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  • magic_smoketo196rule
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    3 days ago

    If it has to be used as a defence then its probably not satire or performance art.

    No one thinks Erik from Commentiquette is like how he is on video in real life.


  • Yes but that group by in large won’t be buying a switch 2 for at least a couple of years. $450 per console plus $80 a game is brutal, especially if you’re buying for more than one kid.

    On the other hand a switch lite can be had for like $100 and used games aren’t too expensive either. So for the price of a switch 2 you could get all 3 kids a switch lite + a game. No fucking brainer.

    The sort of people who bought a switch at launch, after drinking Nintendo NX leaks like kool-aid, aren’t as impressed this time around. They’re also getting really pissed off at Nintendo’s behavior towards the emulation scene.

    Lots of those people, myself included, will be getting a steam deck. A lot of us will also probably end up buying a switch later on after sales/price drops/cheaper revisions. The same time most parents will be snatching them up.

    Lifetime sales won’t be affected nearly as hard, but I don’t know that the first year will be as big as the OG switch’s.

    That being said if M$ can figure out a good UI for windows portables W/ Xbox integration that might make things even harder for them.




  • I think to the “early adopter” crowd, the people like me who where huffing Nintendo “NX” leaks back in 2016, the more “core” audience of people from the ages of late teens to however old James Rolfe is now.

    Those people will probably buy a steam deck before a switch 2. There are a lot of them.

    Though not as many people as there are like my ex-sister-in-law and her new bf who put together have four kids. The Linux PC I built them to make sure their kids had a good puter is enough trouble, even with me to help. I don’t see them even considering them for their kids.

    That being said I also think many of those people will stick to their current console until they release a cost reduced “switch 2 lite”.

    Buying a new $450 console for every kids plus $80 games is fucking brutal and most parents won’t put up with that shit when a used switch lite is like $100-150.

    I see this hitting their initial sales a lot more than their sales over the new consoles life span, especially as people who chose steam deck, and the parents who waited, slowly grab a switch 2 during sales/price drops.






  • magic_smoketo196rule
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    7 days ago

    Same except instead of hating everything its literally because I’m not a dude and straight ladies saw it before I did lmao.

    You’d think the fact that every girl I’ve fucked around with has been queer in some way would’ve been a hint.