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DK Tropical Freeze Pricetag

....I mean you can explain it any way you want, but the same games need to be significantly downgraded from base PS4/X1 levels to get running on Switch, if getting to run on Switch at all is even feasible. This is just fact.
You can be impressed they run on a handheld at all, but if you think the Switch is more powerful than a PS4, you are just confused.
Think that being hasty with judgement is leading you into reaching the wrong conclusions in various aspects. That last statement is not what i meant in the post.

i also consider that painting the consumer that choses Nintendo creations with a broad stroke as you are doing in the thread is not a proper assesment of reality. The fair thing to say is that videogame consumers in general tend to be quiet tolerant to exploitative practices from companies and are quite malleable. "Pay to online play, pay to win, frivolous or questioanble DLC, Loot boxes, etc. Is not something that we should be piggeon holing an specific platform user base for supporting.
And a even better question is how did me paying 35$ thanks to free shit suddenly turn into 57$? That coupon and discount card (not store credit) they keep giving me for free did not work on the 60$, and it's a cartridge not a disc and was only 2 days old despite being used. Other than topping another Switch's cherry before mine you can't really tell it's not new.
That is something that TheDuskwalker is bringing up, not refreshment. i mentioned the 57 simply because it is Gamestop asking price for a preowned copy, which later we learned is how you got the game. What is new to us now in the thread is that the store discount and coupon was specifically to preowned copies. So without the poster stating it, is impossible to know these facts.

TheDuskwalker said:
Your final question is kind of obvious, all corporations are evil, sort of speak, so on some days you just got to let the "more evil" one stick just a finger up there, instead of letting the "less evil" one stick to the whole damn fist up there.
The thing is there's no need to let any "finger or fist to be stick up there". This is not a prostate exam or getting paid for a pornographic carreer. Hands are not being forced here, so why not take the "high road" to reach our goals?

The behavior, in this case the act of getting a game we are heavily critisizing for it's price, ends up being rather peculiar because either if bought new or used from gamestop is at odds with the stance in the thread and ends up not contributing to solve the "problem" we wish to erradicate.

More over one of the reasons the price is being criticized is because is for a 4 year old game so after all this time what was exactly the haste to get it? Just waiting some more allows a person to get the game used at a better price thus not supporting shady Gamestop practices and Nintendo's price inflation.
 

Zog

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FYI, your first link is for the early recall of the Basic (8GB) Wii U. This was well known. The second link is conjecture based on a NeoGAF thread, which is based on a Best Buy employee's statement.
I noticed the Wii U disappear from store shelves too. I even asked around at different stores but no one knew why they were gone and didn’t know when or if they would be back in stock.

I suspected they were pulled by Nintendo or at least no longer shipped once they sold out so I have no problem believing a Best Buy employee. Plus, Nintendo did try pulling Tropical Freeze on the Wii U eShop too.
 
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Vawn

Banned
The more things change....

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Pikmin 3 is being sold by Nintendo on Wii U for $19.99.


Pikmin 3 is coming to Switch, 7 years later, $59.99.


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If they can charge $60 for Mario Tennis Aces (really?, splitscreen??!!), they can get away with charging the same for such a brilliant game.

Honestly, I'm not really impressed with mario, or this dungeon-less zelda either. I'm supposed to be excited by sim:nintendo?

US based nintendo devs are the best right now. Throw NST on a Blue Storm port, and gimme MP4 already.

$39 would be a sexy price point for sure. Hopefully that's all they charge next time I buy it. :p
 

tkscz

Member
The more things change....

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Pikmin 3 is being sold by Nintendo on Wii U for $19.99.


Pikmin 3 is coming to Switch, 7 years later, $59.99.


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While I don't agree with it, who the hell besides us select few even had a WiiU? This game is brand new to a lot of people, thus gets the same price as a brand new game. Worked out for Mario Kart and Donkey Kong.

I'm not double dipping as the touch controls were too perfect to go back to analog sticks, plus I paid $50 for the original, not paying more to buy a game that I already have and still play with friends. The multiplayer was much better than I expected.
 
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