Unpopular opinion: Nintendo is overrated and is no longer innovation.
Never was. Nintendo 64 was developed at SGI and sold to Nintendo after turned down by others.
The steam deck is way better anyways!
I’m dancing happily into the €20 game era with my Steam Deck.
You’re paying double digits for your games?
For some of them, they’re worth it.
I paid like $70 for FF 7 remake pack (two titles) on Steam. Even then I felt like they could optimize the graphics algorithm a tiny bit (I don’t want them to swap the texture frequently to a poorer resolution one just because the GPUs from 7 years ago (on PlayStation?) had less VRAM.
lol not for me, thnx
Can’t remember the last time i payed full price for a game.
But i don’t buy into the Nintendo ecosystem anyway, sodeleted by creator
I’m done buying games from these corporate fux.
Only indie games for me from now on.
You said that last time too 😛
I’m not defending this behavior but keeping up with inflation games that cost 60 bucks in the early 90s would cost well over 120 today.
I know they don’t do physical media as much or at all in some cases.
I’m just pointing out that technically 80 bucks for a game is still a good ways behind inflation.
Not defending it. Just pointing it out.
I’ll start by saying I loved Nintendo games. But I think I’m done. They can offer the games at $80, but I will pass. Oh well.
Same boat. I love my switch. Their direct said all the right things. New Mario kart looks great. I have faith meteoid and that new dk game will be fun. But the pricing makes it a no go. There’s just no way I’m going to pony up that much for one game.
Hardly kicking and screaming when you can just turn away.
My game purchases this year have all been under £10. Last year the most expensive was Factorio: Space Age which I bought directly from their site. Most of my playtime this year has been in FOSS games and a few small indies like Soldak games.
You got any good tips for foss games?
Been playing Veloren lately. Lot of time in CDDA too.
Don’t like the price, don’t buy it. Don’t feed the hype. Play through your games. Mod it. Try a diferent path, a new class, a diferent character. Try indie games.
Corporations feed on the needs they create on you. Starve them.
I’m weirdly okay with this?
I get most of my gaming on the cheap on PC, so I feel fine splurging for the occasional Nintendo title.
But as with all things, no reason to buy something you don’t want to pay for. If enough people can’t or won’t pay $80, then so be it.
Sorry you are being downvoted for your honest opinion. I’d understand if you had some nasty sentiment about people who find $80 too expensive in there, but you have no ill will or dim views of anyone expressed here… I’d like Lemmy to be a nice place and part of that includes not downvoting views that are unpopular but also not cruel towards anyone. Especially when the popular view is “I’m mad!” Dismissing everyone’s anger without trying to understand why they’re angry or where they are coming from isn’t the move, but this person isn’t doing that. The only “crime” they committed is not sharing in the anger themselves. And in a world full of algorithms pushing outrage, where lots of people on Lemmy came here to flee that very trend, I’d like non-anger to not be disapproved of.
I am honestly curious if them not jumping on the hatewagon and being personally okay with this is being interpreted as them saying “because I’m fine with $80 everyone else has to be too” or whatever. I want to know where the downvoters are coming from. Is it just simple “do not like their take! Downvote!”? Is it “since they are okay with this, they must be well-off and thus an out-of-touch bad person who deserves disapproval for being richer than me?” Is it some honest belief that this person is inadvertently advancing a harmful view to be complacent against ever-increasing prices and companies squeezing average people harder and harder?
I am not fine with the $80 increase, I just also see what seems to be an innocent take getting disapproval and I honestly want to know what they did wrong. Both so I can know for the future so I do not do it myself, and so if they didn’t actually do anything wrong there is something on record speaking up for “hey leave them alone.” Genuine question.
EDIT: Just realized. Is this a place where it is okay (or should be okay) to express dissent, or is this more like a case of entering c/racecarsarecool and posting about why you think racing is stupid? I can tell the latter is a dick move, but I am not sure if this is. It does involve going into a community whose views you can probably predict if you have been on Lemmy for a bit and telling them “yeah I don’t share your anger,” which could be likened to “hey c/knitting! Knitting is kind of boring actually,” but this doesn’t really come off as intentional pot-stirring bait or invading a community clearly intended for enthusiasts to be a hater to me.
Beats me! But I’m unbothered, so no worries.
This was likely done in anticipation for the tariffs.
No thanks.
I haven’t owned a Nintendo console since the halcyon days of the SNES and shit like this doesn’t encourage me to break that habit.
Held off on the switch at Christmas in anticipation of switch 2, mostly for the kids, think I’ll try them with PC gaming and see how they get on. I’ll get a lot more bang for buck upgrading my graphics card.
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