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Well yes, if you are paying Nintendo to rent games you already own physical copies of.
You would've been more correct to just stop after "paying Nintendo". Giving them money is bad, period.
Let them fade into obsolescence.
I agree with you, but I also recognize that saying that to someone that clearly enjoys Nintendo products would be incredibly mean. So while I also imagine what I said could be seen as mean, it is far less mean IMO than just blanket dropping the entire company.
Like, I used to love Nintendo. But when Iwata died and Fils-Aime left NoA, Nintendo changed for the absolute worst. I could not hate Nintendo more, actually. Still, I try to not be super mean to most people that like Nintendo products.
Not sure how that's mean.
If I said "you're a stupid idiot to give them money" then sure. Saying it's a bad idea isn't mean.
I feel the same way - I absolutely loathe current Nintendo's business practices, but I can't deny they make fantastic games. So if someone can afford their premium prices, more power to them. I'll be interested to see how Nintendo does this gen since they're pricing out the casual market that's made them successful in the past.
It is a really simple mod to make. Any modder could do it, most likely, using original controllers even- the only thing stopping it is Nintendo themselves and their copyright. Using a 2.4ghz connection would be much better than Bluetooth as well. That's something Nintendo would have to implement into the console most likely, although I can see that being doable.
Plus, their controllers are only really "good" for nostalgia reasons. They've been improved on in every way by others.
IMO they haven't done anything good for the industry at all lately. I'm not saying the other consoles have either, I think they're all shit. Mainly because of exclusives. Fuck that entire concept at it's very core.
Hardware exclusives, OS exclusives, etc are all bad.
Nintendo is going the extra shitty mile with the way they handle copyright in particular, but the entire console industry is corrupt.
If there is a machine with enough computing power to run a piece of software, it should be able to do it, period. That is the technological ideal that should be aimed at. Not the "how much can I charge for the ability to play this game" idea.
The Switch never went down in price after 8 years and neither did the games. I don't think that's happening until Nintendo makes a console that can't run Switch 2 games.
That's true.