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$700 for the Switch 2 and a game is pretty excessive, that's between the PS5 slim and PS5 Pro in price
 
Belvedere said:
One has to wonder if this is why Nintendo was so particularly virulent in their pursuit to shut down all Switch 1 emulator projects and take possession of their source code.
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The source code was open anyway (GPL3), no need for them to 'take possession' of it. You can still find it on github and gitlab and such. Not that Nintendo needed it as the only thing they really need to emulate from the Switch 1 is the Tegra's GPU as Switch 1 games talk directly to it.

Anyway - Physical Switch 2 Edition games (aka Switch 1 games with enhancements) have been confirmed to be just a Switch 1 game with a download code for the enhancement patches:
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Fcret said:
Anyway - Physical Switch 2 Edition games (aka Switch 1 games with enhancements) have been confirmed to be just a Switch 1 game with a download code for the enhancement patches:
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So it’s largely similar to what Microsoft did with 360 game reprints for the One/Series (they pressed new 360 discs with the packaging reworked to fall in line with the newer case size/branding style) except with people being passive aggro online over it this time.
 
Enig said:
So it’s largely similar to what Microsoft did with 360 game reprints for the One/Series (they pressed new 360 discs with the packaging reworked to fall in line with the newer case size/branding style) except with people being passive aggro online over it this time.
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What does Microsoft have to do with this discussion, nigger? You keep coming into this thread and being like, "bwuh bwuh what about when MICROSOFT or SONY did [thing]? Did you ever think about that?"

Yes and I also clowned on them for that when they did it.
 
Fcret said:
The source code was open anyway (GPL3), no need for them to 'take possession' of it. You can still find it on github and gitlab and such. Not that Nintendo needed it as the only thing they really need to emulate from the Switch 1 is the Tegra's GPU as Switch 1 games talk directly to it.

Anyway - Physical Switch 2 Edition games (aka Switch 1 games with enhancements) have been confirmed to be just a Switch 1 game with a download code for the enhancement patches:
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Right. Buying the Switch 1 versions then. No reason to buy the Switch 2 ones. Hoped it was going to be like the Switch 1 + DLC carts. Cause it is worded like that.

INB4 Japan puts the Enchants on the cart in future.

Oh wait, Region Locked
 
Fcret said:
What does Microsoft have to do with this discussion, nigger? You keep coming into this thread and being like, "bwuh bwuh what about when MICROSOFT or SONY did [thing]? Did you ever think about that?"

Yes and I also clowned on them for that when they did it.
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I’m old enough now getting legitimately angry over video games and not using hindsight are both idiotic moves. Get mad in the present tense if you want, but this is all a sitch for looking back in anger too.
 
Fcret said:
What does Microsoft have to do with this discussion, nigger? You keep coming into this thread and being like, "bwuh bwuh what about when MICROSOFT or SONY did [thing]? Did you ever think about that?"

Yes and I also clowned on them for that when they did it.
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He's just a nintendofaggot who is desperately projecting his cope for niggertendo financially raping him while he's on the casting couch for the next Switch 2 commercial, pay him no mind

Niggertendo appears to be celebrating too early and has already added their final console to their youtuber's game wall museum:
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Cassius Crayfish said:
The best way I can describe what's happening to Nintendo's output is that it feels increasingly 'flat'. Like it should have the old Nintendo magic of serious quality when you look at it on the surface, but then you dig a bit deeper and there's nothing there. The newest Mario Strikers game was a great example of this.
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Agreed. It's very obvious with their push to go "cartoonish whimsy is BACK" with Mario characters, in an attempt to undo the 2010s where Mario was a generic corpo mascot and the designs had no visual interest and looked like generic standing 3D renders copypasted everywhere. But it feels flat, because they are faking a feeling of authenticity in a push to consciously "bring it back" when it used to be something they naturally did on their own. It doesnt help that they love corporate UI minimalism more than even Apple does.
 
Enig said:
So it’s largely similar to what Microsoft did with 360 game reprints for the One/Series (they pressed new 360 discs with the packaging reworked to fall in line with the newer case size/branding style) except with people being passive aggro online over it this time.
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the 360 games weren't upcharged and you got the xbox one enhancements for free
 
Xerxes IX said:
Agreed. It's very obvious with their push to go "cartoonish whimsy is BACK" with Mario characters, in an attempt to undo the 2010s where Mario was a generic corpo mascot and the designs had no visual interest and looked like generic standing 3D renders copypasted everywhere. But it feels flat, because they are faking a feeling of authenticity in a push to consciously "bring it back" when it used to be something they naturally did on their own. It doesnt help that they love corporate UI minimalism more than even Apple does.
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From the 80s til the late 2000s, the Mario universe kinda had to be weird and out there with original characters and settings in order to expand and build the world of Mario. But then came the 2010s where Nintendo pretty much got comfy (well "comfy" in the sense of what they want to do with Mario) and decided to play it safe and have it as sterile and serialized as possible for what you would expect in a Mario game. I think Mario Wonder was a step in the right direction of Mario being "weird" again, but for things like DK getting a new redesign is more questionable rather than a natural step towards creative liberties being taken in designing a new game and its world.
 
Wait.

The Switch 2 Enhanced Editions are just codes.

They had an entire sectipn about Game Key Cards. Why didn’t they put a Switch 1 game and a key card for the download in the box?
 
Colon capital V said:
From the 80s til the late 2000s, the Mario universe kinda had to be weird and out there with original characters and settings in order to expand and build the world of Mario. But then came the 2010s where Nintendo pretty much got comfy (well "comfy" in the sense of what they want to do with Mario) and decided to play it safe and have it as sterile and serialized as possible for what you would expect in a Mario game. I think Mario Wonder was a step in the right direction of Mario being "weird" again, but for things like DK getting a new redesign is more questionable rather than a natural step towards creative liberties being taken in designing a new game and its world.
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DK's redesign reads less as a step towards letting Mario properties be weird again and more as "this is a completely different character to the one Rare established and Nintendo continued to use" to me.
 
Xerxes IX said:
DK's redesign reads less as a step towards letting Mario properties be weird again and more as "this is a completely different character to the one Rare established and Nintendo continued to use" to me.
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But he somehow comes off as being more racist, in a way
 
Colon capital V said:
>When a company charges you $450 for a console, $80 for games, $50 for online subscriptions, $30 to enhance 8 year old games, and $90 for accessories PLUS tax.
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I was waiting for that, thank you.
Colon capital V said:
But then came the 2010s where Nintendo pretty much got comfy (well "comfy" in the sense of what they want to do with Mario) and decided to play it safe and have it as sterile and serialized as possible for what you would expect in a Mario game.
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Nintendo was so loose with Mario pre-2010 that Princess Peach had shower scenes in Paper Mario TTYD.
 
Deus Exica said:
Disney, similarly, has shifted their money making schemes regarding their parks and merchandise to capitalize on rich whales who will gladly fork over 8K for three nights in a shitty hotel and to buy extremely overpriced Star Wars merch at the park.
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Honestly, if this is the tactic Nintendo is going for, they've gone full retard, and are going to collapse their company. Disney, unlike Nintendo, has the luxury of having multiple full-featured theme-parks, and remnants of Disney stores that were all created during Disney's golden age. Nintendo has one, and it's a subsection of Universal Studios. Disney has also not pivoted towards making most of their money from the theme parks and merchandise. They might want to, given the abysmal state of their movie sales, but their merchandise sales are in the toilet.

The only thing Disney has going for it right now is the theme parks, but that's because they're actually decently priced for the scale and reputation of the parks. I've got some friends who went on a week-and-a-half trip, and it was like $4k a person, and that includes flights and estimated merchandise purchases. The parks aren't nearly in the black enough to make up for the losses they have with the movies.

Disney's main tactic over the past decade or so has been to take in investment grants they get in return of destroying their existing franchises and overall reputation on the altar of progressivism. They were making bank from those groups, and using it to cover their horrific movie sales. That's why Captain Marvel was making them money, even though it became a meme how empty the theaters were even opening weekend. The investors were renting out entire theaters to cover up how shit it was going to do. Those funds don't exist anymore, which is why there are so many rumors of Disney trying to do a hard pivot. Biden's term somehow caused the investor funds to dry up (even though they were arguably pulling the levers), and it doesn't look like Trump's term is going to be any kinder. Disney now needs money from actual consumers to stay afloat, and it will be a hard task to say the least.

I don't think Nintendo is trying to ape Disney or Apple here. I think it's a much simpler situation. Japan's economy is in the toilet, and the western world is viewed as doing economically better. So Nintendo hopes to make gains by pumping foreigners for more money. There's a lot of backlash, but I don't think they're going to adjust it. Their mindset will be "people bitched when we raised them to $70, but we still sold similar amounts of copies. So $80 should be fine too." Nintendo is also infamously stubborn, and the tariffs provide a PR smokescreen as well.
 
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