The Nintendo Switch 2 debuted in June to become the fastest-selling hardware ever in the U.S., shooting spending on games to new monthly records, according to the monthly report from Circana.
The circlejerk has gotten incredibly tiring, especially here. Literally any mention of Nintendo in any context whatsoever has to bring a dozen people out of the woodwork to remind everyone that Nintendo is the most evil thing on the planet ever. You’d think [email protected] would be a space with at least a little less negativity, but no, even here it never fucking ends. Even worse though is the amount of misinformation that gets spread in the process, people will twist anything they can to invent new things to be mad at.
There are certainly some things Nintendo does that I dislike. But I also look at the rest of the industry and I don’t think they’re anywhere near the worst right now. They treat their workers well, they don’t push gambling-based business models on kids, they keep projects reasonably scoped instead of trying to make every single game into the next Fortnite and then shut it down when it doesn’t meet that bar, their games actually feel complete at launch, and they don’t fund genocide.
I’m certainly not saying criticism shouldn’t be allowed when it’s relevant. When there’s news about something bad, by all means discuss it in the relevant thread.
The problem I have is when it’s everywhere, at any mention of anything related to Nintendo. Even in a thread like this, for example, we gotta have a whole bunch of drive-by “Hey did you know Nintendo bad? Just thought I’d remind everyone!” comments. It’s tiring.
The circlejerk has gotten incredibly tiring, especially here. Literally any mention of Nintendo in any context whatsoever has to bring a dozen people out of the woodwork to remind everyone that Nintendo is the most evil thing on the planet ever. You’d think [email protected] would be a space with at least a little less negativity, but no, even here it never fucking ends. Even worse though is the amount of misinformation that gets spread in the process, people will twist anything they can to invent new things to be mad at.
There are certainly some things Nintendo does that I dislike. But I also look at the rest of the industry and I don’t think they’re anywhere near the worst right now. They treat their workers well, they don’t push gambling-based business models on kids, they keep projects reasonably scoped instead of trying to make every single game into the next Fortnite and then shut it down when it doesn’t meet that bar, their games actually feel complete at launch, and they don’t fund genocide.
And they make a lot of good games that I like.
Yeah, we try to keep the negativity low, but don’t want to become a circle jerk community where nothing negative about Nintendo is allowed.
I’m certainly not saying criticism shouldn’t be allowed when it’s relevant. When there’s news about something bad, by all means discuss it in the relevant thread.
The problem I have is when it’s everywhere, at any mention of anything related to Nintendo. Even in a thread like this, for example, we gotta have a whole bunch of drive-by “Hey did you know Nintendo bad? Just thought I’d remind everyone!” comments. It’s tiring.
Yeah, I agree.