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Nintendo Switch 2 Prices: Changing the Industry $80 at a Time
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This week, Zak and Aaron dive into a new controversy that may have long-lasting implications for the industry at large — Nintendo's decision to price some first-party AAA games at $80.
The duo discusses why this price increase is not only unnecessary and bad for consumers, but also how it stands to open the floodgates for greed among big publishers looking to make the all-powerful line go up for shareholders. They also spend some time dissecting why the argument that games need to increase in price to keep up with inflation is myopic at best, and completely misguided at worst.
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Chapters
1. Intro & Tomfoolery (00:00:00)
2. The Switch 2 Price Controversy (00:02:02)
3. A Little Bit About Hardware Pricing (00:08:29)
4. Changing the Industry $80 at a Time (00:12:24)
5. The Inflation and “Price Stagnation” Fallacies (00:39:32)
6. Pricing People Out of a Hobby (00:48:36)
7. Passing the Buck (00:53:57)
8. Quantifying Fun (01:00:33)
9. Final Thoughts (01:06:52)
10. Outro and Thank Yous (01:13:00)
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