Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money?

• RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The cheaper games easily make up for that. Particularly since games that you have owned for decades just work, no repurchase required. Have you seen how expensive Nintendo games are? Even on sale they are extremely expensive.

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At the same time, my friends and I lend our Switch games out to one another, which we don’t have the ability to do with Steam. I’m currently borrowing Star Fox and enjoying it, while friend A is borrowing my copy of Donkey Kong Bananza and friend B is borrowing Tears of the Kingdom. I bought maybe 2 Switch games last year, but played 10.

    Before anyone mentions family sharing on Steam, we tried that, but Valve quickly caught on to the fact that we didn’t live in the same household and cut us off.

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    • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can add each other to your stream family and have access to all their games at any time.

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      • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So regarding the second part of my comment, how do you get around the geofence?

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you want the Switch 2 for the latest Nintendo games then the money savings with a PC handheld don’t even matter. Unfortunately there are no PC games that can scratch that Nintendo itch. Except for 2D platformers. No Zelda, 3D Mario and Animal Crossing type of game on PC ever comes close to the real thing.

    Sure you can wait for emulation, but the Switch 2 needs to get a jailbreak first who knows how long that will take and then emulators will take sometime to achieve playable performance.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even on sale they are extremely expensive.

    Do first party games like the Mario ones ever go on sale?

    A few years ago I went to the Nintendo NY store/museum and I chuckled when a mom asked the clerk “excuse do you have something on sale?” And she got “no madam here we do not do sales”

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes but not very often and not very deep until the games are years old. Though they never go on permanent sale like in the past with Nintendo’s Player’s Choice line.

      But since Nintendo still releases physical game cards you can buy them used for cheaper.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I agree with this sentiment. (me too fan)

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