• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I’m not a big Nintendo fan, because of their pricing and lawsuits, but I’m siding with them on this one.

    If you can’t afford a Switch 2, don’t buy one.

    This is coming from someone who really couldn’t afford one right now. We wait until we can or the price goes down (oh wait. Nintendo doesn’t do that )

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      10 days ago

      I think it very tone deaf with regards to how their trying to up the prices of games, which I think is BS, and increasing the price of accessories, and locking things behind subscriptions.

      Very much so a Blizzard, “don’t you have phones?” Type of situation.

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Although we still number consoles, in a lot of ways we did get our “tiered” console structure.

    Take most people’s daily plays, and I’d say about 90% of them or more have an edition available on the prior gen console. And it makes sense when so many of those games have relatively basic graphics - and when game engines have gotten better at scalability.

    So, those consoles are neatly serving as a low budget option for a lot of gamers that can’t follow all the latest and most expensive games. Yes, some newer releases will be fully excluded; but even then, getting a brand new or used Switch or PS4 can introduce someone to a huge number of games if they haven’t been exploring options.

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    10 days ago

    Imho the price is justified. By raw numbers it’s a beefier steam deck for + $30.

    Oh, and you get a dock that increases its power.

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      9 days ago

      By raw numbers I have around 500 games on steam and there’s a huge sale every 3-4 months. Deck is also a pretty capable computer and runs Linux. Deck can run games from many platforms, not just steam.