I imagine Nintendo gets a slice of humble pie and lowers the price, since they have enough room to do so and still remain profitable, given that they always sell their console at a profit, unlike Sony or Microsoft, and have deep coffers to weather the storm.
it also makes PlayStations (and Xboxs as well) main appeal away, given the fact that Consoles were cheaper than PCs, because Sony ports everything to PC now you might as well just get a PC since you can do other shit on it and have a bigger library, if they sell it at an $700-$800 mark-up they are shooting themselves in the foot, for slightly more you could get a mid-range Gaming PC that performs just as well as a console would
Agreed.
I remember being mocked for using the term "gay agenda" unironically, and speculating as to what they're gonna do. LGBT went beyond my wildest predictions.
I'm sure Nintendo will get lots of good exclusives over time but it's a slim launch lineup.
People forget that the Xbone actually had a pretty decent set of games for its launch window with Killer Instinct, D4, and Titanfall. Which are all easily better than fuckin Knack or Killzone: Tech Demo. They fucked up their messaging that bad that people would rather play Knack than Titanfall. Killer Instinct was easily the best fighting game of the generation and of course Microshit abandons it.
But Sony won't. It will be more expensive without any exclusives.
If they raise the price then what is the point of the Digital version?
They will use tariffs as an excuse, just like they used currency exchange rates as an excuse to raise the price of the console everywhere outside of America in 2022.
Nintendo is the only company that still gives incentive to buy their consoles in the first place the exclusives at launch are Mario Kart World and DK but in a year or two when you start seeing 3D Mario and Zelda it’ll start selling even better, as much as many people are complaining about the switch 2 game prices and hoping it fails it’s just not going to, in Nintendos eyes it’s going to be a massive success, granted it’s probably not going to hit Switch 1 numbers but it won’t be a commercial failure like the Wii U
No, a loss leader game is something like Shadow of the Colossus, unique influential games or games that cater to niche or core gamer demands..
Vib Ribbon comes to mind, not something that many people actually buy but it's a unique little thing that gets people talking(for years) and it didn't cost 300 million bucks to develop. Did Vib Ribbon make money? Don't know. Was it ever expected to bring in a billion dollars? Certainly not.
and I remember head of playstation Shawn Layden giving a big speech about how unique little games like that specifically were the soul of Playstation
Killzone is dead. Hulst refused to remake the trilogy and announced it was dead.
Killzone quadrilogy and Destiny remastered while slapping a VR mode in both is a money spinner.
They're contractually obligated to make DISNEY money, which is why sony is willing to take a hit and bundle them so aggressively. I'm not saying they aren't normalfag bait, journobait mass market appeal slop, but with the absurd budgets they have and how often they're bundled, they CAN'T make sony a profit, but they're not meant to, at least not directly. Sure, they don't want them to just be a money sink and at least make SOMETHING back, but they exist to be bundled and say "why spend $500 on an xbox one when you can spend $400 on a ps4 pro and get the last of us remastered, whorizon, god of bore, and spiderman all free!" because SIE is DEEPLY unprofitable without that 30% cut of all microtransactions through psn, which means they need to remain the dominant normalfag AAA storefront.
We've literally seen their finances from the Insomniac leak, those big games make money.