@Michiel1989
1994 to 2013 wasn't 20 years and why are you ignoring the fact that consoles were more powerful than PCs with more memory until just before PS3 launched where PCs had options for way more memory, but were still significantly weaker on the computational front? Hm... I can only imagine why you are ignoring those facts.
Today, PCs are much more powerful than consoles on paper with dozens to hundreds of GB of RAM available to each machine where high-en...
Piracy only lasts as long as stuff exists to pirate. Marinate on that for a while.
Piracy is never the answer for new content and if you do pirate, you wanted the software to begin with [Edit: by pirating you also help to lessen chances of future game software you like coming into existence, especially content made by small publishers, but only sold on any service or device you'd rather not buy, piracy is just often bad and wrong. Almost all of us do it anyway, but people should be smart about what they steal - that's what piracy is in the end no matter how anyone t...
There's are strong arguments for increasing ticket prices at theaters around the world, especially in the West, mostly caused by rising minimum wages. As for movies they cost more than $40 sometimes. There seems to really be no standardized movie pricing though, I'll give you that.
"By that logic, Take Two can charge $200 for GTA 6..."
And we can do a fullstop right there and say that logic holds. Take Two can charge whatever they want for what they made.
I also agree with you that it doesn't mean they will make their money back. If the barrier to entry is too high people won't care and they will also be more critical of their purchase. It's why many are disgruntled about expensive AAA games today. They cost more than they have in...
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You can get your arse off the couch and buy the game at a store, new for less than you would pay on the PS Store. Additionally, I'm sure that every 1st party game was already discounted more than once on the PS Store. I pre-ordered MSM:MM/2 and R&C as well as HFW, but I didn't pick up GT7 day one due to always online requirements. I did eventually cave-in and buy GT7, but only at $30 or so off about 6 months after launch... on the PS Store. So, ...
If players would buy $500 for games, Nintendo would already be trying to charge them $599. Nintendo knows this is a risk. I hope gamers don't cave on this, if they do this will become normal and that includes prices for PC games at launch, which have always followed the pricing schemes of major console publishers. It's why PC games cost $70 now at launch, too.
That isn't how metrics work. If only one game does well and that one game was one which sold bundled with the system for a nominal discount. No one outside of Nintendo and the press will be able to take those metrics seriously in a business sense. I really do mean no one. If ANYONE uses MKW as strong evidence that $80 games are acceptable I recommend you investigate their intentions and connections with Nintendo.
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I only agree that Nintendo has a right to charge whatever they wish for their games but actually even hinting at the notion that Nintendo's exclusives are actually worth $80 in any way is utterly ridiculous.
The PS5 version of Ghost of Tsushima is the "director's cut" for $70 which includes the PS5 upgrades and Iki Island DLC. The PS5 upgrade from PS4 which again includes DLC if you didn't already purchase the DLC separately is $20 and thusly makes the PS4 version of Ghost of Tsushima which originally retailed for and RRP of $60, $80 in total after upgrading to the PS5.
The PS4 to PS5 upgrade cost is total $80 if you aren't an idiot. Though, I'll outline the idi...
PS5 launched November 2020. It is April 2025. 1 month plus 4 months is 5 months. 5 months plus 4 years is still less than 4.5 years and animated backgrounds were added months ago already with the Welcome Hub's full release on PS5.
So, it took a little over 4 years.
Should have done a back-up and you wouldn't have lost them. Reading the terms of service says that PS is under no obligation to host content on PSN forever. So, back-up is the smart option as PSN will respect your licenses, basically indefinitely.
Oh, yeah, it's like every single videogame on the planet only starts selling after it is discounted months after release, which totally explains the millions that can be made in the first days that the game is launched at full price! 🤪
I don't doubt that Nintendo will be forced to swallow their pride again.
@Master-Tonberry
I won't argue against the possibility og additional costs incurred for the American audience on top of Nintendo's own ludicrous pricing due to tariffs, but the very mention of that is a backhanded admission that Trump's tariffs have nothing at all to do with Nintendo's original Switch 2 pricing.
@Xx_Pistol_xX
Why? Seriously, Team Asobi is comprised of mostly the same people still located in Japan and they've already made a hit that is almost universally well received and probably their biggest international seller since Ape Escape. I can't really think of any Japan Studio games with greater comercial success than Ape Escape, Patapon, and Parrapa The Rapper. I loved a lot of their games I can't think of anything they made that I own that was mediocre or bad in des...
Switch 2 would need to be thicker to accommodate any M.2 drive without thermal limitations. The system is 0.55" thick and the smallest M.2 drives are 0.11" thick while the MicroSD/XC and MicroSD/XC Express card is 0.04" thick. Remember that these new cards probably run hot like any fast NVMe drive despite 800MBps being slow for any NVMe drive this might still require additional cooling which the HW would need to accommodate in a generic way. Well, how would Nintendo ensure that...
When Phil Spemcer says "good morning" you just know the apocalypse for Xbox is on the horizon.
Indeed. This is one of those times whers it's patently obvious that Nvidia isn't being truthful with Switch 2's capabilities, either. 10x more compute power. In what way, rasterization, throughput, shading, fill-rate, overall compute? In what way is Switch 2's APU 10 more powerful than Switch 1? Where did all the performance even go because we’re obviously not seeing it in what's been showcased so far.
We still have a lack of real transparency in Donkey ...
Its working for Cloud Imperium Games.