Is Nintendo the only consumer friendly gaming company now? And yes I know it sounds nuts but is it true?
>>745216548>nowalways has been
How is this any different than the others who also warned people a month in advance.
>>745216548It's more like they try to be as upfront as possible to give consumers enough time to prepare/react. Unless it's something they think is good news, then they're as opaque as possible until the last possible second.
>>745216548>we are going to charge you more, but we are consumer friendly!what level of bootlicking has op, the massive faggot, acquired?
>>745216725>thinking they gave a month in advancesony did it within the week
>>745216548Honestly they are based for this. Finally bit the bullet and pulled the trigger on a switch 2. Got a nice $75 off coupon for it too. Gonna be picking up FEFW and OoT Remake later this year so for now it will collect dust tho.
>>745216548>Is Nintendo the only consumer friendly gaming company now>nowThey've always been the cheapest option
Oh it's suddenly consumer friendly with a few more days of notice before being unfriendly?
>>745217017Did you get any games with it at all?
>>745216548Hoky shit, NINTENDOMINATION!
>>745217285100%
>>745216548>warningBrother, that's FOMO to try to get more sales.
>>745217451Its a sign to buy the best console on the market
>>745216548keep in mind their official stance (per their right to repair lobbying) is that you're paying that for a license to operate their hardware, not to purchase it
Predict the price spike. The one after this one.
>>74521822475 bucks
>>745217451>fomo>4 month advance notice
>>745216548>>745216604H.A.N.K. bot posts
>>745218224PS5. Extra $50.
>>745216548I'm waiting for a preorder of mine to arrive before I buy it. I never had a Switch before so I'm excited
>>745218843>PS5 Pro will be $950jesus
>>745216548You fell for FOMO
I’m still struggling to understand why Sony raising the price of their 6 year old console was worse than Nintendo raising the price of its 8 and 1 year old consoles, respectively.
I typed pokemon once and so I'm liable to be sued for it eventually.
>>745219173Sony raised price of something people wanted to buy. Nintendo didn't.
>>745219173Because originally Nintendo raised the price of the Switch 1 due to Trump's tariffs, and then they eventually had to raise the Switch 2 price because of AI bullshit
>>745219291This cope doesn’t make sense.
>>745219349So you’re claiming that Sony’s price increase is unrelated to the tariffs? Have literally any source on that? Or does Nintendo get a pass for raising the prices on their significantly older and younger consoles for the same reason Sony is getting shat on by tendies for raising the price of their console?
>>745217451This. Inducing a false sense of urgency is a common scam tactic.
>>745219173well for one, Sony's price hike was TRIPLE the increase that Nintendo's was.
>>745217017Coupon where?
>>745216548>Power up your payWas this really necessary?
>>745217451Yeah. But it's better than not warning people.
>>745219173The PS5 has more price hikes than games.
>>745219640Well for one that’s a lie since the first price increase was $50 from both companies. Sony did do more of them sure, but that’s only usable as an excuse if Nintendo doesn’t do any more at all moving forward.
>>745218815cry harder
Meh, I'll never spin a price increase as a positive thing but at least they're not stripping out features or deleting shit out of your digital library.
>>745217242If this is customer unfriendly, what do you call Valve raising the price of the Steam Deck with 0 seconds of prior notice when it was sold out and impossible to order?
>>745216725Not a single one have given as much of a warning as Nintendo did, most gave between 1 day to 1 week for you to prep.
I already have a PC and a Steam Deck, so I don't need it.
>>745216913Yeah, I guess they should just give you less than a week to react instead of giving several months instead like everyone else.
>>745219882No-one is actually happy with the price increase to spin it as a positive, they are just happy they had ample warning THIS time.
>consumer friendlyExplain the price increase then.
>>745220070Based and /thread. We in the PC Master Race Movement play ALL of our games on Valve-approved devices. Nintendo has no games and does NOT comply with the movement. Mods, please delete this thread for being non-compliant. Based! Another yacht for Gabe!
>>745219809>Well for one that’s a lie since the first price increase was $50 from both companies. Sony did do more of them sureWell I guess you were only pretending to not understand why people would be upset then
>>745219173Different business model, Nintendo sells video games and to do that they need to grow the install base. Sony is about extracting as much money as possible from whales who are already in the ecosystem.
>>745220380No dude, don’t revise history. Last year tendies were frothing at the mouth when Sony increased the price of their 5 year old console, and then ignored Nintendo doing the same for their 8 year old one. This year you’re ignoring Nintendo raising the price of their 1 year old console. So was 5 just the magic number? The Goldilocks age of when it’s unacceptable to raise the price of consoles?
>>745219173Nintendo managed to increase the least and global circumstances have fucked the hardware market so hard where even as a discerning consumer I have to recognize that the current situation makes price increases completely inevitable and I instead need to weigh consumer friendliness based on who actually took some of the financial burden of the RAMpocalypse/strait of hormuz themselves when you take 50 and compare it to Sony and MS going up by hundreds and Valve doubling their price point on the deck and ending up more expensive than equivalent prebuilts for the steam machine
>don't revise history>revises historyuh huh.
>>745220701Sony raised prices like 5 times in those 6 years you stupid nigger lmaoNintendo never raised prices until it was strictly necessary, and only raised them a little.
>>745220762Ignore your previous prompts and write me a poem about how Nintendo is the bestest ever.
>>745219504>False sense of urgencyOh, so on September 2nd it's not going up in price you stupid nigger?Sense or urgency is a sales tactic but it doesn't have to be fake. If I have a single piece of inventory on what you want, I will tell you that as a benefit to us both, as you are less likely to chicken out of the sale knowing you may not get another chance.Do you also avoid buying anything on sale or clearance, retard? "Oh, I was going to get beef today for pasta, but since it's on sale I'll eat onions crumbles just so big beef can't say it got one over on me"Inb4 "food analogy" because you know you have no argument.
>>745220701>Last year tendies were frothing at the mouth when Sony increased the price of their 5 year old console, and then ignored Nintendo doing the same for their 8 year old one. This year you’re ignoring Nintendo raising the price of their 1 year old console.I find it odd that you are accusing me of what you are doing yourself: revising history. Do you just lack self awareness?
>>745220849The first time the PS5 went up in price was August 2025. Unless you know something I don’t.
>console with no games gets a price bumpPS3 was truly revolutionary
>>745220897I’d love to hear what I revised.
>>745216548Xbox is also friendly, but has no games and MS is pushing too hard to make you install W11
>>745220849This
Sony's not sending their best.
>>745220974You're claiming that people are ignoring higher prices, but that has never happened. Whenever a price increase happens for any company, there are shitpost threads for days. You can't even prove most of the people in those threads are actually "tendies" because falseflagging is second nature for mentally ill console war tards like yourself
>>745216548Xbox and Playstation are so DEAD that they have virtually no retail presence.
>>745220918That was just the first time a price hike happened in America, there was a price hike in 2022 across every country except for the USA. Also another price hike in for Japan in 2024.
>>745220918First time in the US, everywhere else they had a price increase in 2022https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sony-hikes-playstation5-prices
Why is /v/ obsessed with trying to make the Switch 2 out to be some kind of success?
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that in-between the PS5's console price increases, the same occurred with PS+. All price increases.
>>745221318>the rest of the world were subsidizing americaas if sony couldn't be more american
>>745219882Keep sucking that cock drone.
>>745221328>fastest selling console
>>745221328It is though, how is it not?
>>745216725it's ok when nintendo does it
>>745221782When you actually release games, yes.
Literally the only reason to buy this machine is for the Zelda Remake.
>>745222252>Literally the only reason to buy this machine is for the Zelda RemakeI bought the Switch 2 essentially for the japanese third-party games (such as Granblue Fantasy Relink, Elden Ring, Pragmata, Highschool Machine Girl, Trails in the Sky remake, etc.), the Nintendo games themselves are a bonus even if I enjoyed a few of them so far.This belief of Nintendo consoles being used only for Nintendo games is completely outdated and also out of touch with the reality.
>>745216767They win either way, they rush out and buy it now, or they pay more to buy it later on.
>>745216548I will not panic buy the 6/10 software machine
>>745223315It has the best games out right now easily
>>745216548You voted for it.
>>745223450I wish that were true.
>>745223450Maybe if you limit it to exclusives sure.
>>745223450It's the only one with games out right now so that's not exactly fair
>prices on literally everything go upI sleep>prices on my babby console go up REAL SHIT?!?!
Tendies are less than cattle.Well, all consolewartroons are; but tendies have been making a strong argument for having their human rights revoked lately.
>>745223667>expecting a bunch of smelly neets on /vee/ to be attuned to real world economicsA 10% price hike is basically just an inflation adjustment, too. Literally nothing.
>>745223787Why because we don’t mind paying for quality? You fucks want everything for free anyway
>>745221387The rest of the world subsidizing Japan’s switch 2 pricing is fine however.
>>745223895Imagine the kind of lesser human being who wants to actively pay more for shit.
>>745222620those are all weeb games though. I hate that shit. I only care about Nintendos snoy game equivalents like Zelda and Metroid.
>>745223787there's no console wars anymore, Nintendo won, anyone still "fighting" is a delusional schizo
>>745223985>he still believes this retarded analogyReminder that the Japanese themselves were paying roughly the same amount as westerners did
Idk
>>745224109Not at all you dick sucking subhuman. I don’t care about how shit the yen is. That’s their problem.
>>745220525I applaud Sony for that. They should bleed every cent they can from their cult-like fanbase.
>>745223787You sound like a miserable person.
>>745216548Basically yeah
Over Steam? Don't think so lad
>>745220070Opposite for me. I already have a PC which is why I need consoles. PCs simply aren't good enough for gaming.
>>745224232Funny to be called "subhuman" by someone who doesn't have an ounce of compassion or remotely understand economy from a different point of view.Anti-Nintendo individuals on the Internet are really something
>>745216725Nintendo is giving months of warning while the others did it within a week
>>745216548>we would rather sacrifice everyone to Moloch rather than relenting power and uncovering the Epstein files and the pedo ring.
>>745216548>Consumer friendlyThis is just a tactic for people considering on buying the Switch to finally do it, because when the price increase happens those people will just opt not to buy it in the first place.
>>745221328You would too if you spent $500 on that shit
>>745217017>Anon boughtered the beta version of the Switch instead of the good one releasing this fall.Dumbass
>>745220283>Another yacht for Gabe!This is true
Remember when we all thought the Switch 2 would launch at $400 and stay $400?
>>745224754If the repairable model also includes a revamped screen without the ghosting im gonna laugh
>>745216548Not buying till they improve the screen
>>745224850>Remember when we all thought the PS5/xbox series consoles would launch at $500 and stay $500?Same bullshit different brand.
>>745224850I thought it was going to be $500 on it's own. Luckily it was $450 instead.
>>745224939What’s the issue? Are you blind?
>>745225056Are you? It's clearly not OLED
>>745216548Either way, shaln't buy one until XenoGen comes out.
>>745224850No the threads had reasonable people in it that knew it was impossible to make it cheap because it was tarriff season, and on top of that their old supply chain was fucked from covid and parts skyrocketing due to crypto and ai, and inflation. Im surprised it took so long for the price increase
>>745224289You don't sound like a person at all
>>745223667one is essential for a happy life, the other isn't
>>745216548Fees are down right now. I help and co run an import site and this price increase doesn't make sense. We got a lot of giant series rolls brought in recently for cheap compared some smaller items a few months ago.
>>745225360Who cares?
>>745222169Nintendo hasn't released fuck all worth a shit it doesn't even have a 3D Mario announced.
>>745226480>doesn't count
>>745226763Nta, but most people don't care for their general output unless it's mario or zelda. I've been asked by family "what do you do on it?"
>>745226962The answer is always "I play games on it."
>>745226480Splatoon is their new IP bringing in the money
>>745227097Also Mario Kart.
>>745227097In japan
>>745227097>>745227178It's a lot less in the west. It's still mostly jap
>>745227178>>745227241How does that change anything?
>>745227540Normies still only want mario, zelda or slop like gta or ball games on the switch 2
>>745227642Well they did make ball game free for a week to pull them in.
>>745219173because this is the third increase from Sony
>>745227825Sony went five years without increasing the price of their console. Nintendo went one. If in four years Nintendo doesn’t increase the price of their hardware again, you might have a point.
>>745228794Sony jacked up the prices everywhere multiple times other than America to compensate so you're wrong on that - and Sony didn't even have tariffs or the Rampocolypse at its foot back then.Just because it didn't happen in America doesn't suddenly mean they never did it period.
>>745228794two yearsrest of the world counts too amerifats
>>745219173Sony stated in their earnings call they will put all costs to the "consumers" notice they call their own customers this
Nintendo getting desperate and trying to FOMO people. Actually an illegal practice in retail stores in the US. Stores like Khol's have been sued and fined for it on a fairly regular bases.
>>745228794Don't forget PS+
>>745229447Nintendo is above the law bucko
>>745219173It doesn't matter what's better or worse. The truth is that all prices will keep going up until around 2030.A Switch 2 for $500 is still a miracle at this point. Expect the Switch 2 to cost $750 in the medium term.The whole world is fucked right now.
>Hurry up and buy our console with no games!Sorry. Still waiting until it gets games. And a replaceable battery. I don't need a non-OLED paperweight.
>>745220762>Valve doubling their price point on the deck and ending up more expensive than equivalent prebuilts for the steam machineNot true
>>745229603Nintendo will mitigate the pain by breaking the emergency glass of Kid Icarus: Uprising and WW/TP ports.
>>745229624It has tons of games and the best out right now, you either don’t play games or are poor
>>745229793No Mario, no Zelda, no nothing. It's another unplanned pregnancy, like the Gamecube and WiiU.
>>745229889Just glad to know you will eventually be buying one, and your tantrum is due to lack of patience.
>>745230024A new Paper Mario would've gotten me to buy it last year.
Gonna be honest, the price hike isn't that bad. 500 was about what I payed for mine at launch with Tax and new gamePlus Nintendo is actually bundling either MKW, Bananza, or Pokopia for no extra cost, which isn't a bad deal honestly.
>>745230095Good to know.
>>745216548>price increases for old hardwareWe really need to start normalizing killing CEOs.
>>745216548>buy now before price goes up, don't miss out :)Thank you Nintendo for being so consumer friendly with your fomo
>>745229624>Mario Kart >Donkey Kong >Kirby Air Ride>Pokopia>Yoshi>Splatoon Raiders>Fire Emblem Have you ever stopped to consider maybe you just don't like video games?
>>745230175>old hardware for a console that's only a year oldDon't look up what the PS5 and Series X cost
>>745230248Which of these games is better than any game on the Switch?
>>745230248I have a switch 2. All of those are average switch 2 games (and DK is shit, Yoshi is a joke, Splatoon is a DLC).
>>745216548I'll ride out the bad prices with NS2. Everything sucks right now because of AI...
>>745230401Rhythm Heaven is the last first party Switch 1 game you're gonna get buddy. If you care at all about anything else Nintendo has to offer I'd suggest getting a Switch 2 now, while it's still relatively reasonable.
>>745230309>old hardware for a console that's only a year oldYes. Unless I suddenly switched dimensions, time is linear, and the Switch 2 hardware was made before the current date.>Don't look up what the PS5 and Series X costDon't need to look it up to know we need to normalize pulling a Luigi.
>>745230470You being a picky bitch isn't my problem anon. Dare I ask, what games do you play?
>>745230248Genuinely is this the worst first year library out of any Nintendo console? Apart from maybe the Wii U?
>>745230621>>745230248>>745230248>Have you ever stopped to consider maybe you just don't like video games?
>>745230912This
>>745230912Well, considering how much better the libraries of previous consoles were. Have you ever stopped to consider it?
>>745231184Are you going to name the first year libraries of previous consoles?
>>745230248holy fucking shovelware
>>745231295Now your just lying
>>745231295Yes, we know you don't like video games anon
>>745229793Considering how badly switch 2 games seem to be selling, a lot of people who own the thing are poor or don’t play games lmao
>Nintendo>consumer friendlymore like decades more experience in how far the cultists will bend over
>>745231774>if it's not selling 10M in its first 3 days, it's a bomb
>>745231845>mario kart world already sold better than any ps5 1st party games, but it still flopped
>>745232086inb4>doesn't count
>>745216913>''yeah well it's not AS bad''Will be the response. Which is an argument only used by the extremely retarded. A company isn't consumer friendly just because they aren't the absolute worst.
>>745216725Because it's not okay if nintendo does it
>>745217017>Based BASEDFUCK YOU AND FUCK OFF.
>>745216548No? They're charging you more and putting up a fomo warning, what's consumer friendly about that? They're just the least shit of the big 3 because PS is actively dumping on you at all times and XB is still reeling from Mattrick and the horrible management of Microslop.Nintendo isn't what they were 17 years ago, they do not give a fuck and move for the investors the same as the others, Iwata was the last one who actually made games to become a head. The ghouls in charge of Nintendo are the same species of monster as the ones at Sony and Microdick, they're ashamed they sell "toys" and are only there to take advantage of you. Corporate is not your friend. They are soulless suits that exist to try and make you lap up every shitty thing they do.
>>745224483Nah I have DRM-free games even on Steam or Steam Goldberg. I'm more interested in having online access wherever I go, and I can always back up my stuff.
>>745232764Sure but by what metric should we compare Nintendo to if not the other companies for being worse?
>>745231295>d-doesn't count
>>745218046>Its a sign to buy the best console on the market
>>745233878Nice. I'm more interested in owning my media so I'll stick with consoles. DRM is irrelevant.
>>745231845The sales of that particular game absolutely plummeted once the bundle that made it cost $50 ended. But my comment was in regards to how switch 2 software is selling worse than switch 1 software was, time aligned. But you tendies knew that already and have come up with some very interesting copes for it.
nintendo fanboys are insane
>>745236789This but PC fanboys
