Now they just wait a couple years, then hit em with the OLED version while pretending that it's some new space age technology 
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Wait they made this thing HOW MUCH and didn't even make it OLED? My sides
Not a good LED screen either, no local dimming, bad peak brightness and smudgy motion. It "supports" HDR, but you might as well leave it off.
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The O stands for outerspace.
Nintendo of America President and Chief Operating Officer Doug Bowser
No. There is no way.
for every informed gamer that would have feelings about $80 games there are thousands of paypigs who are disney adults for nintendo, millions of casuals who don't give a shit about "the industry", and millions of parents who are buying a toy for the kids and don't buy games often enough to be very price conscious.
we all already know "vote with your wallet" and unorganized boycotts are worthless.
Honestly I never thought $80 games would ever be a big issue in Europe/USA. Games have been at $60 for such a long time, and have become so much more complex that your average consumer can justify the price increase to themselves.
i think part of it is how fast they went from 70 to 80
How does everyone have money for this?
Klarna?
Affirm! Lmao, I think you’re right
What does this actually do that's new? Only game I know for it is mario kart
It runs original switch games at appropriate frameratess
according to a guy i watch for background noise, it makes pokemon scarlet/violet run almost acceptably
though not as well as just emulating it on pc with halfway decent hardware
Incredible lmao
It’s the Switch but more powerful, bigger handheld screen, a bit bigger joy-cons, integrated chat functions. Definitely an incremental improvement rather than a drastic evolution. The line-up is a bit thin right now but that’s typical for the launch period.
The mouse-style control options seem neat, but yep.
It'll get used effectively in like 2-3 first party games and be forgotten 
Sad but true. I just want gyro aiming to take off more, it's legitimately competitive with mouse and keyboard once you get used to it.
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The new Donkey Kong game looks pretty cool. I'm too broke to afford it, but I'll probably enjoy playing it in a few years lol.
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Not the least but surprised. gamers are the Uber bootlickers of our world
Gamers see a black samurai they try and get fucking Japanese congress involved. Gamers see industry abuse and unethical gambling shit that kids are vulnerable to?
Oh look? The usual meal came with flavoring
Gamers see a black samurai they try and get fucking Japanese congress involved
which is really funny considering every Japanese person i've seen talk about assassin's creed has been like "oh cool, it's Yasuke"
He's been a figure in Japanese media forever! I can't wait until the games industry collapses so I never have to hear another white dipshit complain about Yasuke erasing Japanese culture or some shit
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I literally stopped buying new consoles or games because I gave up on gamers being able to wait 24 hours after a game releases to see if it's actually a completed game.
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One game!
wait, seriously, it only has one launch title?
Only 1 exclusive
I normally buy the console day-one so that I have a version that supports the inevitable hardware security weaknesses... but the price makes me knees weak instead.
I'm a RETVRN guy for attack vectors on consoles being hardware based like for the PS1 era. Like I'm sure it is insanely harder than finding some sort of software bug in the bloat but also you can't security patch "guy with a soldering iron"
PS2 slim straw and piece of tissue paper in the disc drive to swap out DVDs for burned discs was my first hardware hack lol.
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They better fund nuclear fusion research with all that money.
Westoid moment
it isn't just a western thing, it's selling a lot of pre-orders in the PRC too
400,000 from just a single retailer and that's with having no official launch
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I havent played on consoles since the PS3 era. I dont think this is gonna change anytime soon. I have everything I need and want on PC these days
It's kinda nuts to think that when the 360 came out, it was more powerful than the best consumer PC you could build (and arguably the PS3 also did, or would have done had it released in 2005 as planned), for $299 (less than 500 adjusted for inflation).
RETVRN
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Mario-kart Worldism-nintendo-switch-twoism thought stays ahead
I’m obviously just virtue signaling to the congregation here, but after how obsolete the switch became immediately (mostly that the controllers stop working) and nintendo never really fixed it - there’s no way I’d buy a console from them again lol. It’s literally put me off from gaming (to my betterment) with how frustrating it is to use.
Fool me once, won’t get fooled again
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I know I'm a hater...But... Would it be so funny if someone found a way to brick them all...
Now being serious we all knew nintendo fans will carry the initial sales weight. Now remains to be seen how many 1st party games it will have how it handle mods and such and the prices. Nintendo trying to condition us to pay full price but it delivers mostly recycled shit, somehow I doubt the console will be the hit some think it will be, but seems it would not be the failure many expect to be.
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