Mario Kart World

[Neon Ignition]

I'm justifying it to myself several ways. By rights this just needed to give 20 new tracks and call it a day like pretty much every entry before it, to essentially get the single player of DKR or Forza Horizon rolled into it immediately gives it more up front value than any of its predecessors.

Not that that in any way greenlights the price tag, on that front the pack in cost of £35 is its saving grace. Nintendo's definition of what constitutes a premium price is going to be hard for them to justify especially in the economic situation everyone is screaming toward.

But, on the flipside, it's the GTA6 rule. They might charge £90 to £100 but that isn't as bad viewed as £8 a year for the sheer volume of years till the next entry

[Nu-Eclipse]

If I'm giving Nintendo any credit at all, it's for resisting what must've been a serious urge to repackage MK8/MK8D, knowing that so many would lap it up again. They've made some effort to differentiate MKW and even I can acknowledge that.

Fact remains, though, that MKW just isn't a £75 game. It's £60 at best and even that's pushing it.

[Brad]

When I told my mate that GTA 6 would likely be £100 he just said I'd pay £1000.

[Dogg Thang]

I paid for MK8 twice and it ended up being worth every penny. I’m sure GTA6 would be too… maybe not quite at £1000.

The difficulty with a new higher normal is that, of course, not many games will quite have the play hours of those games. Nor should they. As I’ve said before, I think game bloat to justify price in game hours is a problem. I don’t like it. But I get why it happens. Pricing games is not an easy thing. It’s funny though - we don’t get lower prices at the cinema for a bad or cheap movie.

Maybe we should…

Hey man, what’s the €2 movie today? Oh, another Sony villain movie. Cool, cool.

[fishbowlhead]

Being honest, I don’t mind paying more for games, we’ve had this £40 price in our heads for what, 30 years? They cost a hell of a lot more to make now and takes more people, it was inevitable they went up at some point.

However, people will vote with their wallets, if it doesn’t stick the pubs will have to bring the rrp back down or simply not sell games on mass.

We will see what happens in the next year, I know one thing though, Nintendo are smoking crack st £80, especially when their going up against Sony/MS games on a much more powerful system being released at £50-£60, £80 ain’t sticking, no way.

[Brad]

Yeah it is a weird one. I paid £60 for SF2 without thinking about it and that's when I was a student. Things are worth whatever they're worth to someone but they can't be sold like that. I'm just anti Nintendo at the moment (alongside ubisoft and EA)so I automatically took issue with an 80 quid mario kart sequel. I can't know of course, but I strongly suspect that the effort that's gone into making GTA 6 is orders of magnitude higher than mario kart world.