20th May 2024, 1:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 20th May 2024, 1:35 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Just so everyone understands, Nintendo, along with MS and Sony, have record profits. So, you know, any time they claim that they simply MUST jack up video game prices or do any of these other exploitative things, or in Nintendo's specific case, they simply MUST attack their own biggest fans for making what amounts to interactive fan art or just plain tools, just keep that in mind. They don't have to. They choose to.
And apparently, according to the below video, this chart is already accounting for inflation.
I suppose if there's one thing to take from this, it's that video games aren't too cheap now, they were too expensive in the 80's and 90's! We did already kind of know this. Keep in mind that Sega did pretty well in the US during the 16 era, and they were consistently charging less for their cartridge components than Nintendo. Nintendo themselves also overcharged for their parts during the N64 era, which was a daring move when Sony was able to charge quite a bit less.
And then compare that to today, when manufacturing costs are basically nil because most people already buy digital over physical. Keep in mind that economies of scale matter for file hosting too, so that it's basically free at the scale of a company like Microsoft. They were going to have those servers up ANYWAY, see.
And apparently, according to the below video, this chart is already accounting for inflation.
I suppose if there's one thing to take from this, it's that video games aren't too cheap now, they were too expensive in the 80's and 90's! We did already kind of know this. Keep in mind that Sega did pretty well in the US during the 16 era, and they were consistently charging less for their cartridge components than Nintendo. Nintendo themselves also overcharged for their parts during the N64 era, which was a daring move when Sony was able to charge quite a bit less.
And then compare that to today, when manufacturing costs are basically nil because most people already buy digital over physical. Keep in mind that economies of scale matter for file hosting too, so that it's basically free at the scale of a company like Microsoft. They were going to have those servers up ANYWAY, see.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)