Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.
Thank god for game emulation and older games. New games keep asking for more money because of "production cost" but the product is getting worse. They want I and others to pay more money for a worse product.
Pathetic!
Nothing you said is wrong, however, Nintendo will in the end be the cheapest around and have that 99.99% backwards compatibility physical and digital to their last console which overtook the ps2.
Yeah the prices suck but the hardware isn't as bad as it could be.
You are right, it won't get the young kid/casual support like switch 1 did, as its too expensive. In a time when things are more expensive. The most affordable will win. That is Nintendo by default (on hardware sales).
Also Sony lost their cred, except for hardcore fanboys.
- They killed off Japanese 1st party (outside of 1 studio, which imo made their best game this gen)
- They killed off indie focus that the PS3 and early ps4 had (yeah they get indies but they aren't promoted and curated like ps3. )
- They have the worst backwards compatibility with the largest library to dip into. (seriously you can only access around 15 or so ps1/ps2 games and no ps3 games unless ported. Meanwhile Nintendo has their emulators for every system tied to online access, and limited to mostly 1st party but better than sony. Xbox has way more BC with xb360 and OGXB, but they delist games and seem to be "done with it", still better than sony).
Sony used to be the king of backwards compatibility with the ps2 and ps3. PS4 was when they stopped as you can't even play ps1 games yet they would work if sony paid the .05 cents per console for the "CD" license or whatever is missing from the console.
- They killed off any 1st party rpg creation. (no more legend of dragoon, wild arms, or dark cloud over here.
- They went woke and pro censorship (so did Microsoft), only Nintendo of all companies (who was super censorship in the 80s-90s now lets it be.
Shit I was playing a game with full on topless nudity from an eshop game last night. Threw me for a loop as my wife was in the other room and all the sudden the lady was in a bathtub with a tub in her mouth/throat and fully nude, making gaging sounds like she was deep throating the tube (Horror game Tormented Souls if you are curious, it was like $5 on eshop). Nintendo allows that and sony puts black lens flair on DMC5 clothed asses. Crazy times.
MS is just as bad, but more pathetic for rising prices and being woke feminists. Oh and delisting bc games. Splinter cell 1 &2, Skate 2, Silent Hill downpour, mk9, Bad company 1 and 2, all had to be bought on disk because by 2023 when I got my series x they delisted the online versions of these games. Ridiculous.
Oh and then there is the crazy install sizes for games that affects all companies. Why are games 100gb plus for digital downloads? Why not have an option, where you can choose if you want 4k textures or not. Are they really needed for someone like me who plays on 1080p tvs? All the games that could be half the size or less, with a simple button press. Some pc games used to have this option. Save space or have highest image quality.
