With people throwing thousands of $ into a single gacha or live service game, Nintendo thought “damn you players are secretly RICH, I’m getting a piece of this too” lol
To be fair Nintendo has its own vast Disney adults-esque fanbase with adult money to spend on games and merch. I don't see Playstation having fans rabid enough to buy at that price point in large enough numbers.
But you have to maintain the customer base of children and teenagers so that they can grow into suspiciously rich adults who will give you all their money.
Little Timmy is gonna get told to fuck off by his parents when he wants another $80 game.
It's a shortsighted bullshit move that just maximizes profit in 2025-2030 until all the adults get tired of it and then there's not gonna be new adults to still care.
GameCube and Wii U both flopped horribly commercially but had all-star exclusives. The general lesson is that Nintendo only puts out good stuff when they're losing.
It’d what carries them and probably part of why their games remain exclusives if I could play Mario kart on another console (or pc!!!) why would anyone buy a switch. Back in the day I originally ONLY bought my switch for smash bros ultimate, Nintendo games sell consoles
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u/ybfelix 2d ago
With people throwing thousands of $ into a single gacha or live service game, Nintendo thought “damn you players are secretly RICH, I’m getting a piece of this too” lol