With a $69.99 Price Tag for Upcoming Legend of Zelda Title, Nintendo Finally Joins PlayStation and Xbox in the ’70-dollars’ Club!

A while ago, there was a huge controversy among the fans when PlayStation listed its first-ever $70 game on the PS store. Eventually, Microsoft too announced that Xbox games would start costing gamers a price of $70. Everyone but Nintendo moved ahead with this new pricing.

Even though fans had to comply, they were not very happy about buying their favorite games at inflated prices. Console makers, developers, and publishers voiced their reasons for the price increase, and fans were voicing their disappointment.

And now with the launch of their latest game, the one platform that remained has joined this crowd too!

Nintendo follows PlayStation and Microsoft into the ’70-dollars’ club!

Fans are immensely excited about Nintendo’s upcoming big-budget title, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This game would be launching in May for Nintendo Switch. It goes without saying that fans are going to line up to buy this action-adventure sandbox title.

They have yet to get any significant detail on this game, but recently the game dropped for pre-order on Nintendo Switch’s Eshop. What shocked fans was the fact that the game was priced at an astonishing $69.99.

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While some were surprised by this change in price, others saw it as an obvious thing. They stated they had a notion that this day was coming. Nintendo is known for almost never offering a significant discount on its games. And now, increasing the price of its flagship title would mean it would be harder to get at a discounted price.

This also means that going forward we would start seeing all of Nintendo’s first-party titles at this increased price.

Why are the prices increasing?

According to some of the Industry’s leading developers and publishers, the price increase of video games is completely justified. They say that ever since the dawn of console gaming, prices of video games have remained unchanged, yet technologies, production costs as well as other expenses have increased significantly.

Now there’s an argument to be made here. Some critics of this price increase have made it clear that even though the expenses of developing a game have increased, the fandom has seen an increase too!

Games sell significantly more copies and there are people who are always looking forward to games from certain developers. For example, The Last of Us Part 1 was a Remake of The Last of Us, developed by Naughty Dog. This game had a very popular name attached to it, and it was developed by a popular developer.

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This means this game would have earned more than enough even if it was priced at $60. On the other hand, it was basically an asset flip of the Last of Us Part 2, so it was not even a completely original game. It never did anything to justify that $70 price.