Looks like someone doesn’t understand how profit margins work. If I’m going to make the same $90 anyway and have to decide between spending more money on the product by delaying release or less money by rushing…all things being equal, that sounds like an easy choice. So a purely financial argument is obviously going to fall flat.
The sticking point is that money is not the only value in this world. All of our decisions need not be driven by profit maximizing strategies. So maybe instead of producing shoddy games at peak profit it would be better to produce excellent games at a good profit.
“I didn’t say I agree with it, I just showed how I subscribe to the very frameworks and ideas that created this problem in the first place. I don’t agree with it and it’s wrong; but they’re right.”
No. My point was that an economic argument, as posited in the meme that started this thread, misses the core issue. From an economic perspective, Nintendo is doing the right thing, as evidenced by the fact that they have been doing this forever and still haven’t gone broke. So that approach is simply inutil when critiquing corporate greed.
Side note: Nintendo is not the only games company guilty of that, only that others, without exclusive hardware as a platform, have been suffering the consumers’ wrath (e.g. EA or Ubisoft).
Looks like someone doesn’t understand how profit margins work. If I’m going to make the same $90 anyway and have to decide between spending more money on the product by delaying release or less money by rushing…all things being equal, that sounds like an easy choice. So a purely financial argument is obviously going to fall flat.
The sticking point is that money is not the only value in this world. All of our decisions need not be driven by profit maximizing strategies. So maybe instead of producing shoddy games at peak profit it would be better to produce excellent games at a good profit.
keep on cleaning shiggy’s soles with your tongue
Keep on working on that reading comprehension and learn to deal with nuance. I didn’t say I agree with selling unfinished games at a high price.
“I didn’t say I agree with it, I just showed how I subscribe to the very frameworks and ideas that created this problem in the first place. I don’t agree with it and it’s wrong; but they’re right.”
No. My point was that an economic argument, as posited in the meme that started this thread, misses the core issue. From an economic perspective, Nintendo is doing the right thing, as evidenced by the fact that they have been doing this forever and still haven’t gone broke. So that approach is simply inutil when critiquing corporate greed.
Side note: Nintendo is not the only games company guilty of that, only that others, without exclusive hardware as a platform, have been suffering the consumers’ wrath (e.g. EA or Ubisoft).