Nintendoshowed off a lot more ofDonkey Kong Bananzavia a Direct on Wednesday, and I don’t think I’m going against the grain at all when I say the nextSwitch 2exclusive looks pretty good. Some Switch 2 owners think it looks so good that they’ve been joking that Nintendo should raise the price.
As excited as we all were to get our first proper look at the Switch 2 back in April, the full reveal was tainted somewhat by the follow-up reveal thatMario Kart World would be an $80 game. Thankfully, that isn’t a new standard for Nintendo. Donkey Kong Bananza is a $70 game. However, the Direct’s chat was peppered with comments telling Nintendo to “raise the price”, and that joke has continued on social media in the hours since the Direct ended.
“I think I speak for everyone here that Donkey Kong Bananza is too good to just be $70,“Sonicowrote on Twitter, urging Nintendo to up the price of its next game to $100 instead because “they deserve it”. The replies question why Nintendo choseMario Kart Worldto be its first $80 game rather than Bananza, buoyed by the excitement of just being shown how good Bananza is going to be.
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As good as Bananza looks, the reason Mario Kart World is $80 and Bananza is $70 is because casual gamers are a lot more likely to pay $80 for a Mario Kart game than a Donkey Kong one, no matter how good it looks.
Everyone asking Nintendo to charge them more for Bananza is joking, of course, at least I hope they are, but the jokes have some people worried. “Shut your mouth before they actually do it,“one reply reads. Another points out that if you want Bananza withits newly revealed DK and Pauline amiibo, which many people will, it’s effectively a $100 game, so no need to up the price more.
Nintendo isn’t going to see these posts and up the price of Bananza to $80. That ship has sailed, and Bananza will be a $70 game. If the Switch’s first-party library is anything to go by, it will probably still cost $70 seven years from now. Now, if Nintendo has any first-party games it thinks will go down as well with Switch 2 owners as Bananza has so far, even if it initially planned on charging $70, it might push its luck and throw an extra $10 on there.
