• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      May I introduce you to their last launch day tech demo… 1-2 Switch?

      Yeah. You forgot about $60 launch day tech demo 1-2 Switch, didn’t you?

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        The only reason they sold any was because the console released with like one game, which seems to be the same strategy this time around too.

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    Makes sense, but if it’s only $10 it should just be free. $10 isn’t worth the bad PR and they should want this tour thing in as many hands as possible.

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    So it’s a $10 tutorial? Don’t care how expansive and cool it is, that’s just fucked. The project scope should’ve been adjusted to make sure it would be free.

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      Exactly! What sort of logic are they even trying to apply there? Basically saying “We put a lot of time into our tech demo, and it came out better than expected, so we’re going to charge for it!”

      That’s just crazy.

      The whole principle is that the intro experience is supposed to be free. It exists to get people pumped about the cool new thing they just bought and excited to play with it.

      I guess Nintendo decided that - since you already bought the console - they don’t especially care if you are pumped or not. They already got your money.

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      Nintendo is being exclusively run by suits now. The era of a game company built by gamers is over.

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        You’re thinking iwata, but that was a brief blip on Nintendo history. The OG CEO was a straight up suit. The man had no interest in videogames, only business. Which is why they practically had a monopoly over their hardware in the 80s and 90s.

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    1 year ago

    I think this money grab wouldn’t have gotten as much run in the media if it hadn’t been front and center in the Direct. Feels like a misstep, but then, so does €90 Mario Kart…

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    For 10 bucks, it better have a button combination that unlocks Mario Paint 2.

    I haven’t seen a damn thing in the marketing that justifies it being anything other than free. If it’s worth 10 bucks, you better show that shit off. The audacity to call it “welcome tour” with a $10 price tag is wild

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    1 year ago

    Damn, Nintendo is such a crap company… What the heck is wrong with them?

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    “Well, you see, if we give away anything for free, it has to be your organs! Our law whor… I mean lawyers cannot afford to be some of the worst people on Earth unless we make things so expensive you have to sell all your organs on the black market!” ~ Them, probably