Unironically, why is this allowed?
Not even gonna mention that the more expensive one is an inferior port.
>gamestop
Not the point, this is just an example. You can easily find this pattern replicated elsewhere with other games.
Unironically, why is this allowed?
Kevin Sanchez
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Austin Richardson
>licensed anime garbage
Connor Davis
They make less money from switch carts than they do from selling discs so publishers are passing down the costs to customers
Michael Garcia
Pisstendo greed
Luis Flores
soulless vs soul
Ayden Barnes
It's the Nintendo Tax. Google it
Basically, carts are a lot more expensive to make than discs, so cart games will cost more because of the added expense. Then the eShop has to keep parity with the physical version, so the digital will cost more on Nintendo's store as well.
Gabriel Richardson
It was 25 dollars at Target and Walmart. Probably Amazon too.
Jace Parker
Whatever you need to say to justify that Nintendo cum going down your throat.
Thomas Wood
MK hasn't been soulful since DS, you fag.
Joseph Cruz
That would explain a couple dollars there is no way it costs $10 more to mass produce than a bluray
Jaxson Harris
Nevermind, 44 on Amazon
Aaron Cruz
>mario kart ds is good
Samuel Hughes
Because carts are most expensive to produce than optical discs. That’s why optical discs where the standard for so long despite carts being superior in every other way.
Blake Ortiz
>Mario Kart DS
AAAAAHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Aaron Fisher
You underestimate just how cheap discs are.
Nathan Flores
meanwhile on Steam
Jeremiah Mitchell
mario kart is the most sterile, safe looking series nintendo has
Jason Johnson
Didn't it come out much later for Switch? It's a newer title on that system.
Lincoln Smith
Nintendo didn’t learn there lesson did they? Cart costs is what turned people away from the 64 and they did it again. Fucking WOW
Samuel Flores
It's not that simple. $10 at retailer doesn't represent $10 in the publisher's pocket. Only about a third goes to them. Another third goes to Nintendo, and another third goes to the retailer. So if the cart cost you $3 extra, and you want to recoup that vs the other versions, then yeah, you need to charge about $10 more.
Evan Turner
You underestimate how cheap mass production is
Nathan Campbell
It depends on the storage space on the cart, larger games are more expensive for publishers. This is also why some publishers don't include the full game on the cart and force you to download the rest of the data to your Switch in order to play it at all. Also like the other user said you have to take into account the retailer's cut.
The game regularly goes on sale both on steam and key sites. I paid less than half of that for the switch version and less than $12 for the current season pass.
Carson Allen
Why do you think Shitch has near-zero third party support.
Alexander Long
Just buy digitally user, it's like $14 on the nintendo eshop
Nicholas Edwards
*for the PC version i mean
It has more third party support than any of their disc-based consoles
Andrew Gomez
You could play with 7 friends using one game cart.
That shit was fucking dope back in the day
Isaac Hall
Sad we live in world where consoles are cheaper than PC. I got DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 for 14 bucks on ps4, when it's 60 on steam. Wtf
Robert Taylor
It's newer.
Benjamin Hill
Yeah but carts cost a good amount more than discs though.
Jonathan Lee
Sorry $18, not $15
Christopher Green
But if I wanted to play it right now I'd have to pay 60 fucking dollars for a nearly 3 year old game.
Steam has the worst pricing of all the major retailers and platforms and like you said, the only way to circumvent it is by using shady keysellers or waiting possibly months for a sale which is an absurd position to put your customers in.
Ian Wilson
Because it requires more effort than unchecking a few boxes like PC-PS4-Xbone "ports"
Thomas Ortiz
>not $15
Dammit user, I was so set on getting it. 3 dollar isn't so bad and I do get paid tomorrow, but still.
Nathan Cox
Or you could just wait a few weeks and buy it when it's on discount. And DBFZ isn't even 2 years old yet, it came out earlier last year.
>Steam has the worst pricing of all the major retailers and platforms and like you said, the only way to circumvent it is by using shady keysellers
lol
Parker Baker
Its $23 on amazon right now for the switch.
Jacob Murphy
Its $17 on the eshop, weird.
Luis Smith
The Switch version was released last September, that isn't even a year old yet.
Joseph Bell
publishers are being jews again and trying to put the extra cost of carts on the consumer
Tyler Harris
Oh damn, I'm getting it. Wait, is this game even worth it? Maybe I should get Bayonetta 1+2
James Bailey
oh boy I'm sure glad digital is the future
Easton Scott
expensive cartridges, a fanbase who won't buy or play anything other than bing bing wahoo, and toy tablet hardware that can't run modern games.
Adam Williams
No he's talking about the Shitch, which uses CDs. It's the Switch that has cartridges.
Isaiah Ward
Slimy jews trying to pass the extra 2 cents for cartridges on the customer.
Asher Anderson
>*29.99 plus microtransactions
Ryan Bailey
Have you been living under a rock m8,the switch has a MASSIVE library of indie games that could rival PCs from five years back
>but I could play those on muh PS4 or Xbox
Can you take your console on the go with you on a 12 hour flight?
Benjamin Ortiz
>Shitch
Just ignore Ericposter.
Luke Cox
No but I can take my laptop which lasts for 3 to 4 hours playing moderately intensive games with the CPU and GPU power throttled.
Juan Rogers
That's extremely cringe. Why would you ever play a game in public anyway?
Nolan Brown
Retailers don't take a fixed percentage though. If you can sell a PS4 disc wholesale to a retailer for 20 dollars (with MSRP 30 dollars, retailer makes 10 dollar profit), you could sell the "same" Nintendo Switch cart for 23 dollars (with MSRP 33 dollars, retailer makes 10 dollar profit)
Jaxson Watson
>defending activision instead of based Beenox
Retarded.
Brayden Smith
>surprised by ninty tax
first time buying vidya?
Thomas Myers
On long flights it helps. This is the only time I'd actually play vidya in public.
Logan James
>The game regularly goes on sale
Just like the Switch version. I found it at 20 USD. Only Swich games hasn't good sales prices.
>t.
Jackson Hughes
MKDS was shit, user.
Adam Martinez
Have you never been on a train?
Mason Jenkins
Just bought it for $20 digital lolololol
Kayden Moore
Excuses! It will forever be cringe to play games no matter the context! It's excruciating pretending to be retarded, please stop me.
Austin Peterson
reminder that the charge you extra for what they consider to be normal levels of "consumer fraud" You have a moral obligation to defraud gamestop, it's literally a tax rebate. Trade in a broken controller as working or some shit and switch the boxes.
Juan Hall
>buying switch games
Jordan Jenkins
speaking of trades will gamestop take 3ds's with a slightly broken analog stick that stick's to the left if you push it too hard?
It's been collecting dust for years now & think it's time to just sell it to make some quick cash & maybe someone else will have a blast with it
Nathaniel Robinson
No one outside of japan uses trains or has a long enough commute to bother bringing a system along. Portability is a meme and just means you play it in bed. Most consoles can be thrown is a back back anyway if you really want to go away from home and play it.
Dylan Cox
>being a poor nigger
Chase Taylor
We get it, you download illegal copies of games.
Ryder Ortiz
don't tell them anything is wrong with it, the refurbish everything they get anyway. If you tell them something is wrong they give you way less than the chump change they already give, and regardless they refurbish it the same way.
Gabriel Ortiz
Carts are more expensive to make than discs.
In part because they aren't mass-produced at the scale discs are.
Nicholas Wright
>waiting extra weeks to pay to play games
maximum cuck.
Angel Garcia
The unfortunate part of digital copies. When a retailer buys physical copies, they are running a clock on getting the copies off their shelves so they will lower the price to get rid of inventory. But with digital stores they don't have to worry about it so the game just goes on sale every once in a while
Gavin Morgan
I mean it's been close to three years since release but Zelda is STILL the original launch price,seems a bit excessive doesn't it?
Which one if the most fun for a first time player?
Hudson Cox
botw.
i paid 40 for it on amazon but i'd pay 100. it's great.
Jackson Campbell
they do that with disc games too
they would kill themselves because the drifting hurt their fingers
Nathaniel Stewart
You're so fucking oblivious to the world. Get out of your parents basement
Asher Powell
but carts are better & slightly cooler then disk!
Leo Cruz
>shopping at walmart
Why?
Elijah Foster
heh guess all those t.v ads were fake huh
Zachary Campbell
>Inferior
It literally plays the same as the other versions.
Connor Phillips
It's like $18 on the eShop. Fuck off
Ryan Powell
The grafix are worser
Angel Turner
if they make less from switch ports shouldn't they cost less then?
Julian Howard
>>indie games
>(1)Behold the MASSIVE Switch Game Library!!
>(1)there's so many indie games, it rivals PC's library from 5 years back!
>(2)..but user....these are all $2- low quality indie games that ive either played on PC or literally dont want play.
>(1)you can even take these indie games on a 12hr flight! Betcha cant do that with a pc, ps4, or xbox.
>(2)...but.. i dont want to play indie gam..
>(1) BUY THE SWITCH YOU BIGOT. INDIE GAMES ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF NINTENDO LIBRARY!
Now imagine that dialog in a comic strip.
Liam Cook
>quality goods cost more
Why are you surprised?
Carson Foster
You know that's not what they were saying.
Grayson Phillips
There're first time buying physical I assume
Sebastian Bailey
It's 23$ at Amazon
40$ at Gamestop or 25$ at Walmart? It's not that hard, think which one you prefer.
Ethan Phillips
Doesn't even have anything to do with carts. Wii and Wii U games were the same. Nintendo shit is just more expensive cause nintendo fans will pay it. Its why Nintendo rarely lowers there prices below the original price.
Christian Russell
It's 18$ on eshop right now BTW