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Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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The thing about growing anti-piracy disdain - Nintendo doesn’t care about it because pirates don’t buy their stuff. Nintendo sells stuff for children so they are not that interested in building brand awareness by being lenient on anti-piracy enforcement. By the time their customers have money they are playing Call of Duty and Nintendo ain’t about that. Just a different strategy compared to Microsoft or Sony.
If Nintendo started to cater to that niche demographic they wouldn’t be able to balance that with being effectively a toy company. If Nintendo wouldn’t be the kind of assholes they are sometimes, they wouldn’t make games worth playing too. What they’re doing confuses people because they’re the only ones to do that. I think that’s worth preserving regardless and other people must think that too, otherwise they wouldn’t be so angry about Nintendo approach to roms and stuff - they want to play it even after so much time passed.
Kids don't buy $500 consoles with $90 games. Parents do.
Yep, and Nintendo targets parents that want their kids to have childhood without guns and tits. It’s not like kids have no say in this either but parents will be more likely to go with Nintendo if they care.