Not sure why this article.is trying to imply Nintendo messed up and don’t know what they’re doing, and bricking will somehow lose them money.
From Nintendo’s perspective, turning the used market into a minefield of bricked consoles can only be a good thing, because it forces people to buy new, and buying new is money in Nintendo’s pocket.
And the conclusion that people won’t buy the console for their kids because of this? “Sorry kids, but Nintendo are bad so we cant play your favourite Mario - you’re getting a steam deck instead!” Like heck! A tiny minoruty maybe, but people will generally buy their kids what they ask for.
Nintendo know exactly what they are doing.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Any platform that restricts how and what I can run in it has inherently less value to me. This is why I mostrly avoided consoles all my life.
The only console I bought was the original Wii. The games were extremely expensive, and they disabled all the services that made the console useful after a few years (weather channel, news channel, store).
Fortunately I added a few SNES, PCEngine, Genesis/Megadrive and Gamecube emulators otherwise I would now have a very pretty white doorstop.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My history with consoles is:
I play most games on PC because I’m just not as interested in exclusives anymore, except maybe Zelda games, and with BOTW and TOTK, I’m less interested in those (they lost the formula I like).
I’ll probably get the Switch 2 eventually, but I’ll wait until there’s a game I really want (say, ALttP remake or something), my kids break our OLED Switch, or there’s an OLED Switch 2 with better battery life.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure you can mod any Wii now, bypassing all these restrictions and adding back replacements for the missing channels.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There was the Homebrew Channel back then, but it seemed to have gone offline. I assumed people just lost interest and moved on.
Based on what you said I did a quick search and found that there’s still an active community around the console, so thank you!
I’m updating my Homebrew Browser to see what’s new.