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spoilerThe Switch beat the PS2 in the US, still ~15 million shy to overtake it globally

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part to make it the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

I’m getting ordering a steam deck with Christmas money when I get home

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

How about in the civilised world, any stats for that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Any examples of places that are bastions of civilized world?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Places that appreciate the trebuchet’s superiority

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Your ancestors destroyed the civilized world when they sacked Rome, hun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Rome was a cesspit of corruption and debauchery long before the empire was sacked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

That's what civilization is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

Which time?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

With how close the announcement seems to be, unless the Switch 2 is a WiiU style failure, the Switch may well never overtake the PS2 globally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Not all markets will jump immediately to the newest consoles. Brazil for example is lagging behind greatly when it comes to video game console due to high taxes and poor wages. PS2 and PS3 are still popular there. Even Sega Genesis was sold in Brazil up until recently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

I hope they don't because I refuse to acknowledge anything dethroning the PS2 for global sales.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Ig it depends on how close Switch 2 is to the original switch and if Nintendo decides to group them together in their reporting numbers like they do for the DS all the way up until the 3DS.

I think if there are no "Switch 2 cartridges" and it's all just Switch Cartridges, with just Cartridges that need a Switch 2 to "unlock full performance" it'll probably be grouped the same. That's how it was with the DS, all DSs could play all DS cartridges with just limited performance or missing features (e.g. a DSi "enhanced" game would work for the most part on a DS Lite). Up until the 3DS, at that point the cartridge format changed and only the 3DS could play 3DS carts and thus Nintendo breaks it away into its own sales numbers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

I'm getting "Error removing spoiler". What's it say?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

On mbin I just get an empty spoiler titled "Details". If I check on Lemmy it's not even there. Not sure what OP did there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

On voyager app it just displays the whole string of text.. it usually handles spoilers fine.. super weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sync user? I had the same issue. I hit reply to see it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Yep, Sync on Android

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Weird I get the same error

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sync doesn't support the spoiler markup fully yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

What could possibly be the differentiating factor between when it works and when it doesn't? This is a text only kind of issue and this is the first time I've ever seen it happen.

I'm not a super frequent visitor to spoiler'd content, but I've seen it often enough to know it normally works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

The Switch has passed PS2 sales in the US and is ~15 million units shy of overtaking it globally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

The Switch beat the PS2 in the US, still ~15 million shy to overtake it globally

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And it doesn't even play DVDs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Neither Netflix.

Still surprised.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

Or Roblox....fucking weird decisions Nintendo makes. Not a complaint.