anti-consumer

I think it's funny how many people thdy can make melt down compared to other companies

>>720603263
I cheer them because I hate graphicfagging over gameplay that have been a trend for most devs up until now.

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>>720603531
>he thinks nu-tendo focuses on gameplay

>>720603263
they have the most buckbroken fans who will literally buy cardboard for $100

>>720603263
They make snoys seethe to this day so they're ok in my book.

>>720603263
I'm wondering when they are making a new f zero and why they are giving devs so much time to develop their games but then trimming them down anyway.
>>720603531
this too. glad they dont make moviegames either, anyone saying they dont make games (like this nigger >>720603672) are just seething snoys.
The only problem is they dont make enough of them.

Indifference, there's a bunch of neat smaller games that fill the void of the era of Nintendo i used to like.
Going through Cavern of Dreams now, it's fun.

>>720603263
Their Switch 2 is kinda lackluster for now. The only interesting game on the thing to me is the Donkey Kong game and nothing else, not even among announced but unreleased games. Kinda disappointing.

>>720603263
Probably the only company at this point making their own original games in that style with games like Tomodachi Life 2
Fanbase of manchildren who deserve to be milked dry even if they complain about everything because they know you don't really care and are as buckbroken as the pokemonfags

>>720603263
A lot of baffling decisions coming out of them and their ecosystem. I think being so successful is having them go into a greedy/complacent arc again so I expect things to get even worse for a while. Once companies get too successful they start courting new audiences to buy their products and that's normally where they start making decisions that alienate older fans. That's where I believe Nintendo is at right now.

Gayest fucking fans by far to the point I'd gas them over jews

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>Respect the value.
Yet you stopped respecting the value of the internal battery of your portable platforms. A telltale sign of not being pro-consumer. Feels disrespectful desu.

>>720603263
New President fucking sucks and is making everything expensive on purpose because he doesn't have the compassion that and smarts that Iwata had.

>>720604792
>A lot of baffling decisions coming out of them and their ecosystem.

Can you explain. I see everyone saying they are greedy when all they fucking did was raise game prices 10 dollars more. Its actually insane how everyone went apeshit for something that has been the norm for years. The console price itself its very reasonable for what you get. So I honestly don't get the complaints. Also its not even factoring tariffs having effects on accessories and whatnot. Also most of the shit about switch 2 has been fucking either entirely false or a overraction from retards. 90 dollar games here in the US. False. All games being game key cards. False. Gamecube NSO controller only working on gamecube games. False. Eula saying that they will brick your system. Literally a non issue every manufacturer of hardware has the exact same thing. Joy con connection pins easily breakable. False. Switch 2 needs a day one update to work. False. Doug bowser saying buy a switch 1 instead of a switch 2. false. Bayonetta 3 voice acting

>>720603263
too much babyshit aesthetic. Breath of the wild Zelda games look horrendous with that style that i havent beaten it.

>>720604938
The problem with this is that the gamepad needed a physical off switch, so instead it's constantly on in standby mode waiting for a Wii U signal.

I'm in a very weird spot with Nintendo. I know I'm no longer the target audience for them anymore, but I've invested so much time into them over the years that I feel like garbage being hit with this realization. I already had a feeling a few years into the Switch 1's life, but I just accepted it yesterday.

I've been in this exact situation before back in gen 6 when I was going to put games aside as my main hobby by the end of it since I didn't see the industry going anywhere other than just doing better graphics essentially. It was LITERALLY because of Nintendo with the Revolution (Wii) and DS that I decided to stay in this. I bought into the philosophy Iwata was about and basically went from being essentially a SEGA guy with an NES, N64 and a Gamecube (GCN being the one I really didn't click with) to a "Nintendo guy". Now here I am again where I'm bored of even what Nintendo is doing and I know I'm not going to be excited for what are essentially games that will play the exact same as they would on Switch 1 if they didn't have the graphical bump. I don't want to say it's because "I'm too old" since I do still like playing games on PC sometimes when I have the time, but I'm not excited by anything Nintendo is doing anymore, I haven't been for years now, and it fucking sucks. My Switch 1 is essentially just used to play older Nintendo games on anyway save for F-Zero 99 that I had a lot of fun playing with people here, and any newer games I find semi interesting end up being a games I can get on my PC.

So far this is my first time ever going through a generation where I have NO current gen consoles and also have no desire to own one. Nobody in my house even cares about the consoles like I do anywhere so nobody here is begging me to buy one for them either. It's like ending a tradition and it sucks really hard.

Sorry for the long post.

>>720605074
he cant explain, they never can.
No offense to that anon, but he's buying into a posthoc narrative, Nintendo hasnt changed at all, everyone just bitches about different shit now.
Majoras mask was literally a cash grab, rushed out in a year, a literal asset flip, and sold for 70usd at the time (now 150) and required a memory pack to play (which was what, another 50 usd?) and nobody bat a fucking eye.
Now the reaction to some games being 70usd is "IT MUST BE SHIT, IT WOULD BE CHEAPER IF IT WASNT!"

>>720603263
The palworld lawsuit based on patenting game mechanics was the last straw for me. I'll never buy another nintendo product.

>>720604982
The new president was an accountant who worked his way up while Iwata was a game developer. It explains a lot of the bullshit like price increases and the digital only games instead of actually focusing on the strong lineups they've been known for in the past.

>>720603263
I hope they get bombed

>>720605074
>$80 for Mario Galaxy 1&2
>Being the only company to have a walled garden voice chat that's also a paid service
>Game Key Carts
>$100 Virtual Boy attachment
>Early DLC for Pokemon ZA/Donkey Kong Banaza rendering those games not fully on cartridge
>Since they're doing those DLCs, it makes the very small amount of base storage space even worse.
>No premium version with an OLED screen, which is a step backwards
>2 of the big new exclusives this year are racing games
>Charging $10 for the welcome tour
>Not having the DLC included in the Switch 2 release of BotW
>Charging $80 for Switch 2 versions like Kirby in general
That's just off the top of my head without having to really think about it.

>>720603263
I wouldn't care at all about them if their fucking brainless consumer base of manbabies weren't making 80$ and above games the norm by willingly eating shit from a plate.
NIntendies deserve to pay even more for everything they want and no one else should have it as bad as them.

>>720605074
$20* more.

I'm a Nintenchad but let me explain how the new management has been doing since Iwata died:
Raise Amiibo prices from $12 to $20, some are $30-40.
Raised games by $70 with Tears of the Kingdom as a test, then went full retard with Mario Kart World being $80. Donkey Kong Bananza launched at $70. Like a month and a half later they dropped a new DLC which technically makes the game $90.

Raised the online price from $20 to $50 with the Nintendo Online + Expansion Pass to access N64 and GameCube games. What's also fucked is that the Expansion Pass was literally made to have free access to Nintendo game DLCs aka expansions, yet we haven't gotten anything since Splatoon 2.

Raised the prices of all hardware because of "tariffs" when the Switch and it's hardware has not had a single price drop in 8 years.

Overall I think the price gouging is going to slow down the business, and it's going to end up with Amazon and Best Buy and Walmart/Target being stuck with more expensive stock that isn't moving as fast as the first console.

Personally I think the game key cards are much better than an empty game box with a code, but at the same time I have not bought a single Game Key Card title and probably never will.

>>720603263
They make some games I like to play that I can't get on Steam.

Nintendo makes video games.

Sony and Square Enix make movies. Microsoft makes flops. Atlus makes remakes. Epic, Tencent, Hoyo, etc. make casinos. Valve makes nothing. Who else is there? At least Nintendo does the bare minimum of a gaming company, which is to make a video game. You buy the thing and play the thing. You do not play slots. You do not watch the movie. You play the fucking game. Nintendo is alive because everyone else sucks.

>>720605513
>>No premium version with an OLED screen, which is a step backwards
Can OLED faggots just fuck off already?

>>720603263
A shadow of it's former self. Their games rarely push the medium foward anymore and it's obvious brand loyalty is the only thing still keeping them around. Their anti-consumer greedy ass practices make me feel at easy pirating their games

>>720605712
No it's $10 more. It's just in line with what Microsoft and Sony did.

>>720605513
>$80 for Mario Galaxy 1&2
with improved graphics and performance (non emu)
>Game Key Carts
common practice and third parties asked for it
>$100 Virtual Boy attachment
made to order item, for fuckers that are already willing to pay +50usd for NSO expansion
>Early DLC for Pokemon ZA/Donkey Kong Banaza rendering those games not fully on cartridge
common practice
>No premium version with an OLED screen, which is a step backwards
Likely released later in switch2 life
welp i won't defend anything else.

>>720605393
Nintendo crashed and burned during the N64 era for a reason. The games were too expensive while Playstation games were $20. With the Gamecube, Nintendo had to really focus on being consumer friendly so they had the Player's Choice games for $20 too. Whenever Nintendo has to try, things get pretty cool. The N64 and Gamecube had great games. The Wii U and early Switch also had good games but the games that released later in the Switch lifecycle weren't as good. During the SNES/Genesis wars, the SNES was also incredible. Competition is a good thing and Nintendo being in their own segmented market kinda sucks.

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I miss it

>>720605513
This. I feel like Nintendo saw that people will pay insane amounts of money for their stuff no matter what and decided just to go full ham on it with stuff like this or merch. Which, from a business standpoint, makes sense. Between all the money they made on merch sales and stuff like Pokemon TCG stuff I get it.

Thing is, it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth and makes me go "I have better things I can be doing with my time and money and can just wait on a lot of this." I am 37, I am not the target audience at all. I can easily afford all of this with the job I have, but I can tell the quality has been dropping. Doesn't help that after the direct yesterday, I sense we might be going through some Wii U levels of drought.

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>>720605964
Why is Mario Kart $80 then? Why is Bananza $90 now? You cant gaslight me, bitch. Ive been in this shit for decades.

>>720603263
They aren't living up to their potential. It's not only that they're making overpriced products, but I don't even know who some of these games are for (the Virtual Boy a prime example). Better networking, make a more comprehensive Virtual Console available with the online service. Switch 2 library is still lacking. Update some franchises people love, Kid Icarus or Star Fox?

>>720603263
Has-been company following the trajectory of every other has-been company coasting off an easy fanbase with unchecked success and money: Litigate everyone, lobby everything, innovate nothing.

It's a sad downward spiral of quality that becomes when your company is taken by bean counters and the product quits mattering. Sad part is that this typically results in a brief period of being more successful than ever because if you cut the quality people come to expect of you: that means you can sell gradually cheaper and shittier stuff before your reputation catches up with you. Big, plastic replicas of failed VR consoles is one such example.

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>>720603263
They’re evil and greedy. How did Nintendo specifically garner an audience of overzealous obese manchildren who defend stuff like $80 Wii games they could have bought in the Wii U store for $20? Or cloud only save backups? Or voice chat only through a shitty mobile app?
I dont know of any other fanbase that defends their shit eating so hard other than Nintendo Adults

>>720605168
>The problem with this
?
Every LiPo battery degrades regardless, sometimes even in ways that can damage the device. That's why they designed the 3DS and WiiU pro controller to have theirs easily replaceable by the end-user.

>Splatoon 4
>Animal Crossing
>Pokemon gen X
>NuZelda
>FE Fortunes Weave

These will all be 80$ won't they?

>>720603263
Out of touch. Nobody asked for Virtual Boy and a lot of those paid dlcs could have been free updates. Having a second racing game as the big holiday title is strange too

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>>720606176
This is the end result of having money counters as your CEOs instead of legit game developers.

We didn't realize how good we had it with Iwata and Reggie. Reggie was a money guy who knew what customers would enjoy and Iwata was a game dev guy who knew what kind of games would do well. It was really a dream team and we're living in the aftermath of having that reputation while being ran by bean counters who only care about what sell well.

And sure, the bean counters and money lenders ARE right, what is going on right now has made more money than Iwata and Reggie ever could, but that doesn't mean it's good for the company. It's better to be a company with a good reputation with money in the bank than a company that burns that reputation for firewood.

We don't live in sane world, though. We live in a world where companies only care about quarter to quarter because that's what makes investors, their actual customers, happy. And this will remain until Dodge vs Ford is overturned.

>>720606065
I don't. I'm not paying $5 for an NES ROM. Not paying $10 for an N64 ROM.
>But a real N64 cart is like $80!!!!
Yeah? And a downloaded ROM is FREE.

Believe me, I spent hundreds of dollars on Wii, Wii U, and 3DS VC games and I don't regret it. It's just that this time I just can't do it again, especially that all this VC titles I purchased are basically no longer tied to my account.

If Nintendo had a system like Steam then maybe things would be different. The current NSO service is fine for me because I rarely even play retro games anymore (was playing Star Fox 64 last night with the N64 controller tho).

>>720603263
their first party games are too expensive for me and the switch 2 doesn't have any automatic enhancements for switch 1 third parties to make it worth the cost.

>>720605513
>$80 for Mario Galaxy 1&2
Ok go emulate them.
>Being the only company to have a walled garden voice chat that's also a paid service
Use discord
>Game Key Carts
Zero first party games use this. Also its neccessary for third party games which are fucking massive in size in which they also need shelf space esspecially in regions like japan
>$100 Virtual Boy attachment
Seems ok price what is the issue?
>Early DLC for Pokemon ZA/Donkey Kong Banaza rendering those games not fully on cartridge
Ok what is the issue here? Every company does this. The base games are already content complete retard
>Since they're doing those DLCs, it makes the very small amount of base storage space even worse.
Literally grasping at strings lmao get a sd card retard
>No premium version with an OLED screen, which is a step backwards
You would then bitch about that being expensive, I rather get a 1080p 120hz screen. Theres a reason valve didnt do this nor the rog ally x
>2 of the big new exclusives this year are racing games
Ingores hyrule warriors, DK, Prime 4, Pokemon etc.
>Charging $10 for the welcome tour
Ok dont buy it.
>Not having the DLC included in the Switch 2 release of BotW
Why would a dlc be included? Its just a switch 2 edition. Not a goty edition retard
>Charging $80 for Switch 2 versions like Kirby in general
That come with the dlc

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>>720603263
Everything they do feels like C- work, Like this is ok, but I'd like to see more or could be better. Take for instance that Pokepia game coming up. A Dragonquest Builders + Minecraft + Animal Crossing =Pokemon game sounds like a S tier idea but how it was presented; just left me wanting more.

Why are we a ditto? Why can't we make our own trainer/character? It be cool to build our own Safari Zone, use the lore you already have and play Zoo Tycoon but with pokemon. Again, just C- Ideas.

>>720606024
>with improved graphics and performance (non emu)
They are Wii games, charging 2x Silksong or about the price of E33 for a single one is a joke. Nintendo is consistently bad about charging way too much for the remakes/remasters/smaller games.

>common practice and third parties asked for it
>common practice
With the Switch 2, it's the smaller storage space that really makes matters worse. The 800gb-1tb that other consoles have compared to the 256gb that the Switch 2 is a really big deal. So Game Key Carts become incredibly inconvenient and consumers have to buy micro SD express cards so that Nintendo and third party publishers can save more money.

>Likely released later in switch2 life
Yeah, I'm sure it will happen. But it sucks because they clearly want people to double dip.

>>720606405
>Yeah? And a downloaded ROM is FREE.
MAY YOU BE CAUGHT!!!!!

>>720606176
>I am 37, I am not the target audience at all. I can easily afford all of this with the job I have, but I can tell the quality has been dropping.
I'm 36 and DK Bananza is the best game of the year. Everyone is still making movie slop and here comes Nintendo yer again with a game that is just a game.

However $500 for the console, and $70 for the game is shit. Like you, I can afford this. I could buy 100 Switch 2s if I wanted. I just DONT want to pay these prices. So with Switch 2 I'm going to be super picky with what I buy, and I'm just going to hit my backlog of Switch 1 games because I am terrible at finishing games.

>>720606209
>but I don't even know who some of these games are for (the Virtual Boy a prime example)
Actual Nintendo fans who have been enjoying their entertainment since 1889 such as myself. (Yes I am THAT old)

>>720606481
Probably the closest we'll ever get to a Pokemon Animal Crossing and they choose to make the MC a ditto. Goddamn, man.

>>720603263
I feel like Nintendo has no in-between as a company.
When they're doing good, they're doing really fucking good. When they're doing bad, it's really fucking bad. There's never a "oh, that sorta sucks" or "oh, that was good, but not great"

Seeing their cockiness take them from free post-launch support like Kirby Star Allies' extra modes and characters and game modes like Luigi's Balloon World and extra costumes in Odyssey to content quite blatantly stripped from Donkey Kong Bananza before launch in the space of a single generation is fucking insane to say the least, topped up with
>you want mario galaxy 2? $40 :) oh, but you can buy a bundle with galaxy 1 for the low low price of $70
>remember the virtual boy? we know you're already paying a subscription service, so you'll be happy to hear you can ONLY play it with the addition of a shitty $99 plastic replica of the virtual boy :) what? the controllers? no, the hunk of plastic doesn't have those! why would it?

>>720605712:
>Raise Amiibo prices from $12 to $20, some are $30-40.
Yes did you consider inflation and tarrifs aswell as some amiibo are double the size of normal ones. You cant be this retarded.
>Raised games by $70 with Tears of the Kingdom as a test, then went full retard with Mario Kart World being $80. Donkey Kong Bananza launched at $70. Like a month and a half later they dropped a new DLC which technically makes the game $90.
$70 was already the standard when zelda launched with sony microsoft and steam. Also why are you adding DLC to donkey kong to make your post look valid that is fucking retarded.
>Raised the online price from $20 to $50 with the Nintendo Online + Expansion Pass to access N64 and GameCube games. What's also fucked is that the Expansion Pass was literally made to have free access to Nintendo game DLCs aka expansions, yet we haven't gotten anything since Splatoon 2.
They never raised NSO you can still get nso for 20 dollars. You again cant be this retarded. The expansion pass includes N64, genesis, gamecube, gameboy advance etc.
>Raised the prices of all hardware because of "tariffs" when the Switch and it's hardware has not had a single price drop in 8 years.
The bill of materials is likely still the same. Your price cut was the inflation that has skyrocketed since covid
>Personally I think the game key cards are much better than an empty game box with a code, but at the same time I have not bought a single Game Key Card title and probably never will.
All first party games are on key cards. Literally a non issue

>>720606258
Then I'm not sure what your problem is. Are you saying it's difficult to replace the Wii U battery? Bro I've done that twice. It's literally ONE screw to get to the battery.

>>720606629
>Actual Nintendo fans
Actual Nintendo fans fucking hated it though, the thing was a right piece of shit in every single way. Even putting aside the fact it had no games, the construction and quality of it was poor. It had a stand custom-made to flip the thing over and crack it against the floor.

>>720606296
Splatoon and Animal Crossing will definitely be $80. Pokemon will be $70 but it will probably have $40 of DLC.
Nu Zelda will be $70.
FE will be 70 with a $20 DLC.

Screen cap and print this.

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>>720603263
No trophies, no play.

Games are too baby type for me

>>720603263
We're just returning to Yamauchi era. Furukawa needs more recklessness imo.

>>720606647
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought the MC Ditto thing was just weird
>But how would the MC understand what the pokemon are saying?
Ffs, It's a fantasy world. Invent some PokeGear translator, make the MC "The Chosen one" and can understand pokemon, a Kanto Dr.Doolittle. Be creative damnit!

>>720606508
You must be 18 years or older to post here.

>>720606176
The drop in quality has been very noticeable. Princess Peach Showtime and Echoes of Wisdom show that Nintendo is now making games explicitly for little girls. They're wasting dev time and resources trying to appeal to newer markets instead of catering to their old ones and you can see this with the game design shifting more and more towards open world with their new releases as well.

The old Nintendo innovated, the new Nintendo trend chases. We a Donkey Kong game with equipment and skill trees. Insane.

>>720606481
>>720606647
STOP TRYING TO FUCK THE POKEMON

>>720606827
honestly fuck trophies.

we're at the point where the price is outpacing my desire to actually play the games. Still haven't played half of the shit on the Switch.

>>720603263
Games bretty good. Extremely jewish though, switch 2 emulation can't come soon enough but I have a big enough backlog wait

>>720606180
>Why is Bananza $90 now
I't's $70 and the dlc literslly only adds a small side mode. It's overpriced but n9t necessary

>>720607042
This.
I'm not even poor I just don't see the reason to spend the money on these games when so few of them are even good or aren't things I already own.

Why the FUCK would anyone pay $70 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2? What compels a tendie to do such a thing?

>>720606296
Splatoon 4 will be worth it.

>>720603263
For the past like 15-20 years the suits have been the worst the industry has ever seen and the developers are incredibly bright and driven people who make great products.

>>720607137
I'd like to play Mario Maker, and the Link's Awakening remake. But at those prices, nah. Make them half of that, especially when they have been out for years.

>>720607137
>Why the FUCK would anyone pay $70 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2? What compels a tendie to do such a thing?
They're both masterpieces and better than Astrobot which is $60

>>720607042
Even as a NEET that can play games for free, there's simply too many new releases coming out these days. Games are so fucking padded too and a lot of people have other games they play with friends or are a part of their daily chore routine because they're gachafags so the amount of free time isn't there even as a NEET. God forbid you have a job or a family because you're going to be playing that 100+ hour game like FF7 Rebirth for months.

Everything being multiplat now probably plays into it a bit because back in the day if you weren't an idort, the new games on other consoles might as well not have existed but now there's a constantly deluge of games on every console/PC.

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>>720607304
does Mario have trophies?

Astro Bot is better than any Mario game ever made.

Reggie said that Sony "almost outdid" Mario, that just means that they did and Nintendo was shaking in their boots.

>>720607304
I have them on Wii tho.

>>720606701
>Yes did you consider inflation and tarrifs aswell as some amiibo are double the size of normal ones. You cant be this retarded.
They are the same size as $12 Amiibo. The most expensive Amiibo before were the Guardian, the big detective Pikachu, Wooly Mega Yoshi. Those were all $30-$40. The street fighter 6 Amiibo are the same size as regular ones yet are $40. You think that's because of Trump's scam? Lmao.

>$70 was the standard
Wrong. And we are talking about Nintendo, not Cucksoft, Fagny, or Steam.
>Why are you adding the price to a game in order to get the complete game
Absolute retard. I'm not wasting my time with you.

>>720607435
God Rebirth literally took like 2 months of my time with how much I work. I picked up Hundred Line expecting it to be a 30-40 hour game. NOPE.

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>>720606395
>This is the end result of having money counters as your CEOs instead of legit game developers.
I've seen this one, this is a classic!

>>720605074
Nintendo is paying for the tariffs so it's okay bro

>>720606736
>Actual Nintendo fans fucking hated it though
No. Nintendo "fans" who got their opinion from the Angry Video Game Nerd hated it. You never had a VB. I do.

>>720607304
>They're both masterpieces and better than Astrobot which is $60

This game has been released five times since it was put out and you can find it used on ebay for $30 for both ofthem.

>>720607304
Astrobot has been released once, so even if this was comparable to a game that has seen multiple re-releases, it still doesn't excuse a 16 year old game pack with zero improvements being as much as a full fledged new game when it runs on any basic bitch PC with Dolphin for free.

Even on the original switch it makes no sense

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>>720607536
Yeah so have I. While they get short-term profits it all ends the same way.

>>720606296
Splatoon 4 $70, $20 expansion
No question Zelda, Pokemon or Animal Crossing are $80

>>720606024
>common practice and third parties asked for it
But not good one, retarded faggot.

>>720603263
They're fumbling the switch 2 pretty badly. They've yet to put out a game worthy of the system aside from Mario kart.
They're playing their cards way too close to the chest when it comes to information.
Prime 4 is going to be shit just like dread.
Data key cards are a mistake and third party developers that are desperate for more sales and rely on them are getting fucked hard by an audience that is open to spending truck loads money, but VERY PICKY on what they spend money on.
The SD card Express as a storage medium is a the biggest weakness of the console.

>>720603263
Sony and Microsoft no longer seem to be real competition for Nintendo, and Nintendo is in a tough spot now without the real competition from Sony and Microsoft, which it can be compared to. A lot of Nintendo's grace came from how they managed to maintain a certain image against their competitors.
Also, they are still struggling to find themselves after the loss of Satoru Iwata.
I am frankly glad Nintendo is the last one standing of the big 3 competitors in the 00's/10's console wars, it's not an ideal situation at all, but probably the best outcome. But that's also a difficult position to be in.
Its easy to point the finger at Nintendo and call them especially greedy now, but it's also true that the economy seems to be getting worse, and Nintendo is frankly just doing what any reasonable company would do in their position.

Video games are, or should be, ultimately, for children and families. Not me.
Nintendo is still the best company for that market.
I feel I have more to say, but I'll end my post there. I am happy the family friendly company won the console wars, even if it's less than ideal for me as a videogame enjoyer.

>>720607536
I don't think Yamauchi is a game dev. People need to accept that Iwata was an outlier, not the norm.

>>720603263
I'm tired of them 'open world'ing everything and wish they'd whip Gamefreak into shape since the Pokemon IP seems to be the main cause of their current patent spree.
I'm excited for Rhythm Heaven.

>>720603263
I think people who are over age 15 that are obsessed with them in a positive or negative way are extremely embarassing.
Just play the games or don't. If they are as shit as you claim, why do you even still care as a grown adult?

Only cares about appeasing the portababbies.

>>720608314
Iwata was kind of bad at running the company.
You all love him now. You didn't love him when you weren't buying a Wii U, and turning your nose up at things like Wii Music, or laughing at the Wii vitality censor.

Nintendo should consider bringing back Reggie in some form.
I get a strange sense he was replaced by Bowser because of Trump's win, and Nintendo wanted to appear more conservative.
So Reggie was ousted and Bowser was in.
Reggie was really fun and likeable though.
"If it's not fun, why bother" is an idea I stick to.

>>720608224
Video games are in the same position that books have been in over the past 15 years.
They're no longer competing amongst themselves. They're competing against EVERYTHING.
YouTube, mobile, streaming services, movies, fads/FOTM, and whatever gets people's attention.
Nintendo is doing a good job compared to Microsoft and Sony, but it's not going to last much longer. That's part of the reason why Nintendo is leaning harder on the culture victory they got. They have a 40 year head start compared to Microsoft and Sony.

>>720603263
Honestly, I was a fan from my earliest fragmented memories playing the NES, up until Wii, couldn't stand the 180 and exclusive pandering to casuals
Wii U/ 3DS brought me back in
I got duped into getting the switch because the smash edition system, and I grew to very much dislike the direction I could see Nintendo going
In the weeks leading up to officially released switch 2 info, I could see the writing on the wall, and with all my concerns confirmed, I decided to go cold turkey from giving Nintendo any more money, after roughly 34 years, whether it's hardware, software, or merchandise, I'm done with them
And because everything they're doing is reverse engineered to squeeze blood from stone, with no drive to innovative or care for their customers
They're never going back to the way things were, and I suppose with that neither will I

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>>720608351
It owns that this dude hates Nintendo yet they live rent free in his head

>>720605271
nice blog post faggot

>>720608463
The refusal to just lower prices is going to be the death of a lot of things in the long run.
Bring back the Player's Choice range, drop prices to 50% off, after the game has been out a year. They'll immediately win back the part of the audience that they're pricing themselves out of.
Also launch at $50, not 80.
They'll make back the money on Amiibos and bullshit anyway.

>>720606827
>Trophies
Anon, save yourself from this artificial bullshit.

>>720608827
Trophies are used as an excuse from poors to artificially extend the life of a game and make them think that they're getting their money's worth.

>>720608556
It's legitimately insane. There are so many people on this board who complain about nintendo adults, and then sit there and talk about nintendo all day, still watch all the directs, and is DYING to emulate the games.

>>720603263
games are not very good, but most other companies are even worse so it's basically the only console worth owning.

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>>720608979
You would gobble them up if Nintendo did it.

>>720608735
They are looking for the way to maintain game dev cycle and I see that could help with the price in a long run.

>>720603263
I don't like their games and despise their fan base.

>>720606827
Some Nintendo games have in game trophies/achievements.

>>720603263
Nintendo reminds of a more tone deaf and evil Apple, reselling the same product over and over. But nintendo is openly hostile to content creators, fan projects, and efforts to preserve their games or make playable games they have pretty much abandoned.

they have nothing i want to play. i would like a new F zero game but I'm not buying their hardware for 1 game. I did that once. Bought a wii for twilight princess and never played it again. Nintendo has been dead to me since.

>>720609015
>it's basically the only console worth owning.
Based. PC + newest Nintendo console has been the combo for most of my life.
Gamepass being on PC is great, and all the PS games I want end up on PC in a year anyway.

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>>720603263
They release games. That's a plus. That's somehow an achievement in the current industry
The games themselves are typically fun. There's a certain level of quality you can be guaranteed even if it ends up forgettable. Except Pokemon. I do feel like the games on the Switch were as a whole not as driven though, nothing really wow'd me. Even Wii U with its poor library had at least two games I especially enjoyed (Splatoon and Xenoblade X). Not sure how much I'll be going back to it in the future. Hopefully the Switch 2 will be better, getting it later for Air Riders.
The Switch itself was a negative experience. The controllers are pieces of shit, stopped being able to use handheld mode a year in because of the drift. Introduced paid online for worse network service than what was on the Wii U. No internet features. Generally grey and lifeless UI that was an incredibly jarring coming from the 3DS with the themes, badges, seasonal eshop music, all that shit.
Then otherwise, they've always done retarded shit that's purely negative for the consumer like region locks and shutting down fan games, but could a guy just get a fucking sale? To this day Mario Kart 8, an 11 year old Wii U game, is $60. DK Tropical Freeze released on the Wii U for $50, lowered to $20 for Nintendo Selects, but because it got a New Funky Mode™ on the Switch it's now $60 11 years later. Like what the fuck? Hardly the only thing I've had a problem with either, like having limited time digital releases for no reason. My nigga Mario Royale died for an official clone of it that was not only worse but only existed for a year.

The Switch 2 being able to be remotely bricked by an automated system is a hard "No" for me in terms of my interest in the console.
Not that I have any fear that I would run afoul of that system, but culture changes quickly.
What's "OK" today might become "cancel-worthy" tomorrow.
Hackers might be able to take advantage of the system and ruin a lot of people's day.
I have no interest in spending 600-700 dollars or whatever the price is on a console that might stop working randomly for software reasons in addition to hardware reasons.

Also, there's the issue of the Switch 2 owner whose sister named an account "Twink Link" and got his console bricked.
I am actually ok with the word "Twink" being censored. If it's Nintendo policy to censor that word from account names and in-game chat services to promote a family friendly ecosystem, that's ok with me.

But why could you name an account "Twink" and get your 700$ console bricked in the first place?
Isn't that what word filters are for?
Surely you can't include words in your account name like "Fuck", and merely typing that in won't brick your console right? The system will just ask you to enter a different account name ... right?
The scenario in which someone named their account "Twink Link" and got hit with an automated console bricking is dystopian.

greatest company on earth, and the only company that actually cares about it's customers

>>720608992
They're just complaining about people age 25-46 who have a job and can budget. Anon said fans are picky but picky can apply to price or taste.
The Nintendo direct basically showed that more people are picky on taste over price.

>>720609194
>i would like a new F zero game
F-Zero 99 is the best F-Zero since the snes game.

>>720603263
They're getting worse, and somehow their fans have become even more cultlike

>>720603263
litigious and greedy

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>>720603263
A shell of a shell of their former selves.
I don't think they were ever a family friendly company, but they at least made many good games up through the Wii era and most of the 3DS and Wii U eras. People say Iwata's death was a turning point in this downfall, and I'm starting to believe it.
Also their fans supporting them I think have gone too much in denial. Please Nintendo fans, please stand up for yourself. All those people that bought a Switch 2 after saying they wouldn't please listen to your guts.

>>720603263
The fact that they get so much more seethe from retards compared to other AAA companies basically proves how much better their product is.

>>720609535
Literally shut up, don't steal code, and don't make money by doing things that are illegal and violate IP rights.

>>720603263
>>720603369
anti-competition too

>>720603263
I think Nintendo's smartest move would be to put Furukawa, Doug Bowser, and the other direct guy in some shitty skits.
That's pretty much the only reason anyone gave a shit about the previous executives.

>>720603263
nintendo is going down hill.
>full price remakes
>charging a arm and a leg for shitty plastic goods even charging $30 for some carboard
>games are all rehashes with minimal effort put in and slapped with a huge price tag that never goes on sale.
>games only last 3-6 hours tops then there is nothing to do anymore.
>have to pay for emulators and online play that is subpar.
>charges a arm and a leg for a cartridge then forces developers to buy a shitter version of the cartridge that is just a download code and physical drm.
>console cannot even handle recent releases without dropping down to 10 fps

>>720603263
Souless garbage company that outjews the jews, big part of my childhood, but I'm not fucking retarded so I dont worship their ass. Also the games they make now are garbage.

>>720609759

I forgot to add
>files for patients for game mechanics that are so basic that every game uses them.

>>720603263
the JP president is a fucking bean counter faggot which is why an unreleased game already has DLC announced. DK has 20 dollar DLC for a single level added and new mode with limited use on other existing levels. Oh yeah the mandatory peripheral for the virtual boy games when you could play them without stereocopic and just play them as 2d games. I like a lot of nintendo products but the you don't hate them enough meme is real.

Old thing New prices.

>>720603263
They're starting to burn decades of goodwill. One thing is business and another is trying to squeeze some extra dollars out of your fanbase because line needs to go up and stay green.
I can understand the price increase in amiibo and accesories thanks to based retard tariffs but selling what is clear cut content as DLC for 20 bucks for a roguelike mode and a hub area that's smaller than the first level just tells me that they're willing to copy TPC's strategy of "let's see how much we can get away with".
The worst part? They will get away with it because aside from some indie devs, none of the other big names are making games but movies instead and your average consoomer has the restrain of a meth addict.

they got really arrogant and greedy after the switches success but that's not too surprising considering game publishers always do that after a big success (See the controveries surrounding PS3, Xbone, Wii U)

there's nothing you can really do about it. Corporations will always go greed when they can

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>>720610198
>thanks to based retard tariffs

Poorfags spending $100 a week on fast food are surprised that they can't afford games.

>>720606701
>Yes did you consider inflation and tarrifs a
No, why would i? I value my own interests above some random corpo.

>>720607442
>Astro Bot is better than any Mario game ever made.
You didn't even play Odyssey.

>>720608314
Yamauchi wasn't a dev but he was always open about encouraging his idea guys to find something new. Like the whole reason he liked Gunpei and Miyamato is because they made FUN shit.

>>720608224
>acting jew is reasonable
Shalom.

>>720603263
Horrible cunts kept alive by horrible people.

>>720609113
Nta but
>Get game
>Half the trophies/Cheevos are tied to the online
>Online has been dead for years
>Or it's one of those online Cheevos that says you need to be ranked #1 in the world, but the top 20 ranks are all hacked scores

>>720603263
I think Nintendo is at their best right now with all the games we're getting, even third party companies are all praising the switch 2 I have a good feeling we're going to see more games like RE9 come to the switch. People focus too much on the nintendo pricing itself when everything even outside of video games is getting more expensive. Also anyone claiming that nintendo needs to go back to their desperate era shouldn't be taken seriously

>>720603263
God fucking damnit reveal some splatoon raiders details. I really got into that series this year.

Actually looking forward to legends ZX, I expect it will actually be good.


Honestly I love the direction nintendo is going with the huge interactive and interconnected worlds. The amount of detail and decoration they put into games like bananza was insane.
I figured I'd get Kirby and the forgotten land since I skipped it when it released and it kinda blows my mind how detailed and well decorated the envioronments are.

I think it draws my eye more because the worlds are usually abstract and exaggerated. everything is placed deliberately. and the worlds feel 'real' in a way.


There are plenty of things to complain about. but I'm having a great time with the games they have released. and I don't think that will change any time soon.

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>>720603263
>Please be honest and keep the trolling posts down. What are your current feelings about Nintendo?

I've been playing games since 1994.
I've never been a diehard Nintendo fan, ever.
The last consoles that really caught me were the GameCube and the DS and 3ds.
Nintendo really seemed to be inspired at that time.
The Wii, Wii U, Switch and now the Switch 2 are just not interesting to me in the slightest.
Their overall output of games is surprisingly low compared to prior generations. With the DS and Wii in conjunction you had just tons and tons of 1st party Nintendo games being churned out, and even though I'm not a fan of Nintendo you still had to respect the overall constant production of games for their fans.

Now it's like I'm tuning in the a direct every 6 months to see if they have even 1 or 2 games that interested, and in the last 4 or 5 directs I haven't been interested in anything. And I'm shocked at the volume of releases coming out.
My opinion is that they're stagnating too much and they need to focus on trying to get into the groove they had during the 7th Gen.
My overall feelings about modern Nintendo, though, is that I could simply live without them. Nothing from the company has caught my eye in years.

>>720603263
Pretty disappointed.
>Expensive Mario kart as a launch title. Boring and empty "open world" gimmick. Same corporate shit.
>Monkey Dong Brainrotanza, soulless meandering ADHD slog of a game.
>Physical game cards with no games in them.
>New pokémon somehow looks even more boring and unpolished than the usual.
> Metroid development hell. PS3 graphics, open world slop.
>No strong third party support when it comes to exclusive stuff.
>Shovelware and ports galore, but it costs more.
They should merge with Disney.

>>720610378
You dont have to try something to know its shit. Youve never tasted shit, so go do it because you dont know if its bad or not.

>>720610494
Meh, not really that big of an issue.

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>>720609194
Apple is probably a good comparison. I want to say they are trying to be like Disney. Maybe a mix of both Disney and Apple.
>>720605513
>$80 for Mario Galaxy 1&2
I didn't know about this. What the hell.
I'm so freaking glad the Fatal Frame 2's remake is multiplatform because that was the only game I wanted from that entire direct. Watching those Directs feels like I am in the Twilight Zone and someone's playing a sick joke. Sony's state of plays are the same way, but it seems worse for Nintendo somehow. I think its the smuggness of going 'here's that $50 game now for $70'.

>>720603263
They lost and got raped

>>720603263
Too expensive cooperate litigious and fucked up. I'll probably never play another Nintendo game again I just dont care anymore. I want to know what kind of crazy Yakuza shit they do behind the scenes

>>720603263
They're scum and nothing but a soulless husk of what they once were at this point. They're no longer the company anyone cared about even if some people are still in denial over that fact.

They could be trying a bit harder.

>>720610946
>You dont have to try something to know its shit
This is true and it's why I know people think Astrobot is good because they literally have had no good platformers since PS3 so they'll eat up any slop at the moment. Especially when it's directly tied to nostalgia from when PlayStation actually had IPs.

>>720603263
I'm not going to say Iwata's era was better because it definetly had its caveats like the Wii U and its drought in 2015 but you can tell Furukawa is a textbook japanese corporate man and it's influence has definetly leaked across Nintendo's games. Putting Bowser in NoA doesn't help either considering he came from FUCKING EA.

>>720610431
I don't think Furukawa is being prohibitive to the idea guys either. If anything, he should learn to be more ruthless like Yamauchi so those idea guys stop lazing around.

>>720603263
It takes them far too long to develop games in the HD era.
They should have bought studios or expanded much more than they have to mitigate this.

I think they aren't doing enough. Sure, I want to play Donkey Kong and Metroid, but that's not enough of a reason for me to buy a Switch 2 or deal with the frankly exploitative monetization with everything related to it.

>>720607754
No one had a problem when Metroid Prike got re-released for $40

>>720611305
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2022/220412.html

They bought land and plan to have a building built on it for more developers.

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>>720603263
I like a lot of their video games but I'm not a fan of this idea that so many games need to lean into open world/sandbox environments. Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Metroid Prime, Pokemon, even Fire Emblem has elements of it now and it's too much, it's time for their video games to be scaled back down.

>>720603263
They suck

>>720611028
>>720611074
ok eric
let others have their turn now, please

>>720603263
i have been a nintendo fan for my entire life. started with the nes, and i have had almost every major console released up to the switch. my opinions on them were mostly positive, even when i heard about all the things they do to sue people and take things down. however i think things are changing for the worse now. its all coming together now; they are the true enemy of gaming. they do not give a shit about their own consumers. they really don't. they want you to be obsessed with them and continue to pay for all the fucking trash they keep re-releasing. the game key cards are despicable. the remastered games being done over and over with an even bigger price than before is disgusting. the switch 2 is a fucking scam. you'd have to be the most retarded braindead nigger on earth to actually want that virtual boy add on, and to pay for the online subscription to use it. like what are you, fucking retarded shit for brains? this shit is ridiculous. i needed a reason to convince myself not to buy a switch 2, because i genuinely could not stop myself. nintendo brainwashes people. miyamoto and sakurai have lost the light in their eyes. they genuinely enjoy making things fun and great, but they are being taken advantage of by this fucking corporation that is becoming increasingly jewish because they can get away with it. nah, not me. i will not get a switch 2. not for smash, not for 3d mario, and not for xenoblade 4. the switch 2 will become hackable, and thats when i will buy one. fuck nintendo. i'll post a link to these videos that opened my eyes a little bit more than i would've liked to

https://youtu.be/iIYvvSLblHg?si=ngdKmVGcyA8u8e5L

https://youtu.be/bjj7fUQ-7mo?si=tsyKSDxrykZCvPVy

>>720611624
buy an ad

>>720605513
You don't have to buy any of this, you know that right?

>>720611178
Astro Bot was pretty good though.

>>720603263
Incredibly disappointing. They've been closing the gap of nastiness between them and their competition more and more with every month that goes by, especially with their ridiculous pivot back into pushing themselves as a "premium" brand.

Their fanbase is a major contributing factor though. With the Switch, especially since Pokémon SwSh, Nintendo has cultivated an audience motivated purely by obligation (and even spite in extreme cases, like a lot of /v/) to buy shit just because it exists at a time when they haven't bought something recently, not as much anymore because it's actually interesting to them.

>>720611596
shitch poo lost and got raped

720611657
npc detected

>>720603263
They learned nothing from the 3DS
>Release successor to your most successful console to date
>Bank 99% on retrocompatibility and completely forgo a strong launch lineup of new exclusive games.
>Overvalue the console by adding pointless gimmicks (3D, mouse mode), making adoption a very steep prospect for anyone but the most hardcore fans.
They turned it around once but they seem less inclined to do so this time around, the direct was total ass, thus was the time to show they're at least working on Zelda, Mario, Xenoblade and a new IP, instead we get more ads for games that are coming out in a month or two, DLCs up the wazoo and literal power washer fucking simulator, they really proved they have NOTHING in store.

I never really liked Nintendo, but they release more exclusive in a year than Sony or Xbox in a lifespan of the console. And f2p games doesn't do it for me either, sorry.

>>720606701
Cattle

>sony and microsoft raised the price of their consoles after the switch 2 came out
>their games still cost more than switch 2 games
>sony and microsoft don't even make their own games anymore they let other parties do it
>yet everyone hates on nintendo

the hatred is overblown and it's why nobody cares about nintendo haters

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>>720603263
Im a pretty big Nintendo guy but I am too poor for the Switch 2 ecosystem. I could buy a Switch 2 if i saved but I cant do Nintendo Online Expansion pack, $70–$80 games, etc etc.
Normally I couldnt resist getting the new console but Im weirdly okay with waiting. Even with Airriders on the horizon. Im still waiting for that one game I 100% need.

Basically Nintendo’s best shot with me is releasing something like Animal Crossing, Smash, new 3D Mario, etc. and releasing some special edition Switch 2 to make it easy for me. Although even with a switch 2 im not getting online expansion pass, and buying games very rarely since everything is just too much money.
So yeah rip i guess. Guess nintendo is just too expensive for people at my level of poverty.

>>720605903
Indies.
Honestly what was the last good game that wasn't Nintendo or indie?

>>720608314
That's what happened to Boeing.
Was ran by a very talented board of engineers.
up until they merged with Mcdonnel Douglas, who famously crashed their company a few years prior to the merger.

Now their planes fall from the sky and every engineer who calls out their behavior gets mysteriously suicided, and it's happened more than a few times.

nintendo probably won't be killing people over video games but it also won't be achieving greatness.

eric won

millions of people are refunding and returning their shitch poo

>Im a pretty big Nintendo guy
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>>720605513
I agree with most of these but your only points against are
>$80 for Mario Galaxy 1&2
It's 70 for both which is still retarded. What's worse is they charged 60 for 3 games 5 years ago and for a limited time.
>No premium version with an OLED screen, which is a step backwards
You know damn well they only do premium models in the middle of a console's lifespan. Besides, do you really want more retards screaming into the void about how the OLED would be 550 or more?
>Charging $80 for Switch 2 versions like Kirby in general
As outrageous as it may be, these are made for those who didn't got these games during the Switch 1 era and it at least includes all updates and qol they made for the Switch 2 version. Though they're not that enticing when you could grab the former for cheaper.

>>720611358
I absolutely did, and $40 for a re-release is a far cry from $70 in case you can't count.

>>720612058
>nintendo probably won't be killing people over video game
And if they did, it would be a wild time to announce Hitman for Switch 2.

>>720612072
extremely painful

>>720608314
Yamauchi wasn't a game dev but he knew that, he also knew that messing with the game devs was a bad idea because he did not know anything about vieo games.

He still had Gunpei Yokoi killed for making the Wonderswan and nothing wil convince me otherwise.

>>720612058
Except nintendo was originally ran by Yamauchi family who were neither gamer nor programmer. That's why Furukawa is returning to normal nintendo.
>nintendo probably won't be killing people over video games
lol
>he isn't away of what they did to gunpei after virtualboy failure

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I genuinely don't think it's a price issue.
There just aren't enough games right now. The only thing that interests me is Metroid Prime 4 on higher quality hardware and the thought of some switch games having a performance boost.
If you ask me what I want, I don't know if I could give you an answer, but they have entire teams of people who work to figure that out and their ideas so far aren't what I want.

>>720612270
>virtualboy failure
Nintendo didn't kill him over that, they killed him over going to Bandai to make the Wonderswan with the pieces and parts he was planning on making the Gameboy 2 with.

>>720611894
>>their games still cost more than switch 2 games
Where?

>>720603263
I want to like them, but they've gotten to the point where almost everything they do lately comes off as assholish and/or incredibly greedy.

>>720607571
No one cares or asked, not your personal blog

>>720612330
oh damn i forgot about wanderswan incident

>>720611894
this board shits all over the ps5 and xbox, what a fragile little tranny

>>720607571
you're a faggot loser. i played a virtual boy at a friends house when i was young and it was trash.

>>720612270
>Except nintendo was originally ran by Yamauchi family who were neither gamer nor programmer. That's why Furukawa is returning to normal nintendo.
Boeing was the same way. It was financial advisors and engineers and the financial advisors knew better than to mess with the engineers the same way Yamauchi knew better than to mess with the game devs.

Then McDonnell Douglas merged and all of their financial guys became board members at Boeing and that's when things turned to shit. We're just witnessing the same thing happening now with Nintendo with bean counters like Bowser (worked for Electric Arts during their worst most despised years) and Furukawa (an accountant at hte european branch and board member of The Pokemon Company during its worst years). Neither of these people know how to do anything other than run their respective companies at profit margin.

>>720610793
Forgotten Land is a must desu

>>720612119
But the $70 re-release is for two games

I'd expect that kind of Direct during a drought or in the twilight years of a system. Not as the first fucking one of the generation. It sets a horrible tone for what's to come.

>>720603263
They make games very well suited for my 4 year old

>>720611894
Yeah they don't make games so no one cares about them

>>720612335
Everywhere? Open your eyes. New games on the Microsoft Store, Playstation Store and even Steam cost more than Nintendo games. Snake Eater Delta and Doom Dark Ages still cost more than Metroid Prime 4 which isn't even out yet.

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I miss it

>>720612703
This thing had nogaemz for like 2 years as well.

>>720612807
As if that's different than any other era.

>>720603263
>I barely touched the switch 1 since ToTk but that's to be expected for console EoL
>switch 2 hardware wise mostly satisfied but the new form factor hurts my hands in some games for whatever reason
>Mario kart world. I don't like racing but I always liked playing through the courses once to explore in mario kart so the open world mode was much appreciated. I did only get around 1/3 of the p-switches though before I've had enough but will probably revisit it
>Welcome Tour. Has some tedious elements but mostly a h idden gem
>DK bananza has high highs and low lows. Like I loved every second of some areas like groove and luncheon but others were dull and also I have no desire to 100% the game (especially now that there's an area locked behind a crummy dlc). It's good but it's no odyssey
>That direct yesterday was fucking pathetic. Mario Movie as the big start off announcement and so much time on shovelware and ports what the fuck is going on
>Metroid prime 4, never played the originals (metroid primes, I played all the 2d games) but it has mouse controls so now I'll play this one
>Yoshi story book, it's cute if it has any tough platforming I'll get it, but I have the felling it won't
>Fire emblem. I never played the series but really enjoyed watching someone else play through 3 houses and this is the same world so maybe I'll give it a shot?
>Pokopia. The idea of pokemon hanging around a base is super chill but it looks rather generic so on the fence here
>Everything else from the direct is not worth acknowledging
Honestly what I want most from switch 2 (other than unlikelies like wario land) is mario maker 3, 3d mario, and animal crossing (I had to skip new horizons because of the retarded 1 save file per console policy and I was still living with siblings during the switch 1 so I'm looking forward to getting back into the franchise)

>>720603263
Completely corporatized, in and out, like everyone else.

>>720612902
oh and I forgot that splatoon raiders game I'm hyped for that

>>720612670
Delta is $70, Dark Ages is $70, and so is Prime 4 on Switch 2. Are you so fucking arrogant that you weren't expecting me to do even the most cursory of Google searches?

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>>720612703
shit was kino

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>>720603263
I think they're video game apple
>overpriced
>make tablets
>insular system of systems
>doesn't advertise on power but esoteric nonsense
>has afk brain fans (though all console warriors are like this)
>is extremely loose with the lawsuit hammer
>got into movies for no reason

>>720606180
If you're going to call Bananza $90, then Borderlands 4 is $130. Every other big publisher sells deluxe editions of their games for over $100 and they often outsell the standard edition.
>>720612960
Dark Ages is $100 for the Premium Edition

>>720603263
If people pay for it, then we deserve the current Nintendo.

>>720613167
>for the Premium Edition
That's not the base game. And you really don't want to be playing that card right now, considering Nintendo just announced $30 DLC for Pokémon before it's even fucking out (which also makes it a $100 package on Switch 2).

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>>720603263
I think it is retarded that the price of Switch 2 is comparable to that of a PS5 and a mid end GPU.
I think the value you get from modern gaming is so little consoles might stop existing altogether because parents are NOT going to drop that kind of money on a device with a paid subscription and $80+ games. Xbox just capitulated this year with Sony soon to follow. Teens are not making THAT much as to adapt to the market, salaries in services are still dogshit.
Nintendo HAD more sensible practices like $300 devices and $60 games.
Now they are following on the same trends that killed their competitors with an apparent comparison to Disney.

Gamers in their 30s and 40s MIGHT have one gen left in them before they either move on or get a stroke. The visage of a 40 year old man playing a game called Donkey Kong Bananza alone in his room fills me with dread. Consoles with 1 or 2 games are a terrible thing and if you rely on Indie games you are getting robbed as they cost more on consoles. The market needs new blood and they are surrendering their entire market to mobile gacha shit.

We need to accept graphics faggotry lead us to a deep end where no one won.
A RTX 5090 is a complete fucking joke as well as the entire Nvidia suite of jewish tricks.
The industry needs to collectively dial it back.
We need cheaper hardware and affordable games.

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>>720603263
I’ve almost exclusively played Nintendo games my whole life, only taking a brief detour for DDR and Half-Life. I have a Virtual Boy. I have the ambassador 3DS. I used to buy multiple copies of DS/3DS to play with friends who were just out of college and broke. Every smash except melee was a day one buy for me.

There is no fucking way I’m paying $500 for a switch and $70 games. It is just not happening. I probably would have done it a generation ago, but after one set of joycons and three pro controllers all having drift and/or snapback, the shameless infantilization of their games, and worst of all the dogshit insult they dare to call online play in smash/splatoon, I couldn’t even be bothered to pirate their shit going forward. It’s a fucking terrible anti-consumer company, and there is no defending it. It would be one thing if they price gouged but still made games of exceptional quality that I look forward to playing with friends every weekend, but everyone I know quit out at some point in the switch’s life. They are just video game Apple now. $100 for a piece of plastic that holds your switch, $25 for literal cardboard. It’s crazy that we even have to have this discussion.

>>720603263
Same since like 2012 or so: a bad company with good games.

I think they're overcharging for everything (partly tariffs, partly weak yen, partly actual hubris) and it's made a bunch of sour grapes fags and people with severe NDS. You can admit you want a Switch 2 but be pissed off at the cost of everything, you don't have to try to convince the world that it's weaker than the PS1, calls the police on you at any power fluctuation, and pours sulfuric acid on your face while you sleep. But that's just console warring faggotry, and people nowadays lie about everything.

I think Nintendo is a conservative Japanese company with huge cultural differences that keep them from fully adapting to liberal American culture which has completely different standards for free use. You ever look at a Japanese Wikipedia article? Pictures are rarely posted because "free use" isn't the same. You can take a picture of anything in America, not in Japan, people are really private. Americans are also becoming more and more outrageous, belligerent, and outspoken as time passes, and there's a culture war aspect to it as a lot of Japanese media is incredibly popular overseas, and I'm sure there are certain players in America who dislike this distribution of power and would prefer it if foreign companies were despised in favor of domestic ones.

>>720613058
>doesn't advertise on power but esoteric nonsense
Graphix faggotry really doomed us all.
There is no point to advertising hardware capabilities anymore because PC fats will crawl out of every opening reminding you that you are playing on outdated hardware, no fucking shit, now what is topping on PC right now? It's FUCKING SILKSONG and prior to that Deltarune.

The culprit to this is Microsoft for pushing the x86 architecture.
If PC only had access to tailor made games and shitty ports, the industry would be in a much better spot. Now we are in a place where everyone is syphoned in UE5.
No one won the console war, we all lost.

>>720604252
It's crazy when you realize Nintendo hasn't made an in-house F-Zero since the F-Zero X Expansion Pack on the 64DD. Actually I guess F-Zero 99 counts, but that's not really what people are thinking of when they say F-Zero game.

>>720613406
>$100 for a piece of plastic that holds your switch

Is this true? Because I was so confused about what this was when I heard the price.

>>720612670
>>720613167
It's incredible just how fucking dishonest Nintendo fans have become.

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>>720603263
Massively overinflated sense of self-worth. They've somehow managed to sneakily adopt all of the worst trends of modern era gaming (paid online, over-priced releases, boring and empty open worlds, degraded personal ownership with the gamecard downloads, pay to play previous games on the new console "as intended"), and completely abandoned the affordability advantage they had over M$ and Sony, despite still having inferior hardware. Nintendo thinks that because they have "a legacy" (despite trampling on and burying their own legacy constantly), they're entitled to overcharge for very cheaply made products that bank on nostalgia above all else, and their army of Nintendo Adult sycophants enable them to keep getting away with it. This era is Nintendo at their absolute greediest, and I refuse to enable it any further, this is the first generation I intend to skip on them completely.

As someone who rarely purchases and collects fan memorabilia (i.e. overprices plastic garbage) I was pretty taken aback by how Nintendo seems to be going all in on that route. $50 Amiibos, $100 Virtual Boy shells, plastic mario flowers that talk for no fucking reason. I don't give a shit about any of that trash. And it seems to me that's becoming a big staple of Nintendo.

Other than that every game announced by them seems to be shit you wouldn't be surprised to see released in the past 15 years. Rehashes, milquetoast 2d platformers, a fire emblem game. I guess I'm curious about Prime 4.

Basically, Nintendo is becoming the obvious choice if you like to spend a lot collecting toys based on the same boring, safe titles Nintendo has been churning out for years.

>>720612584
two 16 year old games that weren't even re-released for that much previously.

>>720613558
>Graphix faggotry really doomed us all
I think there's more to it than that, but specfaggotry certainly is a piece of the puzzle
Worst part is, most "gamers" will say gaming is peak right now simply because muh grafix, and doesn't even consider issues like games trying to be movies and not games, subscription bullshit, a absolute flood of censored or lackluster remasters remakes "remakes" and ports due to incompetence and creative bankruptcy, and so much more

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There really was a huge shift pre and post-BOTW not just for the direction of the company but also the internal studios and even the customer base. It feels corporatized and sanitized to an insane degree especially considering nintendo games were already quite sanitized to begin with. The only way to describe it is that it feels like Nintendo's first priority is trying to sell you on the brand rather than letting the products organically boost the brand, and this "branded-ness" permeates every big product they have put out since 2017. It has a very uncanny Adult Star Wars Fan feel to it all. Some youtuber called it Weaponized Nostaliga and I think that's accurate.
>t. owned every ninty console since the SNES

>>720603263
They became like their evil competitors with paid online, DLC out the ass, and even day 1 funkopop-locked DLC.
In fact, it's more likely that they were always evil, just too stubborn to adopt new technology to do all the evil shit they wanted, which is why Iwata sold out so late.

>>720603263
They're starting to find ways to nickle and dime their fans too much.

Like damn I'd maybe get those Air Riders amiibo, but fucking $50 each is the most insane pricing I've seen yet from them.

>>720603263
They should have died instead of Sega 20 years ago.

>>720613406
>>720613671
It's not actually $99, it is WAY more than that.
Getting a hold of a single gaming collectible in 2020 is a terrible experience.
Nintendo and Limited Run Games are guilty of causing an artificial scarcity on their products by purposely not meeting the demand then overcontrolling how these items are distributed like the way they handle online pre-orders. Bots, scalpers and influencers have priority over the regular costumer.
Not only this causes people to pay MORE but do so more urgently as to beat resellers, the comparison to Apple is correct, it is exactly how Apple handles themselves through manipulation of the market.
During the Wii era it was pretty simple to get a hold of a collectable or a limited edition with a difference of $15 at most over the base game.
I would had never got a hold of Metroid Trilogy had it been released today.

Even for something as retarded as a Virtual Boy shaped case, do not expect to get it for the MSRP if at all.
It seems Nintendo wants the Disney adult audience of people who only get dopamine if they constantly consume their products without a second thought.

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LEAVE MY FRIEND NINTENDO ALONE!

>>720603263
They're pretty cool, the anti competitive stuff towards pocketpair is a bit fucked but I direct most of my Ire towards the state for allowing it to happen, Nintendo is probably having their arm twisted pretty hard by shareholders on this

>>720614506
>Sega, the first and foremost graphic fags
>and the initiator of console war
literally end yourself

>>720614110
>peak right now simply because muh grafix
Doom The Dark Ages is the flagship title for Nvidia's RTX 5000 series pushing every bell and whistle and nobody fucking wants that game and the fun part is that Eternal and Doom 2016 look immensely better because RTX is just applied willy-nilly everywhere which makes areas less memorable.

The fact it lost in revenue to Deltarune and even the Heretic + Hexen re-release should tell the industry that this is not the way to go.
That is not to say that in theory gaming is better to play older games but the current market is crap

>>720614626
the thing about that is japanese law retarded in that if you don't protect patents you loose them

>>720603263
desu I feel like gamers in general have ADHD all of sudden. No one seems to remember the first two years drought that happened to all nintendo consoles and now they are frustrated they don't get THE GAME right now.

Maybe it will be better in a year or two.

>>720603263
Shit company with shit games with shit hardware with shit overpriced accessories for autistic Nintendo Adults

>>720607304
>MUH SONY
Rent free.

>>720614743
We expected shit to get better or at least not get worse with them merging their handheld and console teams. Not taking 6 years to shit out a Zelda expansion pack or 8 fucking years to make Mario Kart of the Wild (complete with an open world that has almost the exact same biome layout as BotW).

>>720614743
hopefully we get a 3ds situation where they lower the price a year in and throw early adopters a bone.

oh who am I kidding? ol' douglas is going full jew mode.

>>720614743
Switch 1's especially good year 1 was a lot if zoomers first consile launch

>>720614854
yeah the management seems to acknowledge the problem of budget bloat for both money and dev time at least and they are trying to find the solution to keep the dev cycle short. Tho I'm not sure if they will ever find it.

>>720611596
You know i'm right, Nathan.

>>720613913
I'm not surprised they're going that route. They started trying to branch out during the Wii U era so they had something else in case they were struggling with their main business of games. That's why they have theme parks and Hollywood movies and apps and way more memorabilia that isn't just Club Nintendo collector stuff or licensed kids stuff.

I've never bought an amiibo, but people have given them to me as gifts in the past, and I seem to remember them being ~$15 early on. The ones I see nowadays have insane prices, but they also look much higher quality. I think a lot of their stuff is overpriced, but at the same time, I would feel much more compelled to buy it if it was notably cheaper but still of the same build quality. I would totally buy a $60 Virtual Boy replica that can play Virtual Boy games in 3D, that sounds acceptable, but $100? That's a huge cost, and you have to have their premium subscription service to have access to them? I don't hate the products, I want them, but I hate the pricing of it all. Wireless Famicom, NES, Super Famicom, SNES, N64, and GameCube controllers being sold in 2025? Hell yeah motherfucker. But what are these prices?

And I like the physical Rosalina's storybook and the Metroid book they're going to release. I like big art books like they did for Zelda and Fire Emblem. But everything is so goddamn expensive now.

>>720614921
Goof yhinh you mentioned 3DS, I am betting on Sony releasing the socall powerful handheld at competitive price so they have to undercut it like they did with 3DS when Vita was released.

>>720614945
the solution is easy make shorter games every big game they have made is like +70 hours of content open world dreck

>>720614945
Not a good sign when the past several big Nintendo games have each sported retardedly long devtimes, and they didn't have any of their heavy hitters ready to show for the first Direct. Still not having a mainline Super Mario or Zelda announced at the very least for a Nintendo system even seven months after the system was revealed is insane.

>>720613058
Actually this.

>>720615090
I think it'd be for the best for nintendo to get some fire under their ass with viable competitors but with how both sony and mircosoft having been fucking up lately I'm not going to hold my breath.

it's like how back in the nes/snes days third parties were getting royally fucked by cart prices (that's why keycards are a thing no doubt)
>>720615210
they really need to hire and train more dev's.

>>720611596
Take your meds.

>>720612807
which they publicly apologized for and brought down in price. nunintendo would never admit such a mistake, let alone touch the price

>>720615113
I just want smaller but more tightly designed games with more bespoke, deliberate elements. Your job is to make fun for me, I'm don't want to pay just to have to make my own fun.
>>720615367
>they really need to hire and train more dev's.
They've combined their handheld and console divisions, and aggressively poached like half of Japan's development talent. This isn't a devteam size problem, this is a terrible priorities problem. BotW's reception utterly ruined them into chasing the success and acclaim they got from copying western open world/sandbox games. my crackpot tinfoil theory is that they wanted a repeat of that hype cycle with TotK for its fusion mechanics, but they blame emulation/hacking and journo leaks for Baldur's Gate 3 being able to overshadow it, and that's why they've gone complete schizo scorched-earth on those fronts.

>>720605168
I found it to be a hassle and a deal breaker personally

Combine that with the best games coming to Switch? OFC it was a rip lol

>>720603263
They're the worst of Apple and Disney.

>>720606849
Yeah that's what im feeling too but gamers and people have forgotten history too much. Ruthless company phase

>>720606827
LMAO you did not just use fucking MGSD as an example LMAO. You know that MGS 3 was also playable on 3DS and Switch digitally?

>>720606253
>the PS4 cat guy still being included
it has almost been a decade, holy shit.

>>720607137
>Why the FUCK would anyone pay $70 for Mario Galaxy 1 and 2? What compels a tendie to do such a thing?

why do you gotta make an ass outta you and me?

>>720615932
if they wanted a bigger impact from TOTK maybe they shouldn't of recycled the exact same fucking world.

>>720615932
Literally nobody even remembers Baldurs Gate 3. It was flavor the month. It's also pathetic that a South Park special was made just to shill BG3.

>>720607304
God you people are pathetic.

>>720616240
>mfw mario galaxy was 15 bucks on the wii u
gotta have that tax for the half assed new content i guess.

>>720616331
>Flavor of the month

You're describing every Nintendo title since the Switch era started.

>>720616331
you could say the same for TOTK.

>>720608137
>Prime 4 is going to be shit just like dread.

fuck you I loved dread and I think prime 4 will be fine. They're finally making metroid more established now.

>>720615932
The way Aonuma acted as if he deserved anything at during the game awards, especially best direction, I can believe that. Watching him eat shit was so satisfying. He ruined Zelda.

>>720616331
Coooooope

>>720603263
They lost me when they told everyone to go fuck themselves with several years of Imagine Faggotz and PUPPIES during the Wii era. Of the games they still make, well, none of them are what I want to play. So, eh.

>>720616437
Not really. TotK died in less than a week.

>>720614558
What are you talking about? Ever since the Switch they've been overstocked. I still found Game & Watch systems in stores for years. Even the NSO controllers have sold out but they keep restocking them every few months.

Limited Run is genuinely shit and they're a bunch of faggots because they genuinely limit mass produced games that Nintendo manufactures. Like the biggest money maker for LRG are the shitty collectors editions that have all that shitty made in China crap that nobody will ever use. It's also what delays physical games from coming out.

>>720616095
Doesn't Sony fit that bill more nowadays though? All of the marketing nowadays just ends up to
>nigger nigger nigger shoes travis scott fortnite rebuild humanity zacharay,
>nigger nigger nigger $1000 console, no disc reader included.
>nigger nigger nigger no exclusives games fr no cap
>nigger nigger nigger $90 for 5+ year old games unc
>nigger nigger nigger, pay $160 per year for ROMS wallahi

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>>720603263
Personally it's making me very wary of my purchasing decisions. I really thought that Super Mario Galaxy 2 would be $20. $30 tops if they wanted to split the pot but after seeing that it's $40 a pop I'm on my Wii U playing it instead. Maybe they should sell the actual 3d Mario game and not overpriced remasters.

>>720616265
It's unbelievable how much that decision ruined nearly the entire game, including even the gameplay to an extent.
>>720616541
It was funny as hell, but also infuriatingly arrogant for him to give an interview afterwards where he said "the pre-BotW games are all dogshit because you can't go right to the final boss and you're a piece of shit if you still like them lmao".

>>720603263
I don't care about their first party titles, I'm sure they are good and above average but they all look safe, and samey than weird experimental shit they used to do back then.
Switch is a good console though, and there's a lot of niche gems out there, especially in shmups department.
They get a lot of hate thrown at them, sometimes for a good reason of course, but imo I think they are doing better than Wii era.

>>720603263
I honestly don't have strong feelings about nintendo if only because I've never played nintendo shit much, even if I'm slowly working on that. A few games and ideas I've liked very much, another bunch of stuff that feels overrated and where a significant portion of nintendo fans will just eat up anything. I respect them as the last OG standing, but they also do some fucked shit they can get away with because of who they are.
A bit between >>720603369 and >>720603531. At the end of the day, not dogmatically for or against them.
it's very rare for me to actually have strong feelings on something desu

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>>720614603
kek Mario's gasping in horror because he's about to get a whiff of his Nintendo adult protector's pit stank while Luigi and Toad have already noped the fuck outta there.

The games look exactly the same and cost more. No, thanks. At least when Sony/MS started charging $10 more it made sense because the games took more money to make due to graphics. Most of the Switch 2 games just look like Switch 1 games so what is the point

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I was a die hard tendie up until the Wii. The straw that broke the camel's back was being unable to start up SSBB without a Wiimote. It could have been literally two button presses on the GC controller, but they forced you to aim your faggot wiimote at the screen, click the game, and click start game. I know it's a minor inconvenience in retrospect, but it just goes to show the direction Nintendo was heading and I was right.

>>720616687
what's even more stupid is that it took them a whole fucking 7 years to figure out "oh this should just be a new game instead of DLC" like nigga are you high? if it was going to take you that god damed long anyway why not just make a new world? hell you could of done a majora's mask and used that as an excuse to reuse assets, fucking hell a-new-male is a talentless hack

>>720617050
>At least when Sony/MS started charging $10 more it made sense because the games took more money to make due to graphics
is there really any graphical difference between Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West? Shit looks exactly the same for me, doesnt help with the fact that the UI and menus are near identical aswell

>>720616392
>>720616437
>>720616591
You guys are literally seething about TotK yet there hasn't been a BG3 thread in the catalog for months.

>>720617093
kek i hate that shit, have to boot the wii into priiloader to get around wagglan

>>720617050
>Sony and Microsoft mismanage and end up with bloated budgets so the customer should pick up the tab

>>720616674
yeah it was the same with echoes, people talked about for like a week then forgot it existed.

>>720617230
Forbidden West was a $60 PS4 game and I'm pretty sure you could even play the upgraded version on PS5 for free

mainly I'm tired of everyone giving nintendo a pass because they are nintendo
if any other company made these games with polygon counts from 2003, charged $70 for it and forced gimmicks like the wii they would be crucified
but if you criticize nintendo for it it's always 'WHY YOU HATE FUN BRO" from tendies
fuck all you tendies
fuck all tendies

>>720603263
nintendo is great ; what sucks is the current gaming industry.

>>720617397
correction, they initially promised that, then they decided to change it and wanted people to pay an upgrade fee, but people found a way to bypass it and skip the update fee somehow, since then Sony wants everyone to pay for upgrades.

>>720617093
It almost felt insulting that you COULD also use the stick on the Classic Controller to navigate the menu. The capability to support the GCN controller was either already there or very easy to include, they just didn't because fuck you.

>>720617326
Yea, because keeping the budget the same and still increasing the price like Nintendo makes more sense. That Tennis game is fucking $70 for no reason. Who is paying $70 for a Mario Tennis game? There's no way

>>720617470
>Microsoft and Sony fuck over the industry and Nintendo follows because YOU faggots allowed this

Many such cases. Remember when online was free but you faggots kept supporting Xbox Live and PS+?

>>720603263
Trash company. Full greed. No new ips. Coasting on past glory. Evil.

>>720605964
the problem is that what microsoft and sony did is sht

>>720617524
I've never paid for online in my life. The only time I had NSO was the free year that came with MM2 then I sold it

>>720617435
people do that with Sony as well when it comes to the scummy shit they have been doing, blind fanboyism isn't exclusive to a single company.
>what about xbox
they aren't even relevant.

>>720606253
>reddit image

go back

>>720603263
I sort of regret buying the Switch 2 for my kids. They hardly play Bananza or MK world. We would have been fine with Switch 1 for Minecraft and Kirby. Hopefully some decent game will come out but its looking grim.

>>720606481
i honestly think they just do it cuz they decided to have something interesting to present it with


as for if it is sht , yes , yes it is ; pokemon company hasn't try since decades , with an s

>>720617256
You are dumb.
Dumb and stupid.

>>720606701
anon

stop trying to argue with re: tards.


> first party games are on key cards


typo

>>720607442
never has anyone who play astrobot think its better than galaxy

>>720607442
astro bot has more in common with Balan Wonderworld than any 3D Mario when it comes to gameplay and level design though.

>>720606209
you guys always praise console games preservation EXCEPT when an actual company does it.

>>720603369
high prices aren't anti-consumer, anti consumer is doing things like lying to you or putting malware on CDs.

>>720607571
thats pretty based anon
still a sht console with only a slightly bigger than ps5 cataloge of games.

definetly not worth the 20$ it costs o top of the 40$ they ask to play online.

>>720618153
wait the virtual boy is in the base tier though?

>>720603263
Overall? i like nintendo. I think they're a video game company that makes video games. I don't care about their legal battles because those don't affect me in the slightest. at most they might shut down a rom site i might've used, but i'm from the older generation of internet users now who don't expect pirate sites to stay up forever. it was always a game of whack a mole between pirates and devs.
I think their development has slowed down a bit too much lately so there are more draughts between games i care about, but they still manage to release 2-3 of those a year which is like 6 times what any other developer manages.

>>720609113
no i wouldn't

360 throphies were good but as soon as it standarize it lose any meaning to have them

at some point ppl just bought shovelware to farm throphies and that's how they perpetuate themselves

nintendo fans might be the most spoiled gaming community in the history of gaming holy fuck the endless whining is getting insufferable.

>>720611697
not good enough to deserve the coverage it got in social media

specially sin it sold half a million copies without pack-in

>>720616392
it's not "flavor of the month" just because they release a game every month, i see how that could be confusing though since other systems only get one game a decade.

>>720609265
you can literally hack it without that sht getting in your way

and if you ain't brown , a simple call to service can get your switch back if you bought it from someone else

>>720603263
They're ok. I would for sure like it if they stopped it with all the fucking merchandise whoring and doing dumb shit with everything that's not Mario or Zelda.

Two things I really like about them though:
1. They're not making third person movie games
2. They make stylised games; I much prefer that to mocap and hyper-realism

>>720609290
they don't care anymore

valve also doesn't

no one has cared since iwata and even befre him no one care except for the 3do

>>720603263
some of the games look good but I can't afford $500+ just to get a console and a starter game. in 3 years if the new guy saves the economy maybe I'll get one on a black friday sale or something, but it's rough with the modern prices. I'll probably just stick to playing mostly indie games through PC honestly.

>>720610279
he means the orange guy , my fellow weeb

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>>720611520
did you played echoes of wisdom then ?

>>720603263
Everything feature set surrounding Switch 2 is marred by exceptions. Nintendo feels extremely lazy right now. The traditional appeal of consoles being quick and simple is absent here. Iwate strikes me as exactly the type of person that would have prevented this from happening, but he's no longer here.

>>720611770
we don't care about you anti-corpo video you filthy commie

give us what you like or hate about nintendo

>>720618830
my dude, he was alive during the WiiU era, the most lazy era in Nintendos existence.

>>720618774
Even Echoes leans into the sandbox tomfuckery.

>>720612848
gameboy advance came with mario kart and a sht ton of shovelware that was kino for the time

It's kind of hilarious how their monster catching game patent shit happened the same week they announced a Pokémon Minecraft ripoff. And of course also that it's not as if Pokémon or Nintendo invented monster catching/battling games.

>>720616095
i hope you end up without a single fcking game left to emulate you barely disguise snoy

>>720616685
you forgot they already tested it with the vintage 3d all star collection

21 million ppl bought it

>>720618195
>>720618153
Right now you NEED the VB replica or the cardboard version to use the games. I hope they're just being retarded because wintout the adapter they will probably display both screens at the same time on screen which makes me think you don't actually need the lenses.

>>720617524
remember when sony wanted you to pay for their sht free online and they punish you with slow download time because nobody could stop them ?
heck!
remember when sony place their shitty free online as an obligatory paid service and instead of anyone hacking them to allow for real server p2p everyone just accepted that fifa and cod tournaments would be played with an xbox for the evo's ?

>>720619296
Wait, they were throttling speeds with PS+? Lol what the fuck?

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>>720617539
but enough about valve

>>720619346
yeah , ps3 was sht and i didn't got enough hate

>>720619363
Valve has multiple f2p games and has given away their games for free multiple times my delusional Shitendo fren.

>>720619363
Valve is actually good.
>t. Nintenchad

I get that they stopped making games but they literally made games that over 10 years old and people still play them. Can't say the same for Epic or Microsoft or Sony. And yeah, Valve basically started loot boxes, yet they were the only ones to also add a digital market where you could sell those shitty cosmetics and free drops you got and traded them for actual new games. Does Battle.net even have that?

>>720606713
No, I'm saying the opposite. Compare that to
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nintendo+Switch+2+Battery+Replacement/190141
Also consider
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They seem to be getting in their own way again. BotW's success is no longer just fucking with Zelda, open world creep has now hit every major franchise they still produce. More than that, they are overly stingy with content when they should be flooding the platform to entice further purchases and keep the momentum up. If the launch window only has enough titles to have one release a month or less, you need to bolster that with things that will keep the console running. I don't care about Pokémon, and I'm not entirely sold on Air Riders, so the Nintendo slate is empty for me until December. They should be frontloading NSO with Gamecube titles that everyone expects, and filling holes in the other console's catalogs. It doesn't matter if people are paying for it or not, the important thing is to keep dust off of people's Switch 2s until games start coming out regularly.

On another note, the movie title announcement and stingy ass remaster are a pathetic way to celebrate a milestone of your most important title. If they couldn't do a new game, they should have done something for all the games people can no longer legally purchase. Galaxy 2 was an oversight five years ago, so it isn't really sufficient now. I hated 3D Land, it's the babiest baby game in the entire franchise, but I think pushing that, the original NSMB, and maybe even Super Paper Mario in addition would have gone a hell of a lot further.

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I forgot to add how fucking dumb the Virtual Boy thing was. The console was a piece of shit with maybe two good games, they would have made more money sprucing up VB Wario Land as a downloadable title instead of trying to make people buy garbage with a bad reputation.

>>720603263
This year was the first time since getting my SNES in 1993 that I thought of it being time to leave Nintendo behind. It has never felt this disappointing to be a Nintendo fan ever with just how shitty they've become.

>>720620436
were you in cryostasis during the Wii and WiiU era?

>>720620590
The Wii and WiiU had the DS and 3DS as relief valves. The Switch 2 has no such companion.

>>720603263
Bowser must be fired and they must lose the Palworld lawsuit.

>>720620060
Hell they should just have remaked VB wario.

>>720620060
Them doing this now only reawoke and intensified my utter confusion over them completely neglecting this incredibly obvious opportunity on the 3DS. And yes, I know there's a homebrew emulator, shut the fuck up. I'm talking officially here.

>>720620590
The Wii controls sucked ass with how gimmicky it was, and the WiiU had like 5 games, but they at least had some small level of giving a fuck put into them. For me though, the DS and 3DS carried that era much harder than the consoles did.

>>720619898
I'm not reading all that

Happy with the switch 2 and the games so far / announced, but the galaxy collection shit is absolutely retarded.
Literally all they had to do was re-release 3D all stars and also release 3D all stars Switch 2 edition for $10 more that adds Galaxy 2, bumps the resolution of all 4 games to 4k, and adds the UI improvements.
Instead anyone with 3D all stars they're asking to shell out another $40 to get an update for Mario Galaxy 1 that should be free, which is extremely jewish

>>720603263
Resentment. I feel like I spent most of my life getting scammed by them. I almost quit all vidya because I was a blind fanboy of them and saw no other way