Just remember these companies made BILLIONS of dollars selling games at 60$, this isnt about keeping the lights on or having enough money to make the next game. This is about siphoning as much money from the consumer as possible
Yeah i am sure they are getting more than by every year. All of their games were 60 bucks and people still buy them like doughnuts + with their internet subscription fees and selling consoles i don't think Nintendo is gonna start begging at any pont.
All the shit about employees needing pay and inflation and tariffs doing stuff its all the most braindead excuse i can hear.
They could have been doing 60 bucks for like 10 more years without any issue but i guess can't expect any company to be humble.
They have infact seen record growth in the last 5 years so they absolutely could get away with charging 60$ and still see massive profits. Inflation is just an excuse companies use to act like prices are totally out of their hands, like they (not Nintendo specifically) arent the driving force for inflation
With a perspective like that, it's understandable why people are upset at companies like Nintendo for raising prices. But inflation is, in fact, out of their hands. They could lower the price if they wanted to, but this is just them keeping the price relatively stable.
I guess you all don't understand what it means to be a public company? They don't care about making money - the only thing that matters is making more money than they did last quarter, to increase the price of their stock. Every quarter. It's literally the only goal of public companies.
It's why they're a cancer on society. But it is how a company like Nintendo works.
Yeah that’s how things work. If you have something people want to buy, you want to sell it for as much as people are willing to pay without pushing too many people away. If you are selling your house, you would take the highest offer even if you still come out ahead with a lower offer.
Yeah, when it's about foodstuffs or healthcare, there's a case to be made regarding price gouging. But when your complaint is "these video game companies are pricing games in a way they know the market will bear, how dare they?!?", I just roll my eyes.
Im not saying it isnt, my comment was directed at the people acting like Nintendo needs to raise prices in order to stay alive. So many people online act like Nintendo isnt also a greedy company just like the rest of them
Historically companies exist as a social function to the benefit of the people and weren't oriented for profit and especially not for maximising profit.
From our modern perspective we look at the economics in history as people living in wealth inequality while it has to be viewed as social inequality.
Your place in society dictated how much "wealth" you would have and which role you could play. There were almost no options to advance yourself from the moment you were born.
This all reversed pretty suddenly in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The final touches to what would become capitalism were made. From now on increasing your wealth could increase your place and so accruing money became the objective.
Money for advertising maybe. They'll take your money, and use it to convince someone else to give them their money, and so on.
The Wii U was a flop, in part due to bad messaging, and also because tons of people had just bought a Wii. They could be looking at advertising as a way to avoid repeating past mistakes. Get enough people to know switch 2 is distinct and create FOMO among the people who already know about it and don't want to miss out on the new games.
Regardless, I'm not a fan of excessive advertising. I'd rather they use my money on producing a quality product, not paying off media to get sales from unaware people. It's like Ridge, where they sell something you can get for cheap, but charge $200 for it so they can pay off YouTubers to get more sales and pay off more YouTubers. A quality product at a good price should speak for itself.
I mean sure but if you need to spend so much money on marketing your product that it noticeably increases the cost of said product, then maybe your product just isnt good enough for the price youre asking
Marketing noticeably increases the price of any product that's had any robust marketing campaign. The main reason store brands cost like 20-50% less than name brands is because they don't have marketing costs to make up for in the price of the product
I don't think you understand how much of a gamble making games is. Not every game Nintendo produces has a market, ex arms. If games were a guaranteed money printer then why is the industry in a massive lay off slump?
Because greedy execs would rather lay people off than take a hit to their multi million dollar salary. Their gamble has paid off, over and over again thats how they managed to grow.
Unnecessarily increasing prices is more of a gamble than releasing a new mario or pokemon game would be, because those franchises are basically money printers.
Charging 80$ for arms wouldnt have made it more profitable it would have likely resulted in even less sales.
It depends on the company. I believe that Square has previously released a report that says they don't make a ton of money on their big console games thay are also really expensive to make. They make way more money from their online and mobile games. It's crazy that they release so many games half finished, because any AAA game randomly not meeting expected sales can be a potential financial disaster for the company.
Pick a company and check their stock value over the last 5 years. With the exception of Ubisoft (and they deserve to fail at this point) most major companies have seen record highs in the last few years.
People are getting laid off because execs and shareholders would rather lay off a bunch of people or shutdown an entire company rather than take a hit to their wallets
Not only does the market keep increasing companies have found additional ways to monitise games past the initial purchase. If Mario Kart world has DLC like Mario Kart 8 you’re looking at over $100 for a Mario Kart game.
If inflation was a problem then they wouldnt have seen as much growth as they have in the last 5 years. Inflation is a bullshit excuse used to raise prices so companies can rake in more money
Inflation wasn’t a problem because they raised their prices accordingly, as opposed to most workplaces who didn’t raise your wages based on inflation.
This is definitely corporate greed at play, but don’t raise up Nintendo if your job hasn’t paid you right in a few years
So you're saying Nintendo raised their salaries, saw massive growth in the company and STILL decides to raise prices on games just to squeeze out more money.
You got one thing right, this is corporate greed at work
I’m sayin that they’ve accounted for inflation in their price, and the average business has not accounted for inflation in their payrolls, so the ones closer to stealing money are the business you work for. After all, you don’t have to buy Nintendo (i don’t), but you do have to make money at the end of the day
Not trying to dick ride Nintendo, but tech and developer salaries have almost surely gone up. Maybe not enough to justify the cost increase, but these jobs aren't like your shit retail jobs that don't get raises.
I agree with the sentiment, and I’m not defending Nintendo when I challenge the quality of your attacks, but I don’t remember Nintendo being in charge of your wages, they just know how much people will pay for their games
They know how to grab every single cent of the consumer who is stupid enough to buy their games like parents who didn't know any better and Nintendo adults
It’s sad people believe this. They truly think that Nintendo is charging more to offset their expenses and not to appeal to their shareholders. You cannot have a flat earning , let alone a down one.
They are upping pricing purely to make more money. If you think otherwise you’re simply just wrong. Period.
Now, this isn’t a Nintendo issue. All the players do this. But to think Nintendo isn’t a greedy ass corporation is hilarious.
I don't think anyone is arguing that Nintendo isn't a greedy corporation, they exist to make money for their owners, but rising production costs necessitate raising prices to consumers so their owners still make "enough" money.
Haven't the increased costs of both games and hardware been a big thing online for the past couple of years? I could have sworn I read something about this "inflation" thing that was driving up costs in everything.
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u/Ok_Buffalo_423 23h ago
Just remember these companies made BILLIONS of dollars selling games at 60$, this isnt about keeping the lights on or having enough money to make the next game. This is about siphoning as much money from the consumer as possible