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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.
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