I love being angry about meaningless topics. This is less about me wanting better baby games, and more of me hating corporations and watching them make billi...
  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    2 months ago

    Didn’t plan to buy one, before the S2 was announced.

    The number of anti consumer actions they take is amazing. They still hate YouTube. Instead of making their games not suck, they sue anyone who dares to try. They have a handful of console exclusive that even interest me, everything else I’ll get in Steam and it’ll play better, have cloud save, and a refund policy.

    I bought a NES in the 80s because it was the most amazing, magical thing. Now I’m at the point of ‘Fuck Nintendo, let it fall’

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      53·
      2 months ago

      Why? The first Switch is pretty fantastic for my use case, which is casual gaming w/ my kids, their friends, and my nephews/nieces.

      I also have a Steam Deck and most of my gaming money goes to PC games. But I do like the Zelda series, so I’ll buy a handful of games now and then for the Switch (usually as gifts to my kids for X-mas or whatever to kill two birds w/ one stone).

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          84·
          2 months ago

          Sure, if it’s not a good value for you, then don’t buy it. Console games have never been cheap, and consoles have generally been affordable (not cheap).

          IMO, the prices aren’t outlandish when you take inflation into account. Here’s an article that goes over it:

          • OG NES - $180 in 1985, ~$480 today
          • SNES - $200 in 1991, ~$415 today
          • N64, Game Cube, Wii - ~$330, give or take
          • Switch - ~$440

          And this page lists game prices:

          • NES - $146
          • N64 - $120
          • GameCube - ~$90
          • Wii - $80
          • Switch - $77

          So generally a downward trend. The Switch 2’s expected prices are a bit of a correction to $80-90, but still pretty much in line with recent consoles.

          Here’s the image for reference:

          • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            No, I get it. You really don’t need to post an entire breakdown when I can read it on any gaming site. These never seem to take into account that manufacturing games has become much cheaper or that the majority of games are sold digitally which have negligible costs compared to physical. Maybe I’m wrong about that but at the end of the day we are still getting used to $70 when it comes to modern consoles—so Nintendo thinking their games are worth more than that on top of being a generation behind? It’s a shitty look, honestly, especially combined with the other crap that’s come out about pricing since the reveal

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              manufacturing games has become much cheaper

              Sure, the physical distribution is cheaper, but the development is way more expensive. That’s largely offset by more sales, hence the gradually reducing real price of games.

              Yeah, it’s never fun seeing prices go up, but they tend to stay pretty flat during a console generation. So at the start, they’re making more than at the end, when inflation has chipped away at the value they’re getting per sale.

              I’m not saying it’s “good” or anything, I also prefer cheaper games, just that it’s understandable when looking at pricing history compared to inflation.

            • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              You might be right, but basically everyone is expecting there to be significant features of MKW which are as yet unannounced but will be featured in the upcoming Nintendo direct which is focused on that game specifically.

              There is certainly an argument to be made about DLC cost being included upfront (and Zelda was already $90 on Switch 1 including the DLC) to avoid splitting up the player base for a game with an online focus. That might not be what they’re doing, but my point is there are things they could do to justify the price increase for many players.

              They also might just do nothing more than what’s already been announced, but I doubt it because why then would they do another reveal later?

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Shitty hardware, stick drift that they port to the new console, insane prices, they shoce dlc’s into kuds faces until they make their parents buy it…

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    152·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t decided yet, because it’s not available yet. Once it’s available, I’ll check reviews and whatnot to decide whether to purchase it. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t, it depends on a bunch of factors.

    Yeah, Nintendo sucks right in the legal department. But whether I buy their products has less to do with their legal department and more to do with the quality of the product.

  • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I won’t. And not even due to the bad PR.

    I never bought a Switch. Thought about it, but never got around to it. I guess I’m just not the target audience.

    Though now in thinking about it, I bet I can pick up a good condition used Switch on the cheap once this comes out. Maybe I’ll get the first gen Switch after all!

  • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    2 months ago

    I’m getting one on launch. Love my OG switch and got many cherished hours of gaming out of it.

      • jaemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        119·
        2 months ago

        How do you not know they haven’t updated to use hall effect joycons? You not read anything at all about this until just now?

          • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            They knew it from the beginning and never adressed it. Why would they, nintenodo babies are just gonna buy new controllers

          • jaemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            Yes. I’m sure they can. I don’t think that they have, or will. See: the recall formula scene from “Fight Club” for reference.

  • Donebrach@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Me, not being a little baby man, am going to buy one at some point because I want to play the Zeldas and the Marios and no one is gonna keep me from enjoying those games when they come out—and I’m still gonna emulate on my Retroid ‘cause fuck Big Gaming.

  • Noerknhar@feddit.orgEnglish
    1617·
    2 months ago

    Too late, I already pre-ordered. I’ll make sure to let you know what a shit time I’ll have with it. I promise.