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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Are lemmites going to realise that they aren't the majority and that there's a whole world of different people out there.

Looks at comments

I guess not.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I'm not happy about the Switch 2, but the amount of cope is unbelievable. I've seen multiple people claiming, "the Wii U sold out a launch too," even though the Wii U sold worse than the Wii on opening weekend. The sales might still fall off a cliff in a month, but breaking the PS4's record for launch sales is not a great sign.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gamers have to be the dumbest market of consumers out of them all.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I had to block the Nintendo communities because it's beyond infuriating how god damn fucking stupid Nintendo fanboys are. They do not listen to logic or reason.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be expected, mainstream audiences would pay Nintendo to fuck them up the arse if it meant more Mario.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Id pay for Luigi to fuck my ass.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 9 points 6 days ago

I guess it wasn't too expensive after all.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Just like the horse armor, people complain and complain and then fork over the money anyway.

[–] w8ghT@lemy.nl 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And this is why The Gaming Industry is in COMPLETE turmoil! Sheeple literally reward the most abysmal business practices. Which in turn ruins it for everyone.

If a dog was to bite your hand would you immediately offer it a treat?

https://www.suedbynintendo.com/

[–] Sebastrion@leminal.space 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Man, the comment section here is wild! If we would all listen to Lemmy, we would need to boycott: Nintendo, Sony, Windows, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Pokemon, Disney+, Netflix, every other streaming service that exists. We also need to boycott Fromsoftware a little bit because for some reason a 40$ game is a scam...

It's feels impossible to talk about anything positive in most of Lemmy's sub's. People here are calling people dumb and stupid for having fun with a console, while they suck off Steam that also just shut down a Fan Mod for Counter Strike and unless other Fan Games, they had approval to develop it.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

If we would all listen to Lemmy, we would need to boycott: Nintendo, Sony, Windows, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Pokemon, Disney+, Netflix

I do boycott all of these as well as EA (made an exception for Split Fiction), most fast food restaurants, and I am trying to use Amazon significantly less.

[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Have you considered not being a simple treat hog?

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So despite all of the bitching and moaning about all of the "game breaking" features, the shitty little camera, the lack of original games and the price they still bought it. This is why companies keep putting out crap.

[–] w8ghT@lemy.nl 2 points 5 days ago

Exactly! Rewarding bad behavior is a understatement in this case. I grew up with Nintendo but as it stands they're a disgusting corporation in which I want nothing to do with! They LITERALLY ruined Lives! I suggest every Gamer researches NintenDONTs dark history.

https://www.suedbynintendo.com/

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 91 points 1 week ago (19 children)

So much for the boycott and all the negative press it got.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Non-tech people usually don’t care about the ToS and the dirty practices a company does. They’ll gladly pay for the ‘convenience’.

Most Nintendo fans even argued that prices, new ToS (bricking the device) and such were “justifiable”. Same thing about owning games, most argued that “in today’s era you barely own anything anyway”.

It’s very unfortunate and sad to see but it is reality.

Personally though, I’ll wait for either a working emulation or when there’s an actual exploit found to hack the Switch 2.

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[–] katze@lemmy.cafe 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So much for the boycott

What boycott? Don't overestimate bla bla bla on lemmy and other social media.

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[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (10 children)

There are three guarantees in life:

  1. Death

  2. Taxes

  3. A video game boycott will never succeed.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft Xbox One has entered the chat

A Nintendo boycott will never succeed

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I don't think the Xbox One was a disappointment due to a boycott, I think it was just a product people didn't feel the need to buy.

Sure, there was early controversy about the always-online DRM approach they planned to take, but it didn't launch with that in the end. What killed its hype was just being US$100 more expensive than the PS4 and having no killer exclusives lined up.

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[–] ddplf@szmer.info 50 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I find it ridiculously impressive given how abhorrently expensive purchasing and owning it is.

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Nintendo has spent decades building an extremely loyal, multigenerational consumer base. They also release very popular, high quality games. I have no interest in owning a Switch, but I get why so many people do.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY THINK WE'RE GOING TO STAND FOR THIS!

~~I'll take two, one for me, and one to sell~~

HOW COME THEY KEEP DOING THIS!? DON'T THEY KNOW THEY'LL LOSE ME AS A ~~repeat~~ CUSTOMER!?"

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And with that. Every gamer was fucked

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[–] Vipsu@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Aside from the analog sticks, the console itself seems like a fine upgrade from the original making it a tempting for anyone looking for "Switch Pro". But it'll be intersting to see how the price of games and the digital key aspect will affect the game sales down the line.

Steam Deck and other portable pc:s seem to be also getting a lot of momentum so there's increasing amount of competition for handheld devices which was not really the chase with Switch 1.

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

PC handhelds are nowhere near switch + switch 2, 3.5M units almost equal total number of Steam Decks sold since its launch in 2022.

[–] Vipsu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Not yet, but availability of steam decks and other pc handhelds is improving rapidly. Valve also just recently allowed other manufacturers like Lenovo to produce their own devices.

PC gaming is currently overshadowing console gaming and these pc handhelds are just extension of that.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We get stories like this all the time.

Was the switch 2 a successful launch from a monetary perspective: Hopefully

But people also have to understand. Gaming gets more and more mainstream every year AND population increases every year. Of course units sold are going to increase. The last time we had a console launch was 2020-ish. It has been five years of new people getting into video games and so forth.

Its similar logic to any time we see "Call of Auto 789151 is the fastest selling Call of Auto ever!".... Of course it is. If it wasn't then that would be a huge red flag for the franchise.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

I do always love "records" that are effectively population increases.

Just like when people share maps of data that are effectively just showing population distribution.

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