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Nintendo can charge $100 mtx skins for Mario Kart and their fans will still defend it to the death. Wouldn't be surprised.

That's the funny thing though. Nintendo is the only one not charging microtransactions in their games. You know exactly what you're getting when you buy their games.

 

[Major Insano]

If Take Two and Activision can still charge $60-70 for their 10 year old trash games,
I really don't have an issue with Nintendo charging $10-20 more for new games on their new console.

 

[The_Mike]

I wish I could find it, but this info has been released by Sony before. They were older than Nintendo players.

I'm sorry but I smell BS. There's literally no reason Nintendos audience should be younger and as long as you can prove it, you are based your opinion on feelings, and that's not a trustworthy source.

 

[Hudo]

Turns out that WarioWare was just Nintendo telling the truth.

 

[BlackTron]

The Nintendo core fanbase yes. They will buy regardless.

What about the casual gamers who make up a massive majority of their user-base.

In fact every console user-base.

Kinda this. It moves them in the direction of soaking up all the sales they can get before moving on to discounts.

But if they are pushed to do that, they become like other publishers where everyone knows they can just wait for the discount. Removing even more people from the $80 group.

Has potential to backfire.

Edit: After writing this I got in the shower and something came to me there lol. Last gen, Nintendo priced games at $60 and in keeping true to their "one price" policy, didn't increase prices even with the industry standard and inflation. Sure Mario Kart never got a discount but they never adjusted for inflation either and ate it.

Knowing full well that they can never increase the price of the game, they may be hedging the standard of their most popular one against the same situation. They always have the opportunity to do vouchers, bundles or a very rare sale to bring it down, but can't raise it beyond the initial ask without immense pain, and see this as an evergreen title for the life of the system.

Who knows, maybe the eco gets so lopsided that normal games become $90-100, and by holding at 80 it becomes another veiled price decrease like last gen.

 

[Paasei]

I don't like the steep price of the upcoming games. However I'm not saying I'll never a game anymore because of it. I do expect top quality for the top price, though. Which means I'll buy a whole lot less considering the state of some games on their release date.

The annoying part with Nintendo specifically is that they hardly ever drop in price. That I find to be more of a problem than the initial price on release.

 

[justiceiro]

Sounding like someone who doesn't really get why people buy Nintendo products. A very superficial answer to a company and fanbase that is really hard understand, let alone predict.