Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Magician It’s even funnier when the Switch has had its share of mature games like Doom and its sequel, I think one of the Wolfenstein games was ported too, Bayonetta 1, 2 & 3 and Astral Chain to name just several. But sure Sony, whatever you say.

"Younger audience" that the data presented by Sony indicates is primarily....16 to 40 year olds.

Okie dokie then.

@Haruki_NLI It’s almost like they’re chucking everything at a wall and hoping something sticks. Would be rather amusing if after all this time sitting watching the fight eating popcorn, this got Nintendo to stand up and just punch Sony… before sitting back to continue watching with excitement. 🤣

@Magician FTC just denied Activision Blizzard buyout by Microsoft, so no Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles. and @Fragred excuse me? Nintendo Switch is a hardware for children? didnt Sony see Nintendo infrographic that showed that people around 22 years old and in the 30 year mark is the demografic who play more Switch games

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-ftc-is-suing-to-...

Picked up Chained Echoes. This one came out of nowhere for me, but the reviews are insane and it is very much my kind of game so I decided to pick it up, especially at that budget price. I’ve played about an hour so far to try it out and I am enjoying it, I can’t believe this made by only one person.

It strikes me as being particular hypocritical that Sony's cries about exclusivity and anti-consumer activity like this when the entire Playstation brand only got where it was by making exclusivity deals that hurt the competition's ability to compete in the first place. And still are, frankly. Sony was going after Starfield as an exclusive as well, way back when.

This slows things down a bit, but the FTC's arguments aren't particularly compelling, and plenty of these tech mergers have happened in the recent past, so I don't expect this will stop it from happening.

Also:

Activision has also signaled a willingness to fight for the deal to go through.

@Ralizah Microsoft will go in court to try to aprove it buyout of Activision Blizzard by him.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-says-its-r...

I can't stand Sony as a company. They disgust me.

They're a bunch of petty, entitled, bitter, cut throat hypocrites.

I don't understand how anyone can actually like them as a company. And sure, I know all companies do things consumers don't like sometimes- Nintendo stopping fan tournaments or what have you, or Microsoft starting online subscriptions. But all of that just seems to pale in comparison. No other company gives of the kind of stench Sony does.

I may just stop doing business with them altogether. It's not like it would be a major sacrifice. I rarely ever play PS5 anyways. But I'm talking not even buying their games on Steam. I could cut them out entirely and probably wouldn't even notice.

@JaxonH It's one rule for them and one for everyone else. Of course this is the same FTC which let Disney buy Fox and didn't bat an eye.

So God knows. Sony is playing hypocrite to how they got their start, and making governments think threatening the market leader is a bad thing. Despite doing this exact thing in the 90s.

And its just been a mud slinging match on their end too.

Giant companies are a double-edged blade no matter how you look at them.

@JaxonH Sony e Nintendo is the most anti-consumer in the game industry, neither of them do anything good for they customer, i can't decide which of this two companies is most anti-consumer in the game industry(problaby is Nintendo followed by Sony or both).

@Giancarlothomaz
All I know is, Nintendo doesn't pay to keep 50% of the biggest games off other platforms to punish anyone "disloyal to them" playing games on other consoles.

Neither does Microsoft.

Neither does Steam.

But Sony? It's just nonstop back to back to back to back to back moneyhatting exclusives, no morals, no honor, just pure hatred and spite toward anyone who isn't a PS loyalist.

They're also the only ones who make public statements insulting and taking jabs at gamers on other consoles.

So in terms of which one actually impacts me most as a consumer, it's Sony by a country mile. And it's not just Jim Ryan, cause they've been this way for a while. It's their whole culture at the company. They have this superiority complex where they think all other platforms are inferior, they resent all gamers on other platforms who they see as traitors who deserve to be punished, and nobody else should be allowed to do even 10% of what they do all the time

It's just a horrible company. Like, I get enjoying their products. That's fine. But the company? They're the worst. No wonder their fanboys are so insufferable. They get it from daddy.

Final Fight is free now and capcom's 2nd arcade games are half off, part of me thinks they're going to be announcing something. I think volume 1 had a similar deal right before 2 came out.

It's amusing to me to see people online claim that Sony "earned" their place as market leader by organically growing their studios and IPs, and that Microsoft is trying to buy their way in. No disrespect to their studios, but just no. That's not why PlayStation got as big as it did; it got big because Sony paid for exclusivity deal after exclusivity deal on 3rd party titles for the original PlayStation and not for Sega or Nintendo, something they continue to do today.

Where's the Xbox version of FFVII Remake at Sony?

@JaxonH how about us Nintendistas/Nintendo that go after any fan project, overcharge for it games and it consoles(never reduce it price) sold us cardboard for $80 and have a horrible online service and charge us a service for us to acess a old content(see Nintendo is worse then Sony).

Sony is in an interesting position. Despite being the long-running market leader, they're especially vulnerable compared to their competition. Nintendo has a treasure trove of IPs they fall back on to sell consoles, which gives them a unique level of protection from changes in the market. Microsoft is... Microsoft. The console gaming biz is almost a hobby for them, so there's no need for them to claw and scratch their way to the top of the pack.

But Sony, by and large, has failed or posted losses in most of its endeavors outside of gaming. And they've traditionally not had much of a first-party lineup to fall back on, which is why the games people tend to associate with Sony's golden years are typically third-party titles that were exclusive to their consoles. Which was fine when they had a stranglehold on most of the industry. But that has fallen through in recent years, with many of the big IPs associated with their consoles branching out to other platforms.

To their credit, they're attempting to fix this weakness. Their much-vaunted first-party line-up since the PS3 era has produced a number of critically acclaimed and decently successful blockbusters, but these are very expensive to produce and typically only keep selling down the road via steep price cuts. Which Sony is willing to make if need be, because they have an image of being the leader of the industry to protect. Same reason they flogged cheap PS3s near the end of the seventh gen in order to boost their hardware numbers.

The recognition of this weakness is also likely why they're branching out so much in recent years. Leveraging their IPs for TV/film projects, PC gaming sales, etc. Especially their recent announcement that they're massively expanding into the live service genre soon, since they'd love nothing more than to create the next Fortnite and have a product that can endlessly expand and make money for them.

Microsoft's acquisition of Zenimax and attempted (currently) acquisition of Activision/Blizzard is putting the fear of god in their hearts, because they know their first-party line-up isn't sufficient to prevent an exodus of casual gamers and lose a decent chunk of their market share. So they will do what they do best, and fight like absolute dogs to keep a competitor from striking a mortal wound to their brand. Even if that means humiliating spectacles like Jim Ryan jetting around the world to cry to various regulatory bodies.

@Giancarlothomaz
Couldn't care less.

I'm not doing fan projects, and nobody forced me to buy cardboard. So I really couldn't care less.

Ya, their online service is poor. But for $10/mo for the expansion pack with their generous family plan offer, I'm happier with their online than I ever was with Sony or MS.

If others think those things are more egregious, they can feel whatever way they want.

But from where I'm sitting, those are either completely non-issues or small potatoes that don't even remotely impact me to the extent Sony does. Also, Nintendo doesn't mess with non-Nintendo gamers, typically. Sony, on the other hand- that's all they do is screw people who don't game on their platform

You can rattle off a laundry list of infractions against Nintendo, or Microsoft, or Valve. But at the end of the day, none of those things have a severe negative impact on me. Sony is the only one (well, and Epic Game Store) that consistently screws over the majority of gamers by making it a company policy to pay to deprive as many titles from non-PS gamers as possible. And then be a complete and utter prick about it.

Comparing Nintendo shutting down fan projects to a company literally depriving everyone of the biggest games on a regular basis feels like comparing an ant to an elephant.

@Giancarlothomaz The only one of those things that could be considered anti consumer is shutting down fan projects.

@JaxonH you don't care because you live in a first world country, i was forced to buy a fortune to play my games(why can't Nintendo lower the prices of it games to $50 or $30 i am forced to buy up to R$300 to R$500($57.40 to $96.67, me and @Kaisu have to suffer this everything i buy something on Brazil) and to get the situation worse the new president of Brazil is gonna revoke all the decrees that made us paid less taxes), you all don't understand my point/situation, because you live in a first world country, i live in a third world country(Brazil).