Behind-the-scenes look at the 2012 Paper Mario: Sticker Star commercial, whereby a real paper model of Mario was assembled out of paper parts for each frame of animation seen in the commercial.
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ppl are like "the price of games makes sense if you consider how much time and work goes in to them" and i am here to tell you that just like animation, tv, comics, music, every other kind of media, the price tag does not reflect the artist's paycheck. the only wallets getting fatter are at the top, and they are fatter now than they've ever been. support indie and learn to steal or go without
Also we used to have multiple video stores in every town where you simply rented any brand new game you wanted for $5-10.
The one I grew up with had a late fee of $1 a day so my mom would just let me keep a game until I was finished with it, because that never ever exceeded the cost of buying it new. This is what we all did.
It's shocking how easily something that useful was so completely murdered by streaming services. Nobody wanted to keep cheaply renting games??
You used to be able to rent the consoles too but now consoles demand you make a user account. Yker save data used to only be on a memory card but now that's only accessible with the user account.
You know what? I just spent 3 hours writing up a pair of youtube comments about the misinformation on display here (ZERO games are listed as being $90 USD for a physical copy. Zero. None. Some jackass saw one listed as 90 Euros and went "Oh so $90 USD?" and now it's everywhere. The known prices for physical copies of games on the Switch 2 range from $40 USD for Bravely Default [which uses the shitty key cart system] to $80 for Mario Kart World, with Donkey Kong Bananza being listed at $70 physical and NOT using the key kart system)
If you see ANYWHERE selling it for $90 retail, that is the retailer jacking up the price themselves. This took me two seconds to look up. $80 for a game is still a price increase for sure, but there's a huge difference between a price increase from $70 to $80 and a price increase from $70 to $90, let alone stating that physical games will be more expensive or that "Physical switch 2 games cost $90." You're welcome to be upset about a game costing $80, but stop claiming or even implying that all games by a publisher will now cost $90, it's provably untrue and extremely reductive.
Rentals no longer being a thing fucking sucks and I agree with that, but for the rest of these points..... Misinformation and "Unfair" points always piss me off royally, likely due to my autism. We are in a cost of living crisis, people are justified in being unhappy, even UPSET about price increases, people should support indie games more, devs are not paid enough.
But the price increases deserve to be looked at in closer detail WITHOUT misinformation and hyperbole, especially because the price of games hasn't been adjusted for inflation since the days of the NES despite production costs for large scale games increasing exponentially, combined with the fact that major publishers seem dead set on most of their game releases being the exact same price regardless of whether the development costs or amount of content are comparable which has caused, well, "Video game prices and their effects on development" are a pretty complex issue that goes past the points of "Support indie devs" and "So far all claims that Switch 2 games cost $90 are (AT PRESENT) provably bullshit and you do everybody a disservice when you spread information that's provably bullshit"
But let's talk about the increase in price for the console (copy and pasted from my comment on Youtube, which also features discussions of the false rumors of switch games costing $90, goes over the ACTUAL known prices of switch games including the fact that Street Fighter 6 is $60 CHEAPER on the switch 2 than it is on Steam, the situation with "key carts", and my views on the console's tech demo costing $6 instead of being included for free):
Regarding the price of the console, in addition to the spec changes (the massive memory increase, the OLED screen [a switch OLED is $350], the increased framerate, now having a built in microphone, etc. etc) being things that, alongside inflation, would already make one expect a price increase, there's two core changes that are absolutely going to hike the price up from a production standpoint: The Controllers and the dock.
The original switch dock is basically just some cheap plastic with a USB port and an HDMI port. This one comes with a cooling system (of a quality that we don't know yet.) The price and manufacturing costs can vary quite a bit between cooling systems but that dock is suddenly a lot harder to manufacture than a plastic box with a hinge, usb ports, HDMI, and a circuitboard.
A Switch 1 dock set has an MSRP of $60 according to Nintendo's website and I will tell you that is absolutely huge markup. A Nintendo Switch 2 dockset has an MSRP of $106 USD. How much of a markup over production costs that is is something we'll find out when it comes out but if we assume it's roughly the same amount, that's the dock adding $40 to the console's price at base, and if we want to be generous, we can say that Nintendo's markup isn't as high for the switch 2's dock and that it's actually adding $50-60 to the console's price.
Then there's the controllers. The entire presentation I was going "Fuck, these controllers are going to be so much more expensive." In addition to the normal Joycons being $79.99 already according to walmart, THESE ones now simultaneously have NFC on both instead of 1, function as computer mice, have the switch-facing shoulder buttons switched from plastic to steel, are apparently made to adhere to the console using electromagnetism (THROUGH the buttons that are also supposed to work as shoulder buttons if I'm understanding correctly?!?), allegedly have improved tracking and rumble, and, I am hoping and praying, less of an issue with drift.
ANY ONE of these features would prompt most second party controller manufacturers to jack up the price $10-$20 (even WITHOUT many new features, the price for PS4 controllers jumped from $50 to $70 although I may be getting launch price incorrect here).
The listed price of a Switch 2 joycon set on Nintendo's website: $89.99. Now this price hurts, a lot. It costs more than even the most expensive Switch 2 game (because again, there is no record of physical switch games costing $90)..... But it's also only a $10 price increase. According to the Department of Labor Statistics, the price of new joycons for the original switch adjusted for inflation, if they were exactly the same with ZERO new features would be $105.12 Again, that is WITHOUT new features.
So once again, the price of the new controllers STILL HURTS especially because we are frankly in the middle of a cost of living crisis, but not only is the increase in price for them only $10, but even WITH the price increase it costs less than the original joycons when adjusted for inflation.
So let's go back to the console price. Again, a switch OLED is $350. So the Switch 2 is effectively a $100 increase in price from that which is..... Frankly not that bad? Especially as going STRICTLY by MSRP increase of the included accessories ($40 more for the dock, $10 more for the joycons), that accounts for at least half of the price increase, completely ignoring the improvements to the console hardware itself.
However, again, it hurts cuz we're in a cost of living crisis, but as it is, the Switch 2:
Has comparable specs to a PS4 (not comparable to a PS5 but also keep in mind most people's reaction to PS5's improvements over the PS4 was "I literally cannot tell the difference")
Lets people play physical games UNLIKE the PS5
Is Portable unlike the PS5
Has a cheaper base subscription price for online capability than PS5 ($20 compared to Sony's $80 a year)
Has a cheaper PREMIUM online subscription price than Sony's CHEAPEST, bare bones online subscription price ($50 a year for Nintendo Online Premium, $80 a year for PSN basic, $134 for PSN Extra, and $150 for PSN Premium)
And still costs less than a PS5.
Actually, although seller prices vary wildly, it is still cheaper than many listings for a Playstation 4.
So again, while all of this is definitely worth discussing and understandable to feel disappointed by, and I still dislike a lot of Nintendo's company practices...... frankly even on a console and peripheral price standpoint I think that a lot of the increases are relatively reasonable and still better than its current competitors when one takes the time to compare them.
HOWEVER, a Steam Deck with comparable storage space is still $100 cheaper than a switch 2, (even though again, all currently known switch 2 games that are also on Steam cost the same or less than said games on Steam and there's a bunch of other hardware differences and quality of life on the switch 2 that make me feel like the prices aren't REALLY comparable. I'd just be remiss not to mention it at all.)
Also, NOT on my youtube post but relevant to this one: $50 is an extremely average price for a high quality webcam with a stand (And I BELIEVE initial reports is that multiple preexisting webcams will also work with the console), and the SD card prices listed are ones for already existing SD cards in the format in general, nothing to do with Nintendo.
WarioWare: Get It Together has an obscure Easter egg that can only be seen in the Level 2 variation of the Super Mario World boss microgame, when playing as Pyoro. He is actually able to eat the berries in the trees, which have the same effect as in the original SNES game (adding 1 to the coin counter in the top left).
Pyoro is the only one of the 20 playable characters that can interact with the berries, and they appear only in Level 2 of the microgame. As playing the Nintendo Classics stage indefinitely only repeats the Level 3 version after reaching maximum level, the player has only a single chance to encounter this per attempt at the stage, leading to this being unlikely to be discovered by the vast majority of players.
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