Step two is to is to almost fully attach digital orders to physical shipments of cases and game cards.
"Wah wah the expense" bro most of us are old enough to know, if we look back and think, that they transitioned from retail to digital right after essentially raping the corpse body of anti-trust and competition law, by coordinating with 2 other companies to raise all game prices by 10%+ all in the same month or so.
So they do that, and keeping those prices across all 3 companies, and all 3 IMMEDIATELY lean hard to satan-drm infested digital copies, which take ZERO production or retail cost.
You have any clue how much they shelled out for all that shelf space they hardly need anymore? How much for distribution and logistics contracts and so forth and so on? Kept the physical prices. Did you a sneaky.
Then for good measure they went in and dusted off IP's they couldnt be fucked to actually work on in the last 30 years and plugged em into their new, underpowered app-store-portal devices, and immediately went to biftching about piracy, wah wah, how could this happen to us. Eat a bag of dicks Nintendo.
It's worth noting I didnt get past step one yet.
Step two is to is to almost fully attach digital orders to physical shipments of cases and game cards.
"Wah wah the expense" bro most of us are old enough to know, if we look back and think, that they transitioned from retail to digital right after essentially raping the corpse body of anti-trust and competition law, by coordinating with 2 other companies to raise all game prices by 10%+ all in the same month or so.
So they do that, and keeping those prices across all 3 companies, and all 3 IMMEDIATELY lean hard to satan-drm infested digital copies, which take ZERO production or retail cost.
You have any clue how much they shelled out for all that shelf space they hardly need anymore? How much for distribution and logistics contracts and so forth and so on? Kept the physical prices. Did you a sneaky.
Then for good measure they went in and dusted off IP's they couldnt be fucked to actually work on in the last 30 years and plugged em into their new, underpowered app-store-portal devices, and immediately went to biftching about piracy, wah wah, how could this happen to us. Eat a bag of dicks Nintendo.