RolStoppable said:
potato_hamster said:
I also never said it was a serious problem. I also assume you believe I have a bias against Nintendo?
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Your bias against Nintendo is blatant.
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If you think I have a bias against Nintendo you've completely misread me. I'm frustrated with what I feel is repeated mis-steps Nintendo has made and continues to make in the past decade or so. That doesn't mean I have a bias against Nintendo, it just means I disagree with them. I grew up playing Nintendo consoles, own many of them, and continue to play them on a regular basis. Why do you think I have a bias against Nintendo? Because they were horrible to work with when I did so, when I couldn't stand how tedious it was to develop for the Wii or Wii U? Or because the Switch, from the concept to the design, to the hardware itself, to the launch of the Switch itself, I must be biased against them. That doesn't makes sense.
Do you know I actually got a switch and Zelda at release. Sat down with it in my living room, and just couldn't justify the price I just paid to essentially just play Zelda for the next six months, so I returned it instead. I realized I refuse to get any controllers, pro controllers, or adapters because of their money-grabing pricing scheme, which means pretty much every multi-player game is out for me right now. Hopefully Nintendo will change its tune and make decisions that I'm willing to pay them for, but until then, my money will go into their competitors.
See here's the problem. I feel I get that label because I refuse to hold Nintendo to a different standard than I hold any other video game development company to. I expect them to make games and/or hardware that I am excited to play, and they haven't done that in a long time. During that time they've also made a few business decisions that has caused me to lose trust in them to a point where I don't give them the beenfit of the doubt. But, I don't want them to fail. I don't want them to necessarily exit the console business either. I just want them to either a) make hardware that I actually want to buy or b) put their games on other peoples hardware that I already want to buy. I don't care which. I feel many of the people on this site label me anti-Nintendo because I'm not as big of a Nintendo fan as them. In reality, I'm attending the Nintendo party, I'm just not throwing back the contents of cup just because Nintendo hands it to me. There's too many people on this site that act like there's something wrong if you if you don't agree with pretty much everything Nintendo does. I'm not one of them, but that doesn't mean I'm not a Nintendo fan, and it definitely doesn't mean I'm anti-Nintendo.