L.A. Noire will cost more on Switch than Ps4 and Xbox One

[Aeolus451]

SvennoJ said:

cycycychris said:

Don't forget that third parties don't get all that $10 back. 30 percent still goes to Nintendo. So were looking at $7ish. And the cartridge is probably like 2 dollars(just making a number up). So in theory they are making $5 or so extra profit on switch.

In percentages that $10 extra only adds $4.50 to the publisher. Actually it's not $10 extra as Europe includes tax, which is currently 21.4%, so it's only $3.70 more for the publisher. Making a mrom template is very expensive so there are higher base costs next to higher production costs. If they don't expect to sell all that many then those base costs need to be shared over fewer sales.

Small extra costs at the manufacturing phase quickly escalate at the retail end, hence the effort to save as many pennies as possible at the production stage.

 

Nautilus said:

Aeolus451 said:

I read back a couple of pages and saw nothing about proof.  

The Zhuge Ex tweet.Its maybe 20 or 30 posts back.Just look a bit further.And if you did find that, but dont accept that as being proof, a statement with an professional analist with close ties with the videogame industry, then there is no point to argue further with you.

Ok I went through pages 1 to 12 twice to find this tweet or quote and it didn't see it. Here's the thing, being a professional analyst in gaming doesn't count for much because Pachter is one of those. Unless zhuge is given access to info from nintendo about how much nintendo game cards costs exactly or to a 3rd party's business decisions on the pricing on one of these games that they are charging more for, it's just an opinion.  That's what analyst do, give an opinion on their market. I quoted the other guy because when I was looking for zhuge's quote, I saw a very sensible explanation for the price.