I don’t know how much money they make selling hardware but they could just sell games overpriced for PC (to compensate for what they didn’t earn selling hardware and store fees) and people will just buy.
If Nintendo ported the game to PC I would gladly pay for it.
amenotef@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
The problem with that in Nintendo’s mind is, its not worth it. They would sell more games for sure, but in Nintendo’s mind the console becomes obsolete. But their entire business is around consoles and all the third party games they get the money from too. In order to sell their console to as many as possible, they need to have these blockbuster exclusives. In example this is why Microsoft is also going back to exclusives too, and Sony does less again.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of this. I only play on PC and doing piracy since decades. But from the business standpoint, I understand where they are coming from. Platform holders operate differently than third party devs / publishers.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Me too. As Gaben said, piracy is mostly a service problem.