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Nintendo Switch 2's support for MicroSD Express standard will hurt your wallet: Here's why
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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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Sure, but my biggest problem with them is how expensive their games are and how they never go on sale. $70 was already pushing it, but now they might be asking $90 for physical game cards. Screw that.
They don’t go on sale because Nintendo games are not disposable like n-th instalment of Call of Duty or NFL.
They sell gameplay and not graphics and that’s timeless. If it was worthless people wouldn’t be so angry with them for going after emulators. There are also no games over $80 announced and this time digital copies are cheaper while still shareable (although no reselling).
don't make up nonsense to justify their anti-consumer practices. their games aren't magic made from gold.
its software. just like every other game. and I can think of a thousand games off the top of my head with amazing "gameplay and graphics that's timeless."
none of which are 70 dollars or more.
stop defending this shit.
N64 games regularly cost in the range of $60 to $80 in the mid 90s. In today’s dollars, games would need to be double that to match the same cost. Just because the price goes up a little in the last 10 years, doesn’t change the fact that games are at a historic low cost. There are reasons to be upset about how far (or not) your hard earned dollars can go today, but video game prices are not one of them, objectively.
The cartridges themselves make up for the price difference. Don’t equate the physical cost of n64 cartridges versus the completely trivial cost of distributing software now.