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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It feels to me like the closer we get to the Nintendo Switch 2's June launch and the, apparently, $80 games associated with it, the more people are fighting with themselves over what is and isn't worth it. But at least Sony veteran and previous head of PlayStation Indies Shuhei Yoshida is free from inner turmoil – he thinks relatively expensive, high quality video games are unequivocally necessary. Speaking to Critical Hits Games in a video interview during the recent Gamescom Latam, Yoshida says "when you look at life in general, other products in price have increased, you know, way more than the game price. So I think it was almost too late for the video game companies to start looking at the pricing structure." "I don't believe that every game has to be priced the same," Yoshida continues. "Each game has different value it provides, or the size of budget. I totally believe it's up to the publisher – or developers self-publishing – decision to price their product to the value that they believe they are bringing in." Nintendo openly shares this mindset, as current Nintendo of America product experience VP Bill Trinen told IGN in April: "We just look at each individual game and we look at the content and the value of that game, and then we say, 'what is the right price for the value of this entertainment?'" The developer elected to price its strange Switch 2 tutorial, Welcome Tour, at $10 – instead of making it free like PlayStation's comparable Astro's Playroom. Yoshida continues to say that, "In terms of actual price of $70 or $80, for really great games, I think it will still be a steal in terms of the amount of entertainment that the top games, top quality games bring to people compared to other form of entertainment." "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money," he continues, "I don't think they should be complaining." "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
任天堂確定Switch2展示軟體「Welcome Tour」賣10美金！官方人員表示值得這價格
任天堂 Nintendo Switch 2，其中一款互動遊戲《Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour》，基本上就是可以互動的 Switch 2 使用者說明書，卻因為宣布要收費的關係，引起不少玩家認為這種東西應該要免費提供。對此美國任天堂的產品與玩家體驗副總裁 Bill Trinen，在訪談中公開了《Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour》的售價。 相關新聞：Switch 2功能展示遊戲需「收費」引不滿？玩家舉例PS5、Steam Deck都免費提供 Bill Trinen 接受 IGN 的訪問，提到有爭議的《Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour》，在美國的售價為 9.99 美元（新台幣 329 元），並且只有數位版。Bill Trinen 表示他們在為遊戲定價時，會去考慮每一款遊戲的內容和價值，而《Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour》值得這價格，並形容它是一款強大的軟體，裡面有許多精彩的細節。 而這價格也引起許多美國網友討論，懷念起當初前美國任天堂總裁 Reggie Fils-Aimé 還在時，就是建議展示 Wii 功能的《Wii Sports》在美版直接綑綁販售，其他網友也稱：「我不打算買，祝福那些想買的人」、「上 YouTube 看就好了吧，懷疑它是否有重玩的價值」、「一個體驗的東西要 9.99 美金真的是瘋了」、「那些說會買的人，就是任天堂為所欲為的原因」
Forbes
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Nintendo Didn't Price In Trump Tariffs For Switch 2, Justifies $80 ‘Mario Kart World'
Nintendo Switch 2 Nintendo is Nintendo, and no, they are not pulling a 'we hear you, we're reversing course' with its recent, hugely controversial pricing of Mario Kart World at $80, with some regions higher than that. Nintendo is now offering various executives for interviews attempting to justify this, but it's unlikely that many fans are going to be satisfied with what they're saying. Here's Nintendo of America's Vice President of Product and Player Experience, Bill Trinen speaking with IGN: 'I would say it's less about the strategy of pricing Mario Kart World, it's more just whenever we look at a given game, we just look at what is the experience, and what's the content, and what's the value?' Trinen said. 'But honestly, this is a game that is so big and so vast and you will find so many little things in it to discover. And there's still some other secrets remaining that I think as people end up buying and playing the game, they're going to find this to be probably the richest Mario Kart experience they've ever had.' This is essentially just saying 'this is a really big, good game, so we feel like it's worth $80." I mean yes, obviously we knew that's what they were thinking, but it does not answer key questions. How often are they going to deem a game 'good and big enough' for this price? Now that they're doing this, how might it empower a whole slate of other publishers to start doing the same thing with major releases? No, this may not be a blanket increase to $80 across the industry, but it's crossing a line all the same. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder There's a separate interview with Doug Bowser at Wired where he also addresses the big question that's been asked this week about how Trump's new enormous tariffs might affect Nintendo Switch 2 pricing. Some believe these tariffs may have already been priced into the high $450 price ahead of time, but that's not true. Bowser says that the tariffs 'weren't factored into pricing' before this reveal and says that it is 'actively assessing' the situation which 'creates a challenge' and 'it's something we're going to have to address." If you have to 'address' that, it likely means one of two things: A) Nintendo takes a larger hit than they were planning to on the Switch 2 profit/loss at that $450 price or obviously B) they raise the price of the hardware even further for consumers. Neither are good options, but that's also the situation across countless other industries right now due to how far-reaching these tariffs are, and rivals like Microsoft and Sony may have to do the same thing. Nintendo has still not said when pre-orders may go live for the US, postponed because of these tariffs. They say the release date of June 5 is unchanged, but the longer this goes, the less likely that may be. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
