Former Boss PlayStation says

Summary

Sean Liden supports Nintendo Switch 2 hiking in games, saying that prices had to increase with each new console generation.
Layden games have noted that inflation has been adjusting since 1999.
Nintendo protection from the first games facilitates the reception of higher prices for Switch 2 compared to other consoles.

Former high -ranking Executive Director PlayStation believes that raising the game prices, including those related to Nintendo Switch 2Long ago. Some Nintendo fans have been upset by the prospect of new games on Nintendo Switch 2, which cost more than in the past, but former Sony Computer Entertainment President Sean Liden feels that every new console generation over the past few decades should increase the price of games.

Sean Liden left Sony in 2019, having spent more than three decades working in the company. He began his career in 1987 in the corporate communications department in Tokyo, became the Vice President of the London Studio of the Sony Computer Entertainment in 1999 and held the presidency from 2014 to Sony.

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On the eve of the news which Nintendo Switch 2 Games will be more expensive than those currently offered in the original switch, Layden has appeared in a recent Channel series episode that led YouTube player to offer its perspective. “I think Nintendo just pulls Band-Aid right away and saying,” It looks like 80 bucks for the front game on a new platform, “he spent on a hike. But instead of criticizing Nintendo, because most of his players, Liden offered to praise the rise in prices, It's too long.

Former PlayStation President approves the 2 hiking switches in games

Given the inflation, Liden noted, video games are actually much cheaper than in the past, saying that “$ 59.99 in 1999 is equivalent, for example, 100 bucks.” Since January 1999 inflation has increased by 94.54 percent according to the US Statistics Bureau, which actually assesses Liden's estimates nearly $ 17 in accordance with the actual amount adjusted on inflation. Although these figures may be difficult for the stomach in the light of the current downturn in the world economy, Lewis Ward's associate IDC studies noted that the cost of creating games is increasing much higher than the prices that consumers pay for them.

Nintendo is in a better position than Sony and Microsoft to raise prices for their games, Layden noted as it did a better job to protect its titles first from the interpretation game. Games involving Mario, Donkey Kong, Link and other popular Nintendo icons are often not outside the Nintendo-Brand equipment, and it feels that will make the price of $ 80 more enjoyable on Switch 2 than other consoles. Such a line of thinking of the anti-CROC-platform seems directly confrontation with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer regarding the developers who, as of February, began to demonstrate the presence of a platform except Xbox in their trailers.