• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    33 minutes ago

    My mother bought me an NES when I was a child, and shortly after Nintendo lowered the price and they voluntarily refunded her the difference.

    She told me years later that secured her as a Nintendo customer for my games for life.

    This greed is disgusting, but more than anything it’s depressing.

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    1 hour ago

    Nintendo being anti-consumer is no surprise, but it’s nice to see someone tried to hold them to account.

    So glad I personally didn’t buy a Switch 2.

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    2 hours ago

    Now that Nintendo greed is fully out in the open I hope a lot of their fans leave. The relationship should be symbiotic, not parasitic.

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      2 hours ago

      They want to eat their cake, and have it to. Will capitalism benefit the capitalists like it does 99.99% of the time? You bet your sweet ass it will!

      99.99% of the time, it works every time!

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      1 hour ago

      Likewise. The Switch 2 is a very nice handheld, but it doesn’t hold a candle to having a never-locked-down x86 PC in your hands.

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      1 hour ago

      the only console outside of my Steam Deck that i still occasionally use is my old Nintendo DS, because of it’s small form factor and my seemingly undying M3 card lol

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        Back when Nintendo made good consoles. My 3DS has been my daily driver since 2012, and so far only needed to replace the thumbstick because the rubber degraded. It’s a little tank and I love it.

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    5 hours ago

    I never played more Nintendo games in a year and I didn‘t pay for a single one!

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    5 hours ago

    The alternative being… not paying and still getting it, Nintendo??

    Or would you rather no one buy or play games from you? I stopped a long time ago.

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      If only it were so. Unfortunately prices were jacked up worldwide to compensate. If only the Americans were paying the tarrif it would have been an extra $50-100 for the console in the U.S. easy.

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    4 hours ago

    just my 2 cents: Nintendo did not raised the tariffs… and they neither profited on them…