inclementimmigrant

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inclementimmigrant,

From another article:

Reporting from Bloomberg indicated that Nintendo had apparently anticipated an amount of tariff-related chaos. In February, Nintendo had been building “a stockpile of millions of consoles” from Vietnam, where two-thirds of assembled consoles are now being earmarked for shipments to the US. Any Nintendo consoles assembled in China, meanwhile, would face an import tariff that—at time of writing—has risen to 245%.

Seems like they’re using the tried and true method to avoid the tariffs but I do wonder how long this will actually last then.

inclementimmigrant, (edited )

If you watch the video, it sure does seem to be what this potential scam is banking on you noticing.

inclementimmigrant,

Instant claim

inclementimmigrant,

Yeah, just prepare for 100 dollar games across the board WITH all of the shitty monetization at this point, gamers are going to buy their circus, consequences be damned.

inclementimmigrant,

Your friendly reminder that gaming back in 1998 was still not selling millions of copies as compared to now and revenue has for gaming has been rising significantly since.

visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues…

inclementimmigrant,

Yup. Gamers, PC, console, mobile, all want their circus to escape reality, regardless of the cost short or long term.

I mean I keep hoping that gamers would have an epiphany and push back on these anti-consumer practices but I’ve seen nothing in the past twenty years, only desperate games defending being gouged.

inclementimmigrant,

Yeah, you can really see the AAA cooperate enshitification taking hold.

inclementimmigrant,

What? KCD2 60 USD for the base game on release for PC and 70 USD for consoles (console tax).

steamdb.info/app/1771300/

If you paid 90 bucks for the base game, you definitely did it wrong.

inclementimmigrant, (edited )

Man, Nintendo in hiring the ex P&G/EA executive to run things has really had Nintendo embrace the EA enshitification roadmap and culture.

inclementimmigrant,

Okay.

Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version (www.gamesradar.com)

Full title: Ubisoft says you “cannot complain” it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren’t “deceived” by the lack of an offline version “to access a decade-old, discontinued video game”...

inclementimmigrant,

Oooooooooh, fuck you Ubisoft.

inclementimmigrant,

I think it very tone deaf with regards to how their trying to up the prices of games, which I think is BS, and increasing the price of accessories, and locking things behind subscriptions.

Very much so a Blizzard, “don’t you have phones?” Type of situation.

Should we boycott games with loot boxes?

I have been avoiding multiplayer Valve games like Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2, due to their in-game economies that have created an underage gambling gray market, which Valve has done little about. However, I am on Linux, and the choices for multiplayer shooters are few. Besides, my small boycott is not stopping...

inclementimmigrant,

Yes but loot boxes is gambling and is an addiction and gaming companies know this and exploit this.

inclementimmigrant, (edited )

visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues…

Console are making 30 billion a year nowadays and studios are selling so many more copies of games than than thirty years ago and making money hand over fist with scummy microtransactions and fomo tactics.

And while AAA development costs have gone up, but again billions in profits, you’re actually going to defend that a cart racing game’s development is on par with Baldur’s Gate 3 that still sold for 60 bucks or monster Hunter wild for the new average of 70 bucks?

Please, here’s my variable rate call of bullshit. This is nothing more than Nintendo being greedy jackasses that know Nintendo fans will pay the extra 10 bucks more and allowing themselves to being gouged along with giving the other greedy publishes permission to do the same and exploit their fans, not that most aren’t doing so already, looking at you Rockstar.

As for your, look at all these studios going under, that’s not due to prices of games being too low, that’s a lot to do with over expansion due to COVID 19, AAA publishes continuing to chase the trend of live services and making dumbass moves, and back to publishers again, over playing their hands with acquisition after acquisition or just publishers being absolute jackasses, like Microsoft and Tango Studios where they praised Hi-Fi Rush being a breakout hit and then closed the studio because it didn’t make all the money and they did no marketing and released it on game pass.

Yeah, feel free to think Nintendo just doing gamers a solid here but I’m not variable rate dumb enough to buy it.

inclementimmigrant, (edited )

www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2001/011121e.pdf

2001, 664 million in profit, adjusted for inflation in 2022 dollars, 1 billion.

www.tweaktown.com/news/84668/…/index.html

2022, 1.7 billion dollars in profit.

Won’t someone think of poor Nintendo and their billions of expenses making them just so, so poor!

Won’t someone think of the corporations!

But feel free to post your citations supporting your argument if you can take a moment to stop your corporate bootlicking.

inclementimmigrant, (edited )

Okay Billy Madison, you’re the one that brought up games were 50 dollars twenty years ago and saying profits aren’t keeping up with development costs in today’s market, but not exactly shocked you didn’t seem to make that connection here.

I mearly pointing out that Nintendo made a billion dollars, adjusted for inflation, twenty years ago at 50 dollars and they’ve made 1.7 billion dollars in 2022 when games were at 60-70 dollar range.

Sure seems like their doing just fine with profits vs increased development costs here, no justification for their variable pricing, extra 10 bucks on top, bullshit outside of corporate greed.

Again, go ahead and provide your facts to justify your position if you can stop your corporate bootlicking for just a moment.

Think I’m done playing chess with a pigeon for tonight.

inclementimmigrant,

I’m sure they’re getting a ton of cash from Nintendo.

I’ll stick to the steam deck and recommend it to anyone who asks.

inclementimmigrant,

Sure sounds like “were being greedy assholes.” in corporate speak.

inclementimmigrant,

They’ve been bumped up by ten dollars for the switch 2 vs 1 so there’s that.

Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout (www.tweaktown.com)

TL;DR: Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser discussed with Wired the impact of new tariffs on the Nintendo Switch 2, which may increase its price from $449 to $600. The tariffs affect manufacturing in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. Nintendo is assessing the situation, having already moved some production out of China.

inclementimmigrant,

So something that I wonder about with the MSRP is how much of that is a Nvidia tax that inflated the price? The Nvidia GPU market has been so absolutely screwed by Nvidia’s lack of competition pricing model.

inclementimmigrant,

Made the jump already since I built a new computer and there were lots of missing windows 10 drivers for the new hardware and there was no way in hell I was going to main on windows 11.

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