@masterfox

“You can call this irony or hypocrisy, that's up to you but no way in Hell this is a 59.99 game, this is no more than a 29.99 max price tag!”

Since you’ve already played and beat the game tell us about it. Did you like it? How long was it? Was the story interesting?

You can’t judge a games price just because it’s a 2D game. It could be better than some $70 AAA games for all we know.

And when Sony is charging $70 for something like Returnal; a game made by 13 people, didn't have a giant promotion budget, and has minimal voice acting to account for extra cost, in the name of "videogames are so expensive to make anymore".

Do you have a problem with that one too? I would hope you do.

While I don't think a max price of $30 is reasonable I do agree. If, for at the very least, because Switch carts are more expensive $30 isn't realistic. If you look at multi plat 3rd party games that are $30 they're usually, I believe, $5-10 more than their disc based counterparts. The price point should have been under $60 though; be it $40, $45 or even $50. The fact that I can buy Axiom Verge 1 and 2 for $50 on disc right now doesn't help matters. Granted Metroid Dread will look better and likely cost a little more to develop the fact remains that it's an old school style, 2D, dungeon crawler that is inexpensive to make.

The whole point, or guise of $60 games was due to the rising costs of development because of advancing technology. At the same time the past two generations have been shattering sales charts as more and more gamers enter the fold and more and more have incomes of their own.... The fact of the matter is that if an indie developer, Sony or MS made a similar game to Dread and tried charging $60 the world, or least internet, would be up in arms. Yet Nintendo gets away with it.

As for value. That's always going to be subjective but personally I've always had a tough time spending $60 on a lot of Switch games. For me, the value just isn't there. Then again, now that Sony is charging $70 for their games, which after taxes is more like $75..... don't get me wrong. even though I don't get a ton of use out of my Switch I do enjoy owning one. I've played some incredible and incredibly mediocre games from Xeno 1 and 2, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Astral Chain, Octopath Traveler, Mario Odyssey, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 and so on.

Regardless of how I feel the fact of the matter that it is $60. I cringed and fought against pre-ordering Dread a few weeks ago but in the end decided to just take it up the wazoo. At the end of the day all these corporations have become greedy pricks looking to capitalize profit above all else. Everywhere we look we are being bleed dry. Yes business is about profits but you don't need to bleed consumers dry in the process. But that too is another subject. All I know is taht the last 2 generations I've bought a fraction of as many games as I did during the PS and PS2 era. All that extra money that went to developers games I bought meant another developer lost a sale.