I'm convinced the power of established IP and consistency in the brand is why no one will ever expect hyper realism in Nintendo products. They've always zagged away from it and for the most part people in the media are never critical of it because Nintendo keeps leaning into their brand image and people still like consuming it
people forget that Nintendo has a weaker library of big third party games.
99% of the time the biggest shareholders are pension/retirement funds
That wouldn't work, because the competition is much higher on PlayStation. PlayStation has much more games available. Switch misses on many 3rd party games. Also the reason why people buy the consoles is different. I think most people buy Nintendo for the exclusives while most people buy Playstation for 3rd party.
Both were worth. The game was an improvement over the first,, more variety, also fidelity is higher. The results are there. It was better for shareholders? Don't know. Sony got good money from it? Sure. And will still make more profit as game will sell more. Also gamers got an excellent game. Yes. It was worth.
To add working hours are longer in the US than in Japan for quite a long time. Japan is basically a different country compare to 3 or 4 decades ago in terms of the working environment.
Average annual hours actually worked per worker
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The infinite growth argument is reductive and has become shorthand for just angrily shaking your first and grumbling 'grrr capitalism'. Growth is infinite in the same way that inflation is infinite. Many investors will be happy if your growth is higher than inflation, if you run a low risk business. The AAA games industry, with make or break big budget productions that are 5 years in development and then have to cross fingers that 1) the game is good 2) the market is good 3) timing is favorable 4) audience tastes haven't changed, is anything but low risk.
Solution is simple, AA and smaller budget titles need to return in force like in the ps2 era.
The problem is that the public has become conditioned to AAA experiences. Many people prefer to pay an extra 20 euros for an AAA that will last 50 hours than buy an AA that will last 20 hours.
Feel free to start a commune, get some arable soil and grow a video game orchard in that case because video games are a luxury entertainment product entirely the child of capitalism.
You know what the funny thing about this is?
Yup and this is the hard truth. Prices probably have to go up for AAA big budget games.
I mean you are still literally just outlining everybody's basic problem with capitalism at it's core and why we all argue that the system is flawed, but it's like you think you are presenting new information to us. Kind of incredible really.
We were making and playing games thousands of years before capitalism existed. The first video games were non-commercial toys and experiments. And the bulk of video games made today exist as non-commercial creations, given away, or sold to other game makers.
Yeah this is the obvious choice. Sigh.
There was a significant period of time that you could get a PS2 for $99 USD and that customer would go soft through bargain and used games, yes, but they still tended to pick up a few things around full price like a Madden or GTA: SA before that had a price cut. (I know because I was in retail at the time lol)
The profit margins are unacceptable for a couple reasons. One is, of course, greed, but the other is literally: you need to have savings to cushion you when one of your big games is inevitably a miss and you need margin to build that cushion. Lots of posters (myself included!) miss the old PlayStation 1st party catalog but it doesn't make sense for them to do these smaller, oh we might make a few million but we also might lose a few million games when their overall margin is so low. They have to protect the margin they have and that leads to risk-averse creative demands.
Not really, it's just what sells.
The infamous Sonic meme is so cool and cute until people actually has to play AA titles for real, this forum shows it again and again
It's borderline insufferable
Worth saying that a ton of huge games this last year had lower production values and all sorts of associated technical issues. Just cause you have dudes here that fly into a rage over that shit, doesn't mean gamers as a whole reject games like that.
