Is it greed? It's greed

>Amid the furore around the $449.99 price of the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World's $79.99 price tag, there is shock at Nintendo’s decision to charge for the console’s tutorial game, Welcome Tour. You can spend about the same amount for a Steam Deck, and you can play Aperture Desk Job for free. Speaks volumes how Nintendo views their fans.

Why'd you do it? "It's the highest we could go without necessarily labeling it as exorbitant" lmao

Why'd they do it? 

You can play way more than just Aperture Desk Job for free, a lot of games on Steam these days are Free, and I'm not talking about free to play. I'm not sure but I don't remember there being any full free games on the eshop, F2P yes but developers there never opted to make their games just free. Some devs on Steam absolutely have.

Absolutely. I was just pointing out that the tutorial game is free, in contrast to Nintendo.

> And for that reason and just the amount of care and work that the team put into it, I think it was decided that, 'Yeah, this feels like $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels like a good value for what you're getting out of the product Man has a hard time pronouncing "greed"

It's a big gamble on the demand of customers. If it pays off, Nintendo will reap enormous profits. If it doesn't, they can always walk back on it and will probably be celebrated for it. They can't really loose here. Needless to say, I won't touch Nintendo products with a stick. It's a ridiculously greedy and aggressive company.

[Nothing out of the ordinary](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/05/reggie-had-to-fight-for-wii-sports-as-a-pack-in-and-miyamoto-wasnt-happy) for Nintendo, unfortunately. > [Reggie] Fils-Aimé pushed for [Wii Sports to be bundled free with the Wii], and initially company President Satoru Iwata turned the proposal down: "Nintendo does not give away precious content for free."

Beauty of actual competition, I have around 100 games I got from epic games store for free. Beauty of open systems, I can play 99% of them on my deck.

This game doesn't even seem like it will have the same replay value of Wii sports. I don't know who would want to open this game just to re read some descriptions of features.

History shows it does pay off. The Wii U had Nintendo Land, which was the 5th top selling game for the console. The Switch had 1 2 Switch, which was the 40th top selling game for the console. 40th might sound low, but that's about the same as Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, Pikmin 4 or Paper Mario Origami King. Now this "game" looks to be terrible so far, but that can always throw it as a pack in after a year or two and suddenly the total sales bump right up. No downside.

But now you also have malware

Nintendo wouldn't give something away for free to save a life.

Lol paying for a demo disc and you don't even get a magazine or a pizza along with it

In 2006 they bundled Wii Sports with the Wii, which seemed to benefit them considering the Wii's success. Though, the Switch 1 had a the demo "1, 2, Switch" for 60 USD and sold better than the Wii, though culturally, more people probably know about Wii Sports compared to 1, 2, Switch.

The best way to touch Nintendo products is with a soldering iron - to install a modchip.

Steam still needs more competition IMO. If Steam were to disappear tomorrow, the gap left in the PC gaming market would be _massive._

Switch 2 Backward Compatibility Fees: Charging €10–20 to play old games on new hardware (with minor upgrades) is a consumer-hostile move. The €10 demo is purely a joke.