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They're nerfing the world just like every other company.

Regardless of what he says games are indeed art, every aspect of a game is art.

@KritterXD true, I guess even my hard drives with full game libraries will die eventually too. I'll just have to find something with more longevity to store it all on.

@Polley001 Not the point, they will go down some day and when they do it will all be more grabage to polute our planet with.

They also sell a dockless system in Japan and it is way cheaper.

@Ulysses Ya, I haven't worked in over a year because of my disabilities, we just have 1 income and it sucks.

Damn some of you must have loads of spare cash lol.

Just take the summer off and relax, that is why there is employment insurance.

Just remember you're going to own nothing and you're going to like it.

@MrDocena Not true, the ability to redownload them is going away too at some point for all your listed platfroms.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3764/~/how-to-redownload-wii-shop-channel-content-on-wii

If you read all of it you will see I am right.

@MrDocena if they turn the servers off that you're downloading your game from you can no longer access it with the game-key card. It becomes a piece of e-waste.

@MrDocena They come out looking like the good guy even though they created the situation with the way it is now and then releasing their full games on there. I'm imagining in two to three years we'll see only key card games. Doug Bowser even said they plan on doing physical in the immediate future which is very specific wording. A lot of these other Publishers don't want you to own your games so having a lifespan on them is what they want and that's how the key cards are going to really work. If that publisher decides they don't want people to have access to that game 10 years from now they can do that just fine and there's nothing you can do.

There's a recompilation of this being worked on, it's going to be awesome to see a native PC port.

I mean their plan is quite obvious, Nintendo hasn't been shy or queit about hating the second hand market and how they don't get any revenue from it. It's pretty obvious from an intelligent person's standpoint that this is them muddying the waters and making it harder for secondhand sellers.

@Razzy I most definitely did read it and that's just a scare tactic since they don't have a legal leg to stand on to destroy hardware that YOU own.

Not having online functionality is disabling the Nintendo switch in their own wording.

But Wart only exists in dreams.

They ban you from all online services, they do not "brick" your console.

When a console is bricked it no longer even posts and needs to be factory reset and they do not have the legal right to do that because that's destroying your property.

@MrDocena The switch 2 is nowhere near comparable to a high-end PC let's get that straight out of the gate.

My $1200CAD Laptop from 2024 for example has 13 teraflops of compute, the switch only has 1.7 in handheld and about 3.1 in docked mode. It heavily leverages AI to do what it does.

@TanukiSan7x considering there were games that had basically completely destructible buildings and maps in the 360 era, I don't think it's much of a leap to be able to do that on the switch.

@HistoricKombat they're going to have no choice when they noticed the vast majority of people can't fork over a 1k for Next generation.

There will be an initial sales spike like there is every generation with the diehards that have more money than brains and then it will taper off very quickly.

The new Donkey Kong does not look like it warranted a new platform for it, I bet you it would run 30 locked on the OG switch with a bit of optimizing.

I won't be buying anything lol.

What else is new, the high seas be calling mates.

They should be selling a dockless SKU that just comes with the system and nothing else.

It's going to steeply fall off after a few months just like the Wii U did. Nobody I know can afford it lol.

It would definitely be nice if they had a version of the system that was just the system with none of the other added things.

@cedarhyped It won't do well in this economy.

@Friendly my guess is they will still sell about 5 to 10 million units and then it will taper off quickly until the 1st price drop.

People need to start voting for basic income. You have no job security.

Such a great idea to kill off physical media by lying to us for two console Generations saying that the cost of games is going to go down because they're not doing physical anymore and now they just charge whatever the ***** they want.

Honestly if the price increase on the game is covering future DLC it's not as bad especially if they keep updating it for the life of the system. If they're asking for paid DLC on top of this then it's a no-go for me.

I will stick with Dolphin. Many of these games are 20+ years old and that makes them fair game for emulation imho.

I can guarantee from a money-making standpoint it's going to be their worst launch ever.

@Leu10antFalcon It is still old tech and is supported by almost every nvidia chipset of the last decade.

Well, if the system wasn't outlandishly priced then I would consider getting one. But $724 CAD after taxes for the system is wild.

Nintendo could have made three models of switch, hybrid, handheld, tv console, but once again they whiffed this.

Dropping that screen and Battery would reduce the price at least $250. Most of us people who want to play these games don't give two shites whether it's portable or not.

So everybody knows there is 100% Going to Be an increase to both levels of subscription. There is no way they will not take the opportunity to increase the cost of online.

People can say I'm cynical or whatever but everything's pointing to all things going up so that's that.

Mid-tier and that includes the upscaling so more like low tier?

Still old tech in there. Even low end modern GPU's are like 10+ tflops of compute.

Considering you can emulate the first switch on most smartphones of the last three to four years, it makes sense for them to go the emulation route.

I mean the 8bitdo ultimate bluetooth controller already has more than enough buttons to match with the switch 2 has, and it has hall effect sticks and hall effect analog triggers which this will not have.

Just save your money and go with a superior product like 8bitdo.

@Axecon Good, the industry needs to fully die for a bit.

With taxes it is 724 CAD for the base system, 114 CAD for the games.

High seas be mine come June. YYYYAAAAARRRHAHAAAARRRR.

Waaaaaaayyyyyyy to late Gamefreak.

I mean clearly all of the consoles are going to eventually adopt the hybrid style as Nintendo has. Apus are getting so powerful that you're not even going to need dedicated video cards 5-10 years from now. What the highest end video cards do now will be able to do that in the size of a smartphone in 10 years and there's not going to be any real benefit to having a dedicated video card when it comes to gaming because of all of the AI models we have now as well.

I will continue to enjoy all of those games on dolphin, there's not really any reason to want to play them via Nintendo's rental service. People can say it's piracy or whatever but come on, these games are like 20 plus years old get over yourselves.

It's still a shame that they didn't add defiance into the collection because it's the culmination of both stories

Mega Feraligatr for the win!

Expect to pay like $600 if you're an American, these tariffs are going to inflate everything.