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Nintendo boss Doug Bowser explains the $80 price for ‘Mario Kart World’ - The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250407134209/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2025/04/07/mario-kart-world-price-nintendo-doug-bowser/

“What you see right there is variable pricing,” Bowser told The Washington Post. “We’ll look at each game, really look at the development that’s gone into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, if you will, the durability over time and the repeatability of gameplay experiences.

AKA corporate greed.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 80 points 4 days ago

"You see, the reason that we are selling games for $80 dollars is because we can. Fuck you." -Doug Bowser

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nintendo Boss Doug Bowser

Is this a joke?

[–] CHKMRK@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago

Wait till you hear that his biggest enemy is Gary Bowser

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 43 points 4 days ago

I honestly came here for this. You can't make this shit up. He's literally the villain.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 26 points 4 days ago

No, he's real

[–] unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

[–] johnnyb@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TIL Nintendos bosses Name is Bowser, lol

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And he sucks. RIP Iwata

[–] simple@lemm.ee 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He's president of Nintendo of America, so he took Reggie's place, not Iwata

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 days ago

Iwata would have pushed for someone more creative and fun than an EA business snake. Nintendo's ingenuity fell off a cliff after he died

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I pirate N*****o games just to spite them and I don't even play the games

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Set up a torrent to /dev/null/ so the torrent is forever being fed into a state of nothing, they'll loose 100 gajillion dollars by the end of the month.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Make sure you use a VPN! The only time I ever got a letter from my ISP to stop pirating was when I torrented a ROM of a Nintendo game.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

I live in a 3rd world country so my ISP don't really care

[–] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What country were you living in if I may ask?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You don't need a VPN if you use a Debrid service for torrents instead of a torrent client. It's cheaper than a VPN and you get direct downloads at consistent Gigabit speeds too.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not really cheaper, and I can use my VPN for other things. Torguard with promotional price is $30/year. I got a dedicated IP so I can open ports with it. Used them for almost 7 years, upload about 1TB/day

Nzb and newshosting gets me gig speeds too

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Breaking news: company wants money. What they'll do for money will totally shock you! They sold products in exchange for money! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 No way!

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

I'm going to pass on that "product" Bowser.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 10 points 5 days ago

(a)greed

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