Despite the strong install base Nintendo now has with the Switch, the company’s leadership is hesitant to put the quality of its first-party releases at risk in order to get more titles out the door.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
Because Sony knows people will be forced to pay those prices for single player and multiplayer games, not everyone prefers PC gaming. Sony also has a monopoly on PlayStation digital games. In 2019, they stopped allowing retailers and game key sellers to sell PlayStation digital games, making them available only through the official PlayStation Store
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
"How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD"
Because Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly, I can purchase Call of Duty at a huge discount from CDKeys or other gaming retailers. The only way to purchase digital PlayStation games is through the PlayStation Store.
Weird, I swore GoW, Stellar Blade, Horizon Zero Dawn, TLoU, etc. were on the steam store....uh.....
@djI3485
I'm talking about PlayStation games that you can only purchase on PlayStation. I can purchase Steam and Epic games from 3rd party retailers and key stores.
"Sony to stop selling full-game download codes at retailers"
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About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
SEGA has made a mistake on one of their PDF forms which has inadvertently disclosed full sales numbers of some of the company’s key software releases.
Don't forget they've put a lot of these on gamepass and ps plus so you can add that money to it. Good to see Sega going strong
Happy for sega ! I was expecting some kind of showing of their newer games at game fest but maybe they’re keeling it for TGS? Crazy taxi and jet set needs a trailer or something soon !!!
Release Phantasy Star 5, Shining force 4 or Skies of Arcadia 2 and look at the number after.
Amid rumors it was looking to sell Eve Online developer CCP Games, Pearl Abyss has given a statement to Insider Gaming.
This is just an excuse to please the fan base. But the truth is that Nintendo is having a lot of trouble to put HD games on the street since Wii U.
Even now with only one hardware to support and the unification of all teams, the lauch pace is not what it should be.
Quality is important and nobody will ever say otherwise, but not all Nintendo games are that great to say that they are only lauching those. For each Mario Odyssey and Zelda BotW we get a lot of Yoshis, Re-releases of Wii U games and 1, 2 Switchs.
On the 1st party side of things I agree with and support Nintendo’s decision on quality titles. What Nintendo needs to do is lower the costs to 3rd parties so we can get more multiplatform titles. I heard the costs for the carts are lowering so this should get us some more 3rd party games on Switch. After beating RE2 (PS4 pro) I really want more RE on Switch.
Most of the Switch games seem to be re-releases
Quality over quantity? Yeah right....more like shit upon shit.
Sorry Nintendo you’ve been super disappointing after fooling everyone to get the system with Mario odyssey. Everything after have be rethreads or straight up re-releases.
Adding battle mode to Mario kart 8 should be a free DLC not reason to re-release the game at FULL price. Especially when it was better on wii u because you can play it online without having to PAY! same for splatoon on wii u. And same with donkey Kong topical freeze. You added that new character with a surf board. Should be a free dlc or micro transaction like for 1.99 you can get this character. NOT a reason to recharge full price.
People are quick to call out MS or Sony for the littlest hint of anti consumer moves. Meanwhile Nintendo there trying to assault consumer’s intelligence!
BOTW
Splatoon 2
Mario Kart 8 deluxe
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Super Mario Odyssey
M+R Kingdom battle
Pokémon let's go
Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Mario Party
Donkey Kong tropical freeze
NSMBU
These are the exclusives I've played and ive had some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming. Switch has the best exclusive games. Period.
There is also a stellar line up if exclusives yet to come.
I don't get why so many people who clearly hate the Switch feel the need to.comment on Switch articles. Maybe go away perhaps?
If you don't like something you.dont have to tell the people who do, no one cares.
XB1X+Switch is what you need.