Here the 70€ price was kind of "normalized" during the 360/Ps3 time. During the first years, some AAA games were 70 and it was kind of normal. But for some reason the standard AAA price returned to 60. Even so, big games like Zelda or Smash can be a little more expensive, the same way Mario Maker, Astral Chain, Fire Emblem and other "smaller" Nintendo games can be found easily between 45-55€ at launch, even cheaper if you want to invest time searching.
Do you agree with Link's Awakening on Switch being $60? If you don't, are you still going to buy it?
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im not sure thats a path you want to go down. you know the lower end will become $60 and AAA games will be $100+
That is indeed true. I'm just saying we should do a better job at charging for games overall.
Yep, but the issue doesn't lie with those mid-tier title's price.
AAA games shouldn't cost 60$, it's insane how cheap that is compared to their cost. That's why MTX exists as they are currently. imo games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey or RDRII should cost at least 80$, if not 100$. But this isn't something that the market can accept, people are used to their 60$ games (or 20$ if you wait a couple of months...). But that's simply unsustainable
Despite what Nintendo wishes us to think, there is a MASSIVE quality disparity from one Nintendo title to another. So much so that I don't automatically expect to feel good about any Nintendo published game purchase. You have BotW, which I spent 200+ excellent hours on, and then there's Mario Odyssey, which I spent 15 average hours with. Links awakening is a 15 hour game, maybe a little more if the dungeon editor is good. But I expect to enjoy it more than most Nintendo titles, and it's a pretty big nostalgia sweet spot for me. So I'm using a $50 voucher on it. I would feel good about paying $40 for it, but I can bump $10 for nostalgia. If I had never played the original, it would be a $40 game absolute tops. Cutesy 2D games aren't worth $60 any more. I wish Nintendo would be more aggressive with their budget 2D pricing and reach for a wider audience from day 1. There are many $60 Nintendo games that I want to play but skip due to poor value. The Nintendo brand of 'whimsy and polish' isn't worth $60 alone. Everybody polishes these days and there are tons of whimsical games on every platform. Nintendo is at it's best when it's inventing core games for everyone. Titles like Splatoon and BotW.
I got the DX version on the 3DS, was it part of the Ambassador program? Only played it for about an hour or 2 and it was cool as a portable game but it didn't really entice me to play it to completion. For the Switch, I don't really like the new artstyle and it seems to mostly be the same gameboy game with fancier graphics and not having to scroll constantly to a new screen. So I am not going to pay $60, I'd gladly buy it for $30-40, but as a Zelda game it wont get discounted beyond 10-20% within the next 3 years so I guess I'll either get it used or never... Realistically, I knew it would never be $30, but I thought it might have been a $40 title like Captain Toad or at least a $10 discount to $50.
The $60 price point started in 2005/2006 with the PS3/360 generation. That's 14 years ago. If that price point was adjusted for inflation (in the US) it'd be around $79 now.
Annoyingly, 4 days before the game's announcement, I imported a 3DS and played through the entirety of Link's Awakening. I'd much preferred to have paid just $60 for the Switch release.
I won't be picking this up though.
I won't be picking this up though.
Yep. The cost of everything else in life has gone up but a luxury item like a game hasn't. We are lucky really. I would rather pay a bit extra and not have MTX if I'm being honest.
Yes. In fact, if the game doesn't also come with food snatched from the mouth of every child of every member of the dev team, I ain't buying. I am literally a monster.
Never played LA so I would definitely pay it but for the people who have I can understand why they wouldnt. Realistically tho when do we expect the price to drop for this like 5 to 6 years from now knowing how Nintendo is...
No, not all. A remake of GB 2D top down zelda shouldnt be the full 60 bucks.
Just like a link between worlds, that was $40 so this should be too.
Just like a link between worlds, that was $40 so this should be too.
It's an insane pricetag.
As a fan of Z:LA on the gameboy, and someone who misses some of his old WiiU games (TF, MK8), this was going to be my breaking point and I was going to purchase a (new model) Switch along with those games.
But I nope'd out and will wait for some deals.
As a fan of Z:LA on the gameboy, and someone who misses some of his old WiiU games (TF, MK8), this was going to be my breaking point and I was going to purchase a (new model) Switch along with those games.
But I nope'd out and will wait for some deals.
Whatever I think, this games price is not going down anytime soon.
I will get it day 1 because either way, the most discount itll ever get will be to 39.99. Might as well get it for 52 bucks with one of the discounts then wait months and still get it for 40+.
I will get it day 1 because either way, the most discount itll ever get will be to 39.99. Might as well get it for 52 bucks with one of the discounts then wait months and still get it for 40+.
It just doesn't look like it took all that much effort to produce when compared to other $60 titles. It's not that it's a remake, it's that it's a relatively low fidelity, simple assets remake, unlike a SotC or RE2.
It looks more like a $20-30 game in terms of work put in.
It looks more like a $20-30 game in terms of work put in.
Not only that, but video games were still like $40-50 in the 80s as well and there was a lot less media to determine what was good and what wasn't.
Games have never been cheaper than now.
You can ask the question "Is X a good price for any Nintendo product/service" and the answer is always "no, but I'm still buying it"
That's why they can always charge prices that are generally higher than their competitors, or prices that never drop
They have us over a barrel. If you want Nintendo you gotta pay Nintendo prices. Where else you gonna get this Nintendo experience from fella?
That's why they can always charge prices that are generally higher than their competitors, or prices that never drop
They have us over a barrel. If you want Nintendo you gotta pay Nintendo prices. Where else you gonna get this Nintendo experience from fella?
I wish it was a little more ambitious in it's reimagining, but I have no problem paying full price for it. I appreciate MS and Sony charging $40 for theirs, but you also have to keep in mind those are largely the same game, just with graphical updates and general improvements. Well, besides Ratchet and Clank, but that also cut a decent amount of content and used scenes from the movie for a decent amount of the cutscenes.
The idea that Nintendo games are ideal and singularly unique is ridiculous.
You shouldn't buy them if you don't agree with the price.
And I say this as someone who has no problem with their pricing but don't buy from them either.
I'd love to see your working here. Do you know how many people worked on it and for how long? Or what tools were used?
The games you are talking about were already 3D games. This is a remake going from Gameboy to Switch. That is a massive difference going from simple sprites to full 3D models.
People that are voting "No, but still buying it" are actually voting "Yes" on the only issue that truly matters here: supply and demand.
So at the end of the day, 75% of the voters on this thread agree with the $60 price point. If you disagree, the only way to meaningfully vote no is not buy it.
So at the end of the day, 75% of the voters on this thread agree with the $60 price point. If you disagree, the only way to meaningfully vote no is not buy it.
They not singular and unique, but where else are you going to get highly polished big budget 3D platformers and Zelda type games?
What about a game like Smash?
It's pay up, shut up, or play inferior/lesser indie games that borrow from those types of games
If you want shooters and open world games or pretty much anything else that's popular, you can get those experiences on PC, PS4, XB1 etc
If you want the kind of games Nintendo are really good at, you don't have a lot of choice
I voted yes because a company has no obligation to set product at any given price but I am not buying it because I don't think it's worth $60.
$60 for one of the greatest portable games ever made?
For me, it's worth it. But I do understand why some people are tilting their heads at the price.
For me, it's worth it. But I do understand why some people are tilting their heads at the price.
I think it's fine. Not personally buying it, though, as I have the GBC version and I'm good with that.