Plus, with the Steamdeck you have more games to play than just Nintendo games or old games you played years ago but have to pay more to play them again on worse hardware.
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Yeah, Nintendo is smoking unfiltered crack, lol. Who the hell has $80-90 to throw at every game in the midst of an unnecessary economic downturn and possible worldwide meltdown?
Oh no, just a USA meltdown. Trump isn't great for other economies, but we still have the rest of the world to trade with. The only thing he is achieving is making the usa less relevant by the day.
It will still cause other countries economies to shrink, as most economies are interlinked in the modern age; but even with the loss in GDP, removing US trade/tech/military reliance is definitely for the better imo. The USA positioning themselves alongside Russia has woke up the rest of the world to the fact that America isn't simply arrogant... It's also dangerous.
I don't see a way back for the US in all honesty. The problem isn't the rogue state behaviour, it's the virile support for such actions seen from many of their citizens. In the coming years we'll no doubt see American military bases being shutdown across the globe, in retaliation to their animosity, and it will only continue further until the US is a pariah state.
I suppose it's some solace that the democrats are able to somewhat slow the implosion of the US through the senate, but that won't be enough to stop them falling out of favour with the rest of the world, and thus losing a huge part of their power. And I have to wonder, is this the exact outcome Putin wanted (America surviving, but struggling... Allowing them to exist as the bad guy, Rather than complete desolation), or just a happy accident after getting Krasnov elected?.
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Not to mention, Nintendo games usually don’t go down in price over time as much.
As much? I don't think ever. Breath of the Wild is still it's release price despite it's sequel, in the same world but with more content, being out and the same price. They're insane.
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Who the hell is paying 90EUR for switch games?
Well no one is paying that for PC games either so
The funniest part is that the best selling video game of all time (Minecraft) currently has an MSRP of less than $30, which technically gets you 2 games because Microsoft/Mojang maintain 2 completely separate codebases for Minecraft (Java edition and bedrock edition) and has to design, program, test and debug everything twice, once for each codebase
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$90?
Shit.
Metroid Prime 4 and The Duskbloods don't sound perfect after all
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I laughed when they showed their game chat mode as some accomplishment. They spent years just making discord...
Another funny moment was when the Civ VII dude said something like "if you already have Civ VII you will be able to play the enhanced switch 2 mode!... After purchasing the upgrade."
They're so unapologetically greedy.
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The fact that Nintendo is well known for not lowering their game prices this could very well price them out from competition.
Hopefully game reviewers will heighten their expectations to meet these inflated prices.
Have you met Nintendo fanboys? They're going to defend this shit like MAGAt republicans defend their Cheeto coloured Jesus.
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Excited for Switch 2 emulation on Steam Deck in a few years
Nintendo isn't getting another penny from me after what they did to the switch emulation projects.
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On the one hand, with rising inflation and skyrocketing development costs, I can totally understand why game prices are getting dangerously close to the triple digits. Games rn are cheaper that they ever were ~~yeet~~ yet development is not.
However, that’s still a lot of money and I really wouldn’t wanna pay that.
The money isn't going to developers, and these are billion dollar companies. It's not about development, but unadulterated greed.
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Current plan is to borrow a Switch 2 from a friend in a couple years, to play the games we're really excited for.
Seeing that the "explore the Switch 2” game wasn't included with the system just pissed me off. I'm not paying to play an interactive manual.
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I'm done giving money to Nintendo. Their litigious behavior is inexcusable. Just ask the parrot on my shoulder. He's on the same side as my eye patch.
Given how much better ToTK would’ve been on pc and how that is the reason they killed emulation, I’m pissed at Nintendo.
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I bought the first switch thinking I'd play it way more. But those prices that basically never go down, and paying way more for games than I could get them on steam.
Nah. I have a deck and it feels better in my hands, looks better, and I don't get charged out the ass for games that have been out for near a decade.
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Nuck Findendo. They’re assholes who kick the ladder out from underneath them
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