Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period
-
I got mine for 99 DKK including Mariokart because the shop selling it fucked up their discount. Best value I've ever gotten. XD
I got one for free because someone at an Amazon fulfillment center was off their game. Ordered some storage containers; one of them had Switch 2 in it. If Duskbloods wasn't going to be an exclusive to the system, I wouldn't have even kept it.
-
I got one for free because someone at an Amazon fulfillment center was off their game. Ordered some storage containers; one of them had Switch 2 in it. If Duskbloods wasn't going to be an exclusive to the system, I wouldn't have even kept it.
I'm keeping it around because at some point in the future the Switch 2 will get hacked, and boy am I going to have some sailing to do.
-
Ain't got those amazing Nintendo games though. Glhf finding a Mario Cart replacement that is actually as good.
Ain't got those amazing Nintendo games though. Glhf finding a Mario Cart replacement that is actually as good.
This is not entirely true. Depending on the stance of the person regarding piracy. You can definitely play Mario Kart on the Steam Deck. Emulations for PS1 PS2, Switch 1 exist (there are more but these I know on the top of my head).
The Steam Deck can play nearly all Switch 1 titles through emulation. Yes, developers were taken down but the emulators do still work perfectly fine (I’m saying this as Steam Deck owner and using Emulators myself).
EDIT; noticed we are in the same instance. Now I’m curious whether you were serious or it was sarcasm…
-
you're a lot less beholden to specific companies over here.
There’s only two CPU companies that often inflate their prices. There’s 3 but really only 2 GPU companies that also often inflate prices.
Let’s not talk about RAM.
Also, don’t forget the multiple price fixing lawsuits that got a lot of attention.
You might not like consoles but the PC world is more overpriced and just as predatory as the console market. It’s just businesses being greedy.
Right, but again, you have choices in almost every piece of hardware.
Consoles lock you down a lot harder in this respect. You either but their hardware and possibly software, or you miss out on the whole thing.
And a lot of people, like a sibling of mine is just getting to the point of maturity where you figure out the brand you like is the bad guy and you don't want to give them money anymore, but you sorely miss the product itself.
Given how hard they're locked in, it's really hard for them to jump to a new platform. Not quite as bad as switching from Android to or from iPhone, but not super far off.
Personally I jumped out completely before I got invested in a digital console store, so I didn't have that problem. But the point is that they gotta completely start a new collection and paradigm.
Whereas if you one day have a huge problem with let's say, Steam, you can just opt to never buy from them again without losing access to your library, no matter what hardware you're running it on.
You can choose to never buy an Acer monitor, CoolerMaster PSU, or (insert other random examples) while still having a computer.
I mean it's impossible to really find "good" companies, but you can at least pick your lines in the sand with a lot more granularity than just consoles.
It's not perfect, but is still better than the big 3.
Plus no matter where you land with your choices, you will still have the same library.
