What do you want in a Switch 2?

[Pyro as Bill]

Barkley said:

Pyro as Bill said:

They made ~$250m from that online service they don't make a ton of money from.

In a single year.

At $20 instead of the standard $60. 

Hmmm, do you have a source for that? The highest number we've had released as far as I can tell is 10m current subscribers as of July. Which would be $200 Million a year, but that's best case scenario as it assumes all 10m will subscribe for an entire year, assumes all of them are paying (I got 1 year free with Amazon Prime, they also gave away subscriptions with some games.) and assumes none of them are using the $35 Family Pass that works for up to 8 friends.

So I'm not sure how they could make $250m in a year when the highest number of subscribers is 10m and a year ago they had 8m.

Regardless that estimated $200m (or $250m figure if that's correct) is still a tiny fraction of the best case scenario $2.3 Billion PS+ makes in a single year (38.8m @$60). So my point about Nintendo making far far less money from console services/third parties than MS/Sony still stands.

We also don't have to assume that releasing their games on other platforms would completely destroy their hardware sales. So they may not lose all of that $250m. I think they could generate more profit from releasing there games on multiple platforms, but really it's something that has too many factors to forsee.

No recent source just 10m in July and a rough calculation accounting for holidays.

Regardless, it's pretty much pure profit compared with PC ports.

Sony's $2.3b would likely only be $770m if they charged $20 instead of $60. And only $385m if they were still on the 50m userbase Nintendo is.

Last edited by Pyro as Bill - on 22 January 2020