i haven't bought a single game from them in 20 years.
but i've played plenty enough.
Eat my ENTIRE ASS, Nintendo.
Yup. I’ve been boycotting Nintendo and EA for the past twenty years. EA due to the destruction of countless talented studios (Origin, Bullfrog, Westwood, Pandemic) and Nintendo when they were caught by the EU doing anti-competitive price fixing (which they still seem to be doing today).
I have missed out on nothing. A game is just a game; a piece of multimedia content to entertain. There are countless astonishing games out there; missing out on a few doesn’t harm you.
People really need to learn to vote with their wallets. And no, I don’t think sailing the high seas and yarharhar legal questionability is acceptable. You don’t need to play the game. There is nothing that important you’re missing out on for the “cultural zeitgeist”.
Piracy still increases the fandom and increases sales (contrary to what IP owners will tell you). So piracy is still supporting these organisations and feeding into their success.
Vote with your wallets. Don’t support business practices and businesses you don’t believe in. Give your time and money to those that deserve it.
Bullfrog, Westwood, Pandemic
Right in the childhood/teenage years...
Wow, this meme has layers.
this is why, if you won’t pirate, you should buy used 😎
…your games will still cost 60$, probably more, but hey the money’s not going to nintendo i guess
Why would used games cost more than new ones?
because the nintendo games that people care about don’t really drop in price, or at least not significantly
if you’re lucky, you might find a popular switch game used for 50$ instead of 60$, but that’s about it
and if you’re going for retro games, it’s even worse. the retro games that people care about cost a fortune, pokemon is a good example
Because that's the price that (most) customers are willing to pay for them 🤷
But, if you account for inflation (using the BLS website ), $50 in Jan of 2011 is equal to a little over $70 today, so a $60 used game is kind-of a discount?
Why do people forget that in 2011 you could have bought a used copy for $19 and even less with a trade on of a game you already finished? The digital market is not the same.
They just need to introduce consumer protection legislation to force allowance of resale of digital items
Holy shit I haven't laughed this hard in a long time...it's a great idea though!
Careful, NFTs lie that way. /s
The issue is, it sounds like a complicated mess in terms of figuring out exact legislations, implementations, patent and licensing rights, who's responsible for facilitating the actual resale, and ultimately it's gonna support and legitimize shady resellers like g2a selling stolen copies.
I have barely ever bought anything for my Switch, only a couple of big titles for Zelda and Mario. It's just too expensive and there are hardly ever any sales. And any third-party games I can get much cheaper on PC anyway.
The pricing also made it really difficult to understand which games were newer, like I looked at Pokemon games and the much older ones were also still priced as if they were new.
I bought a switch because it was cheap and something for my nephew. I haven't had a console since the xbox 360, so i had no idea what i missed. I thought i'll buy mario kart, because who doesn't like Mario kart. Game was 60 bucks. That seems steep i thought. When i opened up the game at home i realised super mario kart 8 isn't a new title, it's 10 years old. Start the game. Obe of the most pathetic attempts to sell children dlc's that i have ever seen. Nice, so i bought disco elysium on sale, so i can play disco on the toilet or something. The nintendo has the biggest trouble running a point and click game. What even is that?
The funniest part about this story is that i had some trouble and went to a switch forum and asked if people buy their games used and that that is highway robbery. I never seen people being so defensive about their video game system. I was being really nice despite thinking i bought the biggest piece of shit hardware from a piece of shit company out there. Everyone told me that 60 dollars is a good price for what you get and the dlc maps are fun.
The switch is underpowered for a lot of things but if it's having trouble with Disco Elysium that's probably more of a knock on whichever studio handled the port.
Don't buy that dlc, it's not worth 60€.
Look into hacking your switch. It's fun and teaches you things and you get free games out of it.
Out of all the Nintendo consoles I have owned (everything except the n64) the switch is the one I have the fewest games for. I don't often buy games at full price so I guess I don't buy Nintendo titles anymore.
You should look into hacking your switch. If you can't do it the easy way, there's another way that's not for the faint of heart, but I did it and have never spent a dollar more on games since.
V1 switch just needs a jig, simple. V2 switch picofly is affordable and accessible to diy with some soldering skills. With the OLED models they put one of the points underneath a BGA chip making that more difficult.
But getting one installed from an actual shop will still only cost the price of a Nintendo game or two.
Surprisingly accurate cumulative inflation numbers in this meme
Shouldnt inflation adjusted be around 100 dollars ?
Not according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ anyway.
If you consider inflation, $60 in 2024 is worth almost the same as $50 in 2011.
