Resident Evil 7 Cloud Version announced for Switch, launches this coming week

[Nuvendil]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Nuvendil said:

We know that putting an 8GB cart Switch game on the shelf in mid 2017 was equal more or less to the cost of putting a PS4 game on the shelf.

4GB carts are obviously cheaper, that's why Nintendo has them to save costs for games that don't need 8GB or more.

Do the math, it's not hard to comprehend.

I mean, think it through: if 4GB carts cost more than a BR, then 16GB would be a massive increase, probably 4x or more the cost.  Which would chop off a big chunk of profit.  But we know that's BS because multiple devs have used thr 16GB and we already know a 32GB cart is only 2x a BR.  

Not even nearly 4x the price of a 4GiB cartridge for a 16GiB one, it's twice at worst.

2 reasons for this:

1. the manufacturing of the cartridges themselves is invariable and for the 4 and 8GiB Versions about half the cost.

2. 4GiB is getting phased out by the memory producers, making these chips expensive compared to their capacity. There's actually not much reason anymore to produce them, they're about 10cent cheaper

I know it isn't, that was my whole point.  I was saying if we buy into the theory that some report that putting even a 2 or 4 GB cart on a shelf costs as much as putting a PS4 game on a shelf, the costs should ramp up substantially at 4x the storage.  But that is false because the theory is false.