Do you find you usually agree or disagree with the market?

[Jumpin]

For hardware, more often than not. Probably the reverse for software (much less often).

I liked the Vita and 3DS quite a lot, one did moderately well, the other failed. But my enjoyment of Nintendo’s home consoles more or less maps onto how well they did during their generation relative to the circumstances (so SNES didn’t sell as much as NES in total, but it did feel like it built on the popularity because it was selling more units on average across a much shorter generation). For sure, my interest in Nintendo declined drastically during the N64 era and came back during the DS and Wii era…and while the Wii U wasn’t much on my radar, I played so much Wii and Virtual Console classics that it didn’t get to the point where my interest in Nintendo really dropped off that much (but I did play a lot more Mac/mobile that generation, and much less so since the Switch).

For software, I’m more of a niche gamer, so I’d say 75% of the time, not. I still like some of the bigger hitters: modern Zelda, Mario Kart, Cyberpunk, Witcher, Animal Crossing, and motion games, but I’m also very much into indie and small studio retro remasters & remakes, RPGs, visual novels, strategy, and sandbox titles that very few people play, and that’s the bulk of what I do…

I’m also intrigued by VR but have yet to get into it. I did enjoy the AR push on mobile a few years ago, while it lasted… I think it mostly died when Coronavirus hit.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 28 July 2026