And this is why The Gaming Industry is in COMPLETE turmoil! Sheeple literally reward the most abysmal business practices. Which in turn ruins it for everyone.

If a dog was to bite your hand would you immediately offer it a treat?

https://www.suedbynintendo.com/

Gamers have to be the dumbest market of consumers out of them all.

Are lemmites going to realise that they aren't the majority and that there's a whole world of different people out there.

Looks at comments

I guess not.

To be expected, mainstream audiences would pay Nintendo to fuck them up the arse if it meant more Mario.

Man, the comment section here is wild! If we would all listen to Lemmy, we would need to boycott: Nintendo, Sony, Windows, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Pokemon, Disney+, Netflix, every other streaming service that exists. We also need to boycott Fromsoftware a little bit because for some reason a 40$ game is a scam...

It's feels impossible to talk about anything positive in most of Lemmy's sub's. People here are calling people dumb and stupid for having fun with a console, while they suck off Steam that also just shut down a Fan Mod for Counter Strike and unless other Fan Games, they had approval to develop it.

Just like the horse armor, people complain and complain and then fork over the money anyway.

I guess it wasn't too expensive after all.

So much for the boycott and all the negative press it got.

"THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY THINK WE'RE GOING TO STAND FOR THIS!

~~I'll take two, one for me, and one to sell~~

HOW COME THEY KEEP DOING THIS!? DON'T THEY KNOW THEY'LL LOSE ME AS A ~~repeat~~ CUSTOMER!?"

There are three guarantees in life:

1. Death

2. Taxes

3. A video game boycott will never succeed.

Nintendo has spent decades building an extremely loyal, multigenerational consumer base. They also release very popular, high quality games. I have no interest in owning a Switch, but I get why so many people do.

I find it ridiculously impressive given how abhorrently expensive purchasing and owning it is.

And with that. Every gamer was fucked

We get stories like this all the time.

Was the switch 2 a successful launch from a monetary perspective: Hopefully

But people also have to understand. Gaming gets more and more mainstream every year AND population increases every year. Of course units sold are going to increase. The last time we had a console launch was 2020-ish. It has been five years of new people getting into video games and so forth.

Its similar logic to any time we see "Call of Auto 789151 is the fastest selling Call of Auto ever!".... Of course it is. If it wasn't then that would be a huge red flag for the franchise.

So despite all of the bitching and moaning about all of the "game breaking" features, the shitty little camera, the lack of original games and the price they still bought it. This is why companies keep putting out crap.

Aside from the analog sticks, the console itself seems like a fine upgrade from the original making it a tempting for anyone looking for "Switch Pro". But it'll be intersting to see how the price of games and the digital key aspect will affect the game sales down the line.

Steam Deck and other portable pc:s seem to be also getting a lot of momentum so there's increasing amount of competition for handheld devices which was not really the chase with Switch 1.