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Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period (www.nintendolife.com)
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I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with the ability to remotely brick the device, is what made our household pass on the switch 2. We bought a second steam deck instead.

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[-] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

I hope they struggle the company underground.

The unwashed console plebs can join the gamers with the Steam Machine/Deck and see what gaming is supposed to be like.

There's still shitty stuff happening, but you're a lot less beholden to specific companies over here.

[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

you're a lot less beholden to specific companies over here.

There’s only two CPU companies that often inflate their prices. There’s 3 but really only 2 GPU companies that also often inflate prices.

Let’s not talk about RAM.

Also, don’t forget the multiple price fixing lawsuits that got a lot of attention.

You might not like consoles but the PC world is more overpriced and just as predatory as the console market. It’s just businesses being greedy.

[-] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right, but again, you have choices in almost every piece of hardware.

Consoles lock you down a lot harder in this respect. You either but their hardware and possibly software, or you miss out on the whole thing.

And a lot of people, like a sibling of mine is just getting to the point of maturity where you figure out the brand you like is the bad guy and you don't want to give them money anymore, but you sorely miss the product itself.

Given how hard they're locked in, it's really hard for them to jump to a new platform. Not quite as bad as switching from Android to or from iPhone, but not super far off.

Personally I jumped out completely before I got invested in a digital console store, so I didn't have that problem. But the point is that they gotta completely start a new collection and paradigm.

Whereas if you one day have a huge problem with let's say, Steam, you can just opt to never buy from them again without losing access to your library, no matter what hardware you're running it on.

You can choose to never buy an Acer monitor, CoolerMaster PSU, or (insert other random examples) while still having a computer.

I mean it's impossible to really find "good" companies, but you can at least pick your lines in the sand with a lot more granularity than just consoles.

It's not perfect, but is still better than the big 3.

Plus no matter where you land with your choices, you will still have the same library.

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