It's clear that Nintendo will remain flexible about first-party title pricing." It's worth noting that Metroid Prime Remastered is priced at $40. "I don’t think that this means that $70 will become the standard price for all major Nintendo releases.
"If you are going to make a game $70, it's going to be the follow-up to one of your most critically acclaimed and bestselling games ever," Jijiashvili tells Digital Trends. Jijiashvili thinks the choice to do this with Tears of the Kingdom was a pretty apparent one for Nintendo, although it won't apply to everything going forward. When asked why it chose Tears of the Kingdom as its first $70 Nintendo Switch game, a Nintendo spokesperson simply reiterated that the company will "determine the suggested retail price for any Nintendo product on a case-by-case basis." Still, it's a surprising choice for Nintendo to make that pricing change to just one exclusive game almost six years into the Switch's life span.
Still, Zelda's price tag indicates that going forward, Nintendo will at least consider raising the price of its most anticipated games to $70. Preorders just went live for Pikmin 4, which launches on July 21, after Tears of the Kingdom, and it only costs $60. Nintendo claims that not every one of its significant first-party game will be $70, and we can actually already see that in action. To get more insight into the price shift, I spoke to Omdia Principal Analyst George Jijiashvili, who explains what has caused the price of games to go up in recent years and how Tears of the Kingdom demonstrates that Nintendo will "remain flexible about first-party title pricing." Ultimately, Nintendo fans are finally starting to feel the impact of inflation that's been sweeping across the game industry, even if it's only "on a case-by-case basis" for now. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Official Trailer #2 "We determine the suggested retail price for any Nintendo product on a case-by-case basis." "No," the spokesperson said when Digital Trends asked if this is a new standard. While Nintendo will release Tears of Kingdom at $70, a spokesperson for the company tells Digital Trends that this will not always be the case for its first-party games going forward. It also raised questions about what the future of pricing for Nintendo games will be, especially as Sony, Microsoft, and third-party publishers all upped the cost of their new games in recent years. News that Tears of the Kingdom, a sequel to one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed titles on the system, will have an increased price compared to its predecessor came as a surprise over three-and-a-half years after its announcement. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be Nintendo's first Switch game to be priced at $70. Metroid Prime Remastered makes one of the best games of all time even better Metroid Prime Remastered gives the best video game soundtrack its due The best video games of February 2023: Metroid Prime, Wild Hearts, and more Pikmin 4: release date, trailers, news, gameplay, and more At least we got Metroid Dread in the meantime! Metroid Prime 4 is in development for Nintendo Switch, but still without a release date. In the meantime, we can only speculate about which characters and gameplay elements other than Samus will return in the long-awaited Nintendo Switch game.
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Hopefully, it indicates that Retro Studios and Nintendo will finally be ready to give another update on the project soon, even if Metroid Prime 4 isn’t slated for 2022 or 2023. Retro Studios has been hiring for the project ever since, but we still haven’t gotten a significant update about the title in more than three years.Īs such, even a piece of art as simple as this is exciting.
That’s when Retro Studios, which developed the first three games in the series, became the primary developer on the project.
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