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Mario Kart World Pricing Controversy

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Cordova, TN; July 7, in the year of our Lord 2025 -- Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family friendly video games is continuing to be the voice of diversity in the gaming media, and media at large. Have you heard about the pricing controversy surrounding Mario Kart World? The game is selling brand new for eighty dollars. That is a lot more than most Nintendo Switch titles. It is also more than the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 video games. Is Mario Kart World that much better? Does Mario Kart World contain so much more content than other games currently being releases?

Bill Trinen, the Vice President of Product and Player Experience said in an interview with IGN “I would say it's less about the strategy of pricing Mario Kart World, it's more just whenever we look at a given game, we just look at what is the experience, and what's the content, and what's the value?” I have been playing Mario Kart World and plan a review (which may appear before this article goes online). I can tell you that I do not feel that Mario Kart World is worth eighty dollars. It would be worth fifty to sixty dollars. Remember that Nintendo has billions in the bank. Did they get that by cutting their fans a break? Or did Nintendo get that money from fleecing their fanboys and fangirls?

My biggest problem with Mario Kart World selling for $80 is the pack in nature of the game with the system. If you buy a Nintendo Switch 2 for $450 dollars you get no game with it. If you buy the bundle of the Nintendo Switch and Mario Kart World you pay $500. So the only difference is Mario Kart World is included in one and not in another. If you buy the bundle then you only pay $50 for the game. That tells me that Mario Kart World is only worth $50. Yet if you buy it separately then you must pay $30 more. How does that work Nintendo? The experience of Mario Kart World is worth thirty dollars less in a bundle package?

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.

God bless,
Paul Bury
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