I think Nintendo it doing great. Everything negative about them is being completely overblown. They just put out a banger new MK game. You can get it for 50 bucks in the bundle. We have a DK game and it looks like they gave it AAA treatment. It is right around the corner. The Switch 2 console is much more powerful than anyone anticipated, mainly due to DLSS. It is punching way above its weight on most games and really delivered on the power front. I think many people don't like to accept that fact. The price of the console is exactly what we predicted in our polls. We usually under predict price because we predict a price we "hope" for but in this case we were dead on the money. Everyone predicted this price, and on top of that everyone predicted this price and assumed the hardware would be weaker.
They are weathering this internet hate storm. It seems like every big gaming company has drawn the ire of the Internet. I think actually that we are very entitled. Sure, we can say what we want, but we have become too ubiquitous. We pile on too much. That isn't a sign of a smart group. Smart groups have a diversity of opinion. Sure we can get cynical and life is hard but we also grow to resent the things others love too much. Switch 2 isn't' the only device that has caught our ire lately. PS5 Pro was nearly a Switch 2 level hate debacle for what it turned out was a very reasonable price in the end considering the market and what went into the system. Another thing that will be refuted by the intentionally obtuse. Every day we move further from God.
The hate storm really isn't new and isn't really related to the Switch 2. If you have been following the BOTW hate or even before that the general Nintendo hate or just the general hatred of everything from everyone that is gaming related lately, you know this has always been simmering under the surface. Their performance last gen put them in a big spotlight and many people are trying to take them down.
They have tried it before, they failed. They will try it again. I'll keep buying the excellent games I love on the platform of my choice.
The two talking points against Nintendo are 1. Price of games is too high and 2. The LCD screen sucks. For me, I admit, number 2 isn't an issue. I never play my Switch undocked. However, I can't help but remember the Switch 1 thread where most of the people I see hating the Switch 2 over this said they only played in Docked mode and that undocked mode was actually a huge waste. Only really the Nintendo lovers played the handheld and they aren't the ones hating now...on the price of games, everyone in the industry has said for years, nay, decades the prices needed to go up. They did need to go up. They do need to go up. Accept it. If you accept it, then understand this. Nintendo being the company to take the hit from the internet for this is not greedy. It's brave. It's brave and I'm tired of pretending it was not. Everyone followed suit or they soon will because this needed to happen. Imagine how scary your hate campaign is that we have to describe the company that withstands it as "brave" but the campaign is actually that bad. You will not win with your hate. Hate can't conquer love on a large scale. As long as love for Nintendo exists your attacks will fail.
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