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irstupid on 02 November 2017
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DonFerrari said:
RolStoppable said:

What did I say about the expectation that a physical version of a game should be a physical version? It's reasonable. And because of that, the fault and blame rests entirely on the shoulders of third parties, because it's an irrefutable fact that physical versions are possible.

You constantly try to point out hypocritical and unreasonable behavior of other people, but you are slowly turning into the worst culprit of all of them.

No hypocrisy on saying if we are ok with asking 3rd parties to release on higher cartridges even if it will cost more then no problem with Nintendo releasing higher memory for Switch even if costing then more.

And I don't remember the last time a phisical game I bought in PS4 didn't need an install and download. I certainly don't like it, but if PS4 didn't had enough memory for even one or two games installed then it would be a big issue.

irstupid said:

And that is the attitude that lead us to these giant madatory installs and microtransactions.

It's not an unreasonable demand when the company is charging $10 more for their game on the Switch than on other consoles saying it's due to the cartridges costing more. The price difference between the smallest cartridge and the 32 gb cartridge is not more than $10, so if we are forced to pay and extra $10 then why is the game not on the biggest cartridge?

If cartridge costs are why the thing is $10 more, then why is digital not $10 less than physical? Rockstar is flat out ripping off Switch owners with teh pricing. They are using the cartridge as an excuse to price gouge some extra money. I have no issue with them charging $10 more for teh game due to cartridge costs, but when they use a smaller cartridge, then it is bullshit.

A cartridge will already cost you more than a disc. So a penny for the disc versus 10 USD for the disc is already standard for the publisher to make the same per unit on both formats. The 32GB card would have to cost even more. So you would either ask they to profit less or charge more, both of which I suspect one of the two involved parties wouldn't like. You aren't forced, you can buy or not. And Nintendo choose the form to store the games. I know some wanted even Sony to go for 100GB cartridges for PS5, they would also certainly complain of games costing 80 USD or more.

The digital isn't less than the phisical for the same reason why they aren't on PS4 and X1, because that would make the retail stores pissed.

You said yourself, the difference between the 32 to 16 is 10 USD, but since the 16 doesn't cost 0, then it would need 10 extra charged.

I did not say that. I said I DOUBT the difference between the 8gb and 32 is $10.

Let us say that the game costs X amount to make on a CD.

An 8gb card lets say adds $2.50 over the costs of that CD to produce per unit

a 16gb card add $5.00 to the cost of the game.

A 32gb card add $7.50 to the cost of the game.

Now my numbers are rediculously high. THere is no way the extra costs are even remotely close to my bloated numbers. But even in this situation, they are charging us, the consumer, an extra $10.00 for what is an extra $5.00 expense to them. They are tryign to make a profit on just the medium over the actual games price. We are getting upcharged.

Their reasoning for incnreasing price was said to be cartridge costs right? Then shouldn't the game be only exactly that much more expensive. You can't seriously believe that it costs $10.00 more per unit to produce a game on 16 gb cards.