Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, headsets, and some games. The price hike for consoles and accessories kicks in today, May 1, and while game prices will stay the same for now, we should expect to see Xbox charging $79.99 for new, first-party games around the holiday season.
Yup. As expected the industry is following Nintendo lead thanks to gamers.
I know how it effected my personal sales commitment. I’m not pre-ordering a switch 2. I’ve got a PC and a steam deck with a huge catalog of affordable games in my future.
Dude. The preorders literally “sold out.” My brother messaged me last week asking why there was a huge line out the door at GameStop, and I had to look it up because that was also the day Switch 2 preorders started.
G*mers are the bane of other gamers’ existence. Also, most people have literally no self-control.
Because gamers keep buying and giving record sales to these gouging companies with each and every price increase, with every new microtransaction scheme, with every battlepass FOMO, with every new loot box, with every new gatcha game, with every new premium currency, with every new psychological manipulation.
I don’t really agree that gamers should be blamed for this. Especially when it comes to lootboxes, battlepasses, gatcha etc. Those mechanics are tailor-made to exploit common psychological weaknesses in humans. The companies using these tactics and the lawmakers not stopping them should be blamed, not the people being exploited.
Going back to simple price increases, it’s not true that these always work out well for the companies or result in record sales. Remember the 3DS Ambassador program? Nintendo has already faceplanted pretty hard with their pricing strategy before. Since the Switch 2 isn’t even released, we have no idea how well the more expensive games will sell.
I mean at the end of the day, it’s the gamers opening their wallets though, right? That’s the biggest behaviour that’s leading to this, when the chips fall. It’s like when people complain about preordering, well thats got a super simple solution: just don’t do it.
I’ve never bought a lootbox or a gaming pass. That sort of stuff irritates me, like sell me the game or fuck off. I’m ok with a DLC that expands a storyline or a new world or something, that comes a couple years later. I’ve always viewed that a bit differently, as long as the content of the core game isn’t affected. But even when companies are like buy the deluxe tier of our new game that has the Broken Road Protagonist Best DLC ever, releasing June of this year, that pisses me off because it’s like you purposely held that back to sell as additional content. I don’t tend to buy games that do that, and if I do, I never purchase nor participate in the additional content.
What do you mean by “thanks to gamers”?
Because they keep paying the raised prices
Switch 2 isn’t even out yet. We have no idea how the raised game prices will affect sales numbers.
I think gamers have all but cemented this new reality.
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/nintendo-switch-2-will-break-console-launch-sales-records-according-to-analysts-3185359/
Who the fuck is going to be paying the $1200 or whatever for a switch 2?
I know how it effected my personal sales commitment. I’m not pre-ordering a switch 2. I’ve got a PC and a steam deck with a huge catalog of affordable games in my future.
Dude. The preorders literally “sold out.” My brother messaged me last week asking why there was a huge line out the door at GameStop, and I had to look it up because that was also the day Switch 2 preorders started.
G*mers are the bane of other gamers’ existence. Also, most people have literally no self-control.
Damned gamers! They ruined gaming!
I mean given how the preorders have sold out in seconds, it’s not a mystery.
Because gamers keep buying and giving record sales to these gouging companies with each and every price increase, with every new microtransaction scheme, with every battlepass FOMO, with every new loot box, with every new gatcha game, with every new premium currency, with every new psychological manipulation.
But that’s just one man’s opinion.
I don’t really agree that gamers should be blamed for this. Especially when it comes to lootboxes, battlepasses, gatcha etc. Those mechanics are tailor-made to exploit common psychological weaknesses in humans. The companies using these tactics and the lawmakers not stopping them should be blamed, not the people being exploited.
Going back to simple price increases, it’s not true that these always work out well for the companies or result in record sales. Remember the 3DS Ambassador program? Nintendo has already faceplanted pretty hard with their pricing strategy before. Since the Switch 2 isn’t even released, we have no idea how well the more expensive games will sell.
I mean at the end of the day, it’s the gamers opening their wallets though, right? That’s the biggest behaviour that’s leading to this, when the chips fall. It’s like when people complain about preordering, well thats got a super simple solution: just don’t do it.
I’ve never bought a lootbox or a gaming pass. That sort of stuff irritates me, like sell me the game or fuck off. I’m ok with a DLC that expands a storyline or a new world or something, that comes a couple years later. I’ve always viewed that a bit differently, as long as the content of the core game isn’t affected. But even when companies are like buy the deluxe tier of our new game that has the Broken Road Protagonist Best DLC ever, releasing June of this year, that pisses me off because it’s like you purposely held that back to sell as additional content. I don’t tend to buy games that do that, and if I do, I never purchase nor participate in the additional content.
Your gears would stop grinding if you stopped reading news/social media. You’re doing this to yourself. That’s the biggest behavior leading to this.
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Stupid. Why the fuck do you think a world in which buying something is blameless exists?
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