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.
Nintendo has increased the prices for some of their games, but they are far less predatory than many companies with their live-services and micro-transactions.
I mean thats semi true they have less things that they sell you after a purchase of a licnese to a game. E.g. dlc’s or similar. Still they can brick your system any second if they thought you inserted anything they dont like. Thats just a huge predatory step against any consumer rights.
Personally, I think DLCs are fine, well at least most of them, I was talking more about micro-transactions in free to play or even paid games by many other publishers. They are specifically designed to be predatory in nature, bus that’s a whole other discussion.
As for bricking consoles, all platforms have included that bit in their EULA for over a decade, and they do ban you if they detect you playing pirated stuff, the only difference is (from what I remember reading) that optical disks don’t have separate id, but each cartridge has, so it’s easier to detect if multiple people are playing the same copy with cartridge then optical drive.
I am not saying they should be allowed that, I am in support of customers allowed to do whatever they want with the hardware they bought (though I am also against piracy, especially for entertainment purposes), but this doesn’t make them “more” predatory than their competitors. There are things Sony or MS does that Nintendo doesn’t, and there are things Nintendo does that Sony or MS doesn’t. All of them, like pretty much any company, do what they think will make them most money.
I forget the point I was making, but it’s somewhere there 😀
Nintendo has increased the prices for some of their games, but they are far less predatory than many companies with their live-services and micro-transactions.
I mean thats semi true they have less things that they sell you after a purchase of a licnese to a game. E.g. dlc’s or similar. Still they can brick your system any second if they thought you inserted anything they dont like. Thats just a huge predatory step against any consumer rights.
Personally, I think DLCs are fine, well at least most of them, I was talking more about micro-transactions in free to play or even paid games by many other publishers. They are specifically designed to be predatory in nature, bus that’s a whole other discussion.
As for bricking consoles, all platforms have included that bit in their EULA for over a decade, and they do ban you if they detect you playing pirated stuff, the only difference is (from what I remember reading) that optical disks don’t have separate id, but each cartridge has, so it’s easier to detect if multiple people are playing the same copy with cartridge then optical drive.
I am not saying they should be allowed that, I am in support of customers allowed to do whatever they want with the hardware they bought (though I am also against piracy, especially for entertainment purposes), but this doesn’t make them “more” predatory than their competitors. There are things Sony or MS does that Nintendo doesn’t, and there are things Nintendo does that Sony or MS doesn’t. All of them, like pretty much any company, do what they think will make them most money.
I forget the point I was making, but it’s somewhere there 😀