"Next gen is the last gen" has been a thing since the days of the PS2 to 360 transition. I'll believe it when I see it.
Consoles no longer have the exclusive lineups they once had, but are still alright in being gaming oriented PCs for people who don't want or aren't willing to invest in a gaming PC. The console war is dead though and one of the frustration from the fanbase is them trying to one up Sony as if they got so fucked by it that they will never recover.
I've always been Nintendo + PC going way back to the late 90s. I really can't see myself plunking down that amount for a Switch 2, though. Like, I usually do budget gaming PC setups, think along the lines of those Ryzen mini-PCs ETA Prime is always fooling around with, and play games on lower settings or games a couple years old and my newest setup was like half the cost of a Switch 2.
Maybe you have changed.
Japan is really big on intellectual property, even more so than the US. Nintendo's last five systems, Switch, 3DS, Wii U, Wii and DS have all had work arounds to jailbreak them and play games for free while they were still in production. I think that's caused them to be more litigious. At the same time, Iwata died and any time a company has a new CEO, it's going to naturally change direction to some degree. I think the combination of the two is what people have been seeing.
The woke shit and globohomo shit happen.
Nope.
Nintendo did not go absolutely apeshit in going after emulators, flashcart manufacturers and roms sites until the Switch was hacked. There are sites that have had been openly sharing roms for over 20 years, that did not get DMCA'd until recently. Saying they really went all in on cracking down on those things relatively recently =/= saying they were a moral upstanding company in the 80s. I don't know what to tell you.
That wasn't the first time they went after ROM sites, they just hadn't done so in a couple of decades now.
Ok, so if they haven't done it in a couple decades, do you think that would contribute to fan perception that they've gotten more litigious?
Nintendo had a hand in going after used game sales in Japan. They tried to do it here in the US but failed. They even wanted to end game rentals. They treated stores like Block Buster like shit. They went after them even for making copies of game manuals.
Holy shit, I made a post about fan perception changing because they very publicly and successfully went after shit like Yuzu and Gary Bowser and you guys are bringing up failed lawsuits from 20-30 years as a counterpoint. You cannot possibly be this retarded.
No, it was brought up because you seem to think Nintendo just became this way.
Someone in this thread is definitely acting retarded, and I think we all know who.
