Interestingly, Microsoft also recently walked back its decision to raise prices by ten bucks after facing heavy criticism from the enraged gaming community, lowering the price of Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds 2 from $80 to $70 – still $10 more than the original, but that’s beside the point – and confirming in a separate statement that they will “keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99 – in line with current market conditions.”
As such, Nintendo remains the only major AAA publisher to have increased its standard prices, but given that this is Nintendo we’re talking about – a studio with by far the most loyal audience – it’s unlikely they’ll get hit with enough backlash to reverse course.
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