We found him.
We found the guy in the picture.
Tell me guy in the picture, how exactly does a digital game with quarter baked features we had in 2017 sudden justify a price increase?
Are you under the impression that because I criticize a companies greedy decision now I am unable to criticize the ones made in the past as well? Nintendo has been consistently making awful consumer harming decisions for decades.
All companies will do horrible things for money. Nintendo isn’t unique in that regard.
The only companies that don’t are ones that think their good reputation is a way to get even more money. You think Costco hot dogs are that price from the goodness of their heart?
If Sony could get away with as many anti-consumer practices as Nintendo, or charge as much for video games, they would. That’s how free market capitalism works.
So your stance to me escentially saying "this is shit" is "everything's shit just not quite as much as this particular shit so get used to it! Freemarket hoorah!"
Mate. It's shit even by shit standards.
"If Sony could get away with as many anti-consumer practices as Nintendo, or charge as much for video games, they would."
I am aware. And if they did I would be right here saying their shit too. (and they are shit for their own reasons no doubt)
I will criticize wrong when I see it no matter the source and no matter how many people push their glasses up saying" um achually u don't understand economics and why this is really a good thing 🤓"
It is tho. Nintendo don't have to stay competitive to maintain their market and consumer base. They could literally release $60 games and they'd be fine. This is explicitly just to make more money. Game development has explicitly gotten cheaper for a company like Nintendo who don't care about cutting edge graphics or detailed engines for stuff like physics. Its just greed.
Reddit isn't the place to find a nuanced discussion about inflation, sustainability and market forces. Price go up just means greedy corpos trying to steal our hard earned money, obviously.
1.5 billion? Wow, that's a lot of money. Tell me, what's their operating cost? How much do they need to make a month to keep everything rolling? How much does it cost them to design and program a new game? What's their overhead? Server costs? Legal costs? Regulatory costs? HR costs? What's their projections look like?
If you knew anything about the gaming industry beyond "Ooh look, fun game", then you would have known this has been a long time coming. Maybe try using your brain instead of calling everyone else who does a dork.
Well, in that case, Nintendo should just pack it up. Jmichealstark said the price increase is unnecessary, and we all know how much Jmichealstark knows about business and economics.
Growth, reinvestment, R&D, legal retainers, etc. It's also likely bracing to weather a coming storm, and have paid a lot of analysts a lot of money to determine the right balance between increasing necessary profitability and the net loss to profitability from pricing out some consumers.
It sucks if you're one of those that get priced out for a time, but Nintendo doesn't owe you affordable entertainment.
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