>initially sell MKW in a limited-time bundle>game sells well>stop carrying the bundle>sales plummet off a cliff>bring it back despite it initially being limited-timeThey’ve realized no one’s gonna spend $80 on a boring open-world mario kart game
just seems like a holiday push thing
Didn't they sell MK8DX in bundles almost every holiday?
>>749043639They realized that if they are raising price for shareholders then the console is going to require a game bundle now.
yea i'm sure people a lot of people think like that. they'll just buy another switch 2 for 549.99 so they save 37.98 of the price of mario kart world. that makes total sense.
>>749043735>>749043639good luck competing against GTA 6, Xbox Series S is 499.99 too and can play it
>>749044314>Xbox Series S is 499.99 tooJesus, has the price climbed that high?Switch 2 performance is within spitting distance and it also has nintendo exclusives and supports physical games. I don't know who would buy a Series S at this point.
>>749044314lol I got my series s for 200 bucks in 2022
>>749043639I'm waiting for the Switch Sports Resort bundle.
>>749044314lol why would I want to play GTA 6, I already have 3, VC, and San Andreas
>>749044520I'm tempted to get this for my mom but I'm also tempted to wait until the Switch 2 gets an improved model so I can give her the old one.
can we get a bundle with any other game?
>>749044390Series S mostly sold as a decent emulator-box in the first place too, once Microsoft crippled that aspect of it there was basically no reason to own a SeS
>>749044541Because it's what all the NPC normies that never play games ever talk about.
>>749044603Series S @ $300 was a very different value proposition to Series S @ $500. The average gun and ball gamer would be satisfied by it.
>>749043639>full game downloadlol
>>749043639Congratz OP you've discovered that Nintendo uses Mario Kart as a system seller, this must feel like an amazing discovery but they've done this for decades now.
>>749044390Series S has been slept on this entire generation but it will be pivotal this holiday season due to being the most affordable GTA 6 machine, its MKW on Switch 2 or GTA 6 on Series S, for similar prices.
>>749045191Series S's new price is close enough to a base PS5 that it's still a rather hard sell
>>749044587They were doing a bundle where you could pick between Pokopia, DK and MKW for a while.
>>749045191gta6 on series s still doesn't even feel like it could be real. can't imagine how cucked that version is gonna be when the base game runs at 30fps on the higher end consoles. and the switch 2 version (if it exists) is gonna be even more cucked than that, scary.
>>749045191Not even GTA 6 can sell PS5 or Xbox now. GTA 6 will be ported immediately to NS2/PC
>>749045191the price is insanely cheap. but it does 100% hold the generation back worse than folk who don't move on from 1070s.
>>749045529Good.
>>749045529>but it does 100% hold the generation back worse than folk who don't move on from 1070sWE HEREWE'RE NOT MOVINGWE OWN YOU
>>749045461>>749045426The audience is already well concentrated within PS/Xbox ecosystems, it will have no problem, PC barely spends money on it anyways and Nintendo is just too mobile focused and Rockstar just doesnt need to prioritize said version at release
>>749044587They got a switch sports resort bundle, not that you’d want that game
If MKW isn't selling without a bundle, why not lower the price of the game like everyone used to do in that situation? Nintendo seems to think they can brute force MKW to MK8 levels of popularity, but that was lightening in a bottle. World would be more attractive at 60 or 50 bucks.
550 bucks?? Good thing i wont be buying it before a cfw drops.
>>749046673Nintendo is extremely arrogant and greedy. They’d rather not have their cheap shovelware games sell rather than lower the price of their games.
>>749043639oh lookie, they realized there's no way people are going to buy a boring $80 kart racing game with a lame racer roster and incredibly boring gameplayi have seen mario kart world gameplay, and it's undeniably the most dogshit kart racing game i've ever seeneveryone's playing a combination of the same racer and kart, everyone's following the same line, everyone's rushing to do the same tricks and same shortcuts, everyone's waiting near the item pickups to roll for the same items, and morewow, what an amazing gameplaynintendo would have to perform literal dark magic to convince me to buy this generation of nintendo consolethey have already disappointed me with acnh, and now i've already found a significantly better alternative to animal crossing, so my desire to buy the switch 2 has drastically reducedthe least they would have to do is introduce switch 2 lite WITH RUMBLE and a good animal crossing gameand bring back those coupon discounts too
>>749046673There's s good chance almost everybody who has a switch 2 also has mario kart.
>>749047101It’s under 15 million from the last quarterly report. If you track its sales across the last few quarterly reports you’ll see that is basically stopped selling once the bundle was discontinued. $50 MKW sold well. $80 MKW did not.
>>749046673why would they admit they made a decision out of pure greed?the jew furukawa has been ruining nintendo since he got appointed as the head in 2018all the good will for nintendo and switch was built by iwatathen came some proxy who fucked off after a few months, only to be replaced by this giga jew who also ruined animal crossing
>>749043639I have said it before and I say it now if it wasn't because World came bundled with my Switch I wouldn't have gotten it.
>>749044587Didn't game stores back in the day give you a choice of a free video game whenever you bought a console? I wish we'd go back to that.
>>749046332Nobody's buying Xbox/PS today lmao. Literally the people that has PS5 can even pirate GTA 6 easily.
>>749046673I mean every biggest game was cheap as fuck. RDR2 or GTA 5, minecraft, tetris, could all be bought for a few dollars max
>>749048385jewtendo is never going to do the kind of discounts minecraft, gta, or tetris do
>>749048309watch the holiday seasons PS5 sales then, it will be massive, shortages everywhere, since GTA 6 requires latest update to even run which blocked any kind of exploits
>>749048506>shortages everywherelol. Sony isn't making PS5s anymore so they can focus on PS6, it's just pointless to sell PS5 especially now when it's bucbroken and people can just pirate everything
>>749048650You vastly overestimate how many people are going to go through the process of hacking their shit unless it’s very, very simple.
>>749048650>>749048998How simple is it? Does it require opening the console and soldering shit?
>>749043639the only reason i own a switch 2 is because i stumbled across a MKW bundle at wal-mart on sale for like 50 bucks off.Then MKW wound up being kinda shit anyways so that sucks. at least pokopia was fun to play through even if it kind of threw me a curveball with the realtime stuff
>>749049213If you haven't updated your console in the last week or two, go to a website and click a few buttons.
>>749046384why noti still play wii sports sometimes, it's fun
>>749048998>unless it’s very, very simpleIt is. >it will be massivePeople vastly overestimate GTA 6. It's just gta 5 again but better graphics. People will just be disappointed, especially with how many people are used to playing games 60 FPS and higher resolutions. Rockstar should have made it for PC day 1 from the very beginning>>749049213Nothing like that, it takes like 2-5 minutes and it's all done automatically pretty much.
>>749043639>open-world mario kart game>boring
>>749044162They are not raising the price for shareholders.They are raising the price over component costs if I remember correctly.
>>749049615>They are raising the price over component costs…the cover used to raise price for shareholders
WAH-TNESS ME!
>>749043639>same bundle I got over a year ago increased $50 in price
>>749044314>Series SImagine playing GTA VI on a below mid-spec PC from 7 years ago, such poverty boggles the mind.
>>749049838You're projecting what Sony did onto Nintendo.Sony raised the price of the PS5 multiple times for shareholders.
>>749050276beats not playing it at all
>>749044390>supports physical gamesThey invented game key cards. That's the opposite of supportingIf they really were pro-consumer, they'd support game ownership
>>749050376If you can't handle being left out of the zeitgeist, sure. I'm waiting for the PC release, I'm mind-bogglingly poor and can't buy a console for one game.
>>749050417But everyone is complaining about Sony discontinuing discs, which are almost always Game-Key discs.
>>749045529>but it does 100% hold the generation back worse than folk who don't move on from 1070s.This is retarded as fuck statement for one simple reason - why Sonys first party games that arent "held back" are not any better visually than other AAA games? These games are designed for stronger hardware by default so where are better visuals,better physics,higher enemy counts and more? Where? Just curious because im tired of hearing that holding back horseshit for years. Is Sony holding back their studios or what?
>>749043874They did yes. Thread is made by a seething snoygger>>749043639>snoygger copes>again-250million karma to ziony.>>749044162Dumb nigger
>>749044314Gta6 is releasing on switch2 as well. Cry over it fag>snoyggers clinging desperately to one (1) game>its a multiplatLmao
>>749050952>its a multiplat on only one other console which is the same price and not even worth buying at this point over a PS5
>>749050704>B-but SnoynyYou're brown, I get it
>>749043639>GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS NINTENDO IS SELLING A MARIO KART BUNDLE THAT MEANS THEY ARE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!111!!!11!
>>749050704>which are almost always Game-Key discs.You don't own a PS5.
>>749048506Lots of copeBTW ps5 is at like 75mil max, not 90mil
>>749050417Take it up with 3rd parties.all Nintendo made games are fully physical.
>>749043639It's also to slowly keep raising the price as AI keeps fucking them. Including the game costs them absolutely nothing. They have to boil the frogs into it because inevitably stockpiles are going to run out and new contracts are going to be signed and it is not going to be pretty.
>>749051020So it's multiplat and eats sony's lunch. And releasing on switch2 to further decay those sales. Cope snoygger
>>749043639this bundle was $450 last year without the 3 months of pso
>>749051273actually false, they dont include ps portals in ps5 hardware financial reports, only for retailer data
>>749051460PS5 will make the most money out of any platform from GTA 6, Switch 2 and PC have no release of it at launch
>>749044587There were a couple other ones for Pokemon in the past year, along with the unofficial bundles from retailers (though I believe a lot of the ones you see online are reseller listings being "fulfilled" through Best Buy/Walmart/Target/etc.), and there's a new one for Sports Resort.
Waiting for the OoT remake bundle. Mario Kart sucks. I've got Galactic Racer to look forward to instead.
>>749043639Imagine paying hundreds of dollars in this economy for a simple iteration of a 2017 Switch.
>>749050704>Game-Key discsWhat the fuck are you talking about? Nintendo's the only one with Game-Key bullshit going on.
>>749045191It will not exactly because it's "slept on"; no one but enthusiasts comprehend the ass backwards Xbox One/Series S/X naming scheme and even knows it exists but I'd also argue it's pretty bad value now post price increase.
Parents yearn for the free game bundle Christmas console. There's a reason Sony always packs in an older Insomniac or Naughty Dog shooty-walky spectacle game. I'm surprised consoles sold without a free game aren't the exception instead of the default. They could sweeten the deal with a handful of digital copies of Switch 1 games pre-downloaded to the console to add to the value, especially ones that are just ports of Wii U games and are over a decade old already.
>>749051859Internet needed to download games, with a disc.Sony and Xbox have been doing it since the PS4 and Xbox One.
>>749046673>If MKW isn't selling without a bundle,because it is still selling, OP is a lying retard.
>>749052181Some of those old games happen to be selling better than new ones so there's no reason to give them away in bundles. Also this isn't even free, unless you're saying the Switch 2 is practically 549.99 now
>>749051859>he thinks nintendo invented having an empty disc/cartlol how old are you?
>>749050417>They invented game key cardsthey really didn't. requiring CD checks for games fully installed on the PC was a thing since like the 90s.
>>749052178Used ones still go for 150$-200$ with controller so to play current gen games its still pretty good value. I recently got one for 160$ in mint condition, it was barely used to a point where thermal paste was barely dry when I opened it to change it lol. Console was manufactured in 2022 so yeah shit was sitting on a shelf unused for years.
What if I just wanted to play a normal racing game? What if I just wanted a new F-Zero?
>>749052664>What if I just wanted to play a normal racing game?MKW is a normal racing game. >What if I just wanted a new F-Zero?F-Zero 99 is only a few years old anon.
>>749052664Too bad, play this mindnumbing dogwater, wahoo.
>>749052225They're clearly not GAME-KEY discs though, just normal physical discs that we're used to having. Nintendo's the only one that's making a big stink about their games having an additional download to finish installation by creating the equivalent of an internment camp.
>>749052664>"Focus, F. Black Shadow has all of the gambling money, and you know what that means."
>>749052971>Cap, hold Y to activate your falcon vision so you can see where Shadow has gone to!
>>749046673>If MKW isn't selling without a bundleIt is selling without the bundle. Post bundle its been Nintendo's top selling game each quarter outside of game launches.Its selling approx 25% of new system sales unbundled. Which is so high it'd certainly going stay the S2s best selling game even if Nintendo never bundled it again.
>>749052770Game-Key Cards are literally Nintendo's version of this, that has been around for long before the Switch 2.
>>749052971Hilarious how the original vid was to mock modern sony games only for it to turn out that, no, this is how nintendo writes their games now
>>749053220And we will support it.
>>749043639>>stop carrying the bundle>>sales plummet off a cliff>Lemme just make shit up real quick because c\funny cart racer hurt my feefees
>>749053220What's hilarious is how Snoys tried to pull that shit and immediately got slapped backhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwrZKNsawA
>>749053764That's the creator of "Focus, M.".
>>749043639> game downloadi hate this shit with a fiery passion. put the game in the fucking box god dammit. fuck these companies.
I guess MK8 was a flop considering they sold MK8 bundles every year.
>>749043639I mean, what do you expect? Their last holiday was atrocious and now it's even more expensive and they still don't have a real system seller. They have to do something.
>>749045191insanely indian post
>>749052664>Normal racing games>on switchYeah, that isn't happening.
I'm considering buying a Switch 2 now for the OOT Remake and Metroid Dread 2 next year as its on sale at the moment to get rid of all the old stock before the new battery version comes in. I dont really give a shit about Mario Kart or any other games on the Switch 2 other than OOT Remake and Metroid Dread 2 desu.
>>749057630What do you think about the Star Fox remake?
>>749058172Dont care about it desu
>>749056502Indian is spending $3 billion and not being able to get your game running at 60fps on a $900 PS5 Pro. I can't even imagine how badly it runs on a Series S.
>>749058237If you only waht it for two games just wait unless you can throw money around.The way things are going this thing is going to be blown wide open within a year.
>>749043639>3 months onlineBruh Shitty fucking Mario Maker 2 came with 1 year online and was 50€.
>>749053219...and where does it say "game-key card" there? It doesn't, it just says you need the internet to install the game.
>>749058562Well the price will probably be higher in a year but yeah im not really that bothered about getting one right now or anything. I was only going to get it due to it being on sale. Its price without the sale is 500 euro. It will probably go up again next year to 600 with the way things are going.
>>749058718>it just says you need the internet to install the game.That's what a Game-Key Card for the Switch 2 is.You insert the cartridge, and you wait for the game to install as if you bought it from the eShop or redeemed a card code for it.When you get a physical game for Xbox or PlayStation, ever since the 360 and PS3, you insert a disc, and it makes you install the game with the internet.
>>749058743The problem is nintendo has no respect for your library or wallet. They could easily leave everyone's games behind again like they did with the switch.. Getting locked into that ecosystem should be avoided unless you know you have to have a good number of games and cannot wait. If a $30 sale is enough to sway you, consider the fact you'll be spending around $700 after taxes for it and a measly two games. With the way things are going a price increase will be the least of anyone's concerns. The whole industry is about to be rocked.
>>749045191nobody would waste money on an xbox, no mather how ps5 dissapered from market bc of gta.any person with brain would get a PC/switch 2 even PS5 over xbox.
>>749059489>The problem is nintendo has no respect for your library or wallet.This is false, and you know it.>They could easily leave everyone's games behind again like they did with the switch..Good thing they didn't do that.>Getting locked into that ecosystem should be avoided unless you know you have to have a good number of games and cannot wait.Nintendo has a good number of games, and more coming.>If a $30 sale is enough to sway you, consider the fact you'll be spending around $700 after taxes for it and a measly two games. With the way things are going a price increase will be the least of anyone's concerns.Nobody is worried about the price increase except for a vocal minority.>The whole industry is about to be rocked.By Nintendo and their great games.
>>749059974Xbox doesn't do the "take your games if you don't log in for 30 days" thing.And they have Game Pass.
>>749043639>Sold in bundles with a price cut>Is barely above the previous game In weekly sales spite of all the advantages Clearly Nintendo should go back to MK8DX and make more dlc for it.
>>749060114>This is false, and you know it.Ahahahaha. No, I know it very well as I have first hand experience with it, and I know what you are so good day. I wasn't talking to you.
>>749059974How else are brokies gonna play GTA 6?
>>749060516on my switch 2 nigga
>>749061817>available on PS5/Xbox Series X/SIt's a month out and no further platform announcements.
>>749060316What am I?
>>749061926Maybe not before the game's release.
>>749059489>like they did with the switchWii, DSi and 3DS are better examples. By contrast they supported repairs for the Famicom until 2007
>>749060114>The problem is nintendo has no respect for your library or wallet.>This is false, and you know it.Nintendo sells 13 year old games for full price. They are incredibly greedy. >muh respect their value. their games hold value!They got rid of Nintendo selects. Then ported those $20 games to the switch for $60.
>>749063230>$20 gamesThis is why extendies worship the memory of Iwata and how Nintendo was under his tenure. Fuck current Nintendo
>>749052596Here in Brïtböng it was the same but it seems to have gotten worse in the last month on ebay at least (around £240-300 now, the release RRP was £250 at launch). Once you're done with GTA6 or whatever get Dev mode and enjoy your PCSX2 and Dolphin emulation box for the next few years.
>>749065496>extendiesWhat are they extending
>>749063230>>749065496>
>>749066820This thread.
