• Nikls94@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Not to sound like a fanboy, I mean I am but that’s not why, but I get the Mario Kart price tag.

    I’ve had a switch from day 1 and look in the e-shop charts about once a week, and Mario Kart was consistently in the top 20 most sold games of the past 2 weeks.

    From a switch perspective, you paid $70 for MarioKart + $25 for the DLC and got a single game a lot of people played since April 2017. In that same time you got 8 Call of Duty games for $70 each ($560) - with the later CoDs charging you $30 for chores or “Battle Passes”. Or you could have paid 95 Fortnite Battle Passes (total ~$950) since the launch of MarioKart.

    I forgot the point I wanted to make.

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      if only MK, Fortnite and CoD would be the only three options for gamers then probably MK would win this round.

      Unfortunately you comparing your favourite game to two vomit piles full of microtransaction and battle passes so cant see your point there.

      If you enjoy the games Nintendo sells go for it, in my opinion the inflated new prices are ridiculous and will have a negative impact on the gaming industry in global as other big corpos will start copying them if Nintendo can get away with it.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      MK 8 is also a previous generation title that Nintendo got to double dip on already.

      MK night be a good value proposition for some folks. It’s still too expensive. I have games that I’ve paid $20, $10, sometimes even less for that I’ve gotten more play time out of. Play time to cost is not a good argument.

      Let me also contrast with some of Nintendo’s worst practices, like selling 3 old Mario games with no enhancements, that are just emulated, for $60.