With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 99 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nintendo is just a garbage lawsuit company that sometimes makes hardware with stupid subscriptions attached.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and none of it matters, cause they have literal legions of fans that will ride their ride, no matter how much it costs, no matter how poorly made it is, no matter how much nintendo spits in their face.

So Nintendo sees no significant economic repercussions from their behavior, and thus has incentive to change.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I was one of those but they were losing me more and more every year... But 3 years ago it became way too much, and I got off the bandwagon. Screw that lol.

I hope they don't make as many sales as they expect... But you may be right, too many people who will buy their crap however expensive and how much they're being mistreated by the company.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure.

All of my friends who are less pissed off at Nintendo than I am are not even considering buying a Switch 2 because Nintendo basically priced themselves out of the market. All of my friends who have a Switch 1 will not be buying the Switch 2, that's pretty significant IMO, but I guess we'll see.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 4 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and "I guess I'll get a switch as a second device" gamers. These people aren't going to look at a switch that's roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think "yeah let's grab that one".

The wii u showed their demographic of "die hard fans that buy no matter what" is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we're going to see a repeat of that.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 47 minutes ago

I hope it does worse than the Wii U tbh, Nintendo needs to be knocked down quite a few pegs. I am quite fed up with them.