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Switch form factor was unique when it came out now with Steam Deck and its numerous clones do Nintendo have the same bargaining power with Switch 2? You can't play overpriced AA nintendo games on them but they are full fleged computers that make consoles look like milking contraptions.
Of course there is also the prevailing phenomenon of gamers shelling out regardless of the asking price. So logic goes out of the window.
Nintendo’s main market is parents who want a safe console for their kids with good parental controls. It’s still the cheapest (though not really “cheap” anymore…) and they really don’t give a fuck about Steam or know what it is.
Gamers act all incredulous that it’s not made for them - yeah no shit.
A lot more parents now know what Steam is. Is almost 25 years old, and has been popular for 10+ years.
That means 10 year old kids with 35-40 year old parents have parents that were in their teens and 20s when Steam got popular.
yeah i don't understand why so many people make this sort of assumption. i literally use my dad's steam account and have since i was 7 years old. a pretty substantial portion of g*mers are 40+, its not some edgelord youth thing anymore.
and maybe i'm just poor, but nintendo stuff hasn't been a cute little thing you throw at your kid to keep them distracted since the GBA. now their consoles cost a month's rent and no one can spare that right now.
For 6-10 year old kids Nintendo is still considered the "safe" company, but they ungated the shop so it's kinda moot other than parental controls (which everything else has too).
The Switch is less the kid console now and more a Mario Kart/Smash machine
I don't know about this. A higher priced system seems more aimed at enthusiasts than parents who can find cheaper ways to occupy their young (including older consoles and/or cellies and tablets). The expanded online chat options similarly aren't something that is selling systems to parents who don't have the time to vet every online stranger.
Nintendo sells a lot of games on nostalgia, which kids don't have much of to exploit.
I think Nintendo is still trying to sell to families, which includes millenial moms and dads who grew up on games and may have identified as "hardcore" back when they had the time
I’m not sure if Nintendo would make billions from enthusiasts and nostalgic parents. Kids today still know Super Mario and Yoshi very well
(I think they’re gonna leave Luigi out of the next smash though lol)
I'm just saying that sort of pricing is beyond "kid's toy." It's a lot to ask a parent to spend
Yeah but video games have always been a big ask.
$171 (in 2025 money) for a SNES game in 1991.
$467.25 (in 2025 money) for the SNES console; although that included a game.
It just seems fucked because they got cheap for a while. Really the problem is inflation - what I do agree on is that Nintendo is gonna see a slowdown if they can’t offer some relief.