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

[Giant Troonade]

The difference with PC is that it's not a locked-down platform. I don't need special game carts or executables blessed by gaben to play a game on PC. If Steam dies or a publisher goes belly up, the game will still be easily obtainable as abandonware without me needing to mod shit. Parts for PC will always be generally obtainable and I won't ever be in a situation where I need to track down some kind of obscure replacement part just so I can play a 20 year-old game.

But this is all besides the point - I feel like giving Steam my trust is not a bad play considering I have games I bought back in 2007 that I still have full access to. Meanwhile a game I bought 10 years ago from Soytendo on the 3DS eshop is no longer obtainable without modding my console. And when my 3DS finally kicks it, where am I going to be able to play it? Oh that's right - on PC.

This has been my thought as well. On paper yes, Steam is no different from any other shitty digital storefront where you get sold a license for a game and they can rape you up the ass the moment the storefront becomes obsolete. But in practice Steam has outlived several console generations and their respective storefronts and digital downloads and I have games on my Steam account that I still replay over a decade of being on the platform. It's not an ideal situation and it sucks that Steam's monopoly on the PC gaming market has killed physical PC media but in a practical sense, they've done better at providing a service than Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo combined.

The only reason consolefags croon about physical media ownership so much is because they know it's the only safe bastion on a platform designed to imprison them and cut off their balls.

This too, the only reason I actually do have any use for a console anymore is when I want to own a game physically, so as I see Nintendo trying to pull this shit of forcing more games onto glorified download cartridges and just selling the physical games that do exist at an unjustified premium, the more inclined I am to just not give them that money to begin with. I thought for a while that Nintendo was the last of the major gaming companies that understood the appeal of being able to own physical media but I guess not when they just see it as an opportunity to extract moar shekels from it's consoomers.

 

[Two Dollars]

Given all the backlash that Nintendo is currently getting from all angles, I honestly would be surprised if they aren't forced to address this come the holidays or something.

Since Nintendo has always prided themselves on being a more affordable experience compared to the competitors, hence why it has always attracted families, this will most likely end up eating into their sales.

That’s the biggest indicator to me that this new generation feels off. Not counting the PS5 Pro and Series X, Switch 2 will be the most expensive console on the market. Even a 256GB Steam Deck is cheaper, and that’s before discounts. Nintendo has always been the go-to answer for parents who want to get a simple and cheap yet fun game system, but now what do they do? Put the kids on freemium mobile games?

But this is all besides the point - I feel like giving Steam my trust is not a bad play considering I have games I bought back in 2007 that I still have full access to. Meanwhile a game I bought 10 years ago from Soytendo on the 3DS eshop is no longer obtainable without modding my console.

The amount of people who still think you can’t redownload eShop games is mind-blowing (and right after you accused other people of talking out of their asses). I can turn on my Wii right now, open the Wii Shop Channel, and redownload my games from 2007 without needing mods.

 

[GI Robot]

The amount of people who still think you can’t redownload eShop games is mind-blowing (and right after you accused other people of talking out of their asses). I can turn on my Wii right now, open the Wii Shop Channel, and redownload my games from 2007 without needing mods.

i can also launch my 3ds and download eshop games via H-shop, people do find ways to preserve even on console/handhelds. while PC emulation is the easiest to do, there are some that are detirment to play on OG hardware (and for 3ds/DS games i dont blame them)

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

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.

I don't consent to >$60 games.

 

[GI Robot]

I don't consent to >$60 games.
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its a shame even PC no longer has 60$ games, i was really hoping PC players would put up more a fight against 70$, but i guess not, i swear PC gaming went to shit in the 2010s with all these zoomer newfags, they bring their consolefag nigger mindset with them to the PC . but why should i care? i never pay for games to begin with.

 

[Two Dollars]

I don't consent to >$60 games.
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Again, I ask: Is there a single official source that says physical games will be $90? Because a bunch of people and news sites are whining about it when Nintendo’s own site says $80.

 

[GI Robot]

Again, I ask: Is there a single official source that says physical games will be $90? Because a bunch of people and news sites are whining about it when Nintendo’s own site says $80.

its 90 euros and 80USD, but people are retard and think it means 90 USD, proof Mutts dont know currency differnce, like if you actually look at the price, it clearly show a euro sign next to the 90

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

Still higher than my fucking Yankee ass would want to pay for it either way.

 

[GI Robot]

Still higher than my fucking Yankee ass would want to pay for it either way.

that's why im waiting for sales on most switch 2 games, unless i get a switch 2 games as a gift (which then its not my money i guess)

 

[Turkey Beef]

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

its 90 euros and 80USD, but people are retard and think it means 90 USD, proof Mutts dont know currency differnce, like if you actually look at the price, it clearly show a euro sign next to the 90

90€ converted to USD is $100. The Japs are shafting the Eurocucks.

 

[GI Robot]

90€ converted to USD is $100. The Japs are shafting the Eurocucks.

Ok i take back everything i shit on nintendo for, based nintendo.

 

[Enig]

90€ converted to USD is $100. The Japs are shafting the Eurocucks.

It is divine punishment for subjecting the world to PAL50 for many decades and it is here at last.

 

[GI Robot]

It is divine punishment for subjecting the world to PAL50 for many decades and it is here at last.

it reminds of when sonic 1 released for the 3ds as part of the 3D Classic line, so many euroniggers were asking 'why does the game feel faster??", because they were running the game at a slower framerate than americans/japs due to the PAL50 shit (which may i remind was iirc implanted because of climate change fags/paranoia)

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I still own my father's 6th gen consoles, he owned them all, even still having burnt CDs for pirated dreamcast games. I'll tell you, the 6th was the absolute peak of gaming, no other gen competes with it (or maybe i got rose tinted glasses)

6th was indeed peak, but 5th gen absolutely competes.

No, you're 100% objectively correct.

The real edge it has is having 4 major home console launches. 5th gen technically did too, but nobody actually cares about Jaguar. It gets a little muddier factoring in portables.

i had a wii u, and i think its legit nintendo's worst console, had the weakest lineup of nintnedo games (mostly 2d platformers and weaker RPGs), overpriced even worse than the switch 2 (400$ USD for 32 gb of storage and weaker than the 360), no third party support worth a damn, and the gimmick was retarded as all hell, there's a reason it only sold 12 million units. Wii U is going throught a Memberberry phase.
>yeah i member the Wii U

For its time NES was better, but now I'd argue it's the worst Nintendo console.

And you know it’s fake cause no one really liked the Cube.

No way, people loved GC, online it got a lot more hate than in real life. Nobody liked it as much as PS2 but it was liked almost as much as Xbox, or more if you ignore Halo fags (as you should).

 

[GI Robot]

6th was indeed peak, but 5th gen absolutely competes.

No way, people loved GC, online it got a lot more hate than in real life. Nobody liked it as much as PS2 but it was liked almost as much as Xbox, or more if you ignore Halo fags (as you should).

I'd argue gens 4-6 were the peak, but my favorite is gen 6 of consoles and PC gaming. Still like Gen 3 and 7 of consoles, but they felt weaker by comparsion, and execpt for the 3ds and some switch games, gen 8 of gaming was weak

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I'd argue gens 4-6 were the peak, but my favorite is gen 6 of consoles and PC gaming. Still like Gen 3 and 7 of consoles, but they felt weaker by comparsion, and execpt for the 3ds and some switch games, gen 8 of gaming was weak

4th is really good too, but to really get the most out of it you need to be pretty into certain more arcade-y genres like beat em ups & scrolling shooters. 3rd gen requires masochism to appreciate that NES Hard shit. 7th was definitely solid, it's almost interchangeable with 4th but nostalgia counts for something to me, so it loses out.

I'd rank generations something like 6th > 5th > 4th > 7th > 8th > 9th > 3rd > 2nd > 1st (I've not actually played it but I don't think I need to lol, maybe out of historical curiosity some day)

As for Switch, am I the only one who counts it as 9th gen?

 

[NerdShamer]

90€ converted to USD is $100. The Japs are shafting the Eurocucks.

And nobody else had noticed this?

 

[GI Robot]

As for Switch, am I the only one who counts it as 9th gen?

It’s both 8th and 9th gen, the switch 2 will probably be considered both 9th and 10th gen, Nintendo has gotten themselves to releasing consoles in the middle of a generation, meaning their consoles will exist in 2 generations now

 

[Fcret]

PAL50 shit (which may i remind was iirc implanted because of climate change fags/paranoia)

No, PAL50 was set to 50hz because older TVs could have problems when the refresh rate was out of phase with the mains power frequency (which is 50 hz in most of europe for historical reasons). This was only a concern for a very brief window of time but it got baked into the design of broadcast standards.

PAL50 actually has some advantages such as larger vertical resolution (due to the reduced refresh rate freeing up bandwidth for additional image information) and the general advantages of PAL color. Games running slower in PAL is mostly a problem of JP developer parochialism.