{"id":2044,"date":"2025-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:39:13","slug":"nintendo-switch-2-is-so-expensive-im-giving-up-gaming-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/nintendo-switch-2-is-so-expensive-im-giving-up-gaming-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 is so expensive I\u2019m giving up gaming \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mario Kart World is not a cheap game (Credits: AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader fears that the price of games on Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> will begin to seem cheap compared to GTA 6<\/a> and other next gen titles.<\/p>\n

By now I assume everyone\u2019s seen the Nintendo<\/a> Switch 2 Direct and sadly the most memorable thing about it is the price. The console is okay, but the games are just unbelievably expensive. Mario Kart<\/a> 8 Deluxe is only \u00a350 (still) but Mario Kart World is \u00a375 for a physical copy<\/a>, which is a ridiculously big jump, the likes of which I\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n

I know you can get the console and game bundled together, which makes it half price, but that\u2019s not really the point. If all the games are going to cost that much, or close to it, then I feel that I\u2019ve just been priced out of the whole concept of gaming. Especially as this is just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all seen the rumours of GTA 6 costing \u00a3100<\/a>, and I think you\u2019d have to be very optimistic to think that\u2019s not true, or that every other publisher isn\u2019t waiting to charge the same. In the end, by the start of the next gen, Nintendo may end up being cheaper than the average once again.<\/p>\n

I assume this is a response to games costing more to make nowadays but to be honest I\u2019m not really interested in the explanation or any excuses from publishers. We are not living in a world where the average person can afford to spend \u00a375 to \u00a3100 on a video game, that they may or may not like, and companies are insane if they think they can jack the prices up by that much and just have people shrug their shoulders and pay up.<\/p>\n

All it\u2019s going to do is push even more people towards free-to-play games and make it so that only a tiny, elite circle of games can charge full price, because nobody is going to be crazy enough to spend \u00a3100 on something that\u2019s a risk.<\/p>\n

Sequels will become the only games that are ever made and most games that aren\u2019t free-to-play will be indie – assuming they don\u2019t raise their prices as well, which they probably will.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s especially upsetting about all this is that publishers probably don\u2019t see it as a bad thing at all. As long as they make the same amount of money, or more, they don\u2019t care if the number of triple-A games being made plumets. They don\u2019t care about the health of the games industry, and they certainly don\u2019t care about making art.<\/p>\n

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