Series S is $299 here, unless you’re getting used. PS5 digital is hardly apples to oranges, considering the Switch 2 isn’t offering a cartridgeless version.

I also like your arguement about the switch 2 somehow being lesser because it’s going to get scalped, very pointedly ignoring the PS5-shaped scalper elephant in the window. I guess I spoke too soon in the other post- you didn’t manage to delete all examples of cutting Sony and MS a break, you’ve got one right here!

As for the price, sony and microsoft charge $70 for a standard edition game, but also often incomplete and requiring extra money from ‘DLC’ or ‘premium/deluxe’ editions to actually be properly playable/have the baseline plot/lore, which nintendo doesn’t do.

I can’t, because you went and deleted it lmaooooo

The reason I think it’s astroturfing is because there’s a lot of people who are critical of Nintendo, while simultaneously giving Sony and Microsoft a free pass for doing the exact same thing, or even just making things up outright to bash Nintendo, like your claims that it’s ‘hardware that is long in the tooth at launch.’

Then what exactly are you expecting? The market for new consoles is currently:

Switch 2: $449

Xbox Series S: $299, less resolution/less fps, less powerful than the switch 2

Xbox Series X: $499, more expensive, same resolution/fps, more powerful (tflops) than switch 2, 15.7x the size

PS5: $499, more expensive, same resolution, more fps, more powerful (tflops) than switch 2 but less so than series x, 24x the size

The switch 2 was positioned, and announced, as a portable console capable of similar power levels as one console generation ago, and it overdelivered- the common comparison is that it’s more powerful than a PS4. For a handheld, that is absurdly good, and the price is certainly in line with the rest of the market. The literal only outlier is the Series S being significantly cheaper, which tracks considering the switch 2 is more powerful than it, while being a handheld.

… It’s using modern hardware, with specs that are entirely reasonable for being a handheld. The fuck are you expecting, a ps6 that you stick in your pocket for $200?

Honestly I just have to wonder if it’s not astroturfing, or the results of astroturfing.

Lmao outrageously priced. It’s higher than it was, yes, but I remember the PS3 announcement.

Now THAT was outrageously priced!

$950 for the 60gb model after inflation!

Are you fucking stupid? This is how you get shot. You aren’t special, you aren’t powerful, you’re just going to get your shit wrecked.

It’s just lemmy.ml taking a pop at the US so they can feel superior. Feel free to ignore.

Please don’t assign the kindest possible interpretation to his words. It’s pretty obvious what he meant to do.

You’re not being silly, and it is wrong. Just because ICE is bending over backwards to drag people into this shit doesn’t make it right, and you shouldn’t fall for their gaslighting and normalization. It’s wrong, and you should feel confident in calling out how fucking absurd this shit is.

Thje problem is more that they tend to get WAY MORE hate for way less stuff.

Like, blizzard literally had a woman commit suicide because she thought she was going to be used as a company sex slave. Yet Nintendo gets more shit than blizzard does, because Nintendo doesn’t want you pirating their games.

Like, bruh, priorities. I know it’s not a zero sum game, but god damn.

Uh, video games have VERY famously not been decreasing in cost to create- AAA games cost VASTLY more to create now than in 2008. The teams are much, much larger, for one.

It’s a trend I personally think is stupid and unnecessary, but productivity gains aren’t really happening that way in game dev.

Literally nothing ever has stayed in lockstep with wages, that’s not even relevant to the discussion at hand. Not sure why you think video games would be special, especially video games by Nintendo, solijce they’re literally the last ones on the “raise video game prices” train.

You do realize that video game prices haven’t increased with inflation in years, right? A $60 game in 2008 would be $88 today just from inflation. This isn’t price gouging, it’s inflation correction.

She literally called it real in Milwaukee.

Speaking from experience… Yes. Absolutely yes.

What a weird rule. You are intentionally destroying your kid’s social, developmental, and interpersonal opportunities because you’re unwilling to actually put in the time to parent.

The least you could do is give them a dumb phone, so they are ostracized less. Or better yet, actually teach and parent them how to use a phone, and then give them a phone with locked down permissions to block tiktok/etc that are actually problematic, while still allowing them access to things that allow them to relate to friends and their community. Trust but verify.

It’s a chicken and egg problem here. You’re saying that prices never fall because people don’t lower demand, but I would instead argue that Americans don’t seem to understand that reduced demand lowers prices simply because we have literally never once seen that actually happen in practice due to corporate greed.

Rust isn’t necessary. It can be mildly helpful, but it’s also hurt in that it’s community tends to make it actively unhelpful, just like in this case.

Linux development happened just fine for decades before rust, and while there are benefits to rust from a security point of view, if they can’t maintain the code, they’ll just go back to C and deal with process and policy for managing memory safety.