Am i out of touch? No! It's the children who are wrong.

"The enshititfication will continue until profits improve!"

You see, what you should of done is raise the price even more.

-other CEO.

Their strategy right now is literally "Let's charge more to sell less, and let's also kneecap a revenue stream that could prop us up during this memory crisis." Sony has been winning so long that they forgot how easy it is to lose. They are gonna find out.

Edit: I just want to point out that Sony could have easily shifted this into a win. "Hey, this is Tim Sony, President of Sony. Right now, things are hard for everyone in the world of consumer electronics. For 20 years we've tried to bring you the best value in entertainment through quality games and low prices. Unfortunately, today, we have to raise our prices to match cost. I know you don't like it. I don't like it, either. However, we still want to give you the best value we can. While we can't control the cost of components, we can control the cost of our first party games. So, now when you buy a new PS5, you get your choice of any first party game you want for free. Any game, no exceptions. We're also throwing in 6 months of PlayStation Plus as well, which gives you even more games to play immediately. While we wish we could bring you a lower priced console, we are trying our best to make it so that you don't have to spend more to have the same amount of fun. Now, get out there, and kill, kill, kill."

I assumed it was because they saw handheld computers and the Steam Machine as serious competition to Sony's own hardware.

Which is weird to me, because the software and licensing is where all the money is. And it isn't subject to supply chain issues the way that hardware is.

Perfect time to stop publishing on Steam lol

Hi, I want a PS5

With GTA 6 releasing soon this might not be so true. I feel a lot of players won’t want to wait for a PC port.

right? who wants 80 dollar games.

It was Nintendo's fastest selling console of all time. So, yes.

I got one for free because Amazon fucked up and had a unit in the storage containers I bought a while back.

Thing's just collecting dust while I wait for Duskbloods. Which I may not even buy because IIRC, it has a PvP focus and I don't want to subscribe to Nintendo Online.

Yes.

I bought the original Switch for SMT:V, which then took years to release, and shortly after got a PC release. At first I liked the console, but honestly the Steam Deck is heaps and bounds better.

What really drove me off the fucking edge is how garbage and overpriced Nintendo's hardware is. They purposely design things to not be repairable and as fucked as possible, and they use horrible quality components to make their stuff.

After sitting in its case in a drawer for a few months, my joycon analogue sticks started melting. The rubber just lost its integrity. If Nintendo cared about that kind of thing, they'd design the joycons to have the tips be able to pop off, but no. Further, the component itself is garbage and drifts. That's well known. You can get replacement hall effect sticks for $10, or you can buy a new set of joycons for ~$80.

Nintendo could have designed these to be easily maintainable by users, they could've designed them to not have the drift problem. They actively chose to be anti-consumer, and with the Switch 2 they doubled down on it.

8bitdo offers a clone of the Switch Pro controller, that's better, has more features, and somehow they magically manage to keep the price lower than the official Switch Pro controller, despite not being a massive corporation with pockets as deep as Nintendo.

Nintendo is extremely anti consumer, even anti-fan of their own products.

Why people buy Nintendo products and games years after years is crazy to me.

I probably would have bought one around launch, but they were impossible to get. So I bought a gaming PC instead - no regrets what so ever.