It’s frustrating that a small number of really good franchises are locked into the Nintendo bullshit business model.

Xenoblade Chronicles, Zelda, Mario, and a couple of other series running on Steam Deck without the emulation nonsense would make me tremendously happy.

I quit Nintendo ages ago. As a company, they're assholes. Then they want to charge $50 for a game that's 5 years old and 2 generations behind in graphics. Just can't hold a candle to PC or even the other consoles. The only thing they have left is like 4 game IP's

Nintendo has made it extremely easy to boycott the Switch 2 so far. They're hell-bent on releasing mid new games and tons of Switch 2 versions of Switch 1 games and acting as if they're new. I'm a big fan of Nintendo's games (well, I was, at this point) and the only exclusive Switch 2 one I have any interest in is Donkey Kong Bananza after the console being out for 6 months. That's abysmal. At this rate there will only be a few Switch 2 games released over its entire lifespan that I'll even want to bother emulating eventually.

I only spent 99 DKK (Danish kroner) on a Switch 2 + Mario Kart World because a local company briefly fucked their pricing.

The system is certainly worth 99 DKK, that much I can say. Though... I find myself mostly still graviting to emulated MK8D.

I played this on the Xbox 360

Feels like the best meta for console purchasing is to only buy every other gen. I imagine the Sw2 is a blast for someone who didn't have the 1 and now gets to play all those games at an improved quality/framerate

Sell product based on IP and brand name while delivering the bare minimum of product. Nintendo's MO for 10+ years now

In fact, you can emulate every other console with pirated ROMs without anyone batting an eye

The year is 2064. The world outside is fire and riots.

A new life is brought into the world, the hospital lights flicker. The doctor, dirty and worn out, pushes the new parents a form on a battered clipboard.

"Congratulations to you both, now please sign this release to bring your baby home, but not before you designate which formats of Skyrim your child will inherit, please understand this is not optional, and we no longer take Bitcoin to pay the mandatory $60 Skyrim Fee, so please use cash, credit or ration cards to pay."

Let’s not push the myth here that over dependence on LLMs is the only source of bad code. In the past it’s almost always been management constraints, probably the case here, too.

It's Bethesda we're talking about. They can definitely reach that level of incompetence without AI being involved.

multiplayer RPG suite

Are you talking about Skyrim Together? How’s MP work now?

I’ve been out of the modding scene forever, and last I heard there was no “massively” multiplayer and only a coop demo.

It wouldn't, the problems are on Bethesda's side.

The niche of "I have to play the latest Legend of Pokemario game and nothing else will do"

Nobody is paying Todd to play Room on their Washing Machine