Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money?
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 days agoThe 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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
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.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So regarding the second part of my comment, how do you get around the geofence?
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it possible to use VPNs to fool it? I feel like someone has probably solved this issue.