Against the Industry (Malstrom)

[KungKras]

mrstickball said:

Khuutra said:

mrstickball said:
Khuutra -

Less financial incentives for 3rd party developers means less games for me to buy.
Excessive profits on hardware mean the system is more expensive than it should be to buy.

So unless you think that buying something is overpriced with less games isn't a negative for consumers, I think your wrong. Admittedly, such arguments may not prove correct for all consumers, but they are still negatives.

Goodness.

Moneyhatting is not something that necessarily benefits consumers. Lack thereof is not something that harms consumers: the fact that extra incentives have to be leveraged in order to bring third parties to make certain projects on the PS360 speaks as to one of the worse states of the industry.

Profits on hardware are not harmful to consumers. Nintendo has set a value proposition. Over fifty million people have accepted it. That is all there is.

The fact that Nintendo does not meet your value propositions does not mean that they are trying to screw over consumers, much less that "they've done it better than any other company"

I never said they were intentionally attempting to screw consumers over. Just that they are better at it than other companies. Better doesn't have to correlate with being meaner, and more abusive with their stance. I apologize if I worded it incorrectly. I'm not trying to say Nintendo is an evil gaming company, just that the things they've done have been ruthlessly efficient in the gaming market. When companies try to stay in the black, Nintendo is looking to earn even greater profits. In some situations, I think it's hurt the consumer (especially with hardware pricing). But again, it may be a nessicary evil on their behalf - Afterall, if they didn't have these profits, they would cease to be a game manufacturer, and we'd never enjoy their forthcoming great games.

The same argument could apply to Apple, as they seem to have a very similar model of ruthless vertical integration. In some cases, it's been fantastic as they've done things that no other company has, yet some may view it as being harmful in other ways.

I guess what you're trying to say is that Nintnedo is better at maximizing profits without people feeling screwed over.