Non-tech people usually don’t care about the ToS and the dirty practices a company does. They’ll gladly pay for the ‘convenience’.

Most Nintendo fans even argued that prices, new ToS (bricking the device) and such were “justifiable”. Same thing about owning games, most argued that “in today’s era you barely own anything anyway”.

It’s very unfortunate and sad to see but it is reality.

Personally though, I’ll wait for either a working emulation or when there’s an actual exploit found to hack the Switch 2.

So much for the boycott

What boycott? Don't overestimate bla bla bla on lemmy and other social media.

Matt Piscatella pointed out on Bluesky that a launch like this is only a function of how much inventory they made available. The Xbox One had the third most successful US launch of a console.

Every Nintendo console released gets negative press. I remember the articles bashing the original Switch because it was underpowered and that it was another gimmicky console - only for it becoming so successful that the form factor is being copied left and right.

As for boycotts, I only saw people bitching about games being more expensive. I get it, I too would love to get shit for free. But inflation is a thing, games are more expensive to make nowadays, and that cost will be offloaded to consumers. At least Nintendo games are not plagued with monetization and typically are released in a complete state.

It's not really about boycotts not working.

It's that a handful of people virtue signaling about how bad X game/company is on niche social media communities don't matter if their opinions aren't aligned with your average person.

Most people just enjoy games as a hobby and treat it the same way they treat picking something to watch on Netflix.

There's a switch 2 boycott?

Honestly compared to other handhelds and current-gen consoles, the price seems OK for what you're getting. The problem for me has always been how expensive Nintendo's games are, $80 seems way too much.

And the masses have been conditioned to accept the corporate anti-consumer "you will own nothing and you will like it" MO.

Except that they are not high-quality. For example, Pokemon Scarlet.

Why are you getting the switch?

"Cause uh it's Nintendo..."

Expect the OLED model in a year or two to be $600-$650

Not yet. The 3DS and Wii U sold out at launch, too, but after the diehards all got them, nobody else wanted them. The 3DS recovered after they dropped the price by $80 6 months after launch, but the Wii U never did. Maybe that won't happen this time and we truly are fucked, but time will tell. Historically, Nintendo fucks up after they have a successful console and get cocky with the next one.

Yeah, I'm not happy about the Switch 2, but the amount of cope is unbelievable. I've seen multiple people claiming, "the Wii U sold out a launch too," even though the Wii U sold worse than the Wii on opening weekend. The sales might still fall off a cliff in a month, but breaking the PS4's record for launch sales is not a great sign.

I do always love "records" that are effectively population increases.

Just like when people share maps of data that are effectively just showing population distribution.

Gran Theft Duty

Yea was thinking the same thing. "How many of those are scalpers?"

Id pay for Luigi to fuck my ass.