I'd be sad but its really becoming an old yeller situation.

There are a lot of Nintendbros to convince. Good luck.

Even before that. Nintendo went after small time Smash Bros tournaments. Giving them CND. Never gave them a cent after that, and I didn't even play in those tourneys

It would be incredible if somehow every streamer and tuber just stopped broadcasting anything Nintendo, which seems to be something Nintendo wants. I wonder how much of a hit they'd take without those content creators.

They literally couldn't care less, people will buy anything with Pokemon or Mario slapped on it anyway.

But still, fuck you Nintendo.

🙅‍♂️ Free publicity

💁‍♂️ Alienate the fans

Same. Passed on the switch 2. Fuck that noise.

Nintendo will release the Switch 3 with a vial of acid that sprays directly into your eyes while you're playing and they'll still sell millions of units day one

Nintendo has ALWAYS been like this. The SNES could easily play games from Japan on the NA console. But Nintendo wouldn't allow it. how? look at a North American SNES cartridge. notice those notches on the bottom? inside the console where you plug the cartridge in you'll see two pegs for where it connects to said cartridge. just little plastic pegs. Japanese Super Famicom carts didn't have this. So how do you play Japanese games on your US SNES? remove those pegs.

you remove those little plastic pegs and suddenly your SNES is region free.

Nintendo sits on a load of hard cash and has Apple-like profit margins. They’re not going away anytime soon and I think that’s for the best. They’re one of the last AAA publishers focused on innovation in gameplay which is why I can forgive them being mildly brain damaged sometimes.

You heard it here first, folks: other people disagree with you, so you aren't allowed to complain. Nintendo has been successful despite your complaints, so you're now required to suck it up and buy, it as society demands.

Interesting take. Don't complain about Nintendo because they make money?

Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids.

Their pricing is pricing out many families, and I don't like that. I've remained firm in my stance that I'm not going to buy this console. It doesn't matter if everyone else around me buys it, I'm simply not going to do it. It's too expensive, same with the games, and I simply don't want to continue supporting Nintendo.

Gabe said piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, but Nintendo has now made it both lol

I'm sad that more people aren't voting with their wallets but it is what it is, I can at least do my part in refusing to support them.

It's way too early to call them "wildly successful." The Wii U sold 13.5 million units and was a flop. I would expect the Switch 2 to sell more than that to the die-hard fans alone since there are a lot more people playing games nowadays. But the die-hard fans aren't what make their consoles "wildly" successful. I guarantee you those families with kids aren't going to be buying as many $450 consoles with $70+ games. Maybe they will be wildly successful. But we'll have to be a year or so out before we can know how likely that will be.

Will they make money? Oh, that's a given. As much as they made with the Switch? I doubt it, but we'll see.