Bots attempting to manipulate humans by impersonating trauma counselors or rape survivors isn’t useful. It’s dangerous.

I don’t know why you’re complaining about downvotes in response to me, I don’t even have vote scores enabled. But in general I agree with you, I think the only console I got at launch was the Wii and that was a Christmas gift when I was still living with my parents so I didn’t spend any of my own money. It was also because Twilight Princess was a launch title and I didn’t own a GameCube so I was yet to play it (Zelda is my favourite Nintendo series so that made it a worthwhile purchase at launch).

Okay, so you’re asking what the point is in buying it at launch…in which case I’d agree. The same could be said for many consoles throughout history, and particularly for Nintendo consoles which are always primarily about the games.

What’s the point of the Switch 2? It seems like it’ll only have a small handful of exclusives that’ll cost maybe $1,000… that seems crazy expensive for like.4 games.

The “point” is that more exclusive games will be developed for it over its lifetime, which will last a lot longer than the year of release. You can point to many consoles throughout history and ask “wHaTs tHe PoInT???” based on their launch titles.

Weird, I don’t remember that being in the article when I read it.

It’s from a different article, that’s why I linked it at the end of the quote.

is there precedent for Nintendo going after people who sell Jailbroken devices without copyrighted content on them?

Not that I’m aware of. Companies are generally much more concerned about distribution rather than usage, as the former has greater potential to affect them financially. That’s why they try to shut down modding projects, go after re-sellers, threaten people who share (seed/host) pirated content, etc. It’s much more efficient than trying to target individual users one-by-one. In adjacent industries, like the film and music industries, companies target torrent site owners and seeders rather than people who only download pirated content. The definitions and legal precedents around copyright law in particular countries can also make it difficult for companies to go after individual users. Basically every single case I have seen in the decades I’ve been following this stuff involved people who were trying to make money or distribute publically.

HMD are doing everything better than fair phone now with their latest models.

How much are the factory workers paid? Where are the raw materials sourced? What percentage is recycled? What work is HMD doing to change the industry?

Better to get an older phone and hold onto it.

That’s sort of how they’ve marketed their phones over the years. Fairphone exists as a fairer alternative to brand new phones, but the company has always been quite clear that the most environmentally friendly phone you have is your current one and that you should keep it for as long as realistically possible.

Do you really think they’ll make one?

im still not sure the whole business thing is a just a greenwashing scam or not.

What does “greenwashing” actually mean to you? None of your criticisms are related to the environment.

You don’t need to explain, they are clearly retarded. Literally made a sarcastic joke without using /s, then got confused because an obviously sarcastic reply that was riffing off their joke didn’t use /s.

The convicted man, identified as 58-year-old transportation businessman Fumihiro Otobe, was implicated in violating Nintendo’s trademark rights for soldering modchips to secondhand Switch motherboards and peddling them online for roughly $195 USD. The modified consoles are reported to have been bundled with 27 pirated games, but it’s unclear how many devices Otobe sold before being caught. Polygon (15/04/25)

As always, if you don’t try to make money from, and/or distribute, pirated content then you have nothing to worry about. You haven’t lost anything, you will still be able to modify your own Switch.

I have scores disabled so I wasn’t aware that I was being mass downvoted, but I think it only further validates my point that Lemmy is full of left-wingers who have fled here so they can have an echo chamber safe space where their opinions and behaviours are never questioned. It’s quite sad how easily triggered people are, they have a complete existential crisis if you even try to point them in the direction of reality.

Everyone bases their opinion off that one out-of-context tweet, but if you actually take the time to evaluate the context you’ll find it’s extremely unlikely that Andy Yen (Proton CEO) is a “Trump supporter”. At worst, he is a rationalist who wants to continue Proton’s work with the US administration regardless of who is president, rather than having a tantrum and trying to virtue signal boycott and achieve nothing for 4+ years. Unfortunately a lot of people on the left would rather circlejerk in their online cope chambers like Lemmy and Bluesky rather than actually engage with reality.

Maybe they finished the game lol

“I…am Steve (Jobs).”

It gets even worse if you separate users by age groups. Younger people overwhelmingly go for iPhones.

Prices will come down if people wait. I know today’s FOMO gamers have a hard time understanding this but no one is entitled to “accessible” pricing. Accept Nintendo’s pricing or wait for a better deal. Or you can have a tantrum and boycott, whatever.

You can also save a lot of money buying physical. New physical copies can have much bigger sales than their digital counterparts and secondhand games can be cheaper again. Big titles like Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe cost me less than AU $40. Almost all of my physical library is secondhand, I’ve saved a lot of money buying that way (which I then made up for with my eShop pile of shame).

People are too worked up over the pricing, which is not a particularly big deal and was to be expected if you weren’t living under a rock for the last few years, and not worked up enough over the apparent shift away from physical game cards. As usual, gamers are spending all their time and energy chasing completely the wrong issues.

Not necessarily, we earn more than Americans and are generally much wealthier.