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.
Back then the market wasn't so large that's why they were more expensive, more consumers menat lower prices. Now they just want to push the boundaries and make more money, idk how people can defend large companies like Nintendo at all.
Yes. They need to AND want to. Because they’re a business. Their entire existence is to make money, not give cheap toys to people whining on the internet.
They have an obligation to their business and to grow their market and brand, lest they stagnate and decline. That’s what businesses HAVE to do to survive. They aren’t worried about NEETs and their inability to not spend $20 extra on games they can’t stop themselves from buying.
its both. they're a business so they want more revenue. Countless luxury products have massive profit margins.
Being rich doesn't obligate them to give you cheap products. Lamborghini's net worth is in the billions, that doesn't mean they own you cheap luxury vehicles. Sony is worth 150 billion. They aren't obligated to sell you cheaper anything.
Do you want to have a conversation or are you just here to troll and ignore the point?
Asking this makes you more of a troll than me. You pretending to not get the most simple and basic concepts of business and finance makes you a troll. The fact that you're getting smug that you have to pay $20 extra for a toy makes you a troll.
And your explanation is faulty. Does Nintendo need to raise its prices? Did the staff suddenly stop getting paid?
Is this you? lmao. You're delusional and don't understand global economics. It's hypocritical for gamers to get so upset about nintedo when EVERY other company is screwing you over 100x worse, but suddenly Nintendo is the evil company.
Look, you can be pissed about nintendos prices increasing, but you all need to put that much energy is complaining about other things. And no don't tell me you do, because the entirety of reddit is complaining about this issue. Go complain about your costs of eggs instead please.
I mean, I think it could be shown that $60 is unsustainable for the entire video game industry, seeing as how hundreds of employees are being laid off at many different companies.
While I don't like the prospect of paying more - a higher price would theoretically give big developers more leeway to make games without one or two flops being enough to get them shuttered entirely.
They've been so profitable the past few years, what makes you think this is unsustainable?
Higher prices don't necessarily lead to higher revenues or profit either. We'll see how sustainable this new price is if people aren't buying enough games.
You can still be profitable and pricing can be unsustainable.
And everyone said the same thing when games went to 60$. People will still buy their games, including 90% of the shitposters here. Blame the all the consumers for the price.
Because inflation exists and isn't a fictional thing like half other redditors here like to pretend it is. You need to give your employees raises to combat CoL as well.
Their profits have increased in recent years. You can't just ignore that like the other half of redditors who act like they understand the economy but actually are clueless.
Just reread what I wrote if you need the answer. Your inability to grasp basic economics and business finances isn't my issue.
Businesses that aren't growing are at a higher risk of failing. Their job is to keep their company growing to the benefit of their employees and stockholders.
Saying because a company is profitable means they don't need to increase prices is genuinely a stupid response.
Whatever you gotta tell yourself to deflect from the fact that your greed is making you upset that you gotta spend 20 extra dollars for a game on release.
But my point is that I think this could backfire on Nintendo.
Regardless, between me and Nintendo, who is more "greedy" for wanting to have an extra $20? Like I'm doing fine financially, but Nintendo's finances dwarf mine obviously.
Not that I'm actually expecting a serious response from you, though. As we've established you're the loser from the meme. Imagine saying I'm deflecting when you can't answer simple questions.
Tell me how 60$ isn't sustainable.
They would probably still make a shit load of profit.
These price increases are just ridiculous.
If you just account for inflation, the games would cost around 75$ for physical games but wages don't grow with inflation so Nintendo will make even larger profits since they probably pay a shit wage to their workers so their development cost won't be that much higher than a few years ago.
Easy. Companies saw the cost of everything increase, so they increase the price of the product.
You’re just insisting prices shouldn’t change and that video games should be the exception from every other industry. Inflation isn’t a 1 to 1 math equation. Games are more expensive than ever to make, and the teams making them are more massive than ever. Games are also more global than ever, and the cost of marketing, advertising and distributing to more countries costs more. All This one top of the growth of games sale slowing.
I get you’re annoyed that things cost more. But you’re wrong that it shouldn’t be happening. It is what it is. It’s a part of life and how the luxury products industry works. There isn’t some great evil being committed here.
Honestly, people just expect things to stay the same price forever?
And its funny, because most of these people in 2 months will buy the Switch 2 anyway. I mean look at PS5, they raised game prices, people complained, and then guess what? People bought them anyway
it's less defending the company and moreso expressing general annoyance at gamers who throw a fit everytime nintendo does a totally expected fuck up.
like there are people genuinely surprised that a console in 2025 is 450 bucks, and i'm not allowed to point fingers at them? nintendo fans are notorious for setting themselves up with horrid expectations and being upset when they're ultimately not met.
Is "keeping up with inflation" even a fuckup? I all but guarantee the crybaby internet dwellers will not show up at all on Nintendo's earnings report when Switch 2 releases. It'll still be scalped to shit and sold out for months. The only fuckup here is people being delusional enough to think stuff can stay the same price forever and winding themselves up into a tantrum every time it doesn't.
I don't even particularly care about Nintendo, before someone calls me a fanboy... I bought a Switch years after release and I've played it for like 100 hours total since I did... And half that was spent on CTR which isn't even a Nintendo game.
idk how people can defend large companies like Nintendo at all
Because companies are held to no moral standard. "Companies exist to make money by any means possible" is the legitimate view of a massive chunk of the population (which also tends to go along with wealthy = good). So when a company they like does something that is obviously just profit seeking without any actual benefit to the consumer or workers, they will still defend it because that is what companies should do.
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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