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- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 15 hours ago:
Here’s a post about Nintendo raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50. People there are much less “chill” about that price versus this Steam Machine that is essentially a PS5 by all accounts on performance.
In this thread the people may not be AS mean as I was saying, there are people in there going “fuck Nintendo” as though Nintendo wants the bad press from raising prices.
And I’m not saying people should love Nintendo. I don’t really care about that. It’s just always funny to see the juxtaposition between these things. Lemmy is definitely a “I love Steam! It’s my favorite place to license games and not really own them!” kind of community. I get it. But every one of these companies are getting screwed by the same political climate and hardware situations.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 15 hours ago:
The price increases were also a function of tariffs and junk, too. Just a big double whammy.
I think it was MS last year who started off the price hikes. Then they did another this year.
Nintendo had tariff issues right when the Switch 2 was launching then finally upped prices in the last month or so, and Sony just in the last couple of months had to adjust prices, too.
I don’t really think any of these companies raised console prices before the idiocy of the trump admin and the AI bubble, though. Not that I can recall at least.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 16 hours ago:
It’s funny to see that when the main console makers all raised their prices for the same reasons as this thing is expensive everyone was like “Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft are so greedy! They hate their consumers!”
And this thing being overpriced it’s “oh sweet baby angel Gabe, we know the hardships upon thee in thine many literal ships at sea. Please accept my money.”
I’m joking here so calm down Steam nerds.
But I do think some folks need to realize none of these companies want to jack up their prices like this. Everyone wants to make a profit, sure, but AI is screwing everyone.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 day ago:
Welp, really glad I got that PS5 Pro before those went up in price.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Knicks vs Spurs – Game 5 1 week ago:
I don’t want to sound like a jerk, but every time they do a close up of Fox on the court he has this expression like it’s the first time he’s ever seen the world. Like Scott Bakula just quantum leaped into his body ten minutes before the game.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Knicks vs Spurs – Game 5 1 week ago:
How do you miss that close out on Brunson’s three?
Wemby is wearing giant clown shoes and he stepped right into the landing area.
- Comment on Victor Wembanyama avoids flagrant foul for shoving Brunson 1 week ago:
I feel like we are going to get a “Wemby’s Dirty Plays” compilation video soon from somebody. He’s always out there doing something.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Spurs vs Knicks – Game 4 1 week ago:
When Chet missed two free throws at the end of a playoff game a couple years ago everyone said he was washed.
Time to send Wemby back to France.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 1 week ago:
It was honestly pretty packed with stuff. It’s been one of the better ones in a long time.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Spurs vs Knicks – Game 4 1 week ago:
HO LEE SHIT.
So happy for this choke job by the Spurs. This is why you don’t spout off “I’m in your head.”
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 1 week ago:
That’s a good point that they gave such a meaty (Lanz wants something meatier!) trailer a year out. Thats how you know it’s coming along nicely AND there’s way more story to tell than what they’ve shown.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 1 week ago:
Until I know differently, I have this feeling like this world is one that could have been “seeded” by another ship from earth and just evolved differently.
But I have zero evidence of that. I just assume there will be some sort of tie into the other games.
However, these characters are just humans and elves and there are zero Nopon in this trailer (but there was a short cat character shown in one split second). Could very well be totally different. And that’s fine, too.
It is hard to think about a game that doesn’t have Mio and Noah in the crew, though. They are so good I wonder how I can even be as in love with any new characters as I was with them. I’m not worried, really. But XC3 was like the mountaintop, and now we are starting all fresh so I just don’t know yet. It’s going to be great, though.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 1 week ago:
Yeah I expect maybe the first chapter or two to be set at this school and then something kicks off the journey to deal with this “god” they mention. AND EVEN THEN there could be a twist.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Time to get better friends, of course.
- Comment on Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 2 weeks ago:
Sothis showing up at the end is cool and unexpected (by me). So this seems like it’ll be after Three Houses.
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- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake – Coming 2026 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s awesome, honestly. I agree people should check it out.
- Comment on NBA Finals Game Thread - Game 2: Knicks vs. Spurs 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah Knicks! Close this shit out at home.
- Comment on NBA Finals Game Thread - Game 2: Knicks vs. Spurs 2 weeks ago:
Wemby decided to continue to be hung up on Chet winning a trophy instead of him when he was 17 and wasted all his energy last week.
- Comment on NBA Finals Game Thread - Game 1: Knicks vs. Spurs 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah! Go Knicks!
- Comment on Until Dawn 2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games 2 weeks ago:
My friends and I like to play these types of games together since they are really just big movies. And passing the controller around is fun since really it’s just making some quick and simple-ish choices and everyone gets to be stressed out.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Finish Control, then hit Alan Wake 2, then this.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
“What rhymes with orange…?”
“uhh…door hinge?”
I still think about this sometimes.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
Riding in that boat in the desert and being in that “time bubble” where there was only water around you is still one of the coolest things Zelda has done, I think. And the music in that spot was very good.
Of all the things in that game, I remember that area the most.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
I loved WD2, and I purposefully never bought/got the lethal weapons if I could help it. You probably get a couple as a matter of course in the game (I don’t remember), but I always just used the stun gun or melee - though hitting someone with an 8-ball on a rope is probably going to do some damage.
I don’t think any game since has made it as fun to pilot a little drones like this game. I loved being able to casually sit outside and sneak into places with the drones.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 3 weeks ago:
I played this on PS5 at launch, and while I maybe hit a few bugs through the whole game, nothing was game-breaking for me. Maybe I got lucky, who knows.
But I also really enjoyed the game. I’m sad we probably won’t see these characters again any time soon.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 weeks ago:
“We can’t get mad at Gabe and Valve! PC Master Race loves not being able to buy physical games and loves buying a license to them from Valve!”
Waiting for the “bu-bu-bu-Game Cards!” response to this. I can still sell a game card.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 weeks ago:
I hope people here give Valve the same flack they gave Nintendo and Sony for raising prices.
Hell, the Switch 2 went up $50 and everyone on Lemmy lost their god damned minds in that thread because “Nintendo bad” or whatever. But I’m sure because it’s our sweet baby angel Gabe on his 20 yachts we’ll all be reasonable about the $200+ upcharges.
Look, none of these companies WANT to raise prices on these consoles. It’s just the AI bullshit and stupid ass tariffs ruining everything. That’s what needs to change.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 4 weeks ago:
That mini game would have to manually tie each hook and lure onto the line.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 weeks ago:
I actually don’t totally agree with the shipping part of this.
Anecdotally, I’ve found that pretty much all of the “big box” stores have good shipping now, and often for free (so long as you hit a price point, of course). And at least in my city, Walmart or Best Buy often ships within a day and it only takes 2-3 days to get the product(s).
Now, there can certainly be a conversation on whether or not it’s good to buy things from these companies, which is a good conversation to have. But their shipping is often good.