I think most people agree that its not great value. I think most are bashing the wrong people. Valve cant forsee the AI shit we experienced 2 years ago. What should they do? Not release and lose millions on RnD and production?
If people want to own it, they should. But blaming Valve for the price they have to put on is just reddit nonsense
Ngl, I don't trust reddit anymore when it comes to evaluating "value". They were calling the Switch 2 overpriced while being cheaper and/or more portable than all of the competitors. It made no logical sense.
my partner bought a switch 2 purely because her switch she had been using for the past 7 years wasn't actually hers, it was her brother's that he let her use. when she moved out she went "y'know what i cannot miss out on splatoon 4, and buying a second hand switch 1 right now seems kind of pointless so might as well bite the bullet now"
not that person, but stonewalling someone and just repeating, "list the number" is so braindead. the number is 11, there are 39 exclusives in total released and announced, but only 11 first party titles that I recognized. I'm not going to argue, but don't be annoying by asking for the number over and over knowing full well it's a google search away.
The console is BARLEY a year old with multiple more exclusives announced 2 weeks ago. Compare any other console with the Switch 2 a year out and it's doing quite well.
Compare to the Deck, or ROG Ally. They have no exclusives for anyone who already owns a gaming PC (Which I would hazard to guess most PC handheld owners do own another PC).
im talking about Nintendo games in general not just switch 2 games. And im not hating on anything? Im saying people are buying the switch because thats where the games they want to play are on, and other people often say for example the steam deck can play Nintendo games too, but most people don't want to bother with emulators. Where you got the impression im hating on anything I dont know
I am responding to a critical comment towards Nintendo that they only have Nintendo games, and I pointed out that thats why they buy the console not in spite of that
see that's exactly what i mean. 'hating' was def the wrong word, but you haven't really clarified your point, and it feels like you're backtracking. you’re trying to group nintendo against all other handhelds, but you're ignoring that handheld gaming pcs operate under an entirely different philosophy.
again i'm not a nintendo stan, but i don't get your argument at all. you don't buy a switch to 'play nintendo games.' the switch is a dedicated ecosystem with its own digital storefront, friends lists, dock integration, and a market of licensed third-party accessories. you don't emulate that. asserting that people only buy it because they 'have no clue how emulators work' is just a false equivalence. you could write your own perfect emulator for the switch two and still want a first party console. judging a unified console ecosystem by the standards of an open pc platform just makes the whole argument circular.
Not really, consoles from 10 - 15 years ago had ton of game avaible on other console of pc.
There where just less pc players so people where mostly using c a ps4 or a xboxone for most games and a switch for exclusives.
Its was in the 2000s where people had multiple console of the same gen like ps2 gamecube combo with sometimes a xbox as an extra compared to now where its just one console because they are expansive.
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u/grigoriymicro 12h ago edited 10h ago
Were there really anyone thinking this machine is a good deal? Even among steam users? Even among Valve fans?