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
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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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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
(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)
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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.
+"obviously ppl live in japan only speak in japanese" undertone is the one right wingers are picking up