Nintendo could make a profit selling their mainline Pokemon game for $8.

They only spent 13m on making the last one ( and it shows by its poor quality. A small studio could do much better with 13m, but not bloated Gamefreak. )

Full price tag, plus a $35 DLC. It seems costumers love getting milked extremely hard.

They do make DLC of things that were obviously supposed to be in the main full price game though. They enshittify everything.

Their consoles used to have easily replaceable batteries. Not anymore since the New 2DS XL's glued, inaccessible battery. The EU is forcing Nintendo to make a Switch 2 with a replaceable battery. Is Nintendo going to make that model avaliable everywhere? No. Not if they are not forced to.

The point is that enough people will buy a new model instead of paying a repair shop to dissassemble the console to change the battery. Consoles with degraded batteries also often end-up in a landfill or recycling center instead of the second-hand market ( a degraded battery bloating up will eventually crack the hardware beyond reasonable repair ). Win-win for Nintendo.

Nintendo could make a profit selling their mainline Pokemon game for $8.

They only spent 13m on making the last one ( and it shows by its poor quality. A small studio could do much better with 13m, but not bloated Gamefreak. )

They do make DLC of things that were obviously supposed to be in the main full price game though. They enshittify everything.

Their consoles used to have easily replaceable batteries. Not anymore since the New 2DS XL's glued, inaccessible battery. The EU is forcing Nintendo to make a Switch 2 with a replaceable battery. Is Nintendo going to make that model avaliable everywhere? No. Not if they are not forced to.

The point is that enough people will buy a new model instead of paying a repair shop to dissassemble the console to change the battery. Consoles with degraded batteries also often end-up in a landfill or recycling center instead of the second-hand market ( a degraded battery bloating up will eventually crack the hardware beyond reasonable repair ). Win-win for Nintendo.

Nintendo could make a profit selling their mainline Pokemon game for $8.

They only spent 13m on making the last one ( and it shows by its poor quality. A small studio could do much better with 13m, but not bloated Gamefreak. )

They do make DLC of things that were obviously supposed to be in the main full price game though. They enshittify everything.

Their consoles used to have easily replaceable batteries. Not anymore since the New 2DS XL's glued, inaccessible battery. The EU is forcing Nintendo to make a Switch 2 with a replaceable battery. Is Nintendo going to make that model avaliable everywhere? No. Not if they are not forced to.

Nintendo could make a profit selling their mainline Pokemon game for $8.

They only spent 13m on making the last one ( and it shows by its poor quality. A small studio could do much better with 13m, but not bloated Gamefreak. )

They do make DLC of things that were obviously supposed to be in the main full price game though. They enshittify everything.