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Wiggy

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Oct 23, 2015
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Switch 2 by itself is $450. Switch 2 + new MarioKart is $500.

MarioKart by itself is gonna be (I think) $80. Seems like normal game price will be $70 with "special" & high end games being $80-90.

That's fucking crazy.
 

Wiggy

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Haven't watched any of them yet, but multiple video game channels have new videos out today saying that apparently pre-orders are being delayed and prices might go up even more.

Dang.
 

vad

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Jun 24, 2022
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They are smoking crack selling it at that price.

I've had the switch lite for years. Used it for a good 20 hours. Now it sits.

If you want to game get a computer. These consoles have been made nearly irrelevant.
 

Wiggy

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If you want to game get a computer. These consoles have been made nearly irrelevant.
It seems like the biggest reason to get a console these days would be the exclusives - especially considering the prices of many consoles, and because handheld PCs are becoming so prevalent.

Xbox exclusives are dang near not a thing anymore, and they're going above & beyond to put Xbox games on pretty much any device.

And big AAA games seem to shit the bed more often than not, not to mention so many not being exclusive, anyway.
 

vad

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It seems like the biggest reason to get a console these days would be the exclusives - especially considering the prices of many consoles, and because handheld PCs are becoming so prevalent.

Xbox exclusives are dang near not a thing anymore, and they're going above & beyond to put Xbox games on pretty much any device.

And big AAA games seem to shit the bed more often than not, not to mention so many not being exclusive, anyway.
Exclusives are dead. No one had any worth the entire system this gen.
 

Wiggy

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Exclusives are dead. No one had any worth the entire system this gen.
I'll admit I haven't had a system since PS3, though Micro-Wiggy (my granddaughter) has a Switch. I still enjoy video game content though, so I watch news & rumors vids, and will sometimes watch walkthrough videos of games I'm interested in & such.

Back when I got my PS3, I debated *hard* between that and Xbox 360 because of the games on each. Plus I'd been a PSone and PS2 guy. But both had a ton of great games.

You could look up games back in the day & always find a ton of cool-looking stuff that even if you weren't excited for it because you didn't know about it, you would totally dig checking it out.

Really doesn't seem that way now.

Games are seriously over-inflated, take forever to come out, cost hundreds of $millions, and more. Many of gone the way of Hollyweird in that they focus on the overly vocal minority (*cough, cough, Assassin's Creed, cough*).

Worse yet, how many are just remakes, remasters, etc? Hell, how many time are they gonna put out FFVII or Last of Us?

Feels like modern gaming wouldn't necessarily be "dead", but enormously smaller if it wasn't for indy titles.

Again, I'm just an observer at this point, and I never got into PC gaming, so I can't comment on that. But as far as consoles go, I feel like shit peaked PS2/PS3 era.
 

Greenbean

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Nov 14, 2015
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Back when you didn't have to download a game for an hour, then give them all of your personal info to play :p

Part of me is like, that's just because we were younger and enjoyed gaming more back then, but I'm struggling to find a better era.
 

Wiggy

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Back when you didn't have to download a game for an hour, then give them all of your personal info to play :p

Part of me is like, that's just because we were younger and enjoyed gaming more back then, but I'm struggling to find a better era.
Back when you bought a game and it was...now stick with me here, as this is a crazy idea...actually a finished product, ready to play, not requiring a bunch of upcoming patches & fixes just to make sure it works.
 

kvr28

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Nov 22, 2015
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Back when you bought a game and it was...now stick with me here, as this is a crazy idea...actually a finished product, ready to play, not requiring a bunch of upcoming patches & fixes just to make sure it works.
This whole beta launch shit is insane.
 

fob

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Aug 13, 2024
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They are smoking crack selling it at that price.

I've had the switch lite for years. Used it for a good 20 hours. Now it sits.

If you want to game get a computer. These consoles have been made nearly irrelevant.
The steam deck or os machine looks good