Fair enough but in that case maybe don't carry a gun at all. Like I said, it's basically suicidal.
Regardless of the current, evolving circumstances, law enforcement officers treat any gun as a deadly weapon. So they will shoot first & ask questions later.
Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? If they're not even bothering to uphold the Constitution in a courthouse you guys are well and truly fucked.
No. My point was that an economic argument, as posited in the meme that started this thread, misses the core issue. From an economic perspective, Nintendo is doing the right thing, as evidenced by the fact that they have been doing this forever and still haven't gone broke. So that approach is simply inutil when critiquing corporate greed.
Side note: Nintendo is not the only games company guilty of that, only that others, without exclusive hardware as a platform, have been suffering the consumers' wrath (e.g. EA or Ubisoft).
Looks like someone doesn't understand how profit margins work. If I'm going to make the same $90 anyway and have to decide between spending more money on the product by delaying release or less money by rushing...all things being equal, that sounds like an easy choice. So a purely financial argument is obviously going to fall flat.
The sticking point is that money is not the only value in this world. All of our decisions need not be driven by profit maximizing strategies. So maybe instead of producing shoddy games at peak profit it would be better to produce excellent games at a good profit.
Bink videos were the hot shit for games for a while, and RAD Game Tools started a whole era of standardization for multimedia processes that culminated in DirectX. With computing power increasing along with the market share of PCs, using standardized libraries for audio & video drivers became the sensible thing to do. Previously you had games programmers eking out every iota of performance by fine tuning that stuff at an assembly level (the Origin games with their memory managers and Chris Sawyer's amazing if kind of insane feat in creating Transport Tycoon come to mind).
God, the first music files I downloaded were MIDI and Soundtracker .MOD files using a 14,400k modem & BBS. That was after upgrading from my PC/XT to a 486/SX 25...those were the days.
YES.