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  • What the industry desperately needs is some distributed payment platform. Maybe you sign up for a subscription clearinghouse for $50/month. The service then distributes your subscription funds to the dozens of different news websites you visit, in proportion to the amount of time spent on or stories read from each.

    This is basically what Apple News+ is, which includes quite a large set of newspapers and magazines and their back catalogues.

    Also, various libraries will include some sort of mechanism to access a small set of news subscriptions as part of their digital offerings.





  • brandon@lemmy.worldtoNintendo@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    It’s their home market, with a strong regional developer base, and Nintendo systems tend to have a lot of Japanese-exclusive titles that will most likely offset the lower cost of a Japanese-only console in the long run.

    For international markets, they need to contend with US tariffs, that have been a threatened for many months, and various other production costs impacting all consoles. They are spreading these costs across all regions to both avoid sticker shock in any individual region as well as to avoid scalping via arbitrage.