Will Games Go Above $70 Eventually?

[Mr EliteL]

Yeah $80 from Nintendo, FIRST?! Hoo boy, suddenly we all don't feel so good...

That's opened the floodgates so now others are looking at that price tag, and perhaps they'll wait and see how well MKW does (which likely will be a no-brainer), they'll get their forks and knives ready as they slap on those equalling prices. Mainly the franchises that are big enough to do this really, unless they fumble hard like Assassin's Creed has, because if that didn't happen/didn't release before MKW that might've been a name to do it. After Shadows though unless they return to their roots, AC won't see the light of day again. Moving on, er...no FIFA couldn't do it could they? Hope not, those games shouldn't cost that much. A mainline Pokémon game after Z-A could, but that's Nintendo again. As big as From Software has become, I doubt Duskbloods will be, probably $70 for that but the game after which'll be on PC/PS5/Xbox Series X could be.

Just throwing out guesses really, some more for sure but hopefully it'll be closer to $70 for now instead of lots gunning for the $80, not sure which'll go higher. GTA 6 but that might not be just standard alone for going over.

[Maniakkid25]

Oh, it gets worse. That 80 dollar price tag is for digital releases only. Physical copies carry a price tag of $90!

Yeah, I'm gonna be looking pretty deeper into the second hand market, now. Fuck paying 90 bucks for a game.

[Moonface]

Oh, it gets worse. That 80 dollar price tag is for digital releases only. Physical copies carry a price tag of $90!

Yeah, I'm gonna be looking pretty deeper into the second hand market, now. Fuck paying 90 bucks for a game.

I've been seeing this yet I've not found anything that actually verifies the $80 price on the Mario Kart World website is for the digital version.

[Maniakkid25]

When you're buying a game on the website, you're buying the digital version. You can't buy games from the manufacturer in physical form anymore. By simple process of elimination, it has to be the digital version.

[Moonface]

When you're buying a game on the website, you're buying the digital version. You can't buy games from the manufacturer in physical form anymore. By simple process of elimination, it has to be the digital version.

We had completely opposite views of that then. My take of the price on the official website was it was physical pricing due to being tagged as MSRP, something I doubt would be a term used for a digital price when Nintendo themselves are the only ones who would sell the game digitally and thus don't need to MSRP themselves.

Regardless, $80 looks to be the physical price because Walmart and other outlets are listing it as such.

[Maniakkid25]

Then why the hell are multiple outlets saying 90? Well, tooling around shows the headline isn't telling the whole story; only SOME games will be 90 dollars. Nice.

Oh, and the physical copy may not even have the actual game. Just a license to it. Cool, Nintendo. Fuck off.

[Mr EliteL]

Oof, $90 for physical and it may not have the game until you download it? Really now.

For UK MKW is going for £66.99 Digital, £74.99 Physical. DK Bananza is £58.99 Digital, £66.99 Physical both taken from the Nintendo Store, so perhaps these two give an idea of how a more standard game vs big title (though Donkey Kong could be considered a big title anyway, it's not as compared to Mario Kart). Also confirms there will be somewhat of a gap between Digital and Physical, so I don't know which way that $80 if there's outlets going for $90 then that's Digital and Physical for US then I guess.

Switch 2 wasn't going to be a early purchase for me anyway, Mario Kart World neither, probably more so now and of course with Nintendo, their price for the game won't be going down.

[Moonface]

Then why the hell are multiple outlets saying 90? Well, tooling around shows the headline isn't telling the whole story; only SOME games will be 90 dollars. Nice.

Oh, and the physical copy may not even have the actual game. Just a license to it. Cool, Nintendo. Fuck off.

Any article I saw claiming $90 physical was from them assuming the $80 price tag on the MKW site was for the digital copy, which has been proven as false and so any outlet claiming $90 prices with zero source for their claim is bullshit IMO.

The second one looks like a different approach to physical Switch cases having a download voucher inside for a digital copy of the game because it can't fit onto the cart. Both are stupid and if the game can't fit on physical media then just don't release it physically.