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They even do Price Discrimination on video games now
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Both. Steam is already the market leader in its industry. You just keep doing what you're doing and you win.
When ~~Miamoto~~ Iwata died, Nintendo just had to stay the course. They were never dominant, but they were ubiquitous and everyone enjoyed their products. Now the new guys don’t even play games, and the switch 2 price point is ridiculous, and they never fixed the issue with the joy con sticks, and prices never drop like they used to. You can’t count on new leadership being capable of continuing success, even when all they have to do is keep things on the exact same course.
Nintendo is gonna keep making the same 5 games with ever-improving graphics until they die. Doesn't hurt that people are fine paying $80 every few years for the same game.
The Switch 2 is selling faster than the Switch 1 during it's launch period. So Nintendo's new leadership is not negatively affecting the company. Also even under Yamauchi and Iwata Nintendo never fixed drifting analogue sticks, so that is new leadership continuing the course.
Myamoto isn’t dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto 🤦
Dammit I was thinking of Iwata and didn’t check my tired thoughts and just dropped the most famous Nintendo name my brain came up with. Apologies.
Microsoft were already the dominant operating system in computing. Now they're losing market share due to frequent bad decision making.
All they had to do was keep windows ticking over. But instead they looked to milk more revenue from their customer base in the form of advertising and telemetry data. That's because shareholders demand ever increasing profits. Enshittification is always the result of a company going public... Never a question of if, only when; as soon as the passion has died in ownership (usually due to sale or change of management), the only drive becomes profit; and the user experience is stripped to accommodate. The same will be true one day for steam, unfortunately.
but they have shareholders, that demand, with the backing of the law, that the company produces as much profit as possible, otherwise they can sue them
I keep seeing this notion that companies "must" maximize profit above all else "by law" repeated over and over again here and in other online spaces, and here's where I'm finally getting off of my arse to draw the line in the sand.
That's not actually true.
You can file a derivative suit against a company of which you are shareholder for a multitude of reasons, but just "they didn't make us enough money" is unlikely to be a successful one.
i don't remember where i got it from, but what i remembered was that they can be sued if the shareholders feel that they avoid money-making opportunities
Except you need to make even more money. You can't do that by simply letting things continue as they are.