While the Nintendo Switch was an incredibly popular console, and it seems that Switch 2 could shape it, one of the criticisms imposed in Nintendo has been the fact that games in their systems often tend to be more expensive than on other platforms. Together with third -party titles, this also includes third -party games by the main companies and independent studies.
The former public relations managers of Nintendo Ellis and Krysta Yang talked about this in a new video. The duo spoke about Nintendo’s approach to the games where the company tends to “respect the value” of each published title. This approach also extended to the influencers that would contact the company to make games raffle events. Watch the video below.
“Nintendo products have immense value, we must always respect that immense value,” Ellis said. “That is why these things do not go on sale. The value is the value and we are seriously in that concept of ‘respecting the value of what this is that we have done, because it is very special'”.
Yang mentions that this is an important taxpayer to the fact that games on Nintendo platforms, especially the first part of the main franchises such as Zelda’s legend either Super Mario Bros.Sales are rarely made. Compare this with Microsoft with Xbox Series X/S, Sony with PS5 and even PC steam. Yang believes that the average user of the Nintendo console has been conditioned to accept this fact as part of playing Nintendo games.
“As a Nintendo client, a fan,” Yang explained, “you are a bit conditioned to”, if I want to buy this, this could also be now, because it will not go on sale. “
The high prices of the games published on Nintendo consoles are referred to players as the “Nintendo Tax”. This is recognized by Ellis, who talks about how Nintendo sees the value of his games, especially compared to other games in the market.
“It’s a Nintendo Tax,” Ellis said. “What we did was $ 60. Many of those other games that are $ 60 are garbage. They do not have the level of quality or attention of Nintendo, so we must distinguish how premium is this thing through the price, and it will come to understand that.”
Nintendo has recently been criticized for its price of the next switch 2, as well as some of the first -part games that will reach the console. For the context, the console is priced at $ 449.99, while Mario de Mario Kart It will have a price of $ 79.99 for the digital version. A physical copy will resume it for $ 89.99 instead.
The president of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser, addressed these criticisms. In a recent interview, he talked about how the company sees the value of its hardware and software. As for the price, he mentions that, although many fans will not be able to pay the new console and their games, they can search for the other Switch consoles to play the company’s titles.
“We recognize that there are some people who may not be able to pay [the Switch 2’s] Price, “said Bowser.” That is why we wanted to make the other switching platforms available, so [people] I still have the opportunity to enter our universe of games, be part of these characters in these worlds and see value, if you wish, on any step of the platform they enter. “
The Nintendo Switch 2 is reaching store shelves on June 5.
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