Eh, it's not that they're starting to realize that the PC market isn't profitable anymore - hell, it's hitting record profit levels every year.
The problem is with corporate. Every year, no matter how well a game company does, that sets the bar of expectation for the following year - plus X% added to cover expected inflation. If they don't do at LEAST that, then they moan about the "Shrinking market" and "pirates" and "used game sales eating our sales". All this while they backflip into swimming pools of money.
Regarding nintendo's mobile crap, you have to remember that it was shareholders and the like that bitched and screamed for Nintendo to do that while it was losing money with the Wii U's dismal performance. While I wouldn't bet on microtransactions to be taken out of this Pocket Camp game if it were on the Switch, I do find it hard to believe Nintendo would actually bring the game to the Switch in the first place. I'd expect them to release a proper Animal Crossings game on the Switch before porting the mobile crap.
I can't say I've actually checked the eshop on the Switch since Blaster Master Zero was released. Has Nintendo ported any of their existing mobile crap to the Switch yet? If not, it's probably a safe bet they won't. (Why smudge the Switch reputation with phone garbage after all.)
Anyway, yeah, more corporate greed than them realizing the PC market isn't profitable. When they say the market "isn't profitable anyomre" it means what I point out above. They're just not making 20-30% more than they did the year before. (Even if the previous year was wildly more profitable than they even expected it to be. Wouldn't matter, that would be the new benchmark for next year.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2018-06-26 04:16 am (UTC)The problem is with corporate. Every year, no matter how well a game company does, that sets the bar of expectation for the following year - plus X% added to cover expected inflation. If they don't do at LEAST that, then they moan about the "Shrinking market" and "pirates" and "used game sales eating our sales". All this while they backflip into swimming pools of money.
Regarding nintendo's mobile crap, you have to remember that it was shareholders and the like that bitched and screamed for Nintendo to do that while it was losing money with the Wii U's dismal performance. While I wouldn't bet on microtransactions to be taken out of this Pocket Camp game if it were on the Switch, I do find it hard to believe Nintendo would actually bring the game to the Switch in the first place. I'd expect them to release a proper Animal Crossings game on the Switch before porting the mobile crap.
I can't say I've actually checked the eshop on the Switch since Blaster Master Zero was released. Has Nintendo ported any of their existing mobile crap to the Switch yet? If not, it's probably a safe bet they won't. (Why smudge the Switch reputation with phone garbage after all.)
Anyway, yeah, more corporate greed than them realizing the PC market isn't profitable. When they say the market "isn't profitable anyomre" it means what I point out above. They're just not making 20-30% more than they did the year before. (Even if the previous year was wildly more profitable than they even expected it to be. Wouldn't matter, that would be the new benchmark for next year.)