• emb@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I feel like the ‘negative response’ to these is probably overstated. I just really doubt your average person, who happily keeps their game console online and patiently downloads an update every time they insert a new game, cares at all.

    To be clear, I do not like GKCs myself and will not buy one. But I don’t think folks should get their hopes up.

    There are tons of factors here, from loud niches influencing general opinion, to the concrete sales games are/are not getting, to the high cost of storage expansion on Switch 2. So hopefully the winds do change a little over time. But if a 3rd party publisher can’t squeeze out margin per copy on a game, it (mostly) doesn’t matter how many or few copies they sell.