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That's not reverse racism. That's the bigotry of low expectations.



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Not really when Nintendo gamers will unconditionally buy games from Nintendo ...

Very few 3rd party games succeed on Nintendo and it has become even more true over the past years ...

Now I wonder if I'm supposed to even take this thread seriously when third parties happened to be classified as a 'race' ... (I'd liken Nintendo gamers relationship to that of third parties much like between confederate america and it's slaves)



Haha, A+ for creativity..

Although I know it's a joke, I still despise the term "reverse racism." You're either racist (ie, prejudice against someone because of their race), or you're not. 

In regards to the subject, it's probably true there was a time I was actually more forgiving towards third parties on Nintendo hardware simply because I wanted to support them. That's not to say I'd shell out for BAD games, though a game I considered to be an 8 or even 7/10 I certainly wouldn't hesitate to buy at times, whereas Nintendo's titles I often ONLY went for the very best (the big Mario/Zelda title, Smash Bros, etc). I bought a TON of games in hindsight I probably wouldn't today and wouldn't have if Nintendo made them - Resident Evil 0, The Conduit, Mad World, Eternal Darkness (though this actually turned out to be one of my favorite Gamecube games to this day), Zack and Wiki, Rune Factory Wii, Tales Wii, Super Monkey Ball, Wonderful 101, etc etc..

Nowadays I've becoming a lot more conservative in my gaming purchases in general, and even with all of the cheap indie titles on Switch for instance, I only shell out for the ones that REALLY stand out - Steamworld Dig, Binding of Isaac, etc. A game like Doom for Switch I might have bought 12-15 years ago but these days I say screw it, I can't afford to keep doing that - and many third parties are always going to believe their games won't sell on Nintendo hardware regardless of what I do. Hell I've probably bought several DOZENS of third parties on Nintendo hardware over the years but again, Nintendo gamers will ALWAYS have the stigma of ignoring third parties and blindly lapping up all Nintendo stuff anyways so the hell with it. Now I judge games on completely equal footing. I'm an equal opportunity gamer! 

Though, I do plan on rebuying Skyrim, and also picking up Rocket League, Octopath Traveller, Toe Jam and Earl, and Payday 2 :P



 

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Slarvax said:
Sure. I'm gonna buy Doom on the Switch because I want to support Bethesda, even though I could get a better game on my laptop for a cheaper price.

I'm gonna buy Doom on my Switch because I want to support the Switch as a platform and because playing on the go is awesome!



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Maybe Switch owners are starved for first party games, they're buying 3rd party while they wait?



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fordy said:
Maybe Switch owners are starved for first party games, they're buying 3rd party while they wait?

We're talking about 2017 Switch, not 2014 PS4



As the discrimination isn't made based on race it isn't racism. It is companyism. Also the term reverse racism is dubious, as favoring one group means really discriminating the others. So it's just plain discrimination and racism.

And we all learned back in '08/'09, that some random posts on the internet are irrelevant. It's sales which count. Looking at these I can see, that more polished Nintendo-games sell more than bug-riddled third-party. That means someone with low tolerance to glitches (aka Rol) only buys Nintendo, while someone with middle glitch-tolerance (aka Mnementh) buys both Nintendo and some 3rd-party.

What we also can conclude from sales numbers, is that people may not apply companyism (or reverse companyism), but they apply mean genreism. How in hell can FIFA sell more than Dragon Age (example chosen to avoid the company-marker, and polish and series-fatigue should be in favor of Dragon Age). The same for Mario Kart and Xenoblade. The losing games don't have less polish and looking at content they even offer more than the winning games. The only explanation is that the consumers at large have a massively unfair bias towards Sports games.



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Shaunodon said:
fordy said:
Maybe Switch owners are starved for first party games, they're buying 3rd party while they wait?

We're talking about 2017 Switch, not 2014 PS4

ouch :)



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10 years greatest game event!

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Shaunodon said:
fordy said:
Maybe Switch owners are starved for first party games, they're buying 3rd party while they wait?

We're talking about 2017 Switch, not 2014 PS4

You disagree that there's not enough first party titles on Switch?



fordy said:
Shaunodon said:

We're talking about 2017 Switch, not 2014 PS4

You disagree that there's not enough first party titles on Switch?

Is that a serious question?

I don't know how many systems you've tracked in their first year, but if you think the Switch is underdelivering I'd sure like to know why.