Corporate inertia kills innovation. Things slow down, more diversity hires, the teams get less control over their games, and said games are subject to focus groups to make them as safe as possible. Can't have risk when money is on the line, gotta dump all the cash into one pot.
People buy Nintendo because there is a guarantee they will find fun good games regardless of their age/sex, and the Switch itself has a massive amount of titles between the first-party and third-party offerings, in spite of the weaker hardware compared to the other 9th gen consoles. The hybrid handheld format also revolutionized things enough that we see other companies like Valve with the Steam Deck mimicking the concept (and it works too).
That was solely Nintendo of America and the americans/anglos themselves pushing this kid-friendly rhetoric, Nintendo itself as a japanese company has always been all-ages.
Turns out that being on a forum that makes fun of retards on the Internet, which also doesn't restrict freedom of expression like the usual places on Internet do these days, has its perks. Discussions are more natural as a result too, even if we have our own peculiar oddities sometimes.
You're retarded for thinking it's a bad thing in the first place. First, if your controller only has a built-in li-ion battery, it will inevitably go bad and you'll have a hard time replacing it like with the PS3 controller. Second, by having support for regular AA batteries, you get to have replaceable batteries without getting locked into the vendor's ecosystem. Get four Eneloops and you can quickly change them mid-game without having to play wired or waiting for the thing to charge up.
You misunderstood what I said, if you read the rest you would see that I agree with you, maybe I worded it poorly. I said its retarted that they are shilling it like its a new thing when the 360 HAD swappable AA batteries, but then they removed them with the Xbone.
Not really, their majority content is still PG, having some edgy game won't change their image (like the Wii had No More Heroes).
Nintendo games are peak consoomer media "buy the same recycled shit with different coat of paint, forget about it, and then buy next product". It will be indistinguishable than billion other indie copies if it didn't have the IPs and higher production budget. While the industry globohomo is bad, I don't find Nintendo's gaming stagnation any better.
The entire gaming sphere has been almost dead ever since COVID, not just Sony and MS. And are we really arguing for fucking mascot characters? Do we really need to bring Nathan Drake out of retirement? More Ratchet and Clank? I fucking hate how everything is a series nowadays, no new IP. And Nintendo is extra guilty in that.
I like Japanese media, but gaming over there has been very bad the last 2 generations, with the gacha annihilating a ton of shit. It's better than the west, but not by a lot.
And the thing is that they didn't, they only made it more cumbersome because they threw the whole quickswap idea out of the window. No matter if you use their battery or AA's with the XBO controller, you have that stupid cover in the way and it's not as easy to do, but you still can use AA's with your controller. I have the Series X controller for my PC and I run it off of Eneloop Pros, and I use a shitty Bluetooth dongle and it just works.
Wait you are right and I was brain farting, for some reason I was thinking they removed the AA on the Xbone controllers entirely. Shows how much I touch my Xbox lol.
Never underestimate the ability of a businessman to make the most retarded choices. The ones we hear about are usually the ones who make good choices.
Yeah, the tendency to monopolize is one of the big problems with capitalism. That being said, the alternative is way worse, so I'll take this over starving.
I'll let Gaben rape my wallet all he wants as long as he never sells to Microsoft. Those fuckers need to stay away from my beloved Steam and my extensive library of games.
Just get a PC, all the consoles outside the Switch suck and have nothing exclusive at all, its all on PC now. You can also pirate stuff on a PC.
Absolutely not. Do you actually play videogames after all? My number #1 game franchise, Earth Defense Force, does fit the bill of "recycled shit" by comparison.
I've been completely overwhelmed by recent japanese/asian games of different genres, in addition to some indies, on both PC and Switch. Even the TGS 2023 has many games I'm keeping tabs. My knowledge in moonrunes and my curiosity may help a lot to discover things, but it's not difficult to find out entertaining games these days either.
I have an old 7th Gen i5 and a GTX 1070ti. They both still "work" but its time to upgrade, I think.
DF's audience isnt as retarded as I thought.
The new controller looks and sounds like a throwback to the "sixaxis" for PS3.
They scoop shit up the way they do so they can go to the investors with a portfolio of literally every IP imaginable.