With Nintendo Switch 2 just one week from its official full reveal, this year's annual GDC was buzzing with talk around its launch.
    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Agreed, but it is pretty important news for our hobby, and third party titles are tied up in its marketing campaign.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        5 days ago

        They actively harm the emulation scene, despite themselves being responsible for making it necessary. They don’t want to make their old games available for sale where those potential customers are; they want you to buy their hardware and rent those old games from them in perpetuity. We’re also now at a point, at least temporarily, where their latest games often play better if you emulate them than play them in the only way Nintendo makes them available legally, so buying games and playing them “the right way” is worse. Then there’s the whole thing where they actively stand in the way of competitive Super Smash Bros.

        • jaaake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 days ago

          This is all the same point.

          I agree with you, but they also continue to release more interesting and innovative games than most every other first party studio.

          • BreakerSwitch@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 hours ago

            Then maybe it’s worth bringing up their recent behavior as a patent troll. Regardless of what you think of palworld, nintendo is suing them based on patents that were filed AFTER palworld was announced, or even released in some cases, and has gone on to follow the patent troll playbook beat for beat. Recently they’ve started putting in more baffling patents as ammo against companies seen as threats, such as patenting squeenix’s “HD2D” art style, or, in an extreme, but recent example, patenting “a character standing on top of a vehicle and moving with that vehicle”

          • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            5 days ago

            Except for Smash Bros., yes, but they created a really shitty vicious cycle. I don’t care if it’s first or third party; I’m not giving Nintendo any more of my money.

  • missingno@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Are they saying third-parties don’t even have devkits yet? That’s a bizarre way to do a launch plan.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Are they saying third-parties don’t even have devkits yet? That’s a bizarre way to do a launch plan.

      The console will be out of stock for at least 6 months anyway.

    • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Maybe they are doing it due to how similar gen1 and 2 are to develop on. Gen2 just gets faster processing power. Maybe Nintendo told the devs target 30 fps on gen1 and we will almost guarantee 60 on gen 2. Or something to that effect.