| Soundwave said: We don't really have to guess what Switch 2 cartridges cost, Arc Systems Works stated they are $16 per cartridge. That's a pretty significant amount. Not as terrible as N64 carts, but that's really high. Assuming the net margin on a retail copy of game for a developer varies from $30-$40 (and I'm probably being generous there), $16 of that is a massive chunk of the profit margin. Some devs may opt to eat that cost, but it's entirely reasonable why a lot of devs won't. No they're evil or rip-off corporations, this is just the reality of the cartridge medium. It comes with a lot of headaches that almost every other format doesn't. |
Well. They lost an entire sale with me... And many others feel the same. - Some revenue is better than none.
Part of the reason why Cyberpunk 2077 dominated sales on Switch 2 for 3rd party releases was largely attributed to having the complete game on cart.
Profits is a shit excuse anyway, considering Switch 2 games have RISEN in price in order to compensate.
..And even with "expensive carts" - Developers and publishers were constantly posting record profits and revenues over the last several decades when games were statically pegged at $60 USD anyway.
So yes, they are ripping us off, they were already making money hand over fist.
Game Key Cards are cheaper to manufacture than Switch carts... Yet Game Key Card games are more expensive, so the consumer is definitely being screwed over here... Let's not defend shit decisions.
Consumers are being screwed over. Consumers are being ripped off.
Game Key Cards are eWaste.
| HoloDust said: Not sure what AMD is thinking - not only 395+ has RDNA3.5, but Medusa will have it as well. Which is, while they can brute force quite a bit, very disappointing, given how much better RDNA4 in RX90 series is, and pretty much solves both RT and uspcaling problems of their previous architectures. Maybe they just don't care to bother with RDNA4, probably seeing it as short transitory period to the actually great stuff that UDNA should be... |
AMD's integrated graphics have typically been a step behind desktop offerings.
When AMD moves to UDNA, integrated graphics will be on RDNA4.
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