“AI-generated images were not used in the development of Mario Kart World,” a Nintendo spokesperson said.
Journalists using all of their power to stretch a few words into a full-length article to hit their quota
Am I the only one reading this as having wiggle room? While not used in development, that doesn’t rule out marketing and other business. It sounds like the actual problem was with marketing materials.
That’s extremely specific to “AI-generated images” and “in development”
This is basically a non-statement.
I mean good for Nintendo. This doesn’t change their bad pr for the price increases though.
Edit: not really sure about the down votes. No matter your opinion, objectively some people didn’t like the price changes, so it is bad pr for them.
I still don’t get the game price hate. There’s plenty of other things to hate on Nintendo for, but do an inflation check on $60 between 2010 and now and it’s $88. It’s way past time for prices to go up and they’re still much cheaper than they used to be in the 80’s and 90’s.
Do I like that it finally followed the market and increased? No. But PS5 and XBox games have been expensive new for quite a while. Indie games are able to fill in the market space below and that’s where my money goes anyway. This will just continue that trend.
Not to mention the used market will continue thanks to physical copies that are slowly being dropped from other platforms.
do an inflation check on $60 between 2010 and now and it’s $88. It’s way past time for prices to go up and they’re still much cheaper than they used to be in the 80’s and 90’s.
I’m generally on board with this quote, but the markets has scaled massively, and the development costs less heavily. So even with keeping their prices at 60 bucks, they’re still making way more profits than before.
I regularly see people angry at a game’s price, whatever the price. Even when it’s like a 20-30 bucks indie game. Often with absurdly specific game size/hours to $ ratios, that they use against other games of varying similarities.
Games are not a staple food. There’s nothing wrong thinking, “that’s not worth that much to me, I’m not buying it”. There is something frankly ridiculous in the more and more frequent “that’s not worth that much, company owes me that specific game at a lower price”.
It’s not like we’re lacking options, either.
