Nintendo pays its employees well and have an excellent work culture in terms of allowing their employees to have a good work life balance. How many other companies do that? I bet a good chunk of their increased revenue will go towards increasing developer salaries. Sure it sucks for consumers but the alternative is Ubisoft and Activision struggling with cash and looking for buyers.
I'm also getting a Switch 2 but I'm not spending 80$ on any games. I will wait as long as it takes or go digital if I have to.
Talk is cheap we'll see what people's wallets say. I suspect the US market will be dead due to its self inflicted recession.
Nintendo's only successful consoles were the Wii and the SNES (and maybe NES). Nintendo's handheld department has always been the big winners.
Even though the Switch 2 is backwards compatible, it won't have the space to hold all my switch 1 games so I'm probably going to use the Switch 2 exclusively for Switch 2 edition games (and a handful of favorites like smash bros)
I never did finish Botw so that jumps right to the top of my list.
The c button will be the new gimmick. It's exact function we'll find out soon.
I've been playing KCD 2 for about a month (which for me is about 20-30 hours) and still haven't made it to the wedding. But my boy Henry is a master alchemist. I'm really not even a completionist but all of the side activities are super fun.
It's been the same since the Switch was first launched back in 2017. This new thing seems to basically allow you to designate a new primary console among everyone in your family account. So by lending the game to someone in your family account, they can play it even while offline.
The upvotes here are crazy considering this is false. I set my son's switch to my primary and we are able to play all of my games on both of our switches at the same time. It literally works exactly the same as xbox / Playstation.
And boy are there a lot of them. I really like the ones that button mash through instructions and then go: "so what am I supposed to be doing?"
They'd get laughed out the room. Again.
15% is high to be honest. If Valve were to agree to something like that (which is a big IF), I don't see Microsoft get more than 3%, with Valve keeping the other 27%. Microsoft needs Valve waaaaaay more than Valve needs Microsoft. They may even just put the steam store on there for free while still doubling down on game pass.
The part that does sound interesting is the AI being able to remind you what you were doing in the game if you haven't played it in awhile. It also could be useful as a guide so I don't have to go to YouTube. Not interested in having it play the game for me and it also needs to be able to be disabled.
As a smash bros player, I find no issue with the clickety clack of the xbox controller.
Fair point, but if the number of consoles don't tell us the size of the market, how can we know that the market is much bigger today?
Regarding the current gen's console count. While I expect it to eventually overtake the PS2 gen, I don't think it'll be by much.
Is it? 160 mil PS2s + 21 million gamecubes + 24 million xbox = 205 million consoles.
101 million Wiis + 87 million ps3s + 85 million xbox 360s = 273 million consoles.
117 million ps4s + 58 million xbox ones + 13 wii us = 188 million consoles
150 million switches + (and counting) 75 million ps5s + (estimated) 30 million xbox series = 255 million consoles
And that's without factoring in the handheld market that no ...
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There's wasn't a set price for games until the PS2 gen. I remember new N64 games ranging in price from $40 to $120.