Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Nintendo Switch 2 Will Have a 3-Phase Launch Plan For Its Games

Lemmist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Agreed, but it is pretty important news for our hobby, and third party titles are tied up in its marketing campaign.

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  • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also you can hate Nintendo while still enjoying some of their exclusive games like Zelda and Mario.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can, but I sure won’t.

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      • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        More Korok seeds for me! 🤷

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• jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They actively harm the emulation scene, despite themselves being responsible for making it necessary. They don’t want to make their old games available for sale where those potential customers are; they want you to buy their hardware and rent those old games from them in perpetuity. We’re also now at a point, at least temporarily, where their latest games often play better if you emulate them than play them in the only way Nintendo makes them available legally, so buying games and playing them “the right way” is worse. Then there’s the whole thing where they actively stand in the way of competitive Super Smash Bros.

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    • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is all the same point.

      I agree with you, but they also continue to release more interesting and innovative games than most every other first party studio.

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      • BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then maybe it’s worth bringing up their recent behavior as a patent troll. Regardless of what you think of palworld, nintendo is suing them based on patents that were filed AFTER palworld was announced, or even released in some cases, and has gone on to follow the patent troll playbook beat for beat. Recently they’ve started putting in more baffling patents as ammo against companies seen as threats, such as patenting squeenix’s “HD2D” art style, or, in an extreme, but recent example, patenting “a character standing on top of a vehicle and moving with that vehicle”

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except for Smash Bros., yes, but they created a really shitty vicious cycle. I don’t care if it’s first or third party; I’m not giving Nintendo any more of my money.

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