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Last week I started playing a rom hack of Pokémon red called purergb which has QOL improvements and bug fixes and lets you catch all 151 Pokémon without trading! I haven’t played a new release game in probably 2 years lol.
I thought even pricing aside the switch 2 announcement was a real wet fart. I’m sure there are some people out there really excited for multiplayer bloodborne but I have never been a from software guy.
The only exclusive that enticed me was Metroid prime 4, but even then I much prefer the 2D Metroid games (dread was incredible).
I actually was really impressed by the Switch 2 games coming out, the Donkey Kong game in particular showed Nintendo has really upped their game as far as character models and animation is concerned. But then they got to the pricing and I was thinking like "You guys have already killed so much good faith with your crusade against emulation. You used to be the guys that refused to stoop to greedy shit like micro transactions and DLC. You already have been super scummy with making your virtual console a subscription service and now this greedy pricing?"
The problem, of course as always, is capitalism. The eras where Nintendo was experimental were their least profitable, the GameCube was a failure in their eyes. The first Switch did away with extras like themes and the virtual console store, and it was their most successful console in ages. Couple this with the success of the Mario Movie and now you have a lot of shitty investors wanting a piece of the pie.
It really does feel like capitalism has killed modern gaming, with this and Sony doing shit like making overproduced Marvel tier slop like Concord it looks bleak. Monster Hunter Wilds looks great and I love Monster Hunter, but even that series has become plagued by microtransactions and advertising. The whole industry is going the way movies and music has gone. Capitalists smell a creative industry they can exploit and set to slowly carving away it's creative soul for profit.
The sad part is like I said, the actual games look like some of Nintendo's best work in years, but it's all poisoned by that greed.