AngryLittleAlchemist said:
fatslob-:O said:
People argue that competition is required for consumerism to flourish but we see that this is not the case in vast portions of our life ... (see elastic demand)
Many goods and services in life are monopolized from one extent to another but a monopoly can in fact actually self-destruct if customers can't handle the compromises set by producers or service providers ...
Switch being the only portable console so far is not a problem since there's no extreme impediments for it but that doesn't mean consumers can't react differently to how the change in Switch systems are sold when the said manufacturer has a monopoly. For monopolies such as the Switch to be sustainable or any monopolies for that matter the manufacturer's have to be reasonable about parameters such as pricing (very few are going to buy a Switch system at $1000 so settling for $300 is in the realm of being acceptable) or support (Nintendo still has to release games on the Switch regardless of monopoly or not)
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Thanks. To clarify I wasn't saying you were wrong. Just wanted your opinion.
DonFerrari said:
I wouldn't like a PS5 being hibrid... and when I said PSVita with full PS4 library I was giving an example, meaning that on launch of PS5 we also get a handheld and or a hibrid that can play PS5 games with some acceptable compromise (akin to what Switch have and PSVita was supposed to have)
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So you want Sony to have a handheld that has the exact same library as the PS5 but be compromised?
I mean ... that could work .... but they'd sell it only in Japan pretty much. I'd rather Sony try to go all in or not play at all, that was the problem with the Vita to begin with.
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I don't want this per se... I don't have interest in HH or hibrids at the moment. I said that I don't want PS5 to be a hibrid, but that if Sony see potential on doing HH again becase of Switch that they make a HH that can play the full library of PS5 (it will be compromised, Switch is compromised). I don't want to pay more money for less hardware on what matters to me (paying more for portability and screen to get less power is bad for me) but wouldn't mind Sony having 3 or 4 options going from regular console, hibrid, pure HH and some compatibility for smartphone and tablet.
But on my on preferance they would have PS5Lite and Pro at launch so that people that want to pay up to 1k USD on HW could buy the best HW Sony could think of (yet we know that the difference between the games on the Lite and Pro would be very small because Lite would sell more and be baseline).
VGPolyglot said:
flashfire926 said:
So this is a dick move, while Sony moneyhatting Monster hunter away from Nintendo isn't? What about Modern warfare remastered standalone launching on PS4 earlier, even though the game was already finished for Xbone as well? What about all those cod and destiny deal where Sony locks out content from Xbox and pc? Xbox users have to pay the same $60, but for less content than the PS4 version. Meanwhile PUBG will be the exact same experience on PlayStation, just a bit later. All these posts talk like Sony has never done anything like this ever.
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Has that ever been confirmed?
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Just on leaker imagination and people that buy the though.
flashfire926 said:
DonFerrari said:
Nope the Order isn't worth 60 because it's a bad game. That doesn't make WiiU games AAA, neither the Wii games... care to look at their budgets and sales? Because I'm quite sure a lot of users here told devs to learn with Nintendo how to use little cash to make big sales.
Compare the budget of Zelda with Horizon, Mario with Uncharted and look how far they are.
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In that case, Nintendo games being overpriced is completely your opinion. Most people who buy their are satisfied with the game they got for $60, and don't give a shit about what the budget of the game was. They only care about the fact that they got their money's worth.
Also there is no way BOTW and Odyssey aren't AAA. Both of them look to have a bigger budget than stuff like Street Fighter V and Overwatch, along with other games that get classed as AAA without hesitation.
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It's overpriced because their profit margin is just to high just that. When you buy a smartphone that have profit margin of 70% wouldn't you say it was overpriced? Because it could be half the price and still grant healthy profit for the maker.
Look to have? Do you have any figures for it? I remember quite well that Nintendo excuse for WiiU lack of game was that they weren't used to such big deving environment and the HD world? So BOTW and Odyssey could be AAA (we need to have the numbers to see). But the runaway success for Wii weren't even near the level of AAA budget yet they sold for 60 USD several years after release and userbase defend that move because "it keeps the value of the game". So that is asking to be overpriced.
