Even before my joycons began to drift the latching bars that hold them in started to wear. I can pretty much effortlessly slide the joycons out without pushing in the lever as if they're not even attached in at all. Nintendo completely dropped the ball on build quality.
The deal with Fire Emblem 1 on the Switch store is that it's just straight up a translated NES rom, despite there being a remake for the DS that came out in 2007. It's separate from the NES emulator they include with their $20/year service, and Japan got Fire Emblem 1 along with that for no extra charge. There's also a fan translation that was completed over a decade ago, so if you really wanted to try it, you've had plenty of time.
Oh, exactly like Chrono Trigger on PS1, which introduced crazy load times while the Japanese version was fine.
Thats funny because gamecube has the funnest Nintendo games on offer. Fight me about it.
These gay-ass consoles we have anymore should immediately boot to the game; an operating system with a user interface and all this extra shit is completely useless and irrelevant. Meanwhile Nintendo's games are still stellar and they have no competition in sight until at least 2026 when the next Dragon Quest game is announced for release in 2030. As usual, Nintendo's biggest problem is Nintendo fans.
ok captain zoomer, tell us all about how great Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is and how it's better than Banjo- -Kazooie
Nintendo's biggest problem is now quality control. They've given up on the seal of quality, their online services are garbage, and they let treehouse run amuck with increasingly worse localization (not that the games are that quality anymore in the first place, with a few exceptions.) The Switch is so flimsy I was able to bend the damn thing despite how thick it is. Sure, the fanbase hasn't made things any better, but Nintendo is dragging itself down more than anything these days.
Pretty easy to do. Somehow the thing can survive being thrown onto concrete with a drone but it can be bent with ease.
I only ever play it in docked mode so I guess I wouldn't know. That said I agree about manufacturing issues and I lay the blame entirely upon the decision to shift fabrication to China. My "Made in Japan" Nintendo equipment has never failed me in any unreasonable fashion. From the GameCube onward the issues became more and more common; that said issues are still uncommon, but the change was noticeable.
Pretty crazy that even Sony has their manufacturing in Japan yet Nintendo refuses to do so.
Probably due to Sony producing a plethora of other electronic devices which can keep manufacturing costs lower.
Yup, it's just plastic on plastic at a time when we're all carrying phones made out of strong glass and steel frames. Come to think of it, I think my Switch is the only thing I own that has a capacitive plastic touch screen.
The "Made in China" shift seemed to happen at some point around '03-04, I'd guess. I own two Gamecubes, one early model that's made in Japan and a later, "platinum" one that's made in China.
I can only hope Nintendo's Last of Us II would end like Goldeneye 64 was suggested to end. With Ellie and Abby visiting their enemies in the hospital and shaking hands.
