What the literal heck Nintendo?!?

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DonFerrari said:

padib said:

You're saying that because you probably don't understand the costs of maintaining servers for online play.

For one game a few servers are okay, but Nintendo as a platform holder, like Sony and Microsoft, pay for servers to compute the logic of online play for all the games they support. So no it's not greedy of them they are just covering costs.

It is greedy though if they do a lousy job and we pay for it.

That's my point.

They get that money on spades from the sale of the games and the royalties from the 3rd party games. PC platforms can hold their servers fine enough.

Game profits are a lot harder to get now days than they used to be. Game prices have not gone up alongside inflation. Development costs have skyrocketed as worker wages have increased in the tech era along with the expectation of massive games. The former Sony leader basically stated that each generation doubles in cost for games in a series to make. This isn't the 90's anymore. If they made enough profits off game sales before to maintain servers, they certainly are making less now.