Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2

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spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Digital distribution is far less than it was in the 90s, many games sell in far higher numbers they did in the 90s, plus a ton of other cost savings due to scale exist on the distribution side. Yes, costs are higher to develop some types of games, but quite a few studios are able to put out profit generating games at far less than $60 per unit sold.

Cost comparisons over time tend to not be very informative when it comes to products that have significant changes in costs over time, and games are one of those things.

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