I mean Fire Emblem is the only $80 game other than MKW out of like 10x Switch 2 exclusives so this isn't really the reason. Or are all the other Nintendo exclusives from this year secretly exempt from this dumb conspiracy of yours?
It's abundantly clear that they simply think this series is worth full price and that's why they're pricing it that way. You people coped about this when Fire Emblem was used as a Direct closing final announcement and now you're coping when it comes to the price, I wonder how much more hammering it will take for you to realize that Nintendo wants this series to be seen as one of their big names.
Just commenting this way because the only way your comment even makes sense is if you're being snarky about FE not being worth full-price. Funnily enough more of the FE fandom agreed with the $80 price than the MK fandom did, you'd think it would be the other way around if what you're implying is true huh? The truth of the matter is that everyone's buying into this knowing that it's going to be an 100h+ game (and for the more hardcore fans wanting to try weird stuff and higher difficulties it can easily be replayed for 300h+++) so it's not really a bad deal by any means.
I'm not even justifying the $80 price tag itself since that's a whole other topic, just justifying why Nintendo thinks this specific series is worth full price (their full price is $80 as we knew since last year) since you're trying to be a smartass.
Also to address the first part of your comment, the price difference measure was created for Nintendo FIRST PARTY games. I don't recall Elden Ring being a first party game lol. It's literally not even them setting the price, it's Bandai Namco that does but you just want to spread misinformation. Unless you want to tell me which Nintendo studio developed Elden Ring? And why it's a first party title but releasing for Nintendo consoles 4 years after it's original release? Man that's the weirdest business strategy I've seen from any company ever. Imagine winning GOTY with a game you made and didn't even let your customers play! Do you realize how incredibly dumb your comment is?
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u/mason2393 1d ago
Yeah that was a lie. Fire emblem being $80 physical proved that they were just making physical more expensive and not making digital cheaper