on the planet.
im not talking about the original 1990 release tho, im talking about the 5$ 2007 rerelease on the wii
that’s 8$ today
you see how the value of “15 year old game” increased a bit, huh!
and sure, mario galaxy is a game with much more content than super mario bros 3, that’s not super fair. but it has about the same content as super mario 64, and that was 10$ on the wii. that’s 15-16$ now.
and also, both galaxy games were rereleased on the wii u for 20$ each around 2016… so. there’s that too.
in the grand scheme of things, the price of video games increasing doesn’t matter much when compared to housing or food, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous that nintendo’s charging that much for old games
Agreed. I think they should have different pricing structures. There isn’t much real new effort going into placing old games onto new carts.
And you’re saying that’s not a reason to hate Nintendo and their shitty practices? You even agree that its a shitty practice. Why shouldn’t they get hate and shat on for this very reason?
People can hate Nintendo. It’s mostly the disproportionate hate lemmy gives to nintendo, compared to microsoft and sony, who I believe are worse. If people are going to hate, at least balance it.
I’m pretty sure they’re all hated. Don’t understand why you keep simping for soulless corps.
I don’t think we’re all simping. We’re just having discourse.
Never said everyone, i said only you. And when the fuck did i say we couldn’t have discourse? I vehemently disagree with you but im still chatting away with you, no?
I feel like some of these videos are people just riding the hate train?
The guy in this video at least saw a chance for some engagement on his video by taking advantage of the fact that people didn’t know he was in Canada to make the price look inflated.
