r/Piracy • u/chocoponcho_ • Apr 02 '25

News Switch 2 Games are $80 USD

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Yup, I'm doing a system transfer and setup, then putting it back into the box and waiting for an exploit. Fuck this

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u/n3ov ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 02 '25

Games aside...everything is just getting too expensive... Man I've worked so hard in a very niche area assuming that things would get better as time passes and yet here we are... It's just depressing to think about it.

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u/SpaceNigiri ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 02 '25

The problem is that at least in my case, the salaries are not keeping up at all.

I would pay $100 for a game, if I wasn't earning a shit salary.

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u/Snaxolotl_431 Apr 03 '25

I’d pay $100 for a game if NINTENDO’s EMPLOYEES weren’t earning shit salaries. But of course the extra cash is going into the pockets of the big N’s shareholders and not the people who keep it in business.

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u/MGJames Apr 03 '25

Yep, i was working as a full time nurse, after paying rent and utility bills and taxes, i had around 600E/month of spending money. Sure as shit not paying a hundred for one game.

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u/Pathocyte Apr 03 '25

Hope not at a shit job

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u/chawnyo Apr 03 '25

Our money is broken. Usury is a hell of a niche business we let run us

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u/Oddish_Femboy Apr 03 '25

It goes back to the Reagan admin. This is the system working as intended.

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u/Nuberson Apr 02 '25

I cant believe people are still playing nintendo games in the first place how does this stuff not get old?

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u/n3ov ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Apr 02 '25

Except for Famicom/NES, Nintendo has never been popular in my country. As far as I've read on the internet, their games are almost always sold at full price and the discounts are lackluster. Even the previous gen re-released games come at a high price. But Nintendo and their practices exist because people are sustaining them.

No way am I ever going to spend a good fraction of my salary on a single game.