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Nintendo says latest Zelda was pirated 1 million times pre-release as it sues Yuzu emulator creator
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So, what's the point of the Switch then? If all these devices can play any Switch game, yet Nintendo refuses to allow people to buy and run them on these devices, then it sounds to me like they've done this to themselves. I empathise for all the work developers have put into their games, but I have no sympathy for the executives who decide to make their games exclusive to an overpriced irrelevant piece of technology.
Making money off third-party games is the point of the switch :)
A Nintendo store on PC would sell a lot of Nintendo games, but they couldn't make a lot of other games exclusive to that store.
Nintendo are not loss leaders, unlike their competitors. They do actually make money on consoles.
The switch platform was very unique when it launched. It has inspired a new category of gaming devices.
It's also the most reliable and (easily) controllable portable gaming console that has significant new game support. PC, Xbox and playstation make it too easy for children to access online chats and adult content. The switch and by extension Nintendo ecosystem severely limit this.
It's great for playing games with younger family members in person and online. Whereas the alternative platforms should only be used by young children when they are actively being monitored by an adult. It allows the child some independence without danger. Not just stranger danger, many businesses are desperate to directly communicate with children with no adult in between. It's perverse we allow this type of advertising and targeting. The Nintendo switch severely limits this, and provides further limits in an easy to use app.
The customers of the steam deck wouldn't tolerate this. They expect a fully portable gaming pc. Artificial limitations would only frustrate their user base. People already expect these limitations when they buy a Nintendo product so it's less of an issue.
Nintendo always innovates on the hardware. The switch doesn't appear as innovate now. But that's only because the innovation was so good it was widely replicated. Supporting technology was also a factor.
If Nintendo make a switch 2 that only improves processing and screen resolution, it will be the least innovative console generation they ever had. But it would the standard affair for most gaming hardware manufacturers.
The protections incentives Nintendo to pursue innovation in gaming, in both hardware and software. Everyone else only does software, even the Steam deck is a follower. This approach is still risky with these protections. As not every hardware system is highly profitable, as we saw with the Wii U. The Wii U was great and very innovative but didn't capture much market share and many great games didn't sell as well as they should have (Nintendo remade many in the switch, but classics like Nintendo land can't be supported on any other device easily).
If you don't like this you don't need to support Nintendo, there are plenty of games being released that don't require dedicated hardware. More are being released than you could ever expect to play in a lifetime.
The switch is still piggybacking off The WiiU and PSP.
They innovated greatly off the PSP with uhhh a second joystick! And uhh uhh motion controls, those have never been done before!
How by that logic was the PSP not simply an iterative improvement on the Game Boy?
Exactly, handheld consoles are hardly a new experience - nor is multiplayer for that matter
I think what the switch did best was having hardware that more or less works given the diminishing returns we're seeing in the processor space these days. It was the first time that a handheld could competently compete with a home console, and could merge the two into one. The Vita got close, but it wasn't there due to the hardware differential.
Exactly, so its not much more than they got lucky + theyre big enough to force developers to optimize aggressively for their hardware, hardly anything new there
Unfortunately, like it or not, capitalism requires competition to work. I say this as a communist that would happily upend the system if given an option.
But as it is exclusive are the only thing keeping console makers at bay. The last thing we want is one unified box for them to shove their crap out on. There would be zero incentive in making better games than the competitor.
What are you talking about? The pc is basically one big box that thousands of game makers only release their games on, but there's plenty of competition in the indie game scene and the steam marketplace. If anything, it's taken power away from large publishers because a lot of people would rather pay $30 for a passion filled well thought out game than $80 for the latest unoptimized garbage heap. Game makers would still have to compete if there were no console exclusives. In fact they'd have to compete more, because instead of only being able to afford one console and being stuck with whatever games are on it, people would have the option of whatever games they wanted.
I think at the moment it's pretty much agreed upon that the best games that are coming out right now are coming from First Party Studios, Sans Microsoft who's having their own fumbling right now.
They are outputting the best games and traditionally always have because there is more at stake in getting those games made. Without quality games being required to sell a piece of hardware, I don't think first-party games would be nearly as good as they are.
The switch has like two really good exclusives, and the rest are meh. Ps5 has a few good exclusives, but even Sony has started to realize that it's more profitable to release their games on PC as well. Meanwhile PC/cross-platform games have a ridiculous amount of amazing competing titles. For every exclusive that I wished I had a console to play, there's ten or twenty other games that I'd rather play on PC instead. Console exclusives should and likely will die fairly soon, especially now that consoles are basically just PCs, and with handheld like the steam deck making switch irrelevant.
Computer is just a category of device.