Current Events > Nintendo is charging $55 for Smash Ultimate DLC? Am I reading that price right?

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Characters were 5, 6 bucks each. Some they gotta pay licensing fees. I dont see it as a ripoff. Like others said this is years worth of new characters that the developers worked on.

https://smashbros.nintendo.com/buy/dlc/

I'm not new to DLC, only to Nintendo/Switch type DLC since the Wii didn't have it nor did I have to pay for online.

With Sony and ps3/ps4 at least they constantly had sales where entire game collections dropped to like $20 with all DLC included.

But it's one thing to charge that price for an actual game like mario or zelda, but for... just a bunch of playable characters and 1 or 2 new stages they're charging the price of an entire game? The fuck? Am I missing something the product description isn't saying? This goes beyond just "the Nintendo tax"

https://smashbros.nintendo.com/buy/dlc/

I'm not new to DLC, only to Nintendo/Switch type DLC since the Wii didn't have it nor did I have to pay for online.

With Sony and ps3/ps4 at least they constantly had sales where entire game collections dropped to like $20 with all DLC included.

But it's one thing to charge that price for an actual game like mario or zelda, but for... just a bunch of playable characters and 1 or 2 new stages they're charging the price of an entire game? The fuck? Am I missing something the product description isn't saying? This goes beyond just "the Nintendo tax"

Every character gets a stage I think. Plus over a hundred tracks, I think one dlc character came with like damn near 70 songs.

Some companies charge more money for much less DLC content. Isn't that right Koei Tecmo?

Terry came with 50 tracks, yes.

Sakurai mentioned how they sent SNK an entire list, expecting them to trim it down, and SNK just said "OKAY" to the whole thing. Can't find the clip of it though.

Every character gets a stage I think. Plus over a hundred tracks, I think one dlc character came with like damn near 70 songs.

It's wild how normal it is to pay $70 for a game and then $5-6 extra for each new character.

It is quite crazy that a few extra characters cost as much as a full game. Gamers are suckers when it comes to throwing money at companies.

The fact that the majority of posts ITT are literally going "This is fine" left me utterly bewildered for a while before making me realize just how much the landscape of video gaming has changed and how normalized microtransactions have been and later on GaaS will be. Gamers are never going to "speak with their wallet" are they

It is quite crazy that a few extra characters cost as much as a full game. Gamers are suckers when it comes to throwing money at companies.

If you want to ignore all the work put into characters, stages, music, etc then by all means continue to be disingenuous

The amount of work for 10 or so characters is not the same as 70+ a whole new game.

people really go through a lot of hoops to justify the price of dlc

you can just say "because people will buy overpriced dlc". you don't need to say anything else

Id more argue most people try harder to devalue a lot of things by claiming something is overpriced without any ability to say WAY something is overpriced.

Okay, but like, the alternative is you buy the game and then.. thats it. No new characters, thats it until the next one is out

I feel like smash in particular is doing dlc right

Surely DLC should be valued against the base product it is DLC for.

The Nintendo ones should have been in the main game.

How many characters were in the base game? Literally every character from the previous games, right?

I think like 72

Doesn't Dead or Alive charge something like $2 a piece, just for skimpy costumes? I mean, it's on brand, but still.

How so?

How many characters were in the base game? Literally every character from the previous games, right?

its a bit much, but still not as bad as Guitar Hero/Rock Band. 1 dollar per song, about 3,000 songs in dlc, and as far as I know they don't bundle any of them up.

It's a pretty good deal for a DLC bundle. The issue that I think a lot of people have is that Nintendo games rarely go on sale and if they do the sales are normally trash. Most other fighters would release a "complete edition" at a much discounted price later in its life span. For Smash you still have to buy the base game (most of the time at full price) and then you have to buy the DLC as a separate bundle. It's more of a Nintendo corporate problem than the devs really.

It's a couple years worth of big DLC packages all together, plus a bunch of $2 little skins, songs, and shit, like that. Most people only buy one or two of those little things for characters they personally really care about.

It's still ridiculous that they don't discount it like steam games do when they have multiple DLCs and are done supporting the game, but that's why it's like that.

The Nintendo ones should have been in the main game.

It is quite crazy that a few extra characters cost as much as a full game. Gamers are suckers when it comes to throwing money at companies.

With Sony and ps3/ps4 at least they constantly had sales where entire game collections dropped to like $20 with all DLC included.

Sakurai already said why Min Min and Pyra/Mythra (or rather, Fighters from ARMS and Xenoblade 2) weren't in the base game; their games came out too late to make the base game roster. The Smash roster is decided upon at the start of development, and it is very rare that new characters are added after the fact (with the exceptions being last-minute clones, and Sonic in Brawl which caused Brawl to be delayed).

And Byleth's game wasn't even out when Ultimate launched.

I think they typically only do sales when the next game in a series is coming out. The DLC for BOTW was on sale in February.