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Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed (wccftech.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Man I've just forgotten about Nintendo at this point. Microsoft and Sony get that exclusives aren't working when people don't have enough money to buy every system anymore. I see Nintendo as a niche console with a handful of games. There's just not enough to justify buying one, and I grew up on Zelda and Metroid. I love them, but it's not worth buying another console for a few high priced games with questionable performance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Switch has sold more than the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S combined. Very "niche"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Cool. And Sony can sell to PS and PC, same with Xbox. They have two markets, one that they don't have to support with hardware. They can also make games that look nice and run nice because they have much better hardware. Plus they actually do cross play with each other, making bigger player pools for match making and such.

We're not talking about consoles sold. I'm talking about game choice and experience. If you want to look at how you can play the games, there are a few more PCs than Switches sold.

But sure, Mario Party is fun every so often.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Best selling PS5 game: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 @ 11 million

9th best selling Switch game: Super Mario Party @ 21.1 million

Super Mario Party Jamboree released in October and already sold over 6 million.

But sure, I guess Nintendo is the niche one

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cool and how many games are there on the system? With no backwards compatibility for these expensive games? How many shooters are popular on switch? Or is it that they lock down their IP and it's marketed strongly towards children and cashing in on nostalgia.

But sure, nuance doesn't matter. Nintendo is clearly the best system with the best games. I wonder how gaming PCs are even selling anymore, no one even should be playing on anything else it's so obviously good. Jesus...

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What exactly do you consider high priced? $60 for a game that you end up playing for 10 hours is only $6 an hour. Compared to the price of a movie ticket, that's pretty cheap entertainment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can try to rationalize it all you want, bottom line is people don't have money to buy $80 games these days. Those people aren't going to the movies either.

I bought a rug that I've gotten years of value out of, should it have been thousands of dollars then? The idea that time used is how you measure value is flawed.

Edit: look what popped up on my feed, so looks like it's not just me

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/former-blizzard-boss-says-hard-090054442.html

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I mean, yeah, I never said it was a perfect basis for measuring the value of games or anything else in the world. It's just one metric, and by that measure it's a pretty good value for time of enjoyment. Congrats on the rug bro.