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Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period (www.nintendolife.com)
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I like how this article does not talk about the anti consumer practices engaged in by Nintendo, that might push some customers away from their consoles. /s Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA. There is already a switch in my household, but the price along with the ability to remotely brick the device, is what made our household pass on the switch 2. We bought a second steam deck instead.

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[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's funny. I feel like with the switch 2 Nintendo finally listened to the fans who were saying they just want an incremental improvement. Just make the switch with a better processor. But they really just got too greedy with it and made it an incremental improvement in the worst way possible. Paid online, $70 games which never go on sale, paid switch 2 upgrade packs, LCD screen, digital download physical games.

It's an incremental upgrade done as horribly as possible, it feels like people are struggling right now and Nintendo is trying to extract every dollar out of customers then wonders why the console isn't doing well.

For me it's a hard sell because like at that price why wouldn't I just buy a steam deck. I don't have to buy any new games, I don't have to pay for upgrade packs to have my games run on it, I don't have to pay for online services. I'm not going to have to rebuy games if I buy a steam frame or steam machine. It also has seamless save transfers, and steam is famous for its sales.

It's just funny because I feel like people were asking for a switch with more power but now that it's here like why would you buy it over a steam deck.

Also to top it off Nintendo's lawyers are aggressively going after emulators, streamers and modders. Why would I want to support a company so hostile to its own community