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?
Not make, costs. There are other costs per employee than salary. Taxes, insurance, equipment etc. And $80 / hr is ~160k per year. Which isn't insanely high for a SE in US at least. $80 probably doesn't get close to paying for an hour of an engineer's time tbh
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u/Itkillsmeinside 1d ago edited 1d ago
The hardware margins are insanely large, but how can you calculate the software costs? Software engineers aint cheap. I’m not defending I’m just understanding that its not free to sell video games. I’m not buying an 80$ game.
80$ likely pays for around an hour of one engineers time, if that