Labo is a huge ripoff and a waste of a great concept (so far)

[DonFerrari]

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure the forum doesn't equate all, but since we can't listen to the ones that aren't talking that is kinda of a useless point. And for that I addressed the sales as general which seems to have a nice and steady sales over the years without a price cut so as I said, the fanbase seem to approve of the practice.

They do release a lot of games every year and I would probably be right if I supposed Fifa, Madden, AC and others cost more to make than what Nintendo makes, some sell less and most at lower price. And no company thinks "oww since I also sell VCR I guess I should take a loss or make low profits on the gaming division". So even if you want to write off EVERY OTHER COMPANY ON THE MARKET inventing an excuse for each, the fact remains that Nintendo is the one that keeps the price high and customers approve of it. And Nintendo select unless I'm quite wrong takes a lot longer to be released.

Should perhaps look at the practices of Nintendo from the NES/SNES days that will also show you a lot of greedy and tyrant practices of Nintendo that dates back all the way.

Those practices seem tyrannical when viewed through a pinhole, until you see that they were necessary in order to revive the video game market in North America.  Atari, which had no such restrictive measures in place allowed the 2600 to drown in a glut of shovelware that turned consumers off from video games for almost half a decade (the video game market in NA crashed in 1983, the NES exploded in popularity 87-88, peaking in 88-89).

Sorry but there is a complete middle ground between the tyrannic practices of Nintendo (which as positive effect made publishers open a lot of subsidiaries to launch more games) and the complete lack of control and quality. And Nintendo kept a lot of those on SNES (which was already past the market crash) and some bad practices they kept for even longer... the high price and low cost they still keep.