“What you see right there is variable pricing,” Bowser told The Washington Post. “We’ll look at each game, really look at the development that’s gone into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, if you will, the durability over time and the repeatability of gameplay experiences.
AKA corporate greed.
Billions in revenue is matched by billions in expenses.
Revenue /= profit
Revenues going up doesn’t really provide any evidence for your point
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2001/011121e.pdf
2001, 664 million in profit, adjusted for inflation in 2022 dollars, 1 billion.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/84668/nintendo-made-6-billion-net-sales-1-7-profits-in-q322/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.
Holy cherry-picking, Batman!
Yes, the video game industry is doing well because Nintendo’s Q3 ‘22 report is better than their ‘01 report. /s
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.
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I pointed to the multiple failed companies and you point to one company as a counter-example. You insult me, but you haven’t seemed to read my points.
Wild that Nintendo hasn’t diversified at all in 20 years to offer new products - oh wait…
You’ve done no such thing. You’ve been sitting here licking corpo boot. No sources or valid points just flippant dismissals, anecdotal musings, and bitching that no one is paying attention to what you are saying. You are way off base in this back and forth with them.
Ah, now you’re just trolling. Accusing me of not having sources when nobody else has any valid sources
In case you can’t google, here ya go:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_disestablished_in_2023 (Click through each year and observe all the companies in financial ruin)
https://kotaku.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-call-duty-gta-vi-halo-1850391113
https://www.polygon.com/24177290/video-game-industry-layoffs-studio-closures-record
https://www.wired.com/story/2024-was-the-year-the-bottom-fell-out-of-the-games-industry/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediapost.com/uploads/BAIN-report_gaming-report-2024.pdf