In another bullshit move by Nintendo this time around.

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    Remember, Nintendo tried to sue a grocery store in Costa Rica. Maybe don’t support them.

    Remember Nintendo… please feel free to list the hundred other crappy things they did here.

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      • Periodically killing mods and fan projects
      • going after palworld
      • using last-gen hardware in their consoles
      • never decreasing prices
      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        using last-gen hardware in their consoles

        I mean there’s nothing inherently wrong with that (if only they charged last-gen prices as well lol)

        but anyways here’s a bunch more shit they’ve done:

        • charging full price for basic rereleases
        • removing reviews from the switch eshop
        • killing emulation projects
        • patenting basic gameplay elements
        • sued a man so hard he was forced to pay them part of his income for the rest of his life

        and for a few older ones, just to show that they’ve been shitty this whole time, actually:

        • attempting to kill game cheating devices (like the game genie)
        • attempting to kill video game rentals
        • preventing 3rd parties from releasing games on competitor’s consoles, essentially giving themselves a monopoly

        (also they’re partly owned by the saudi government, so, there’s that)

        (and pls remember that, despite all of their shit, nintendo is far from the worst. it’s a systemic problem, not an individualist one. remember that ubisoft covered up sexual assault for years and that microsoft is literally engaging in genocide. the problem is that capitalism lets these companies get away with it.)

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          I wouldn’t go as far a stating that it’s mainly a systemic problem. Individual choices also matter to some degree.

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    Bullshit. They are doing that to cause a fever of pre-orders in the US despite the tariffs. Within a year, they will be on shelves.

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    Yes, Nintendo! Please paywall my nostalgia of the very first game console I ever played! Charge me an exorbitant price during an economic crisis to satisfy my childlike need to regress to a time before I understood what money was!

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      Hang on, Nintendo fans are into findom? That would explain a few things. On a related note, I think I finally understood why people keep giving Chris Roberts money for Star Citizen.

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        I mean, I bought the starter ship for SC which was 40€ I believe and I still play occaisonally. I’d say I definitely got my money’s worth out of that game.

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    I have the version that was made for the OG Switch and the build quality is garbage tier. Developed stick drift in both sticks in less than a month.

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    Nintendo keeps shooting themselves in the foot. On one hand, as a PCMRer and massive fan of Valve, I’m glad to see how many are open to moving over here. On the other hand, Nintendo was the last console manufacturer I actually liked (despite their anti-emulation crusade) and so it’s like a death of an era.

    The future really is in console-like PCs a la the Steam Deck and Valve’s upcoming Fremont.

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    I can’t buy any of their classic controllers here in Norway. Never understood why we were left out.

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    The Nintendo GameCube (GCN) Controller – Nintendo Classics will be exclusively available for Nintendo Switch Online members and will initially only be offered to those invited to pre-order a Nintendo Switch 2 console

    Does this suggest I can buy it later or am I going to have to pay scalper price if I want it?

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      I think you’ll always need NSO sub if buying directly from Nintendo, but pre-order rule only seems to be because of scalpers, so that only those who can actually use it, buy it.

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      I think you can buy it later. They still sell all the NES, SNES and N64 controllers on their website.

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      That one was a reissue of the original GameCube controller with the original connector and everything. It works on the original GameCube and Wii and with the USB adapter that was released with it, you can use it or any other GameCube controller on the WiiU, Switch and maybe even Switch 2.

      This new controller looks like a GameCube controller, but is something entirely new. It is a modern wireless controller that mimics the GameCube controller shape and button layout but won’t work on the original GameCube, at least not without some additional adapter hardware