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An incompetent American attempt at manufacturing games locally
(www.superheumann.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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Injection molding NREs are high? Such a well kept secret up to now. I never would have guessed.
Neither did they.
If only there was something that's much cheaper to scale slowly over time that's actually cheaper to use until you get into some millions+ of pieces.
3D printers are the future for everyone who wants to create something and doesn't have to of money to burn (that includes from preorders, aka confirmed sales).
I very much doubt 3d printers can handle commercial scale production on any kind of reasonable timetable.
They sure do, even if you get a 3rd party print farm to print it for you. I read some analysis and up until around million pieces it's cheaper than molding without trying. If you optimize, it was some larger number which I forgot.
Interesting, I assume that's a different level of 3d printing than the usual hobby level ones.
Same level, just different scale. Like, you have a thousand 3D printers in a single room printing.