On social media we bitterly joke about the "Switch tax" that prices modern ports of older games at a premium. And yet Nintendo has no reason to drop prices - it's selling more copies of its games than its competitors and making more money on each copy sold.Īnd, for better or worse, Nintendo fans have gotten used to expensive games.
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PlayStation had to cut its price to keep buyers interested in Kratos meanwhile, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been selling in record numbers at full price since launch.
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To put that in perspective, one of the PlayStation 4's best-selling games, God of War, had sold an estimated 12 million copies by June 2019, and is Amazon's 23rd best-selling PS4 game. And the game is still a top seller: It's still the fifth-best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch eShop and to this day is Amazon's ninth-best-selling Nintendo Switch game. According to Nintendo's latest fiscal earnings report, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold over 33 million copies since launch - earning Nintendo a potentially staggering windfall. We pay full price, and continue to pay full price, no matter how old the games are.Īs usual, math and economics ruin everything. It's just following our lead - because as much as we'd like to pay less for the Nintendo Switch versions of reissued Wii U games, we don't.
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