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Re: Microchip Shortages Potentially Impacting Switch Covered In '60 Minutes' Report

BrintaPap

@BloodNinja with foundries (companies that make chips for electronic devices) you need place a order a long time ahead of production like 1-2 years since we are talking about products for the mass. But then our best friend covid came and MANY companies from every sector like Nintendo and BMW and Dell etc. They thought that people would save their cold hard mula and said to those foundries we don’t need that many products (once again) thinking that people won’t spend much on luxury.

But then the opposite happened. People worked at home and got bored and started to play games, started their “useless” vacation money on things like cars and laptops since they could not go on vacation anyway.
Then companies like Dell, Nvidia etc wanted to get some extra chips produces of course because the demand was sky high. But foundries don’t work that way since you essentially need to pre order your stuff.
Even big car companies can’t keep up with demand and some even stopped producing.

What also made this worse is that there is shortage of the raw materials needed for baking those chips (yes it’s called baking) and that there have been a few fire’s some foundries.

All of this combined makes for some nasty situations like the one we have now. But im no expert

Re: Rumour: Nintendo Switch 'Pro' Reveal Expected Before E3, Out This Year

BrintaPap

@Giancarlothomaz i dont work at nintendo but can maybe give you a reason. Keeping an old soc costs money prolly even more then just using a new one. It just is the way how tech works. Nvidia is not keen on producing the old tegra when they already have a newer version.

I also reckon nintendo wants to give the switch a bit more power and with the series x and ps5 around you need to be fast. You just cant decide that tomorrow you will mass produce this kind of thing.

Re: Rumour: Get That Salt Ready, Apple Is Reportedly Working On A Nintendo Switch-Style Hybrid Console

BrintaPap

@JohnnyC yeah, in this case you can see once again that money does not make a console good. Apple has money to design the most thinnest yet powerful console but people wont buy it if does not has the standard games like FIFA, COD & GTA on it. It will even sell less without good exclusives like Mario or Horizon Zero Dawn.

Games make a console good or bad. The rest is just a nice bonus. I’d still like to see Apple’s attempt tho, I would welcome a 4th console maker.

Re: It Seems Game Builder Garage Will Only Be Available On The eShop In Europe

BrintaPap

@Scapetti subscriptions everywhere, thats the future, microsoft office, netflix, dinsey +, adobe products, your ISP heck maybe even your car already has sub on it. and maybe next gen games are subscription only.

I dont need to own everything I have but I just dont like having subs for everything. In the long run it is always more expensive then do just buy and own it.

Ofcourse this is just a digital game so you can download it later until you can’t.

Re: Sony Invests Another $200 Million In Fortnite Creator Epic Games

BrintaPap

@the4seer the same way news about Netflix’ The Witcher gets reported here. A game related to that is on a Nintendo console... yeah it’s farfetched but I remember one on the reporters here saying that. It also is a Nintendo focused websites not Nintendo only news. Once again not mine words but theirs.