This thread: “Nintendo so stupid. Everyone hates them! They’re gonna go bankrupt cuz no ones going to buy their games because of their bad business practices!”
Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids.
You people are delusional. Yes, Nintendo’s practices are scummy. No, this does not affect their numbers in any way. They are still wildly successful, and even if they weren’t, they have such a huge reserve of capital that they could operate in the red for 20 years and still be fine.
Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids.
Their pricing is pricing out many families, and I don’t like that. I’ve remained firm in my stance that I’m not going to buy this console. It doesn’t matter if everyone else around me buys it, I’m simply not going to do it. It’s too expensive, same with the games, and I simply don’t want to continue supporting Nintendo.
Gabe said piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, but Nintendo has now made it both lol
I’m sad that more people aren’t voting with their wallets but it is what it is, I can at least do my part in refusing to support them.
You heard it here first, folks: other people disagree with you, so you aren’t allowed to complain. Nintendo has been successful despite your complaints, so you’re now required to suck it up and buy it, as society demands.
I think the point was that there are many people here are „predicting” that Nintendo is somehow going to go bankrupt because of this. People can no longer discern between wishful thinking and reality, it shows in many areas of life to tbh. No, you won’t wish something into existence just because it’s „right”.
To add, Nintendo goes after dumb parents and kids. Anyone that knows anything about tech play on better hardware or build PCs. Now with the PC handhelds Nintendo scrammed and raised prices. People will continue to buy them because their kids want them.
Going back and looking through their posts for more pages that I really wanted to, I don’t think they’re particularly right-leaning; they seem to flip regularly between well-thought-out posts and comments to open trolling shouting insults.
I’m going to just block them, there’s really nothing of serious interest to lose there.
Hey shit eater, you don’t know me. You’re making assumptions based on absolutely nothing other than me not following the Lemmy hivemind. You need to have clear, firm evidence before you can make a claim.
For example, you’re a mouth breathing idiot. My evidence is based on your previous comment; a clear, firm example of stupidity. What exactly do you bring to the table?
So your evidence is me telling a person having a mental crash out and making a childish rant due to overexposure to the internet to get off is your “proof” that I voted Republican? Weak shit.
My man, I’m as queer as the day is long and have voted blue for longer than the first time your mommy congratulated you for not shitting your pants at the age of 12.
But please, keep acting like a pathetic gatekeeper. It’s not like you have anything else going for you in life.
Oh my God, I’m so sorry that I have a realistic view of the world rather than pretending the opinions on here are in ANY way reflective of the general public attitude. Please forgive me for thinking critically and not just immediately guzzling that sweet, creamy, copium jizz.
No, I just have an adverse reaction to collective stupidity. I know I should try not to let it get to me, but when I see a bunch of people engaging in collective delusions about the state of the world, it upsets me. It’s like people choose to believe that just because what they’re saying sounds right, or should be right, that it’s actually the way things are.
This is how we get voter apathy. This is how we get Trump winning because “certainly people won’t support him THIS time”. I’m just sick of people pretending that anything in our society still follows the old rules of morality and justice, and then getting dismayed and confused when it doesn’t.
I just wish more people would see the world for what it is, rather than make shit up that sounds good and desperately pretend that’s the same as reality.
If you think it is stupid to not like a brand because it is toxic to the community then I just don’t know what to think. Their decisions hurt their brand and people don’t like it.
We come here to talk about it and here you are chiming in that they are stupid for not liking something objectively that is not likable. I think in a lot of ways this makes you seem stupid yourself.
I think your beef is with something that has nothing to do with this. You also seem to ignore many huge brands have come and gone and Nintendo is no different. Pretending they are monolithic or untouchable belays the reality that if enough people refuse to buy their product they will fail.
The market self corrects all the time and not everyone shares your view that we should eat shit shut up and enjoy it.
It’s not about liking or disliking it, but thinking that this decision somehow hurts Nintendo. The absurdly naive belief that online opinions, especially here, actually affect any change in the real world.
Buy Nintendo products, or don’t; but don’t pretend like that has any effect on the company. Boycotts haven’t worked in decades.
It’s way too early to call them “wildly successful.” The Wii U sold 13.5 million units and was a flop. I would expect the Switch 2 to sell more than that to the die-hard fans alone since there are a lot more people playing games nowadays. But the die-hard fans aren’t what make their consoles “wildly” successful. I guarantee you those families with kids aren’t going to be buying as many $450 consoles with $70+ games. Maybe they will be wildly successful. But we’ll have to be a year or so out before we can know how likely that will be.
Will they make money? Oh, that’s a given. As much as they made with the Switch? I doubt it, but we’ll see.
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This thread: “Nintendo so stupid. Everyone hates them! They’re gonna go bankrupt cuz no ones going to buy their games because of their bad business practices!”
Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids.
You people are delusional. Yes, Nintendo’s practices are scummy. No, this does not affect their numbers in any way. They are still wildly successful, and even if they weren’t, they have such a huge reserve of capital that they could operate in the red for 20 years and still be fine.
Their pricing is pricing out many families, and I don’t like that. I’ve remained firm in my stance that I’m not going to buy this console. It doesn’t matter if everyone else around me buys it, I’m simply not going to do it. It’s too expensive, same with the games, and I simply don’t want to continue supporting Nintendo.
Gabe said piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, but Nintendo has now made it both lol
I’m sad that more people aren’t voting with their wallets but it is what it is, I can at least do my part in refusing to support them.
They are. They’re saying they’re ok with it. Every purchase is a vote with your wallet.
You heard it here first, folks: other people disagree with you, so you aren’t allowed to complain. Nintendo has been successful despite your complaints, so you’re now required to suck it up and buy it, as society demands.
I think the point was that there are many people here are „predicting” that Nintendo is somehow going to go bankrupt because of this. People can no longer discern between wishful thinking and reality, it shows in many areas of life to tbh. No, you won’t wish something into existence just because it’s „right”.
To add, Nintendo goes after dumb parents and kids. Anyone that knows anything about tech play on better hardware or build PCs. Now with the PC handhelds Nintendo scrammed and raised prices. People will continue to buy them because their kids want them.
They also go for autistic people because we love those pokémans. Can’t use children as an excuse to buy stuff but I’m the coolest uncle around.
Wow. Way to acts in bad faith.
Interesting take. Don’t complain about Nintendo because they make money?
They also vote Republican so yes, they unironically believe what you said.
Going back and looking through their posts for more pages that I really wanted to, I don’t think they’re particularly right-leaning; they seem to flip regularly between well-thought-out posts and comments to open trolling shouting insults.
I’m going to just block them, there’s really nothing of serious interest to lose there.
“Anyone I don’t like must vote Republican”
Hey shit eater, you don’t know me. You’re making assumptions based on absolutely nothing other than me not following the Lemmy hivemind. You need to have clear, firm evidence before you can make a claim.
For example, you’re a mouth breathing idiot. My evidence is based on your previous comment; a clear, firm example of stupidity. What exactly do you bring to the table?
This is where I tagged you and you’ve proven me right multiple times since then.
So your evidence is me telling a person having a mental crash out and making a childish rant due to overexposure to the internet to get off is your “proof” that I voted Republican? Weak shit.
My man, I’m as queer as the day is long and have voted blue for longer than the first time your mommy congratulated you for not shitting your pants at the age of 12.
But please, keep acting like a pathetic gatekeeper. It’s not like you have anything else going for you in life.
— You, 5 minutes ago
— You again
Yes. I did in fact say those things. Such a good job using quotes!
Liberals must believe the free market is socially just.
This poster: I love the taste of boots daddy Nintendo, may I lick them some more.
Oh my God, I’m so sorry that I have a realistic view of the world rather than pretending the opinions on here are in ANY way reflective of the general public attitude. Please forgive me for thinking critically and not just immediately guzzling that sweet, creamy, copium jizz.
At this point you must be getting paid to spout this defeatists nonsense. If not, perhaps you were just born to be a shill.
"Your guys opinions don’t matter. That is why I am spending my time to tell you this!’
No, I just have an adverse reaction to collective stupidity. I know I should try not to let it get to me, but when I see a bunch of people engaging in collective delusions about the state of the world, it upsets me. It’s like people choose to believe that just because what they’re saying sounds right, or should be right, that it’s actually the way things are.
This is how we get voter apathy. This is how we get Trump winning because “certainly people won’t support him THIS time”. I’m just sick of people pretending that anything in our society still follows the old rules of morality and justice, and then getting dismayed and confused when it doesn’t.
I just wish more people would see the world for what it is, rather than make shit up that sounds good and desperately pretend that’s the same as reality.
If you think it is stupid to not like a brand because it is toxic to the community then I just don’t know what to think. Their decisions hurt their brand and people don’t like it.
We come here to talk about it and here you are chiming in that they are stupid for not liking something objectively that is not likable. I think in a lot of ways this makes you seem stupid yourself.
I think your beef is with something that has nothing to do with this. You also seem to ignore many huge brands have come and gone and Nintendo is no different. Pretending they are monolithic or untouchable belays the reality that if enough people refuse to buy their product they will fail.
The market self corrects all the time and not everyone shares your view that we should eat shit shut up and enjoy it.
It’s not about liking or disliking it, but thinking that this decision somehow hurts Nintendo. The absurdly naive belief that online opinions, especially here, actually affect any change in the real world.
Buy Nintendo products, or don’t; but don’t pretend like that has any effect on the company. Boycotts haven’t worked in decades.
Posting online doesnt fix things. You gotta go outside and knock on doors
Are you saying people shouldn’t feel more than one way about a company?
People can feel a company is behaving poorly even while everyone acknowledges they have a good product.
It’s way too early to call them “wildly successful.” The Wii U sold 13.5 million units and was a flop. I would expect the Switch 2 to sell more than that to the die-hard fans alone since there are a lot more people playing games nowadays. But the die-hard fans aren’t what make their consoles “wildly” successful. I guarantee you those families with kids aren’t going to be buying as many $450 consoles with $70+ games. Maybe they will be wildly successful. But we’ll have to be a year or so out before we can know how likely that will be.
Will they make money? Oh, that’s a given. As much as they made with the Switch? I doubt it, but we’ll see.