Those are actually great deals. I may just go ahead and purchase the Cyberpower Gaming PC for $1,050. It has a powerful CPU the Ryzen 7 3700X and a powerful GPU the RX 5700. For $1,200 you can get an upgrade to the RTX 2070 Super but I don't know if that would be worth the extra $150 to me.
It's true, the Wii U didn't have enough software. What he didn't mention was the reason. It severely lacked third party software support. To Nintendo's credit, if either Sony or Microsoft ever launched a console and had to for the most part rely on their first party games, the end would come very quickly for either.
Since I don't know if the switch is a home or portable console, I don't know what sort of third party games and support it will receive. I will say, I hope it doesn't suffer the same problem as Wii U, lacking in third party software again, that would be sad.
You've never heard about a loan? Look it up, it's out there. The product this company produces is a quality one. I personally believe they merit receiving a loan to continue their good work. Then again i'm not the one in a position to loan out money to them.
My point is, for you to not understand that 99% of all business dealings on this planet are done on credit is a hoot. How clueless can you be?
The solution is competition. Developers are not successfully competing against used game sales. They have a monopoly on digital distribution. Gamestop can't touch it, ebay can't touch it, nobody can. But they have to sell the games cheaper than a retail copy for it to make sense. Let's say a new game retails for $60 but you can download the digital copy for $48(20% cheaper). Considering DD is still in the early stages on consoles, this wouldn't completely solve the problem. But they would take a nice slice of the used game sales with it only increasing as DD adoption matures. By the middle of next gen, this will be a non issue. Gamestop would still have a slice of the pie with their used game sales but it would be nowhere near as big, and no longer a problem to developers. Everyone wins.
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