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 no longer have to make and ship cartridges to distribute them. They just let you download said game.
Yeah, how do you think they've been able to keep games at historically low (adjusted for inflation) prices for so long without raising them? They've tried every trick in the book to stretch the $60-70 price tag for as long as they could, even as inflation creeps ever onward.
Their sales numbers on their worst selling games are enough to turn many times over profit. You can say they tried every trick in the book, but it isn't true, and it isn't something they need to do with their margins. Hence, no. Video game companies have been trying to push these higher prices on the consumers, but it doesn't really match with the profit margins and salaries. This has been going on a while and yet, still high margins. Don't be fooled.
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u/Avnesya 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is there actually "people" unironically defending em at this point?
Legit asking
edit : typo