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Are lemmites going to realise that they aren't the majority and that there's a whole world of different people out there.
Looks at comments
I guess not.
Yeah, I'm not happy about the Switch 2, but the amount of cope is unbelievable. I've seen multiple people claiming, "the Wii U sold out a launch too," even though the Wii U sold worse than the Wii on opening weekend. The sales might still fall off a cliff in a month, but breaking the PS4's record for launch sales is not a great sign.
Gamers have to be the dumbest market of consumers out of them all.
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So much for the boycott and all the negative press it got.
Non-tech people usually don’t care about the ToS and the dirty practices a company does. They’ll gladly pay for the ‘convenience’.
Most Nintendo fans even argued that prices, new ToS (bricking the device) and such were “justifiable”. Same thing about owning games, most argued that “in today’s era you barely own anything anyway”.
It’s very unfortunate and sad to see but it is reality.
Personally though, I’ll wait for either a working emulation or when there’s an actual exploit found to hack the Switch 2.
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So much for the boycott
What boycott? Don't overestimate bla bla bla on lemmy and other social media.
Boycott 101, it's not a boycott if you doesn't want to buy that shit before calling boycott.
Gamers are the least savvy consumers on earth.
Matt Piscatella pointed out on Bluesky that a launch like this is only a function of how much inventory they made available. The Xbox One had the third most successful US launch of a console.
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There are three guarantees in life:
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Death
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Taxes
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A video game boycott will never succeed.
It's not really about boycotts not working.
It's that a handful of people virtue signaling about how bad X game/company is on niche social media communities don't matter if their opinions aren't aligned with your average person.
Most people just enjoy games as a hobby and treat it the same way they treat picking something to watch on Netflix.
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Nintendo has spent decades building an extremely loyal, multigenerational consumer base. They also release very popular, high quality games. I have no interest in owning a Switch, but I get why so many people do.
And the masses have been conditioned to accept the corporate anti-consumer "you will own nothing and you will like it" MO.
Yeah, PC gamers bent the knee to Steam decades ago at this point. This isn't exactly a brand new issue.
The vast majority of Steam games can be easily cracked and played offline if they ever go rogue. Modern console games are much more difficult to jailbreak like that.
Except that they are not high-quality. For example, Pokemon Scarlet.
Ah yes, the one Nintendo IP that has gone to shit. Not fully by the way, as Legends Arceus was fantastic, and even my mom who hasn't given a fuck about Pokemon since Yellow loved watching me play it. If Gamefreak would finally make another side game like Mystery Dungeon (or the more forgotten cult classics like Pokepark, Ranger, Conquest, Rumble, etc.) we wouldn't be trolling them so hard. It's also more of a Gamefreak problem than anything, as other companies that did Pokemon games (Chunsoft, Genius Sonority, etc.) did fantastic.
Anyway Zelda and Mario are still making bangers, Kirby Air Riders is coming back, Metroid fans are fed, Splatoon is getting a whole new game for Switch 2 (fuck me...), people are still relatively happy with Animal Crossing NH, we'll see how Donkey Kong's new game does, and while FE's newest entry wasn't so hot you can't ignore how Three Houses brought in a brand new wave of loyal FE fans.
Literally everyone knows Pokemon mainline has been going to shit (and not the characters, designs, music, etc. imo, just the animations and story writing). Pick another game, even Nintendo (and Pokemon) fans make fun of it.
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I find it ridiculously impressive given how abhorrently expensive purchasing and owning it is.
Honestly compared to other handhelds and current-gen consoles, the price seems OK for what you're getting. The problem for me has always been how expensive Nintendo's games are, $80 seems way too much.
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"THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY THINK WE'RE GOING TO STAND FOR THIS!
~~I'll take two, one for me, and one to sell~~
HOW COME THEY KEEP DOING THIS!? DON'T THEY KNOW THEY'LL LOSE ME AS A ~~repeat~~ CUSTOMER!?"
Why are you getting the switch?
"Cause uh it's Nintendo..."
Because myself and my kids like Mario Kart?
Because I like my OG Switch and this is a pretty massive improvement over that console?
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To be expected, mainstream audiences would pay Nintendo to fuck them up the arse if it meant more Mario.
Id pay for Luigi to fuck my ass.
And with that. Every gamer was fucked
Expect the OLED model in a year or two to be $600-$650
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I guess it wasn't too expensive after all.
We get stories like this all the time.
Was the switch 2 a successful launch from a monetary perspective: Hopefully
But people also have to understand. Gaming gets more and more mainstream every year AND population increases every year. Of course units sold are going to increase. The last time we had a console launch was 2020-ish. It has been five years of new people getting into video games and so forth.
Its similar logic to any time we see "Call of Auto 789151 is the fastest selling Call of Auto ever!".... Of course it is. If it wasn't then that would be a huge red flag for the franchise.
I do always love "records" that are effectively population increases.
Just like when people share maps of data that are effectively just showing population distribution.
Gran Theft Duty
Just like the horse armor, people complain and complain and then fork over the money anyway.
Aside from the analog sticks, the console itself seems like a fine upgrade from the original making it a tempting for anyone looking for "Switch Pro". But it'll be intersting to see how the price of games and the digital key aspect will affect the game sales down the line.
Steam Deck and other portable pc:s seem to be also getting a lot of momentum so there's increasing amount of competition for handheld devices which was not really the chase with Switch 1.
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Users, or scalpers looking to score?
Yea was thinking the same thing. "How many of those are scalpers?"
And this is why The Gaming Industry is in COMPLETE turmoil! Sheeple literally reward the most abysmal business practices. Which in turn ruins it for everyone.
If a dog was to bite your hand would you immediately offer it a treat?
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