Diablo III - The Eternal Collection for Switch accidentally leaked, will have exclusive content

[Mnementh]

potato_hamster said:

Mnementh said:

Well, sales on the Switch eShop happen to. Usually not for fresh releases though. So some sale might happen down the line, like it did on PS4, but for comparison the usual price should be used.

Well, I just look at the time and effort it probably took to do the Crash N'Sane Trilogy and compare it to the time and effort to port Diablo 3 to the Switch, and I'd say it was probably took more time and cost more to make the Crash port that sold for $40 on release.

That's my mindset. But, then again this isn't about cost and effort, this is about maximizing profit.

That's exactly right. Not sure though if Crash really is more demanding than Diablo. Devs report to have more of a problem with cartridge size than anything, so the old textures and models of Crash even remastered took less space. I can find that Crash on PS4 is 30GB install size, Diablo 40GB. This can actually be the bigger effort, to get the size down.

But in any case, it doesn't really matter, as you point out profit is all that matters. Crash being a remaster couldn't be set at the same price as the newer game. Because of customer perception, nothing else. A game cost as much as the publisher thinks he can ask for and get away with it, not how much effort got into creating it.