cross-posted from: piefed.ca/post/122407
Nintendo was never really a thing where I live (other than late NES clones and occasional Gameboys back in the day).
With Nintendo’s pricing policy and focus on rehashing the same properties, it’s doubtful Nintendo will ever be a thing.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Unsurprisingly. I remember some friends swearing that it would be DOA because of console/games prices and whatever.
I was like, if gamers were careful with their money, we wouldn’t have had horse armor nonsense for the past 20 years, lol.
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
One of my friends told me they bought a skin in COD and I immediately thought less of them as a person. Like, at least have some shame 🤣
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
my friend buys fortnite skins sometimes 🥶
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
I think those doomsayers will be partially vindicated in the coming months. You can go to Best Buy’s website and order a Switch 2 with no waiting line, no delay. The supply is outpacing demand. Because I think a huge part of the 6 million sold was pent up demand for a new console and the inevitable cumulative brand effect and population increase leading to a larger early-adopter pool.
Unless Nintendo somehow had the ability to increase supply in a way unheard of for launch consoles in the past, I think that they met that early demand, and now it’s going to slow down abruptly. Now they have to convince regular people in a bad economy to spend way more than normal for a Nintendo console, with no Mario or Zelda killer app.
Eventually it’ll be a great selling machine, but these early numbers are misleading.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There is definitely a lot of truth in this.
If gamers were more critical about with their purchases, we would have a very different gaming industry.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day ago
“It’s just horse armor, bro, what’s the worse than could happen?”