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Who is the most money grubbing in the industry?

Nintendo 373 42.05%
 
Sony 122 13.75%
 
Microsoft 269 30.33%
 
Ouya Lives! 20 2.25%
 
See results. 103 11.61%
 
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exdeath said:
NUser said:
Well Sony and Microsoft are certainly giving you more for your money (more AAA games, more performance, more media capabilities (blueray).
So ill say Nintendo

I'll take a new Zelda or Xenoblade Chronicles or The Last of Us any day over Gears of Halo 46865789976433.  I guess my idea of "AAA" is not what the mainstream definition of "AAA" is.  To me, Madden and Call of Duty type games are just money-grubbing shovelware, and you can  pretty much add "me too" Halo to the list now.  It's been whored out every time MS needs money and they keep cancelling everything else. And gameless $250 CEs on top of it and blatantly marketing to the puffed up masculinity of the mainstream Western market exclusively.

 

Real "AAA" games are timeless masterpieces like Xenoblade Chronicles, Ni no Kuni, and The Last of Us.  Not copy-pasted 10 x 10 versus mode alley ways and new gun skins every 3 months.

What about this?



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Based on recent history it seems to be Nintendo. Nintendo always seems to try to make a profit on hardware, Nintendo games also seem to stay at full price for a lot longer. The latest example is accessory pricing for the Switch.  There's other examples which are more being out of touch dicks than money grubbing: YouTube content policies, region protection (finally dropped on Switch); digital software policy....

I think Nintendo got used to basically printing money with DS & Wii both in terms of units sold and profit margin. Now they are struggling to sell large numbers of units, so they have to take profit anywhere they can by keeping prices up.

MS has subsidized the Xbox business heavily so users benefited.  Sony's PS4 business is healthy, so they can afford to cut a lot of deals and drop software prices fairly quickly to reach a wider audience.



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Rab said:

Price comparison of all consoles adjusted for inflation, just to have some facts for comparison sake 

 

Price isn't everything, value, and percieved one is. If Switch would have launched on 2013 at the same price I doubt people would call it expensive. But it's launching 2017 against consoles stronger (No portability for those though) and that have bigger catalogs. Same thing with online, if the service was like xbox live or psplus people wouldn't complain as much, but nintendo hasn't showed anything that can guarantee it can be at that level.

I think that's where people are coming from when they say it's expensive 



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Nintendo easily, look at the Switch accessories prices. Pokemon X/Y is still the same $40 since launch in Canada, which is absurd

I think Microsoft is also guilty, but recent steps like selling Xbox one S at a loss, and Backwards compatibility have been quite good. Rare replay is usually $9.99 even in Canada, which is astronomical value.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

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The company that charged 13 years for Online before the competition



vivster said:
It's not fair to give this trophy to just one of them. After all they all copied each other to achieve maximum grubbiness.

This!



Naum said:

Wow...just wow... are you actually serious that NIntendo is the worst?

That's I'm out I cant this much stupidity on this site anymore.

I'm sorry it took you so long to realize.



Mummelmann said:

Amiibo, Pokemon Bank, inferior paid online, pricey hardware with much less kick, crazy prices on controllers and accessories since the dawn of time, full price for 2-3 year old games, forcing consumers to buy their own storage by providing only a tiny amount, claiming rights to revenue from Let's Play videos on youtube, selling a console without a charger/AC adapter, threatening retailers in the 80's and 90's that they won't provide them with any stock if they sell competing products, fake staggering game releases in different regions to force gamers to pay full price everywhere and administer regional price manipulation by undershipping software along with this (they were actually sentenced by the EU for this practice in the 90's), keeping region locks for the longest times to prevent gamers from saving a few bucks on importing games. Forcing handheld gamers to buy two copies of basically the same game if they want to "catch them all", Oh, and forcing developers to pay up front for cartridges and publishing rights on the NES and SNES and then possibly shutting them down by not providing the "seal of approval" or giving them poor reviews in their own magazine (which was by far the greatest source for game reviews at the time).

This isn't a tough choice for me.

Yes, the other two have long shit lists as well, and in various categories and market, but in the gaming circles, there can be only one.

Edit; look at Nintendo's practices in the 80's with pricing on software and hardware, it was a full blow mafia scheme and they all the major retailers in their pocket, it was extremely consumer hostile and produced some crazy, albeit highly unjust, profits for both retailers and Nintendo themselves. Seriously, look it up the next time someone describes Nintendo as the paragon of the gaming industry.

Actual factuals.



onionberry said:
all of them want money and all of them do shady stuff. I have to say, those accessories for the switch are stupidly expensive and that's not the Nintendo that I know and love, ok let's say that the joycons with all the tech and the hd rumble need to be at that price, but the grip, the dock, the pro controller, the price is not cool. Also, crapcom can go and fuck themselves if they think that i'm going to buy sf 2 for 40 bucks.

:-O this is the most shocking thing I think I've ever heard in my life!