To be fair, asking that much for Skull & Bones really is taking the piss…

The amount of bootlickers I'm starting to see in Nintendo's YouTube comments is pathetic

also, at least ubisoft shit goes on sale, and the used copies are less expensive…

for nintendo, once in a blue moon the game will have a 10$ discount and that’s it

I will admit: I'm in this picture.

Game developers have to eat, too, so a (!) price hike at some point was expected, the price for AAA games was set to 60$ before smart phones existed. They only stayed at 60 so long because gaming got much more popular in that time, driving sales. IF (!) this increase would allow developers to pay their employees more and eliminated the crunch culture, I'd have no problem with it.

But we know this is just corporate greed. Pay extra to own your game physically, pay extra to play your old games, join our subscription program. Oh, you're in Europe and your wages kept up with inflation? Forget the 33%, you can afford a 50% price increase instead.

With the Japanese-only model being the singular exception, you'd think the direct was lead by 3 new faces just so Nintendo could put the blame on them when the thing doesn't sell well due to the price.

Oh, and Skull and Bones was dog shit, of course everyone hated it's ludicrous price point.

And Nintendo lawsuits going after grandmas.

People really don't seem to understand that video game prices have not kept up with inflation. It's why I didn't bat an eye at spending $70 on Baldur's Gate 3 despite the original costing like $50. When you account for inflation, it's actually cheaper.

That said, I avoid Nintendo on principle. Refusing to sell old games so that they can sue people who pirate them is ghoulish and inhuman. As long as Gary Bowser is forced to pay them, I never will.

Oh just wait until Nintendo shits out another half baked pokemon game that looks like a student project from 2005 and watch all the man children that think being obsessed with pokemon is a personality triat pay $90 for that shit.

It's not that Mario Kart is worth 90, it's that a lot of these AAA games aren't worth 60.

Eh, there‘s some truth to either one. Game development is expensive and pricing hasn’t kept up with inflation ($60 in 2010 are almost $90 today). But also, games are ridiculously expensive at full price, especially in todays economy and especially if they’re as badly received as Skull and Bones, while Nintendo games are at the very least usually pretty decent.

I’d recommend voting with your wallet and only buying games on sale or used. Just wait a little. (Or pirate them, if you can live with not supporting the developers at all).

What are "saleries?" Something to do with sales?

At least Skull And Bones is a AAAA game smh my head

Keep consuming and keep the enshitification machine working, you control everything around you with your wallet and your attention.

These companions took ahold of both and now you're a slave.

With the switch 2 coverage, this is something that bugs me quite a bit.... Not the meme, Nintendo games, by comparison, are worth more than the slop that Ubisoft craps out. No matter how good a Ubisoft game could be, Nintendo has them beat in terms of quality.

Back to my point. The cost of games is insane. The price point for most video game systems is around $500 USD. Whether PS5, Xbox, switch, whatever, they're all either at or near, $500.

You buy 6 games, and you've spent more in games than you did on your console. The fuck is this? We might as well go back to the days when you would buy a whole ass console that could only play a single (or small selection) of games like the Coleco Telstar.

I think they figured out that you make money from selling the add-ons, so they dipped the price of the console and jacked up the cost of all of the games so they could increase profits and shareholder value.

Oh wait.

I'm a big Nintendo apologist. I've argued in the past that their consoles are the only ones worth buying over a gaming PC (not including Steamdeck there), and while I have never defend their terrible IP practices, I have been willing to overlook it and continue buying their products. This shit is indefensible. The price hike would be bad enough, but killing off physical games is a disgrace. Nintendo fans should be angrier than everyone else, not defending this shit.

This isnt really on topic but what we wanted was a more realistic Sea of Thieves and Skull and Bones was like ship arena battles, it was bad.

Yes but consider:

A: Nintendo games are actually good, not a pile of crap

B: It is actually true that games have not been keeping up with inflation. Is the same reason why GTA 6 is waiting for launch. They really want to sell that shit at 100 USD or more