r/memes • u/Yolo065 • 1d ago

Leave them alone🤬🤬🤬

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u/Itkillsmeinside 1d ago edited 1d ago

The hardware margins are insanely large, but how can you calculate the software costs? Software engineers aint cheap. I’m not defending I’m just understanding that its not free to sell video games. I’m not buying an 80$ game.

80$ likely pays for around an hour of one engineers time, if that

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u/Loud_Interview4681 1d ago

When you sell a million copies and rent the development platform vs build it from the ground up as most games do now a days?

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u/Naive-Significance48 1d ago

Could you clarify renting development??

I'm pretty certain the guy you are talking to is just referring to paying your employees.

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u/Mist3rbl0nd3 1d ago

Probably outsourcing the coding.