The gaming industry alone, in terms of gross revenue is bigger than the rest of digital entertainment industry combined (including all the movies and streaming services of the world), donāt worry, they will never stop making games.
What happened to the days when bad price/concept game have bad sales, so they actually think twice before deciding on what to make (actually thinking about what their customers want)
In all fairness SOMEONE does need to buy the games if you want them to make more games. Unless you think multi-billion dollar companies can/will keep spending millions for nothing.
In all fairness SOMEONE does need to buy the games if you want them to make more games.
In fairness the multi-billion dollar company need to chase money and sales. They often release some real stinkers that have fans asking why millions more people didn't pick up a copy at full price and not enjoy themselves.
Hell they won't even let me play most of their old games. I've never understood why they don't have the entire NES/SNES library on their virtual console.
I mean, youāre literally describing the concept of profit incentive in capitalism, aka voting with your wallet. If Zelda didnāt make Nintendo an assload of money, they wouldnāt make Zelda games. You think they do this shit for the love of gamers?
Specs for the Switch 2 seem to be somewhere between the PS4 Pro and PS5, rather than between the PS3 and PS4.
Folks that think piracy will be the answer show a shocking lack of understanding of how emulation works. Like, literally āthe Switch is easy to emulate therefore the Switch 2 will be easy to emulate, after all, all they did was add a 2ā level of understanding.
Have you ever seen what the average savings a person in those days were?
Have you ever looked into what the average amount of disposable income people had back then was?
Wages have not kept up with cost of living increases and inflation.
The games market is exponentially bigger and more profitable now, the cost of media is much lower, you don't get a big colorful box, you don't get a manual, they didn't have DLC back then, they didn't endlessly rereleasse/remaster the same games over and over again, they couldn't charge for online back then, they couldn't charge for voice chat, Nintendo didn't have massive store chains and themeparks back then, they didn't have movies making them into the billions and the list goes on and on. Why have accessories gotten so expensive? Why is a very average Switch 2 pro controller 80, when it can't hold a candle to a ps5 controller, my favorite controller in history and I don't even own a PS5.
Have you ever seen what the average savings a person in those days were?
No idea how old you are, but things weren't smooth sailing for everyone. Also, $80 at that time is now $200+ and the minimum wage was like $3.50. In my opinion, having a console at that time was a luxury.
I get that inflation has gotten bad, but pretending $80 wasn't a lot for a game as absolutely insane. And thinking Nintendo would be the "good guys" is also insane.
I feel like they would have mentioned if there was RT in the games, but I could be wrong. It most definitely has Tensor cores though for DLSS.
At least some modern games though (namely just Indiana Jones for now) REQUIRE hardware-accelerated RT capabilities to run. So perhaps you're right and they actually future-proofed this thing to some degree.
Now it's clear that switch 2 is not going to be as easy to emulate
Switch was rushed console due to failure of the Wii U and that's why it is underpowered even for it's time, now nindento got 8yrs to develop switch 2 with all the things they learned from switch
I was asking if you were being sarcastic, not if you were being serious about the prices. /s at the end of a comment means the comment is being sarcastic.
The common joke is that corporate shills will use the fact that games used to cost the equivalent of about $100(give or take) to say it's alright for a brand to raise the price of a game to an uncomfortably high price for current day.
Oh, well then itās good that itās priced at about 55% of the cost of an NES game was 40 years ago.
Iām trying to imagine what a moron you have to be to use a thought terminating cliche like ācorporate shill,ā to negate arguments that counter your really bad point. You have to be such a toddler to just paint strangers are your thought enemy because your argument doesnāt hold water. You would have been an amazing Nazi accountant.
Wow, that escalated quickly.... You seem like you're a really smart and well adjusted person, just judging by how fast you pulled the Nazi type cards after getting into a minor argument on the internet.
Sorry, did your bullshit argument go off the rails immediately because nominal price increase is EXACTLY how youād determine if this game is overpriced. Itās not, but you canāt handle simple reality.
Writing is in the wall at this point, physical media will be less popular than ever and will die or become a collector's novelty soon enough. Its basically already happened, many switch games have very important updates that make their servers necessary regardless.
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u/Sprite_Bottle 1d ago
$80? I thought you said 2 whole internet doubloons š“āā ļø