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I only agree that Nintendo has a right to charge whatever they wish for their games but actually even hinting at the notion that Nintendo's exclusives are actually worth $80 in any way is utterly ridiculous.
The PS5 version of Ghost of Tsushima is the "director's cut" for $70 which includes the PS5 upgrades and Iki Island DLC. The PS5 upgrade from PS4 which again includes DLC if you didn't already purchase the DLC separately is $20 and thusly makes the PS4 version of Ghost of Tsushima which originally retailed for and RRP of $60, $80 in total after upgrading to the PS5.
The PS4 to PS5 upgrade cost is total $80 if you aren't an idiot. Though, I'll outline the idi...
PS5 launched November 2020. It is April 2025. 1 month plus 4 months is 5 months. 5 months plus 4 years is still less than 4.5 years and animated backgrounds were added months ago already with the Welcome Hub's full release on PS5.
So, it took a little over 4 years.
Should have done a back-up and you wouldn't have lost them. Reading the terms of service says that PS is under no obligation to host content on PSN forever. So, back-up is the smart option as PSN will respect your licenses, basically indefinitely.
Oh, yeah, it's like every single videogame on the planet only starts selling after it is discounted months after release, which totally explains the millions that can be made in the first days that the game is launched at full price! 🤪
I don't doubt that Nintendo will be forced to swallow their pride again.
@Master-Tonberry
I won't argue against the possibility og additional costs incurred for the American audience on top of Nintendo's own ludicrous pricing due to tariffs, but the very mention of that is a backhanded admission that Trump's tariffs have nothing at all to do with Nintendo's original Switch 2 pricing.
@Xx_Pistol_xX
Why? Seriously, Team Asobi is comprised of mostly the same people still located in Japan and they've already made a hit that is almost universally well received and probably their biggest international seller since Ape Escape. I can't really think of any Japan Studio games with greater comercial success than Ape Escape, Patapon, and Parrapa The Rapper. I loved a lot of their games I can't think of anything they made that I own that was mediocre or bad in des...
Switch 2 would need to be thicker to accommodate any M.2 drive without thermal limitations. The system is 0.55" thick and the smallest M.2 drives are 0.11" thick while the MicroSD/XC and MicroSD/XC Express card is 0.04" thick. Remember that these new cards probably run hot like any fast NVMe drive despite 800MBps being slow for any NVMe drive this might still require additional cooling which the HW would need to accommodate in a generic way. Well, how would Nintendo ensure that...
When Phil Spemcer says "good morning" you just know the apocalypse for Xbox is on the horizon.
Indeed. This is one of those times whers it's patently obvious that Nvidia isn't being truthful with Switch 2's capabilities, either. 10x more compute power. In what way, rasterization, throughput, shading, fill-rate, overall compute? In what way is Switch 2's APU 10 more powerful than Switch 1? Where did all the performance even go because we’re obviously not seeing it in what's been showcased so far.
We still have a lack of real transparency in Donkey ...
@all in this subthread on NVMe storage
The smallest high speed NVMe drives still need cooling and the Switch 2 is too thin to accommodate them. Physics is likely why Nintendo's engineers decided against the smallest NVMe drives, which are times thicker than the substituted MicroSD Express cards, which the bay its inserted into, may have an adequate cooling solution for.
The idea that Nintendo omitted NVMe storage to be greedy, is one issue I can't...
Especially, a ridiculously overpriced toy that isn't showing its worth on paper.
Ever since SNES Nintendo has been kind of greedy as all $#!7.
Brazil's tarrifs forced PlayStation to make a plant in Brazil. The same might happen in the US. Supposedly, this same kind of reciprocal 'tariff warfare' was started in Brazil against the world resulting in this kind of short term pain that prompted PS to expand production operations. Brazil must have a big gaming market.
These tariffs have nothing to do with Switch 2's pricing anywhere. America that one country accounts for more than 33% of Nintendo's global market as of https://www.nintendo.co.jp/... (it's the 2nd XLS document) for both lifetime HW and SW sales. Cutting off the US market is a complete non-starter for Nintendo and Switch 2.
While the pre-order delays imposed by Nin...
Remember, who you voted for in the US doesn't impact the decisions for global pricing of individual products made by a company in an unrelated foreign nation.
I know it's harder to remember more than 3 words, but that's the truth. Additionally, these tariffs will negatively impact Nintendo come launch day unless they decide to skip the US entirely which would likely be even more crippling to their bottom line as the US is their largest market.
@ppm1100
Which company made the APU in the Switch 2 again? Was that Nvidia? Oh, right, it was, and where is Nvidia located? Ah, yes, Nvidia was founded and is still headquarted in the US. Strange how little you know.
The first CPUs were invented in the USA as well with IBM made the first 2nm chips in the US back in 2021. Intel still makes CPUs in America, while Nvidia is just a chip designer they have no in-house st party fabrication plants anywhere. Even so withou...
Couple of years? PSP Ad-Hoc allowed people who don't own the game you are playing to download portions so that games could be played in local multi-player. That was nearly 2 decades ago. You could always just share software or passwords and activate 5 devices with one account for digital games. Nothing in the ToS back then said you couldn't allow friends to use your PSN account. Gamesharing has been the norm for many decades on PS, Steam, and Xbox for multiple decades with many differ...
That isn't how metrics work. If only one game does well and that one game was one which sold bundled with the system for a nominal discount. No one outside of Nintendo and the press will be able to take those metrics seriously in a business sense. I really do mean no one. If ANYONE uses MKW as strong evidence that $80 games are acceptable I recommend you investigate their intentions and connections with Nintendo.