• Jambalaya@lemmy.zip
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    5 个月前

    Anyone else feel like Nintendo is missing the boat here? Every day that goes by, the switch 2 becomes less exciting compared to the competition. They needed to release it 6 months ago.

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            5 个月前

            Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras. Funny that those are also all-time peaks for game quality, Nintendo is better at making video games when they’re struggling.

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              5 个月前

              The Wii arguably has better first party games than the GC. Mario Kart Wii, Mario Galaxy, DKC Returns, New Soup, Wario Ware…

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              Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras

              They still don’t lose anything, not if they can port/upscale them on the way and sell them for today’s prices, why have backwards compatibility am I right?

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        Yeah but that’s because they historically have been so different than the competition. But in this case they have had their lunch eaten by the steam deck, Rog ally, etc.

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          But in this case they have had their lunch eaten by the steam deck, Rog ally, etc.

          I see tons of people still using the old Switch. I have so far seen none other than myself and my kid using a Steam Deck.

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          The Switch is a lot smaller and pocketable than those you described and is far better as a party game machine. It’s also much more widely available. I don’t think it’s so clear cut especially if people are getting it for their exclusives. Yea, you can emulate it but there’s a bit of work to get the ROMs and BIOS that the average lay person isn’t really comfortable with doing.

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        5 个月前

        That’s true, but they still usually aim to be the first “next gen” console on the market every generation. Admittedly it probably would really affect them if they didn’t hit that but that’s how they’ve always done it

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      They wanted to release it 6 months ago, rumor has it. But they postponed it to shore up supply to meet launch demand, give extra development time to its key launch games, or to squeeze the last bit of juice out of the Switch 1 – or some combination of those things.

      The Switch 2 will do just fine, better even, compared to its next closest competition.

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      Bit odd to complain that a console we know nothing about isn’t exciting enough. Maybe wait until they actually reveal the damn thing?

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      Given how they front-loaded the launch schedule and ended up wiping out some of their own game communities(the corpse of Arms say hi from under the former juggernaut that was the Splatoon 2 launch).

      The silence on their front WRT games suggests that they might be ramping up for a similar blitz for a switch 2.