Do we know what Nintendo’s overhead is for the consoles? I’ve seen a lot of people today say the profit is ham-over-fist, but do we know the labor and materials costs for NS2?
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Not entirely sure. Depending on the specs of the device they could end up losing money on it like Xbox does with their consoles. But even then Nintendo is very very very far from not making a profit at the end of the day
Per PCMag, the Switch 1 cost about $250 per unit to produce. The NVIDIA chipset alone is estimated to cost about $150 itself, about a $100 chipset price increase, so the console pricing makes sense, even if at 1st glance it doesn’t look like much has changed. Games should be $70 but can’t winem all
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I don't think the price of games has to be set at anything. People will pay for what they think is worth it. We've seen this hundreds of times with cheaper games over the years, HK, terraria, omori, etc. People will happily pay a price for something they find quality.
Nintendo makes a lot of games really difficult to make $60 worth, let alone $80. Scarlet and Violet as an example is NOT an $80 game, or even a $60 game. I would agree that the Zelda games are worth $60 and would pay that price for them, but the quality of Zelda isn't found is very many switch games
S/V is not an in-house Nintendo game, GF and TPC run that clown show and I’d argue Nintendo often spaces itself from Pokemon. Zelda at $70. Mario Kart is absolutely a marquee title that is probably the 3rd most effort game Nintendo makes behind Mario and Zelda. Good reason it’s more than DK
You kinda seem to be ignoring my point for some reason entirely and just deflecting. Nintendo has more than enough money to make better quality games, make MORE of them, and charge LESS for them without making any sort of dent to their giant pile of money.
Comparing indie devs to AAA devs is apples to oranges. The production costs are typically much lower for indie devs due to several factors, including less staff, fewer physical copies produced, and having less of a a track record in general, being less proven means lower prices in general.
I get your points here, but the production cost argument doesn't really make a lot of sense when Nintendo has so much income to spend the cost to make a new game is literally meaningless when you see their pile of cash
For clarification, the Switch 2 chipset is estimated to be $150. Im sure game prices are elevated for both futureproofing and fear about market instability. While $80 seems expensive now, I’m willing to bet GTA 6 launches at $100 base.
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I don't think the price of games has to be set at anything. People will pay for what they think is worth it. We've seen this hundreds of times with cheaper games over the years, HK, terraria, omori, etc. People will happily pay a price for something they find quality.