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JohnnyCage said:
They shouldn't pull a Ubisoft and discount their games by 75% after a month but I think they should have continued with the Nintendo Selects line and offered games like BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Fire Emblem Three Houses and a few others for $20 by now. This is a new level of greedy from Nintendo that we haven't seen before IMO. The Switch success has gone to their heads. I guess I'm part of the problem since I'm getting that Mario Kart bundle at launch, but I hope it doesn't do as well as Switch 1 out of the gate so that they have to at least drop the prices of the games.
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I just don’t understand why they would sell at a lower price if they think (know) they can get that higher price. To be nice?

If you want that nintendo game, you might as well buy it because it’s probably not going to drop in price For a full year or more. I mean my god. They sold 70 million copies of switch Mario’s kart and it kept selling in the top ten for years and years.

If these things don’t sell at the rate they are hoping, they will price adjust as needed.
 
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Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs

The move comes after concerns that tech prices could skyrocket, as many gadgets are made in China.
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Hopefully this means Preorders for Switch 2 will start soon. President Spineless caved again on his tariffs, dude has no clue what he is doing, just over there playing candy land by himself and changing policy as he draws each color and realizes what he screwed up with each policy.
 
nightc1 said:
I just find it strange people just love to bitch endlessly about things they won't buy and never intended to buy. The circle of negativity is kind of draining. I never said the price was fair or right or whatever, just, sucks to be you if this really is the end of your world. No one has to buy these versions of these games. Find something fun to play and enjoy in life. There's more wrong in the world than the state of DLC inclusions in re-releases with slight upgrades or the price of this stuff. If it doesn't sell, Nintendo will adjust like during the 3DS era. It's kind of exhausting most of the posts lately are just venting endlessly about things no one here can do anything about.

I'm going to get a switch 2 and will test a lot of the things people have had questions and concerns about. I'm sure others here will as well. I have a pretty solid library of games. So, feedback will be useful going forward for those interested but not interested enough to put money down. That is, if things chill out a bit around here.
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You're a cool person (no sarcasm), and enjoyed your posts about refining your collection, but your take here is very borderline "I am very smart" meme worthy.

If you deem calling out corporations making the customer experience worse and worse endless bitching, then yeah, I guess we are. I don't know about you, but I dislike being treated like a walking wallet meant for just sheer extraction and attempts of "see if they can get away with it." As that is how you come across; you're saying is "just a thing not worth caring about and I'll buy it regardless."

Hence, we get a market where enshittification has entered the common lexicon and reducing value (aka creating a problem) and increasing costs (selling you the solution) is the name of the game. To see Nintendo doing it sucks even harder when we all just want to play video games and it would cost them next to nothing to give things like performance upgrades for free and include the DLC on the cart for an 8 year old game. More so when that game has a complete on the cart version for the Switch.

I'm not "going to buy" many things, but can still call them bull poopie. I won't buy an RTX 5090, but having the card being sold $1,000+ over MSPR and be a potential fire hazard (literally) is bull poopie. And it's in a hobby I enjoy. I want to see get stuff better, not worse, and still cost more. I think that's the actual reasonable take versus your own of "buy it anyway."

I like good news, too. I want things to be cool and fun and happy. So why does Nintendo have to ruin it for us, and why is the customer base pointing it out have to be the one at fault? "Just choose the things that make you happy!" That's, frankly, the childish response to people with bills to pay and understand the value of their purchases being eroded.

I like the new Donkey Kong, too. I said it when it was announced. And then Nintendo trickled out all the bad news that they did not include in their April 2nd announcement for a reason. Because it sucks and it dampens the whole experience needlessly!
 
nightc1 said:
I just find it strange people just love to bitch endlessly about things they won't buy and never intended to buy. The circle of negativity is kind of draining. I never said the price was fair or right or whatever, just, sucks to be you if this really is the end of your world. No one has to buy these versions of these games. Find something fun to play and enjoy in life. There's more wrong in the world than the state of DLC inclusions in re-releases with slight upgrades or the price of this stuff. If it doesn't sell, Nintendo will adjust like during the 3DS era. It's kind of exhausting most of the posts lately are just venting endlessly about things no one here can do anything about.

I'm going to get a switch 2 and will test a lot of the things people have had questions and concerns about. I'm sure others here will as well. I have a pretty solid library of games. So, feedback will be useful going forward for those interested but not interested enough to put money down. That is, if things chill out a bit around here.
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Very surface level. The concern here is if Nintendo does it, others will follow. We're not bitching about things we don't intend to buy but how it will impact what we do. JFC it's like explaining tariffs all over again--now THAT is draining.
 
swordity said:
Everybody is all worked up about only getting Gamecube Wind Waker through the online service and not a port of the remaster, but no one is clamoring for Paper Mario: Color Splash and Kirby: Rainbow Curse. Sad!

The Gamecube version of Wind Waker is practically trash compared to the HD version though tbh, fast sail is a necessary QOL at this point.
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Forget Color Spash, I want a proper successor to TTYD already...
 
We probably need Miyamoto to kick it before that can happen, although his whims on Toads having personalities or whatever always seemed like a flimsy excuse. Hopefully Color Splash and Origami King exhausted enough of the paper gimmick + household objects + I Spy gameplay that it will happen... eventually. The Paper Mario 2 remaster numbers were pretty sad though unfortunately,
 
"If these things don’t sell at the rate they are hoping, they will price adjust as needed"

They generally aren't discounted even if sales aren't up to expectations though. Look no further than fire emblem engage. The most people can hope for is a ymmv discount at target or Walmart.


LucarioLG said:
Forget Color Spash, I want a proper successor to TTYD already...
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It would be nice. Especially since thry killed off the Mario Luigi series last I recall and it was the supposed only excuse for why paper Mario completely lost it's rpg aspects.
 
shadowysea07 said:
It would be nice. Especially since thry killed off the Mario Luigi series last I recall and it was the supposed only excuse for why paper Mario completely lost it's rpg aspects.
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Well that's back now, they just released Mario & Luigi Brothership last year. Actually, between that, and the remakes for TTYD and Super Mario RPG, I wonder which subseries is gonna get more love...
 
Super Mario RPG remake is the leader of the three in sales, maybe the next will follow in its footsteps which is what I wanted Paper Mario to do as a kid when I didn't know any better and Paper Mario turned out better in the end.

With the way things are going in general it will Super Mario RPG-inspired with generic old school Final Fantasy-like combat and it will be half hearted slop like Brothership :D
 
shadowysea07 said:
"If these things don’t sell at the rate they are hoping, they will price adjust as needed"

They generally aren't discounted even if sales aren't up to expectations though. Look no further than fire emblem engage. The most people can hope for is a ymmv discount at target or Walmart.
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I can assure you. Nintendo has a number in mind for sales expectations. If those are numbers are lagging significantly, they WILL drop the price. Just like they did with the 3DS.

If everybody wants a cheaper switch 2 and cheaper games, the solution is simple. Dont buy it until there is a price drop.

(SPOILER ALERT—people are still going to buy it)
 
keyblader1985 said:
A price cut is not totally outside the realm of possibility. There was the 3DS which went from $249 to $169 just a few months after launch.
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They had to compete with Vita, which was releasing later that year, much more powerful, and also introduced at $249. I thought you had one too. You weren't impressed with the unveiling of Vita back then?
 
Vita wise I got one near launch for 79$ on ebay. Nobody wanted them because of the overpriced small space memory cards. The 64? Gig being import only and high failure rate not helping.

I like the vita but it didn't have much of a shot. outside of dungeon crawler and such fans it lacked support elsewhere. Additionally many rpgs were multiplat besides tohr. and persona 4 golden but which is now available on near everything.
 
keyblader1985 said:
I didn't decide to get a Vita until 2015 IIRC. The library was what finally sold me; it wasn't on my radar during its launch.
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I got a new Aqua Blue PS Vita 2000 shipped from Japan (on Amazon) in early 2018 for about $200. I bought the 64GB proprietary card for $88 (new) as well. It is a beautiful piece of hardware and was ahead of its time. I also got the NYKO Powergrip for $30 (grip with a powerbank inside). All of these items have skyrocketed in cost understandably over the years.

My experience with the VITA made me realize that if I wanted to experience the 3DS that I should buy it around that time as well. I had never owned a DS/3DS due to the cost and my lack of interest in the "kiddie" Nintendo stuff back then since all of my efforts went to collecting for the PS3 and PS4. I bought a new condition New Nintendo 3DS XL (SNES edition) off of ebay in 2019 for $175 and it has skyrocketed in value as well.


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keyblader1985 said:
I got that Black Friday standard size New 3DS for $100, and that's somehow one of the rarest models now. I do like the faceplate option; I bought some cool Zelda ones online.
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I recently was interested in getting that model, but saw it for ~$300 and thought that was insane. After that I looked at other 3ds prices and everything is crazy high right now. Not sure what happened but I guess people are wanting to revisit that console
 
TheLegendofTyler said:
I recently was interested in getting that model, but saw it for ~$300 and thought that was insane. After that I looked at other 3ds prices and everything is crazy high right now. Not sure what happened but I guess people are wanting to revisit that console
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Have you checked for systems with nothing installed? Maybe installed digital games are pushing prices up.
 
Back in 2017 when GME had B2G1 on consoles I've traded in New Nintendo 3DSXL and a PlayStation 3D display to Amazon. Hindsight is 20/20
Paid once appraised
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New Nintendo 3DSXL - Fire Emblem Fates Edition - Nintendo...
Platform: Nintendo 3DS EAN: 0045496781927
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$192.92​
 
mocheese said:
Back in 2017 when GME had B2G1 on consoles I've traded in New Nintendo 3DSXL and a PlayStation 3D display to Amazon. Hindsight is 20/20
Paid once appraised
Qty​
Condition​
Return Option​
Status​
Value​
New Nintendo 3DSXL - Fire Emblem Fates Edition - Nintendo...
Platform: Nintendo 3DS EAN: 0045496781927
1​
Working​
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$192.92​
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I don't think I have ever seen an example where Gamestop DIDN'T rip someone off on a trade-in. It almost feels predatory against kids and parents who really don't know any better or are too busy (parents) to research the real values or unaware of other means to re-sell their stuff.
 
samnite said:
I don't think I have ever seen an example where Gamestop DIDN'T rip someone off on a trade-in. It almost feels predatory against kids and parents who really don't know any better or are too busy (parents) to research the real values or unaware of other means to re-sell their stuff.
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Same as most resell things. Like car trade ins, they buy it from you for half or less of what they will sell it for. GameStop is giving you the convenience of not having to deal with some Facebook marketplace weirdo. They wouldn’t make any money if they gave you the price they can sell it for.
 
Donken said:
Same as most resell things. Like car trade ins, they buy it from you for half or less of what they will sell it for. GameStop is giving you the convenience of not having to deal with some Facebook marketplace weirdo. They wouldn’t make any money if they gave you the price they can sell it for.
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Half is being generous in most cases. Not that I disagree that businesses wanna make money. But they've dug their own graves with being stingy. They'd be better off just offering more in store credit as at the end of the day that'd help move inventory while not really costing them anything.
 
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