Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika
Hey, I'm all about the new Funky Mode. Haters gonna hate 😉 DKC Tropical Freeze was legitimately the most exciting info drop at that entire award show. Cranky Kong returning was hype! My entire childhood brought back in HD.

Tekken 8 and Star Wars Jedi Survivor are already confirmed to be at the Game Awards, with Street Fighter 6, FFXVI, and a new Crash rumored.

@Giancarlothomaz They've done a tweet for all the Nintendo related nominees except Sparks of Hope. That game wasn't even mentioned when they did the Best Family Game tweet:

@Grumblevolcano i see, so is not related to Nintendo showing anything major at the event today.

I think the fact Nintendo were so keen to sign up for the 10 year CoD deal gives the impression we're approaching the point where Nintendo considers it ok to release Advance Wars given CoD is mostly more unsuitable. The most likely 1st CoD game for CoD's return to Nintendo platforms is Modern Warfare Remastered given it's an already existing remaster of a 7th gen game.

@Grumblevolcano Truth. At this rate we'll probably get to do "No Russian" before playing Advance Wars 1+2 on Switch.

Huh. Sony sounding really upset and kinda just chucking things out there. Taking their anger out at Nintendo now?

An argument could be made that more preteens play CoD than adults over the age of 18 do, lol.

I suppose Sony's rambling is par for the course from a Murican-run platform like Playstation.

@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.