Nintendo Switch (Currently Plagued) - Here we shit post about the new Nintendo console, The Switch

[GI Robot]

yeah but i've purchased game(license)s with a 50 dollar msrp for 10 bucks during their sales. nintendon't do that.

funny that i get all my PC games for free with no licenses at all. thank god for https://cs.rin.ru/

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Bravely Defalut looks nice but will it remove the god awful censorship that Nintendo Treehouse put in the 3DS version? I highly doubt it.

What's that, you want more censorship? Well, sure thang pardner!

Would personally like a full reboot. Probably an unpopular stance, but the heart of the series really died somewhere between Brawl and Wii U. Would love for them to go back to Brawl in terms of campaigns and general respect/preservation of Nintendo history. Ultimate really wore me out with the nothing single player and way over abundance of emphasis on just having big roster and tons of different companies IPs.

A reboot would only be acceptable if they revamped the gameplay imo. Add a 3rd dimension or something. If it's just Ultimate but a tiny roster they can fuck off.

I could accept it if they brought in lots of new characters, like ditching Mewtwo and Jigglypuff for Meowth and Eevee, and replacing all the Fire Emblem characters with new ones, swap Falco and Wolf for Krystal and General Scales. They could drop the 80+ roster to like 40 and make it still feel pretty fresh, but not if they keep all the same characters, except halved with little new.

I do agree with the Nintendo history but, and better single-player, but a big roster with tons of 3rd party definitely didn't wear me out. If anything I just want more.

 

[GI Robot]

There's a lot of really bitter people in this thread. It's like watching old men that are constantly finding something to be upset about. For fucks sake Nintendo isn't the entirety of your existence, where life becomes heaven on earth or eternal agony depending on the smallest business decision some Japanese salaryman pitched to his boss.

The world is not going to end just because you don't like what Nintendo is doing. Go read a book, go outside, learn the piano or pick up a hobby.

dude this is not how to handle this, like i want a switch 2, but i recognize Nintendo's flaws. but like i look on /v/ and the like and see loads of people shit talking the games i play/like, but i don't let that bring me down, because you and me are our own people, i hate to say a dumb boomer wisdom, but like. Don't let owns force or pressure you to like or dislike stuff just to fit in. you shouldn't declare everyone to "go outside" because you sound like a fag, just take it up the chin and be the bigger man and just either completely ignore it, or try a smarter response.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

All the consumers going ‘how will I afford’ and getting btfo by the replies saying ‘back in the day people only got 1 or 2 games a year’ is funny shit.

But they right. Which explains also the consumers going ‘why only 1 new first party title at launch?’

Sillies.

Because they expect kids to get only a few games a year at most.

It likely also explains the share play feature. Now a family only needs to buy 1 game and it is usable for the entire family from the parents main Switch without having to fight over a physical cart.

So now you can get the 1 game they all want once and be fine and all the different third party stuff they get via allowance or whatever.

When you think about it a lot of the share and multi play functionality seems like it was done to alliviate the price and fix a big issue Switch 1 had. Frequently needing to buy multiple carts of the same game.

 

[Neil]

I seriously don't see this console or any of its games selling well with the family market Nintendo has dominated since like 2006.

I cannot fucking IMAGINE my younger ever asking my parents to pay $90 for a video game at any point in my childhood, AFTER buying me a $450 dollar console. Games used to cost like $40-60 dollars back in the day, but that was less egregious back then because of how common rental culture was, especially in the late 90s/early 2000s. You could pay like $5-10 to keep a game worth $60 for a week. $450 dollars is fucking 1990s NEO-GEO prices.

If this console actually does manage to sell well, either I severely underestimated how many Disney-Adult type fans Nintendo has, or kids just happen to have far wealthier parents nowadays.

Because Nintendo is trying to brute-force the further enshitification of the already godawful modern gaming industry which has become notorious for nickel and diming people to death (and we're talking about Nintendo consoomers here, so it might work).

It's funny, I never would've guessed that Nintendo of all companies would be the ones accelerating the industry down the path of $100-$120 games. Not because they're uniquely generous or anything, but because they've never made a game that has ever warranted being above 60 bucks, nor ever had hardware that has ever warranted costing $500.

 

[Never Scored]

>"I-I'm not obsessed, YOU'RE obsessed!"

Yes, the guy who made a single post about it is obsessed. Cope, faggot.

 

[Belvedere]

i find it funny people are bitching about nintendo games being a license but forget that you dont own your games on steam either, but hey the only worse cult than nitnendo fans, are valve fans
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REJECT STEAM AND NINTENDO, EMBRACE GOG AND DRM FREE GAMING

That's not even a Steam issue, it is a publisher's choice. Many games on Steam ship without DRM, which means you can run them without Steam and copy these to another drive entirely. I've extracted many older Steam titles to a retro Windows XP PC (for example Fable: The Lost Chapters) and these run without issues. If I can copy and run the game without Steam then effectively I "own" it because at that point no one can take it away.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

Steam, due to legal requirements, has to spell it out that you are granted a license, just the same as a buying a book, you are buying a licensed copy of a literally work, not granted ownership of the literally work itself.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

or kids just happen to have far wealthier parents nowadays.

Not that. Kids just happen to have parents that buy consoles for themselves as well because of when the Parents grew up. And with the sharing functionality a parent could absolutely reason 450 + 80 for the entire family. And then again only needing to buy future games once.

 

[HeyYou]

The Nintendrones were INSIDE THE HOUSE ALL ALONG!

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

REJECT STEAM AND NINTENDO, EMBRACE GOG AND DRM FREE GAMING

GOG gets game updates late, if ever.

Why are you all complaining? You're going to buy it.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

A reboot would only be acceptable if they revamped the gameplay imo. Add a 3rd dimension or something. If it's just Ultimate but a tiny roster they can fuck off.

I would personally like to see them go back and overhaul/revamp the old fighters for once. It is pretty obvious how outdated most of the 64-Brawl roster has become as they have refused to change any of them for multiple entries now outside of maybe slight tweaks, at best 1-2 moves. Ganondorf and Wario are the most obvious in really needing an update as even with Ultimate's changes, they still barely resemble themselves. Hell, would argue the entire Mario cast pre Wii U could use an update, all of them feel foreign by todays standards

I could accept it if they brought in lots of new characters, like ditching Mewtwo and Jigglypuff for Meowth and Eevee, and replacing all the Fire Emblem characters with new ones, swap Falco and Wolf for Krystal and General Scales. They could drop the 80+ roster to like 40 and make it still feel pretty fresh, but not if they keep all the same characters, except halved with little new.

Building off above, would like for them to really revamp the old cast while including some new faces. Best outcome would be to create a more evenly divided roster that actually reflects how popular an IP is. Looking at Ultimate, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Zelda, Splatoon and Animal Crossing all feel vastly underrepresented for how big of IPs they all are, meanwhile FE should be halved. Would also like better console representation, as weird as that sounds. For being one of Nintendo's greatest successes, it is surprising that the DS only ever got one character (Lucario). One would think DS could get like a Rythm Heaven rep or one of its many other decently popular new IPS : Style Savvy, the Cing Games, Brain Age, Nintendogs, etc..

Also, think getting a new artstyle would really benefit the series. Ultimate looks like shit in many areas as they are still using models from the Brawl era which look terrible under some of Ultimate's lighting conditions. Most obvious examples I can point to are shirtless Shulk and Path of Radiance Ike looking particularly bad, especially on the results screen. I don't even know how to describe Ultimate's style other than it feels like it is colorful, yet also drained of all color at the same time, they look detailed, yet also look like plastic toys.

I do agree with the Nintendo history but, and better single-player, but a big roster with tons of 3rd party definitely didn't wear me out. If anything I just want more.

The 3rd party just felt overdone after awhile. I think a bigger issue is how the 3rd party feel like guests now, rather than an organic part of the cast.

Using Brawl as an example, Snake and Sonic felt like they belonged as work was put in to organically integrate them. The Subspace allowed them to interact with the cast and in Snake's case, he got the Codec easter egg to really sell him as being a part of the world.

In terms of Ultimate, only Castlevania felt like they put any work in to really add them the same way. Castlevania was cool with the boss, the mini area and general love towards the series.

I don't know what it is about the DLC characters, but all of them feel off, including the characters brought from Wii U to Ultimate. They feel less like characters and more like the newest gimmick to break the game.

IDK, just something about Sonic, Metal Gear, Mega Man, PAC-MAN and Castlevania feel so much better implemented than the rest of the outside franchises that I would honestly just keep them and get rid of the rest if we had to keep 3rd parties.

I also just hate how the emphasis went away from Nintendo characters, especially for DLC. It is a Nintendo crossover, yet only 3, technically 4, of the DLC characters are from Nintendo.

 

[Terror Sandwich]

For those complaining about the cost of new games. Prices aren't reaching new highs. Your parents paid the equivalent of 110 dollars today to buy you a copy of Turok.

Rising prices aren't a good thing. But the gaming market is still cheaper today than it was in the 90s and early 00s.



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That's a shitty argument because it completely ignores that the number of "gamers" buying games has increased exponentially.
Just for comparison: it took Pokemon Red/Blue 8 years to reach 31 million sales, in 2004, when it did it was considered the best selling game of all time. In 2025 Palworld reached 31m after only one year.

 

[Enig]

Currently trying to figure out where the pants pissing outrage going on now was at when games jumped to $70, the latest Pokemon games did high profit for all time low effort and the PS5 introduced paid upgrades, am I really surrounded by this many heads of cattle that just ignored the frog boil going on for five years and chose to have a farting seizure over Mario Kart

 

[Terror Sandwich]

Currently trying to figure out where the pants pissing outrage going on now was at when games jumped to $70, the latest Pokemon games did high profit for all time low effort and the PS5 introduced paid upgrades, am I really surrounded by this many heads of cattle that just ignored the frog boil going on for five years and chose to have a farting seizure over Mario Kart

It was there, you were the one living under a rock.
However the outrage for $80 is much larger because we have barely moved to $70 and the prices have already increased again. Nintendo's first (and iirc only) $70 game so far was Zelda TotK in 2023, and 2 years later we are at $80.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Currently trying to figure out where the pants pissing outrage going on now was at when games jumped to $70,

I do remember it being there but then everyone stopped quickly when they realised they said would never or could newest pay 70 were happily paying 70. Parents will happily pay the money.

the latest Pokemon games did high profit for all time low effort

I’d dispute low effort. Havinge to rush it out the door does not mean low effort.

and the PS5 introduced paid upgrades, am I really surrounded by this many heads of cattle that just ignored the frog boil going on for five years and chose to have a farting seizure over Mario Kart

To say nothing of all the early access purchase options or deluxe purchase options priced slightly higher that give you in game bonuses for buying.

80 has been the price for awhile, they just hid it.

 

[Deus Exica]

Why are you all complaining? You're going to buy it.

No sir, I don't think I will.

It was there, you were the one living under a rock.
However the outrage for $80 is much larger because we have barely moved to $70 and the prices have already increased again. Nintendo's first (and iirc only) $70 game so far was Zelda TotK in 2023, and 2 years later we are at $80.

Worth noting that the amount of 70$ full priced AAA games is quite small since nothing is coming out at all, and the games that have ARGUABLY are big enough to warrant the price tag, or have alternative means of access like Gamepass.

They also go ON FUCKING SALE which Nintendo games never fucking do. I spent 130 dollars the last Spring sale and got five new games from the past couple of years, one of which was Space Marine 2.

Mario Kart is not worth 90 dollars I don't give a fuck how much Nintendo tards cry about it.

 

[Danann]

I've been noticing during the Treehouse stream that they're spamming "Drop the Prices!" over and over, so its pretty clear that almost everyone is pissed over this price hike.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

I've been noticing during the Treehouse stream that they're spamming "Drop the Prices!" over and over, so its pretty clear that almost everyone is pissed over this price hike.

any of them add the words "or we will not buy the console?" if not, this is worthless

 

[Two Dollars]

I've been noticing during the Treehouse stream that they're spamming "Drop the Prices!" over and over, so its pretty clear that almost everyone is pissed over this price hike.

I don’t like $450 for the console, but it’s the highest I expected it to be, so fine, I’ll tolerate it.
I don’t like $70/game, but the rest of the industry already does it, so fine, I’ll tolerate it.
But the nickel-and-diming is what irritates me. $80 for Mario Kart just because they know it’ll sell anyway, only a few games get performance upgrades and half of them are paid when emulators have already shown that improving visuals should usually be trivial given better hardware, controllers and accessories cost more than they should. Mario Kart in particular sets a precedent for other games going up to $80.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Currently trying to figure out where the pants pissing outrage going on now was at when games jumped to $70, the latest Pokemon games did high profit for all time low effort and the PS5 introduced paid upgrades, am I really surrounded by this many heads of cattle that just ignored the frog boil going on for five years and chose to have a farting seizure over Mario Kart

Nintendo sold one base game at 70 dollars in the last 20 years and yes, people were pissed at them for it. Now they're skipping 70 and heading straight to 80/90.