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You mean false equivalencies and reality are two different things?

Such a bad faith line that tries to down play the damage this did. Do better.

Cool and how many games are there on the system? With no backwards compatibility for these expensive games? How many shooters are popular on switch? Or is it that they lock down their IP and it's marketed strongly towards children and cashing in on nostalgia.

But sure, nuance doesn't matter. Nintendo is clearly the best system with the best games. I wonder how gaming PCs are even selling anymore, no one even should be playing on anything else it's so obviously good. Jesus...

You can try to rationalize it all you want, bottom line is people don't have money to buy $80 games these days. Those people aren't going to the movies either.

I bought a rug that I've gotten years of value out of, should it have been thousands of dollars then? The idea that time used is how you measure value is flawed.

Edit: look what popped up on my feed, so looks like it's not just me

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/former-blizzard-boss-says-hard-090054442.html

You say it like I had a choice to get a pension.

Oh, so my 401k losing money isn't real? Damn, that's a relief.

The force streamers and people who cover Nintendo to pay them, because word of mouth isn't enough. They need money.

They have and continue to directly or aid in the effort to patten basic game mechanics.

They refuse to participate in cross play functionality often.

They kill fan projects because fuck you for liking our games and bringing more attention to them I guess.

They lock games away forever, not rereleasing and killing mods aggressively. Actively killing gaming history.

A company doesn't have to be my friend. But when they are actively attacking people who express love for their product you eventually stop loving the product.

Don't forget, you see way less Nintendo gaming videos and streamers. Because they are greedy and want a cut of what is made. They're not happy with the good word of mouth, they NEED to get paid.

Also look at this shit with PalWorld. Working to retroactively patten very basic game mechanics because a franchise that refused to evolve got beat by the new kids.

Swing states win elections.

Cool. And Sony can sell to PS and PC, same with Xbox. They have two markets, one that they don't have to support with hardware. They can also make games that look nice and run nice because they have much better hardware. Plus they actually do cross play with each other, making bigger player pools for match making and such.

We're not talking about consoles sold. I'm talking about game choice and experience. If you want to look at how you can play the games, there are a few more PCs than Switches sold.

But sure, Mario Party is fun every so often.

Oh I get it. We made the jump from Google Cloud to AWS, and I'm sure there are companies that are even more vendor locked. But a good example of what people can do when they don't have a choice is the new PCI 4.0 roll out that has cost companies millions they wouldn't spend unless made to do so. Will it be a mountain to climb and cost a ton, yeah, but change in the right direction isn't always easy.

I'm with you, it will be hard, and they need a good system for extensions and the like, with a reasonable time line. But this is good change IMO, even if it's painful.

This is why you give notice; this isn't an overnight thing. If anything, this would help strengthen and decentralize hosting platforms while giving a huge amount of business to companies to help them migrate. I think the real shake is going to be those locked into provide IP like Redshift or Fargate.