I’m not saying it will never happen but just wait and see where we are in like 5 years. People are acting like they’ll be able to play the new Mario Kart on their computer this time next year
Who knows what kind of nasty DRM they’ve got running this time around even if people can find a way to hack the console and dump games
lol I’m not paying $90 for Mario Kart 9 when it’s literally just Mario Kart 8 + voice chat + some random gimmick
Everything will be cracked eventually plus the last three generations of Nintendo consoles have had glaring security flaws.
I agree for the most part, getting a cracked copy of a nintendo game still benefits nintendo (piracy has always benefited large publishers). Nintendo can easily create a tug of war situation with the emulator scene where firmware updates and game DRM will be a constant fixture.
Switch 1 emulation was achieved because we got extremely lucky that the switch 1 had a hardware defect on launch day that allowed for jailbreaking. Usually jailbreaking a console is very difficult and requires a mixture of luck and extremely knowledgeable individuals willing to pour hundreds of hours and now that Nintendo has sent its copyright ninjas to copyright safe havens like Brazil I doubt that there’s any motivation to start cracking a new console anytime soon.
Emulation projects are not free labor so you can crack the latest nintendo nostalgia slop.
I dunno, i personally don’t care about playing games the first day, haven’t in a very long time. 5 or more years is actually fine, there’s still a ton from their cracked consoles i haven’t played. If i wait long enough and the games are good enough i figger ill get to play the games eventually and if i don’t, i truly don’t care. I play games on my terms or i don’t play em, that’s my meta
Switch form factor was unique when it came out now with Steam Deck and its numerous clones do Nintendo have the same bargaining power with Switch 2? You can’t play overpriced AA nintendo games on them but they are full fleged computers that make consoles look like milking contraptions.
Of course there is also the prevailing phenomenon of gamers shelling out regardless of the asking price. So logic goes out of the window.
Nintendo’s main market is parents who want a safe console for their kids with good parental controls. It’s still the cheapest (though not really “cheap” anymore…) and they really don’t give a fuck about Steam or know what it is.
Gamers act all incredulous that it’s not made for them - yeah no shit.
A lot more parents now know what Steam is. Is almost 25 years old, and has been popular for 10+ years.
That means 10 year old kids with 35-40 year old parents have parents that were in their teens and 20s when Steam got popular.
yeah i don’t understand why so many people make this sort of assumption. i literally use my dad’s steam account and have since i was 7 years old. a pretty substantial portion of g*mers are 40+, its not some edgelord youth thing anymore.
and maybe i’m just poor, but nintendo stuff hasn’t been a cute little thing you throw at your kid to keep them distracted since the GBA. now their consoles cost a month’s rent and no one can spare that right now.
I don’t know about this. A higher priced system seems more aimed at enthusiasts than parents who can find cheaper ways to occupy their young (including older consoles and/or cellies and tablets). The expanded online chat options similarly aren’t something that is selling systems to parents who don’t have the time to vet every online stranger.
Nintendo sells a lot of games on nostalgia, which kids don’t have much of to exploit.
I think Nintendo is still trying to sell to families, which includes millenial moms and dads who grew up on games and may have identified as “hardcore” back when they had the time
I’m not sure if Nintendo would make billions from enthusiasts and nostalgic parents. Kids today still know Super Mario and Yoshi very well
(I think they’re gonna leave Luigi out of the next smash though lol)
