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

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twintail said:

Goodnightmoon said:

Yeah, perspective... 60% sounds like a lot, but what is the real difference here? 1.5$ VS 2.4$ or something similar? For a game that costs 10$ more... The usuals blaming the usuals as usual.

Im pretty sure hes talking about everything (packaging, licencing fee from Sony/ MS/ Nintendo + the cart).

If it costs you $10 for a PS4 game, then the Switch will cost you $16 I guess. The same 'insider' claimed that 32gb carts cost publishers more than $20. If we assume it costs them $24, than a PS4 disc is costing you $15. A $9 difference.

See, that $10 increase in price now makes sense to the publisher. 

Official breakdowns of 60$ games put the cost of packaging, materials, shipping, and platform fees at $11.  When you factor out shipping and other bits and bobs that would be unaffected, you are looking at a $5 increase probably.  And that's assuming no advantages from buying larger numbers of carts, no benefits from being close in ties with the publisher, none of that.  And that's only for a 32 GB cart.

And no, the same insider that gave the 60% number did NOT give the $20, that was a number that, from what I can tell, was pulled right out of some publication's ass.

So as I said about a thousand times, costs are higher.  Not $10 higher.  It's barely over half that in the worst case scenario.