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JackHandy said:
sc94597 said:

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.

We'll of course see soon enough in a few months when the thing is on sale, but I think you have a strong recency bias here. In other threads in this topic, you seemed to have ignored the fact that the original Switch had many of the same criticisms, if not worse. Many people were speculating Nintendo would go third party with the Switch announcement, and it wasn't a few voices, it was mainstream game journalists and analysts.

The internet is not a representative sample of the wider consumer base of the video game industry.