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Regardless of price, Nintendo is a shit legacy company that is riding on the coattails of the 90’s.

They never have games on steep discounts like their competitors, ensure emulations and artistic expressions are shut down immediately, and barely change shit to their flagship games such as Pokemon. They’re creatively stale and are blessed to have a rabid fan base who can’t see through it.

I got a switch since my kid brought grades home, but that’s the last piece of electronic device I’ll ever buy from Nintendo. This is someone who has played back in its heyday the N64.

People who ‘boycott’ and go back to buying what they boycotted because said company pushed out a halfass apology tweet deserve to lose their money.

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bluemellophone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You seem to be missing the point, the Nintendo Switch is handily the most popular game console in US gaming history. It has officially sold more units than the PS2.

I’m sorry that you don’t appreciate the switch, it’s an amazing general purpose gaming console.

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s all right I wouldn’t say it’s groundbreaking. There are many portable computers including the steam deck that are far superior in terms of capability and openness.
  
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  - treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Doesn’t think switch is groundbreaking. Proceeds to list handheld that wouldn’t exist without the Switch breaking that ground. lol
    
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    echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You’re going to need some evidence that that’s the case because my understanding is that Valve had been working on the steam deck for a while.
    
    Hell the steam deck isn’t even the handheld gaming computer, and the switch came out after the first handhelds, so even if Valve were influenced by the existence of the switch (which they weren’t), we would have still got the steam deck via other mechanisms.
    
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- Bristingr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Switch is still behind PS2 and DS. Don’t think they’ll get that 3rd wind to get them across thr finish line for 1st place. Pandemic + AC releasinf timing was a lightning in a bottle type of coincidence to help get the sales to the 150m mark.
  
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- BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Everything I can find still puts the switch behind not only ps2 but also the DS. Any chance you got a link?
  
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- MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Literally a lie. Also they have a point
  
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Patch@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They’re definitely creatively stale, but they’re also undeniably good at what they do. They have by far the best selling console of the last generation, and are the only console company to consistently post healthy profits on their operation.

Is it a bit naff that their next generation of games will almost certainly be yet another Zelda, yet another Mario, yet another Pokémon? Absolutely. But if their next Zelda game is yet another best-selling critically acclaimed success, who are we to say that they’ve got the wrong approach?

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MOARbid1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Fucking PREACH!

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alehel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What’s this boycott and half assed apology thing? I completely missed whatever that was.

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