Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"

lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If the customers still buy it in the end, the publisher was right. We will see over time. Maybe there will be a drop in sales but then GTA6 comes along and no one can resist, opening the path for other games.

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  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone on lemmy recently put this into perspective for me. Even like 1% of the population of the USA is 3 million people. If you increase the cost of a product and don’t care about long-term sales, the immediate gain in profit can outweigh the loss of total customers down the line.

    I still think cutting off customers and burning good will isn’t a good business model, but I’m not stupid wealthy, so what do I know.

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