Obviously a decent amount of backlash with Nintendo pricing MKW and other games at $80.
But do we feel like the industry as a whole is heading this way? Personally, as much as I hate this price, I think it was as much a timing thing as a Nintendo arrogance thing - between tariffs and other economic uncertainty this felt bound to happen and Nintendo seems to have chosen to do it up front as opposed to be in an awkward position where they have to consider raising prices a few months from now. They've kept DKB at $70 so this seems to be them giving that flexibility and creating precedence for the $80 if they do want to move to it as a standard.
So do we think other companies move this way in the immediate term? There's already been plenty of rumblings that GTAVI will be up to $100. This + Nintendo would in theory give the greenlight to anyone else to do the same. Alternatively, they can keep themselves at $70 and gain some goodwill from the average consumer while offsetting this with higher priced premium versions of there games (3 days early access, DLC included, etc.)
I know we like to talk about the budget of games relative to the price but the reality is there's never really been a correlation there.
Personally, I'd be surprised if others aren't hitting $80 this calendar year. And while I think Nintendo opened the door, I do think it was coming either way.
But do we feel like the industry as a whole is heading this way? Personally, as much as I hate this price, I think it was as much a timing thing as a Nintendo arrogance thing - between tariffs and other economic uncertainty this felt bound to happen and Nintendo seems to have chosen to do it up front as opposed to be in an awkward position where they have to consider raising prices a few months from now. They've kept DKB at $70 so this seems to be them giving that flexibility and creating precedence for the $80 if they do want to move to it as a standard.
So do we think other companies move this way in the immediate term? There's already been plenty of rumblings that GTAVI will be up to $100. This + Nintendo would in theory give the greenlight to anyone else to do the same. Alternatively, they can keep themselves at $70 and gain some goodwill from the average consumer while offsetting this with higher priced premium versions of there games (3 days early access, DLC included, etc.)
I know we like to talk about the budget of games relative to the price but the reality is there's never really been a correlation there.
Personally, I'd be surprised if others aren't hitting $80 this calendar year. And while I think Nintendo opened the door, I do think it was coming either way.
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