Nintendo Is "Evolving" Into An Entertainment Company, According To Doug Bowser
Nintendo Is "Evolving" Into An Entertainment Company, According To Doug Bowser
"With gaming as a nucleus of the overall business model"
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Nintendo hasn't even gotten a hold of being a game company in 2023. Maybe they should focus on catching up, as the switch has stagnated and the eshop is filled with trash
Honestly I think Nintendo are killing it in 2023. I loved TotK and Pikmin 4, and have high hopes for Mario Wonder and the SMRPG remake. Yeah the switch is aging out, but it's no big secret that a Switch 2 is deep in development and probably coming next year.
I hadn't touched my switch in about 6 months before TOTK came out and haven't touched it since I finished it. I notice I have been using my switch about as much as I used my Wii U. It's more of a dedicated Mario Kart machine that I occasionally use for a AAA Nintendo game like Zelda or Mario, but it's mostly just there for when I have friends over and we want to Mario Kart
Sure. I absolutely use my Steam Deck more than my Switch. But still, my favorite releases this year have been Nintendo games (although I hear good things about Balder's Gate 3).
Your anecdotal experience doesn't really seem to match up with sales numbers.
Speaking personally, I go stretches not playing the Switch and then months where I play nothing else. There are a zillion great games for it, and if they don't interest you that's more about your interests than the Switch itself.
Every game store is filled with trash though.
yeah, but not like the eshop. the eshop is a dumpster fire of a store. it's what steam used to be before valve tried to build automatic curation systems. the eshop is 100x worse than every other game store available today. I don't even look at it because I know that I can't find anything interesting between all the crap
I can 100% look at other stores, i just look through the new releases on my playstation every few months and generally find something i want
I have not owned a console in a decade or so, i only play on PC. I bought a switch for my nephew to play around when he visits. I literally only ever held a switch once and i didn't really know what to expect. I like a lot of the hardware part. Like controllers are super easy to pair, they even show up in the right colour, i like how you can use them in different ways. Docking and undocking, handheld mode, all very cool. But oh my, the eshop is a nightmare. The nintendo account thing took me a while until it worked for unknown reasons. What i absolutely despise tho is that i bought mario kart and i paid full price for that game that came out in 2014. It had dlc tracks (that was expected i guess) and they just show up as normal tracks with a slightly different symbol. These assholes know exactly what they are doing. Kids keep pressing these tracks until the parents spend 25 or so more bucks for some more tracks on a game from 2014 that still costs full price.
I assume they do that with smash as well an all of these games. I loved nintendo when i grew up, like a lot. But now i really just regret that i gave them money.