2025 Nintendo = Greed

[Mopeybloke]

Nintendo is now the Apple of video games, it has no power or build quality,

Apple has power though. Not the best build quality, but it isn't the worst either.

 

[marky]

It would be perhaps a fair whataboutery/comparison for their latest console. But this is not about Switch 2. They are raising the prices of Switch 1 games. And it comes on the top of the fact that this company (specially least now, with this anti-gamer accountant CEO) never, or rarely, put anything on sale. So this makes the comparison being even more skewed, because there are many and frequent discounts on microsoft and sony products...

Why Nintendo Published Games Almost Never Go on Sale or Get Discounted

Nintendo Switch exclusives are a big hit, and there's a reason they rarely go on sale despite being available on the console for many years.

gamerant.com

Well, they are not rising prices of Switch 1 games but console and accessories.

Nintendo Switch prices are going up after this weekend

On Sunday the Switch 1 family gets more expensive.

www.theverge.com

So the comparison is justified. Sony and Microsoft also raised the prices of consoles and accessories that are several years old...

 

[Coon]

The problem is, many people around the world are paying for it. Nintendo knows that, so we're not forced to buy their stuff.

 

[iamthemilkman]

This isn't tariffs. Nintendo was making bank on those Joycon controllers at the already insane price of $95. They're cheaply made controllers prone to stick drift. This is just corporate greed using tariffs as cover.

 

[qw90700]

Well, they are not rising prices of Switch 1 games but console and accessories.

Nintendo Switch prices are going up after this weekend

On Sunday the Switch 1 family gets more expensive.

www.theverge.com

So the comparison is justified. Sony and Microsoft also raised the prices of consoles and accessories that are several years old...

It doesn't change a thing and it's not because of "greed". It's because of what "rule 3" situation regarding America.

The price of an item increased due to "rule 3" which naturally has an effect for the price change for the item for good. It doesn't change a thing if the item was imported to the country long time ago, the item as a stock will have to be replenished for new retail price due to rule 3 therefore cannot have any "effective" way to make places able to easily differentiate between when items are imported to the country. You can but it will cause a complex mess of bureaucracy and lots of BS had to be done which basically "no one would care" so to ease the process just change the price of the item to new one and sell everything, despite when they are important, for the same new adjusted price.

When a situation caused by America, blaming Nintendo really doesn't make sense at all. Think of the greed America has then lolol. Dude I'm Sega fan boi who really dislikes Nintendo, but it doesn't mean I can go against the truth. Nothing can beat the truth lol.

What kind of "greed" to mention about Nintendo in this context is they use this situation to their advantage but it's not an empty excuse, their business is risked a lot. In the end Nintendo may see a better profit reality by not importing anything to America but enforcing special shipping service that will increase the cost of getting Nintendo products from then on. If rule 3 aspect of America continues it gets easy for international companies to bail out America -> America's currency losing value -> basically people start to ignore America -> "oh the internet cable from America is damaged? nah who cares about America" -> America turns into a country that lost connection to rest of the world -> American economy collapses -> people twerk for 1 more dollar in The Great Depression 2 society -> lolol.

In the end no company should care about Americans. If it's not profitable, Nintendo doesn't have to care Americans using their products. They have XBOX anyway, innit?

If Americans have a problem they should directly address it to the "rule 3" House lolol. As for Non-Americans, they gotta find their own ways for reducing prices by helping out companies. If "rule 3" gets greedy naturally people will have to spend a lot for everything.