I’m so tired of the whole discourse. Why is Nintendo “evil” while Sony and Microsoft have been doing the same stuff, and for longer? Don’t even argue, I don’t care anymore. I’m just tired.
I like Switch 2 and I will play games on it. It’s a lot cheaper than upgrading my PC. I don’t play online, and eshop has better prices than Steam in my country. Don’t yuck my yum, and I won’t yuck yours.
[Lord Frogmire] The Switch 2 is EVIL and I'm Tired of Pretending It's Not
Submitted 5 weeks ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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Zanshi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 5 weeks ago
Either wait for sales or just stop crying with these poorly constructed takes already, most of us have been telling you for years about this. It is entirely on you.
nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Continues to pay $80-120 for bare bones product
“why is Nintendo fucccckkkking meeeeee”
Goronmon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Seems pretty self-inflicted to pay the asking price for a product and then whine that you were “fucked” after the fact.
People can just not buy something if they think it’s too expensive. That’s always an option. I choose not to buy stuff all the time.
funtastik@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Gaming is a luxury. I hate paying more for games but the best part of the current market is there are so many avenues to gaming.
Due to the surplus of so many games available we have the ability to buy sparingly and avoid buying at launch. We can support the companies and titles that are truly worth our dollar.
Personally, I’ll only buy titles I feel I must play as they release as the feeling of waiting is painful. Often it depends on the backlog of games I already have. Although, I do have a switch 2 and have barely played it (I’m ashamed). I do plan on Metroid Prime 4 soon and possibly some other titles. Overall, I’m not the biggest fan of Nintendo’s business practices but I’ll buy their games that I enjoy.
Obviously, Nintendo isn’t evil nor are any of these gaming companies. They are selling their product and the folks keep buying. If I never played a Nintendo game in my life cause it was outside my budget I think I’d be more than fine.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Legends ZA isn’t that expensive. It costs the equivalent of 69€ or $81 in the high VAT country I live in.
caseofthematts@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I assume they’re talking about the DLC as well. All together, the game + DLC over here is $140. I assume it’s closer to $120 for America, but haven’t done the conversions.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that a DLC ? Bonus content for a bonus price.
Glide@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
And I’m tired of pretending a completely unwelcome and tone deff price increase is “evil.” I hate paying more for videos as much as the next gamer, but the cost of living has increased by 50% in basically every metric. Rent, food, power, gas, restaurants, movie theatres, snacks, alcohol… Literally everything I spend money on has gone up between 25-50%. Nintendo is the first asshole in the video game industry cocky enough to up their prices by the same about, and suddenly, “The Switch 2 is EVIL.” Really?
Listen, I am not a fan. $10 for a tech demo that should be packaged in is insane. But pull your head back and look at the wider picture instead of coming in here with these terminally online takes. If you can’t distinguish between “evil,” (like health insurance corporations condemning millions to chronic pain and, in extremes, death) and “shit I wish wasn’t so expensive” (like a singular brand of videogames) then maybe it’s worth figuring out where the nearest patch of grass is.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I mean the cost of living going up in all those other ways is also evil. Corporations soullessly sucking every possible shred of profit they can from a suffering population ks evil. Its not just Nintendo but they’re defjnitely part of it and the fact that every other corporation is also evil doesn’t absolve them in any way.
Glide@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The cost of food and shelter driving people homeless and hungry is evil. The cost of Nintendo products causing people to play fewer Nintendo games is rude and unfortunate.
I’m just pissed off at all this misdirected frustration. We should be lobbying governments to manage grocery and real estate megacorps, and instead we’re creating YouTube videos about Nintendo being evil because the price of an individual game went up $20. The gap between unfettered corporate greed of UHC causing suffering on scales previously only seen in wars against Nintendo getting an extra $20 here and there if you want to keep up with their products isn’t even a fucking comparison.