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TommySoda, do games w The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’

I’ve seen some people play it and it seems pretty cool. Although it doesn’t look amazing and seems pretty shallow, it’s only $40. The price tag alone is almost enough for me to give it a try. Any of the Sims games are hundreds of dollars at this point if you wanna buy the DLC. And that’s on a decent sale, too.

bundes_sheep,

It’s also early access, so it will presumably help with it being a bit shallow. There are a surprising amount of things locked behind various mechanics that I’m starting to stumble across. For example, if you’re a jerk to people enough your karma score will fall and now you have access to rifle through vending machines looking for loose change or robbing an ATM. I have a feeling there are a lot more of these kinds of things to discover.

Just getting out of the Sims price hell is worth it for me. I’ve had some good experiences with early access games in the past so I’m reasonably upbeat about what may come down the line.

reksas, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

"Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is described as a “virtual exhibition” of the new hardware. Per Nintendo: “through tech demos, minigames and other interactions, players will get to know the new system inside and out in ways they may never have known about otherwise.”

So its basically just something that goes on about how great and wonderful switch is? And they want you to pay for it? This is so stupid I’m not sure if its even anti consumer anymore but somehow managed to go beyond to new and exiting levels of awfulness.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

It’s kind of like the Valve demo that’s free on the Steam Deck to go through all the features on the machine, except not as interesting.

ViscloReader, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

This demo/manual and the driving basketball game should be included in the system.

Think back to the 3ds with head wars and AR games, no way I’m buying such games but having them makes the system a bit more valuable.

bitwolf, do gaming w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

How did I know that they were going to try to justify it with:

“They worked hard on it” and “but wait, there’s so much more!”.

Bullshit. I really hope we hold the line on this until they stop bluffing.

klobuerschtler, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

TLDR: They’re greedy Bastards

uberstar, do gaming w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN
@uberstar@lemmy.ml avatar

meanwhile, the 3 (incl. me) remaining PS Vita Welcome Park enjoyers:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d3a822af-39b0-4205-9d65-975bc602b7e3.png

subignition, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

For 10 bucks, it better have a button combination that unlocks Mario Paint 2.

I haven't seen a damn thing in the marketing that justifies it being anything other than free. If it's worth 10 bucks, you better show that shit off. The audacity to call it "welcome tour" with a $10 price tag is wild

WaitThisIsntReddit,

Nothing says welcome to the new Nintendo console like learning to open that wallet.

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

I read a preview of it that said it wasn’t worth the money. Nintendo is getting greedy AF.

AceFuzzLord, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

“Well, you see, if we give away anything for free, it has to be your organs! Our law whor… I mean lawyers cannot afford to be some of the worst people on Earth unless we make things so expensive you have to sell all your organs on the black market!” ~ Them, probably

gonzo-rand19, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

So it's a $10 tutorial? Don't care how expansive and cool it is, that's just fucked. The project scope should've been adjusted to make sure it would be free.

tiramichu,

Exactly! What sort of logic are they even trying to apply there? Basically saying “We put a lot of time into our tech demo, and it came out better than expected, so we’re going to charge for it!”

That’s just crazy.

The whole principle is that the intro experience is supposed to be free. It exists to get people pumped about the cool new thing they just bought and excited to play with it.

I guess Nintendo decided that - since you already bought the console - they don’t especially care if you are pumped or not. They already got your money.

Fingolfinz, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

“Nintendo thinks very little of the intelligence of their customers”

Viri4thus,

And rightfully so…

Fingolfinz,

Yeah, they do spend a lot of fucking money and put up with a lot that a rational person really wouldn’t stand for

andybytes, do gaming w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

Nintendo rip 2025

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

Don’t care. Still no.

mrfriki, do gaming w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

Because they are some greedy bastards, that is.

nova_dragon, do gaming w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN
@nova_dragon@lemmy.world avatar

love these "explain why"s that are literally always “because we are trying to make as much money as possible.” didn’t need an article to tell me that.

racketlauncher831, do gaming w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

I’ll save y’all some time. The intervewee said,

is not an exorbitant price

It’s an interesting product

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.

inclementimmigrant,

Sure sounds like “were being greedy assholes.” in corporate speak.

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