The confusion around $90 Switch 2 games proves how broken the internet is
The confusion around $90 Switch 2 games proves how broken the internet is
by razorbeamz
34 Comments
AEHBlandalorian
Complaints = clicks, it’s unfortunately as simple as that.
BasedKaleb
To most people on the internet researching is nothing more than the act of looking for something where you’ve already looked there before.
NMe84
It mostly proves that in the global economy, it’s a dumb idea to have two regions that have two different pricing strategies when they previously didn’t. Even now, the digital game pricing strategy for Nintendo is basically the same between the EU and the US, but for some inexplicable and probably unnecessary reason the EU gets a 10 euro markup on physical games that the US doesn’t get. Combined with the fact that people had to go on the hunt for pricing information because Nintendo refused to share that info in the Direct, it’s their own fault that there is so much confusion. They could have easily avoided all of this.
Its-JustMax
Maybe if they just said the prices for shit in the direct there wouldn’t be confusion. Instead I gotta do a search and then I’m met with 500 ai articles that are actually all built off each other. Yummy yummy more sludge please
Alarming-Stomach3902
Because there is again some truth to it considering the EU prices are 90€ and people often talk like 90€ = 90$ which used to ne the case as well for past games
SomewhatOptimal1
It’s 90€ in Europe
Platonist_Astronaut
It’s $109 where I live lol. Gotta love that exchange rate.
Interesting-Season-8
doesn’t help when Nin didn’t say anything, we’re getting screenshot from Nintendo store etc. and many stores don’t have preorders yet.
In Poland DK Bananza is currently more expensive for preorder than MK World.
How? Dunno, will probably change closer to release but it’s on them, not us.
JuanMunoz99
“Nintendo was being shady by not telling us in the direct” they have never revealed game prices in Directs.
“But it is true if you live in Europe” good thing we are not talking about Europe.
“$80 is still bad” nobody is disagreeing here.
Zartron81
What bothers me the most is that LOTS of people now say “But 90 bucks game are fake news and never existed”, while deliberately ignoring the fact that other countries ACTUALLY HAVE THEM at 90 bucks.
Perfect_Exercise_232
It basicaly is $90 with taxes for me lol
GinGaru
it only proves how awful Nintendo was at relaying information because they were trying to be sneaky with this ridiculous price hike
552eden
Why isnt anyone talking about the fact that the confusion 100% came from the eu pricing?
where digital is 80 eur and physical is 90 eur?
also, on that note, screw the eu pricing this is so annoying.
krdskrm9
Also, the Steam Deck cult is kinda dumb.
gobackclark
Seems like instead of a broken internet, Nintendo should be better communicators of key factors in a major announcement so rumors don’t spread out of control.
Huddy40
And how stupid and simple minded ppl have become. Anger=instinctual response for so many ppl its crazy.
Uebeltank
I see so much misinformation happening on the internet, not because someone is intentionally trying to mislead, but because the role of filtering and interpreting information, which traditionally had been done by professional journalists who had at least a minimum of expertise, now is done by random users on social media. So if just one relevant user makes an inaccurate statement, you can very quickly have many people think something is happening, which isn’t happening. People really gotta be more critical about what random people write online.
FlyingCheeks
They are selling Breath of the wilds, an 8 year old Wii U game on Switch 2 for $90 with the dlc. Lets not blindly defend either
it was probably something like this picture here… since there IS a difference between digital and physical in europe and we really ought to pay 90 fricking € for a physical mario kart
Perydwynn
Misinformation spreads fast and sadly corrections dont spread well. (The primacy effect in a way). Plus, once poeple have decided that Nintendo are evil and Switch 2 will have $90 games, and that physical games dont have anything on the cartridge etc etc, when someone corrects them, it just makes them dig their heels in further (because noone likes to look stupid by being corrected).
staveware
So many people have been regurgitating it that AI has been eating it up too. People who search for it now are likely getting false info.
“It’s hard to pinpoint where exactly that jump originated from, but it’s easy to see how someone could have misinterpreted it. **Maybe they assumed the Euro symbol was a dollar sign.** Maybe they mistakenly assumed that those two things are 1:1. Whatever happened, it should have been a detail that was debunked within a day.”
All I’m gonna say is there is one country where this could have happened.
StellarBull
And you people aren’t helping by omitting the fact that it does cost 90 EUROS, which is worse than it costing 90 dollars, but I suppose americans don’t give a damn if it doesn’t affect them.
TheDoctorDB
So many comments about how “but it really is 90€ in certain parts of the world!” kind of missing the point.
The outrage is mostly from content creators and people in the US. And if a 90 regional figure were really that important to anyone, it would’ve been talked about years ago. I’m constantly shocked by comments around here whenever it’s pointed out how much something costs in Australia. And it’s not brand new.
The point is that so many people think this is the price for the US, when it’s not, and there doesn’t seem to be any indication physical and digital copies will have different pricing in the States.
Just let the point about Americans not being able to be bothered to research basic facts stand. We need it lol
pwishall
Yes, social media and now AI that is being trained on that social media is making a lot of people a lot dumber incuding on this site. There has always been a large cohort of stupid people, and somehow the SM/AI combination is magnifying it and making it worse.
cjeffcoatjr
ITT: Gamers™️ proving the headline correct
cacocucer
I was disgusted by the fact that so many game “news” YouTube channels were making things worse.
They didn’t even fact-check because they had to upload a video quickly for views.
It’s ironic that they do that while criticizing someone for being greedy.
BeExtraCarefulKapt
A lot of people are idiots addicted to social media. Can you imagine couple generations from now?!? When people will only know world without social media as a myth only told by the eldest!
If social media will continue to be a dumpster fire as it is now, can you imagine how stupid future generations will be… 😮
JoshuaPearce
Yes, nobody ever got confused about game stuff in the age of print.
NettoSaito
I’m really not sure how all of this started honestly. Everyone involved with the media should’ve gotten the same press release, and stores quickly started posting the listings. But sadly the internet likes to believe what it wants to believe.
I’ve had people come after me calling me a liar online just because they wanted to be right. My response? My information was emailed to me directly by the developer or their PR contact; it doesn’t matter what you think is right, this is their official word on the matter.
People don’t like that and still love to argue with me though lol
Radirondacks
…as if $80 is *so* much better. Was this the plan all along? Get people to talk about “$90 games” so when the real price comes out it doesn’t seem so bad?
azfeels
I’ve never seen people write articles defending huge corporations money so much in my life from video games. Just goes to show how deep the corporations are embedded in journalism. Has this writer/journalist ever written a story on how games are getting more expensive? Or are we just denying it all the way down?
Crowbar_Faith
Could have avoided all of this confusion and bad press if Nintendo clarified it during their video when they mentioned the upcoming games.
I know many of you don’t like hearing this, but the failure was on Nintendo’s part for not being clear up front in the first place.
34 Comments
Complaints = clicks, it’s unfortunately as simple as that.
To most people on the internet researching is nothing more than the act of looking for something where you’ve already looked there before.
It mostly proves that in the global economy, it’s a dumb idea to have two regions that have two different pricing strategies when they previously didn’t. Even now, the digital game pricing strategy for Nintendo is basically the same between the EU and the US, but for some inexplicable and probably unnecessary reason the EU gets a 10 euro markup on physical games that the US doesn’t get. Combined with the fact that people had to go on the hunt for pricing information because Nintendo refused to share that info in the Direct, it’s their own fault that there is so much confusion. They could have easily avoided all of this.
Maybe if they just said the prices for shit in the direct there wouldn’t be confusion. Instead I gotta do a search and then I’m met with 500 ai articles that are actually all built off each other. Yummy yummy more sludge please
Because there is again some truth to it considering the EU prices are 90€ and people often talk like 90€ = 90$ which used to ne the case as well for past games
It’s 90€ in Europe
It’s $109 where I live lol. Gotta love that exchange rate.
doesn’t help when Nin didn’t say anything, we’re getting screenshot from Nintendo store etc. and many stores don’t have preorders yet.
In Poland DK Bananza is currently more expensive for preorder than MK World.
How? Dunno, will probably change closer to release but it’s on them, not us.
“Nintendo was being shady by not telling us in the direct” they have never revealed game prices in Directs.
“But it is true if you live in Europe” good thing we are not talking about Europe.
“$80 is still bad” nobody is disagreeing here.
What bothers me the most is that LOTS of people now say “But 90 bucks game are fake news and never existed”, while deliberately ignoring the fact that other countries ACTUALLY HAVE THEM at 90 bucks.
It basicaly is $90 with taxes for me lol
it only proves how awful Nintendo was at relaying information because they were trying to be sneaky with this ridiculous price hike
Why isnt anyone talking about the fact that the confusion 100% came from the eu pricing?
where digital is 80 eur and physical is 90 eur?
also, on that note, screw the eu pricing this is so annoying.
Also, the Steam Deck cult is kinda dumb.
Seems like instead of a broken internet, Nintendo should be better communicators of key factors in a major announcement so rumors don’t spread out of control.
And how stupid and simple minded ppl have become. Anger=instinctual response for so many ppl its crazy.
I see so much misinformation happening on the internet, not because someone is intentionally trying to mislead, but because the role of filtering and interpreting information, which traditionally had been done by professional journalists who had at least a minimum of expertise, now is done by random users on social media. So if just one relevant user makes an inaccurate statement, you can very quickly have many people think something is happening, which isn’t happening. People really gotta be more critical about what random people write online.
They are selling Breath of the wilds, an 8 year old Wii U game on Switch 2 for $90 with the dlc. Lets not blindly defend either
Proves how Nintendo communication is not the best
https://preview.redd.it/hysqdgr5seue1.png?width=1107&format=png&auto=webp&s=8fda773ea10986519d72c36e40acd380afece607
it was probably something like this picture here… since there IS a difference between digital and physical in europe and we really ought to pay 90 fricking € for a physical mario kart
Misinformation spreads fast and sadly corrections dont spread well. (The primacy effect in a way). Plus, once poeple have decided that Nintendo are evil and Switch 2 will have $90 games, and that physical games dont have anything on the cartridge etc etc, when someone corrects them, it just makes them dig their heels in further (because noone likes to look stupid by being corrected).
So many people have been regurgitating it that AI has been eating it up too. People who search for it now are likely getting false info.
https://preview.redd.it/4d9blpnu3fue1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd33b7c1b5180c9258d4f4c7f17d18d110d6aef3
“It’s hard to pinpoint where exactly that jump originated from, but it’s easy to see how someone could have misinterpreted it. **Maybe they assumed the Euro symbol was a dollar sign.** Maybe they mistakenly assumed that those two things are 1:1. Whatever happened, it should have been a detail that was debunked within a day.”
All I’m gonna say is there is one country where this could have happened.
And you people aren’t helping by omitting the fact that it does cost 90 EUROS, which is worse than it costing 90 dollars, but I suppose americans don’t give a damn if it doesn’t affect them.
So many comments about how “but it really is 90€ in certain parts of the world!” kind of missing the point.
The outrage is mostly from content creators and people in the US. And if a 90 regional figure were really that important to anyone, it would’ve been talked about years ago. I’m constantly shocked by comments around here whenever it’s pointed out how much something costs in Australia. And it’s not brand new.
The point is that so many people think this is the price for the US, when it’s not, and there doesn’t seem to be any indication physical and digital copies will have different pricing in the States.
Just let the point about Americans not being able to be bothered to research basic facts stand. We need it lol
Yes, social media and now AI that is being trained on that social media is making a lot of people a lot dumber incuding on this site. There has always been a large cohort of stupid people, and somehow the SM/AI combination is magnifying it and making it worse.
ITT: Gamers™️ proving the headline correct
I was disgusted by the fact that so many game “news” YouTube channels were making things worse.
They didn’t even fact-check because they had to upload a video quickly for views.
It’s ironic that they do that while criticizing someone for being greedy.
A lot of people are idiots addicted to social media. Can you imagine couple generations from now?!? When people will only know world without social media as a myth only told by the eldest!
If social media will continue to be a dumpster fire as it is now, can you imagine how stupid future generations will be… 😮
Yes, nobody ever got confused about game stuff in the age of print.
I’m really not sure how all of this started honestly. Everyone involved with the media should’ve gotten the same press release, and stores quickly started posting the listings. But sadly the internet likes to believe what it wants to believe.
I’ve had people come after me calling me a liar online just because they wanted to be right. My response? My information was emailed to me directly by the developer or their PR contact; it doesn’t matter what you think is right, this is their official word on the matter.
People don’t like that and still love to argue with me though lol
…as if $80 is *so* much better. Was this the plan all along? Get people to talk about “$90 games” so when the real price comes out it doesn’t seem so bad?
I’ve never seen people write articles defending huge corporations money so much in my life from video games. Just goes to show how deep the corporations are embedded in journalism. Has this writer/journalist ever written a story on how games are getting more expensive? Or are we just denying it all the way down?
Could have avoided all of this confusion and bad press if Nintendo clarified it during their video when they mentioned the upcoming games.
I know many of you don’t like hearing this, but the failure was on Nintendo’s part for not being clear up front in the first place.