• PunchingWood@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I have barely ever bought anything for my Switch, only a couple of big titles for Zelda and Mario. It’s just too expensive and there are hardly ever any sales. And any third-party games I can get much cheaper on PC anyway.

    The pricing also made it really difficult to understand which games were newer, like I looked at Pokemon games and the much older ones were also still priced as if they were new.

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      2 hours ago

      Out of all the Nintendo consoles I have owned (everything except the n64) the switch is the one I have the fewest games for. I don’t often buy games at full price so I guess I don’t buy Nintendo titles anymore.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah but the Steam Deck came like 5 years after I bought the Switch lol

        Meanwhile I got a Gamesir G8 that I can use with my phone or tablet, and I can just remote to my PC or PS5 to play games.

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          5 hours ago

          Yes you are right but rumors say new switch release is coming and that’s why Nintendo aggressively targetting emulators.

          But steamdeck seem much better option

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            Emulators are like a hydra.

            Go ahead and take one down. There’s 100,000 still left to choose from, with a million more well on the way.

            And the ones I’ve already got still work juuuuuust fine.

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      I bought a switch because it was cheap and something for my nephew. I haven’t had a console since the xbox 360, so i had no idea what i missed. I thought i’ll buy mario kart, because who doesn’t like Mario kart. Game was 60 bucks. That seems steep i thought. When i opened up the game at home i realised super mario kart 8 isn’t a new title, it’s 10 years old. Start the game. Obe of the most pathetic attempts to sell children dlc’s that i have ever seen. Nice, so i bought disco elysium on sale, so i can play disco on the toilet or something. The nintendo has the biggest trouble running a point and click game. What even is that?

      The funniest part about this story is that i had some trouble and went to a switch forum and asked if people buy their games used and that that is highway robbery. I never seen people being so defensive about their video game system. I was being really nice despite thinking i bought the biggest piece of shit hardware from a piece of shit company out there. Everyone told me that 60 dollars is a good price for what you get and the dlc maps are fun.

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        2 hours ago

        The switch is underpowered for a lot of things but if it’s having trouble with Disco Elysium that’s probably more of a knock on whichever studio handled the port.

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        Don’t buy that dlc, it’s not worth 60€.

        Look into hacking your switch. It’s fun and teaches you things and you get free games out of it.

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      3 hours ago

      You should look into hacking your switch. If you can’t do it the easy way, there’s another way that’s not for the faint of heart, but I did it and have never spent a dollar more on games since.

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        2 hours ago

        V1 switch just needs a jig, simple. V2 switch picofly is affordable and accessible to diy with some soldering skills. With the OLED models they put one of the points underneath a BGA chip making that more difficult.

        But getting one installed from an actual shop will still only cost the price of a Nintendo game or two.