I do not think it is a great thing to perceive nintendo, the global mega huge company, as like a innocent human character. it doesnt matter "but the purpose was different" "but it didnt know" "but its concerned about other things it just executed badly" "but ig they are not deliberately malicious" - ThreadSky

misokatsuhaumai.bsky.social • 12 days ago

I do not think it is a great thing to perceive nintendo, the global mega huge company, as like a innocent human character. it doesnt matter "but the purpose was different" "but it didnt know" "but its concerned about other things it just executed badly" "but ig they are not deliberately malicious"

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goose462.bsky.social•12 days ago

I agree but it’s also not 100% it’s fault, like yeah some of these decisions are scummy but the global economy is in a bad place rn so a price increase is inevitable

weedman.smokes.lol•12 days ago

Entire point is that with ir without the price increase they are still making absurd amount of money none of us can even fathom while at the same time trying to drain the consumers for ever more. Nintendo is than financially stable enough to ride this storm, but they chose to raise prices.

billthefajita.bsky.social•12 days ago

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?

weedman.smokes.lol•12 days ago

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

billthefajita.bsky.social•12 days ago

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

weedman.smokes.lol•12 days ago

1/2
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.

billthefajita.bsky.social•12 days ago

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.

wolfgaanger.bsky.social•12 days ago

It's hand over fist.

misokatsuhaumai.bsky.social•12 days ago

ofc i agree in a sense that some adjustment for weaker currencies make sense. it could be understood as more of like an equality measure (singling out jpy doesnt make 100% sense but like i get it)
+"obviously ppl live in japan only speak in japanese" undertone is the one right wingers are picking up

misokatsuhaumai.bsky.social•12 days ago

(And I know you mean trumps doing some idiotic thing. But Nintendo isn’t food or clothing or car. It’s not too replaceable like meat and stuff. so tariffs retaliatory measures feels more directly harmful to the normal gamer ppl and kids esp)

goose462.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yeah I definitely feel this will hurt sales, I feel like the prices are to the point where people who would buy it otherwise will skip out on it

misokatsuhaumai.bsky.social•12 days ago

-they didnt know better frankly wtf?? they have a team to sort out this kinda shit. to not sound racist etc. if they are this bad at their job then criticism applies still. Nintendo isnt this amateur youtuber who kinda made some bad joke but they didnt mean it etc.
-its products are targered at kids

voiddebris.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is a point a lot of people struggle with

There absolutely needs to be different standards for companies/orgs/govts than there is for individuals

"They didn't know" isn't an excuse when you have the resources to have every decision reviewed by countless people

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