Topic: Is The Switch 2 Worth It???

Yea, the funny (and sad) thing to me is all these people online rooting for the Switch 2 to fail.

It’s like… you do realize the console market is effectively down to two consoles now, right? And you’re rooting for one of those to fail. In a hobby you enjoy.

Makes… sense?

@rallydefault
I would argue that there already three monopolies in gaming in three different markets. Which seems like an odd thing for me to say but it makes sense if you think about it. Nintendo owns the casual, portable, family and budget market segment. Sony owns the high spec home console space. Valve owns PC gaming

They're competitors sure but they're competitors in the same way that different network infrastructure companies complete. They're competitors in non-overlapping markets within which they have a monopoly

I will say it is funny in a way that Switch 2's game pricing, along with the "on the high end of reasonable" console price was a massive controversy when it was announced, and not even a year later it almost feels cute.

I don't think that's a sign of short sighted hyperbole entirely as much as an increasingly bleak state of things that Nintendo won by simply being the least bad.

Helps that in hindsight I do think the real pricing issue is Nintendo's stubborn refusal to have notable price variations among games where it would make sense (the Metroid Prime remaster being 40 bucks really making it clear how nonsensical some of those full priced Switch releases were) or have remotely as good sales as anyone else, something that's been an issue long before now. Will Famicom Detective Club remakes ever be reasonably priced, I really wanted to buy that but digital only + Nintendo mediocre to bad sales + Ace Attorney being a vastly better deal on Switch has always entirely dissuaded me.