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[JackHandy]

firebush03 said:

JackHandy said:

This is the way the industry has always gone. Company A are underdogs, goes full-on consumer-friendly mode with affordable pricing etc until they are now market leader, then suddenly raise prices and become anti-consumer until the consumer stops buying their products, then reverts magically back to original approach... rinse and repeat. We've seen this from all three of them, and it gets tiring. You'd think they'd figure this stuff out but nope.

Consumer friendly?? Since when was Nintendo ever consumer friendly relative to today’s Nintendo? Switch was the most expensive gaming device until November 2020, and they have an extensive history of rereleasing old games for inflated prices. If anything, they’re more consumer friendly now than ever, selling an on-the-go home console well below the competition AND offering their entire NES through GCN catalogue at only $50/year.

The Gameboy, N64, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, DS, Wii and Wii-U were all affordable at launch. The Wii had free online play, an a la carte system for their vintage games (no subscription needed), affordable accessories and controllers, and the Wii-U had the same. Games were affordable, as well.

That's all changed.

So really, the only four times someone could point to them as being less consumer-friendly is the NES, SNES, launch 3DS, and mid-Switch to Switch 2... and what do all of those have in common?