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.
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
When you compare the size of Nintendo's team of roughly 7 thousand employees to other company's that argument evaporates quite quickly. In what world does a software engineer make $80 USD an hour?
That’s about $160k a year. Not familiar with the Japanese dev market, but in the US, Entry level engineers are generally pulling in $100k($50 an hour).
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u/Avnesya 3d ago edited 3d ago
Is there actually "people" unironically defending em at this point?
Legit asking
edit : typo