• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    I don’t get all the hate for Nintendo. Sure they’re expensive but they’re an OG games company largely acting like one. None of that freemium always-online microtransaction bullshit. Look at the Mario Kart expansion pack, it doubles the number of courses you get. It literally doubles the size of the game, and it’s not even that expensive. Plus they still support physical cartridges which most companies are trying to get rid of (and user expandable storage).

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      Cartridges that only have a license on them. Nintendo is planning on killing off physical media just as much as any other company.

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        Only some 3rd party cartridges have a download key on them, and they’re significantly cheaper than the ones that don’t.

        Also where is the 90 price I keep seeing on here coming from? I’ve only seen 70-80 prices for first party titles. Bravely Default (which is a download key tho) is only 40 isn’t it?

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          You’ll have to give a source on that cause i can’t find anything about those cards being cheaper. I looked up bravely default and it’s a remaster of an old game, so it better not cost 90 bucks lmao. And the 90 price is coming from europe. Looks like the games will cost 90 euros in europe. Insanity.

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            From the games listed.

            And yes, now I see it’s 80-90€ / 70-80$.

            Although funny how for once Europe might get the cheaper game price vs the USA (ours has tax built in, US will vary by state)

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      Yes BUT they almost never sell anything on sale while keeping prices high and only release on their platform (the switch)

      If they had Sales (or lower base prices) and released on PC as well (both Xbox and Sony do this now) nobody would be complaining about price