• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I love long complicated games, like breath of the wild, but I think the world also needs more concise games, those 20-40 hour masterpieces that keep you wrapped up without having to memorize 3600 pages of back story to remember where you left off.

    What the studios (especially Nintendo) don’t understand is you can’t charge the same ~$60 for both games. People don’t hate shorter simpler games, they just hate paying the same price for less content.

    Right now, Nintendo is selling the Switch version of Link’s Awakening for only $10 less than TOTK ($60 vs $70). That’s right, a remake of a 20+ year old game with a pretty limited story is selling for almost the same as the largest most complex and expansive game Nintendo has ever produced.

    I don’t know why they’re so fixated on matching prices between games that took orders of magnitude different amounts of effort to produce.

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      7 months ago

      the world also needs more concise games

      Yeah!

      those 20-40 hour masterpieces

      …wait, concise?

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, bit they sell less and less these days. I think one FIFA was on PS+ about 18monyhs after release. The most recent one was less than a year. They can only milk so much.