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sc94597 said:
JackHandy said:

I know all this. I understand why they left the home console market. I understand why they basically released Switch Pro instead of something entirely brand new. I get it. But how does that change anything for a gamer? We're (as in Nintendo fans) still stuck with either owning one system that can't play certain games, or plays them worse, or spending over a thousand dollars to own both. We're still left with having to pay PS5 prices on a system with PS4 Pro specs, which sucks. And to make matters worse, they're gouging us (eighty dollars for something like Mario Kart? ridiculous). 

It all stinks, imo. All of it.

Given how well the Switch sold and high the attach-ratio was for games with an equivalent situation, is it possible that Nintendo is just specifically not catering to your personal preferences? 

Like I know people who paid scalper prices (up to $100) for Animal Crossing during the pandemic quarantine and you're suggesting an open-world racing game, a sequel to a game that sold almost 70 million copies, shouldn't be priced competitively with other high-selling titles?

What do you like about Nintendo, "as a Nintendo fan?" Do Nintendo games, like Mario Kart, have less value than GTA 6 in your opinion? 

If it was just me, the toxicity wouldn't be all over the place. There wouldn't be five million threads about it. Youtube wouldn't be infested with one negative video after another. People in the comments of those videos wouldn't be acting like rabid animals. If the price of everything was the correct price, meaning what the market considered fair, you simply wouldn't hear about it outside of a few people, and you'd have to search for them, because they would be buried under a sea of optimism and excitement similar to the internet-wide vibe after the S1 was close to launch.

But that isn't happening, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. This is not a small little band of trolls. This is a real problem. And as a Nintendo fan, I am not happy about it. They are the company of my childhood. I want to see them do well. And what they've done so far... is not well.