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

[duduspace1]

DonFerrari said:

duduspace1 said:

Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop/ adjusted for inflation in 2018, that is $78m, with the creativity it affords people, you can be assured Labo costs more than that.........For reference (I am not sure if you are a programmer) but Visual Studio (Microsoft's programming tool which is only useful to programmers) generally costs a lot more than Microsoft Office 2016, but I don't expect anybody who only uses Microsoft Word to understand why it should cost as high because any features it provides is of no use an utterly meaningless to them. Like I said before, the value a person attaches to anything is the utilitarian value it offers to them.

I am not aware we were talking of any other April asides from this past April. In terms of the discussion however it makes no difference whatsoever (provided you've not lost your train of thought of what l was responding to........i.e your saying that Labo being one of the highest sellers in April doesn't mean it sold well  because (according to you) April had a low quantity of noteworthy titles. You are still making an assumption here because you do not have the actual sales figures. Having a low quantity of noteworthy titles is no validation that Labo didn't sell well.

Pokemon Red and Blue are similar to Labo in what aspects? Because GoW3 to GoW4 there is a good parallel to estimate costs.

And you have really saw that Pokemon 50M was marketing cost, not the cost to make the game or you just wanted to get an easy way out?

You are confusing price with cost on the Visual Studio and Word.

You may say we don't know the sales of SW on April NPD. But MLB 17: The Show, sold less than 500k on it's first month in 2017 (while MLB16 sold only 150k). And MLB18 is ahead of Labo on the ranking for this April, and most of the other titles not being launch, we can pretty much see this wasn't a month of a lot of strong new releases. So I would guess it's hard to get Labo selling over 300k in its first month which isn't really a lot.

1. Pokemon Red and Blue are both made and marketed by Nintendo. 

2. So Marketing costs are not costs ? Would you say GOW3 justifies its price based on its $44m cost of Production alone ?

3. In what way ? My point is that if you judge Visual Studio price by Word standards, you are barking up the wrong tree, in the same vein if you are comparing GOW to Labo only in terms of eye candy, you are missing subtleties to why it justifies its price.

4. Even if all Labo sold is 200-250k (both kits combined), it has sold well considering most informed observers expect majority of its sales to be in the Holiday periods. Add that to what its sold in Japan and you are almost at 450 - 500k without European sales.