Not so much defense, more like "uhh, yeah, things cost money, inflation exists, welcome to the real world", and I can't disagree honestly. People gotta use an inflation calculator on old games.
This meme does have real "too late, I drew you as the soy cuck and myself as the chad!" energy.
They no longer have to make and ship cartridges to distribute them. They just let you download said game. The margins are insanely large. Add in they not longer subsidize consoles and release a new one every few years... yea. also the technology isn't improving that much as we have reached a pretty big limit on screen size etc. No more big innovation to make graphics look perfect- it is just art style now and most of the games reuse what works.
They are no longer writing their own engines or coding said games in assembly.
Depending on the game, Nintendo do use in house engines. It's been decades since anyone wrote anything in assembly. You really sound like you know a little and are acting like that means you know a lot.
Nintendo most likely still write their own engines. And their games were only coded in assembly back when coding in assembly was easy. Writing 16/8bit assembly isnt some amazing ability, its just tedious. You can explain it to a university student in like 4 classes.
Sure, but they share them for all their games and output a ton of games. Writing assembly isn't easy. It is anything but - fewer tools doesn't mean the job is simpler. Things get complex quick when you are writing for specific hardware that may or may not change.
They also add far more content to games than back when they were written in assembly. The time to develop games is much higher now, and that's with larger development teams.
Licensing the engine isn't that much of a cost-saver. The budgets and the up-from investment requirements have only gotten bigger. GTA 6 will literally cost over a billion to make
Yes, they'll definitely make a profit, but the barrier to entry is MASSIVELY bigger than any other entertainment industry.
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u/Avnesya 23h ago edited 22h ago
Is there actually "people" unironically defending em at this point?
Legit asking
edit : typo