It's not convoluted at all. It's extremely simple: if you want to (edit: legally) play first party Nintendo titles (or other exclusives), you MUST buy a switch. If you don't care about Nintendo exclusives, there's absolutely no reason to own a switch. That has been true of every, single Nintendo console ever released... except for the Wii. People bought a Wii so they could play a motion control game with Grandma once or twice, and then just let the console sit and collect dust.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

When the Switch 1 released there was nothing else on the market like it. Play handheld on the bus, get home, dock it, continue playing in full HD. That is amazing. I didn't get the Switch 1 because of the exclusives, it was the versatility that got me.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

I agree that Nintendo was ahead of the curve when it came to expanding portable gaming, but the only reason the switch sold so many units, and ultimately got so many games ported to it, was because of Nintendo first party titles. If you look at the best selling switch titles, the vast majority of them are Nintendo games. Without Nintendo first party titles, the switch would have been far outsold by better devices.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Yuzu would like to have a word

[–] LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I see your not a high seas enjoyer

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

New game console arrived

Comment suggesting piracy as the first option

gets up-votes

so-called gaming community

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nintendo striking down emulators illegally?

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How does that have anything to do with you pirating developers' hard work?

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

That only matters if you would have paid for it otherwise.

[–] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

Hahaha holy shit this is so true.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev -4 points 1 day ago

Most people don't want to dedicate brain cells for that

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

People bought a Wii so they could play a motion control game with Grandma once or twice

I'd give up everything just to do this...

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Well. NES/SNES/N64/GameCube/DS/GBA all had bangers. The well started to dry up around the wii.