Why Nintendo Switch Dominated This Generation
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Why is Switch king this generation?
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- good system for a fair price
- unique features
- good exclusive games
- fun to collect
- good indie and 3rd party support
- dev costs kept in check
- no mass layoffs/firings
- good release cadence/schedule
- hype announcement cycles
So many games to the point my backlog dates years back because its so many good games.
Things got so many games, I stress out trying to keep up with all of them! I still haven't played a lot of them!
And then people hate Nintendo for their online service costing a monthly subscription even though other gaming companies are doing the same thing and Nintendo is still giving you a bunch of extra stuff.
@NicholasMolinaro-en9dm And other companies can't offer legacy classics because they only recently established themselves in the late 90s/early 2000's. Also they charge WAY more for MONTHLY subscriptions compared to Nintendo's YEARLY ones.
@@Sinistar1983 Heh, add to that with the video games from the 2nd generation consoles up into the present, and including games you cannot access anymore...Yeah, it would take a dragon's lifetime to even get through ALL of the games you wish to play.
In the console market EXCLUSIVES are king. One of the big heads at Nintendo once said _"consoles are boring boxes nobody wants to buy, games are the reason why they buy them"_
It’s because they have Funky Mode! None can compare to Funky Kong
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Can we talk about how it feels that Nintendo has largely tried to listen to fans this generation?
Breath of the Wild is a reaction to Skyward Sword feedback.
Super Mario Party and Mario Party Superstars is a reaction to the negative feedback of Mario Party 9 & 10.
Three Houses is a reaction towards the negative feedback on Fates.
Mario Wonder is a reaction to the staleness of New Super Mario.
Thousand Year Door feels like a reaction to fan outcry over the recent games.
I feel there are more examples, but you get the idea.
The drought during Wii U taught Nintendo to release a strong game almost every quarter to maintain momentum.
I just feel like Nintendo is trying to listen to and respond to fan feedback. Which, I think is key to their success this generation. That’s just my take.
I don't disagree but this isn't really something that is exclusive to the Switch; this happens so often that it's more of an anomaly when it doesn't happen. Also all of this is pretty subjective except for Breath of the Wild which they made a very clear statement to break series conventions it may not actually be that big of a difference for some people and a lot of it is probably more incidental than intentional.
Don’t forget tears of the kingdom
@@GAHAHAHHThose are just a tiny sample of all of the times Nintendo has really tried to listen this generation, and they’re far from subjective. Especially thousand year door.
What was Fire Emblem Engage then because that was at least 2 steps back from Three Houses.
Well they had to listen because the Wii U failed and they needed to recoup plus selling the Switch. They don't do this altruistically
Also the majority of Switch games I feel lack "ambition". They cater to casuals with open world Odyssey or BoTW, remakes and remasters other games they don't allow us to have access anymore (on top of heavy crackdown on rom sites and emulations)
Nintendo during the Switch era is successful but something about them was lost once Iwata passed away and Reggie left
Nintendo is a company that survives off of the success of their hits. They're all exclusive and highly polished.
I feel like PS and Xbox are experiencing the same problem as nintendo did with the WiiU. They werent prepared for the hardware they're developing for, they went right into the generation without a plan forward and probably didnt consider how detailed and big in scope the worlds would be, how time consuming making all these nuance face and movements animations would be and overall how big the teams got, making it harder to coordinate and prohibitely expensive ganes overall would get.
Nintendo made the right call in the wii era, staying one or one and a half generations behind for hardware to get cheaper while also making games focusing on art style and gameplay instead of the amount of triangles, the way blades of grass should move or how many baskets and hay should be on any given scene.
I still believe that theres a place for these hyper realistic games and someone has to push forward, no denying that, but i feel we can all agree that games are too realistic, too big and too expensive for their own good, that just led to companies needing to implement predatory practices to make a profit while also turning the audience on said companies.
Keeping games cheap makes developers work regular hours, have stable jobs, Nintendo stays mostly out of predatory practices while also having a MOSTLY good image (im talking about their ninjas) towards its users.
I really hope nintendo keeps staying behind the competition and the next console stays in good health for 10 years, I don't care at all about realistic graphics if it comes with all those drawbacks i listed before.
Nintendo is a jerk in terms of copyright and fan creations.
However, as you said,they're pretty good to workers. They retain 98% of their employees.
And the ninjas aren’t even an entirely bad thing, nintendo just punishes with unfair severity rather than unfairly to begin with
I genuinely couldn't ever wrap my head around something like Elden Ring or other massive, hyper realistic games that are being pushed these days. They're just too overwhelming and too much to learn.
With something like Super Mario Odyssey, it's way more inviting and you don't need to learn every game mechanic to have fun and beat the game.
@@mjdxp5688 I think there's space for games like Elden Ring, and heavy narrative games like the ones Naughty Dog does; however, they have exhausted this kind of games, being that they're so time consuming, SUPER expensive, and many of them are launched incomplete or buggy. This has made these games unsustainable and making many people feel like they're not getting fun out of games anymore.
@@danielmunoz1275 fan creations i can understand tho
I'm thinking you weren't following the FTC court case very closely when they sued to block the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger. Microsoft did pull the "last place in a three man race" card to help get it to go through. They also had to agree to put Call of Duty on other platforms for 10 years to sweeten the deal.
As a longtime owner of Sony consoles, I like the idea of timed exclusives: reward console owners with first dibs on your game but then eventually release the game onto other consoles. Nintendo doesn't really need to do this because many gamers will buy their console plus one of the others (or upgrade their PC) each generation. Given the quality of their games and the hardware being so intertwined with the games, though, I see no reason for Nintendo to release content for other platforms, save for the occasional mobile game.
Also, laying off devs and dismantling countless studios has been a trainwreck. Nintendo succeeds, in part, because they value their employees and dev teams.
Weird considering after the PS2, I haven't bothered to go back to Sony any time soon. And after the Nintendo Wii, I had no interest in buying consoles anymore, thus I just went to PC. Xbox 360 would be the last console I would ever play on until I headed to PC in 2014/2015...And never looked back.
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Truly, the Switch is the best console
Games like Pokémon Legend: Arceus, Fire Emblem: Three House, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Wonder, and Super Smash Bros Ultimate are one best ones .
Now if only we get proper port of the Kingdom Hearts series. Than the Switch would be perfect
The Switch has games. That's mainly it.
A lot of system selling Playstation and Xbox exclusives have either come to pc, or they came out during the Wii U era.
Sidenote but damn, i miss when Playstation was a mostly Japanese entity with a lot of Japanese studios. I vibed way more with their exclusives when they had stuff like Gravity Rush and Bloodborne.
The problem aren't PS4 and Xbox One. The problem is that 9th gen was POINTLESS.
If you want a gaming PC get a PC to play 120fps 4K etc. PS4 to this date has enough processing power for any developer that doesn't need to make you see the porus and nose hair of your first person character model. Most indies and smaller titles have enough power. The magical SSD was a lie and a PS4 could run Rift Apart at mid graphics 1080p
Why they keep the 8th gen alive? Because it's still usable and unless you're a graphics SNOB. Gaming REALISM peaked in 8th gen. RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 is a PS4 and XB One game. 9th gen just exists to COMPETE against PCs.
I really hope Nintendo can keep the momentum with the switch 2! The future seems bright for them and I’m excited already.
I don't think naming it Switch 2 is a good idea since it would probably lead to a Wii U repeat - a very good console but unfortunate marketing.
I agree, but as it has no official name yet people tend to call it Switch 2.
Nintendo Switch has games and is portable
And
A PC is a much better investment for the same purpose as a PS5 or XBox
Funny that you mention the whole FTC situation between Sony and Microsoft, because if I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure one of the judges straight up told Sony to "be more like Nintendo, and make more games" or something along those lines. The fact that Microsoft and Sony have to buy companies to gain more IPs is honestly kinda sad, because both companies own a bunch of franchises that they just don't want to continue for some reason. They could easily have smaller teams work on smaller budget titles, but they keep laying off good employees, and keeping the money that should go towards game development into the CEOs' pockets. Like sure, Nintendo also has a few dormant IPs, but at least they still put out a good handful of FIRST PARTY games yearly.
I don't want it to happen, but if things don't change for either company, I'm pretty sure both Sony and Microsoft will drop out of the console business within the next 10 years.
I read the title of this video thinking you were talking about Xbox One and PS4. I never bought the new consoles and I actually forgot they came out....
I've gotten more games for Switch than any other console, even beating my old NES collection of two dozen games. The only system I have with more games is Game Boy, and that's solely because I've begun collecting for it.
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From my perspective I don't really thing the competition is as important as lowering budgets and team sizes and therfore the scope of some of these massive games
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I agree that the future for games that need a high-end machine to run is the multi-platform way. There's basically no reason to have exclusives on PS or Xbox in a world where it takes 5 years to make a freaking game. Nintendo is in another league altogether, they have their own market.
The reason they are putting a lot of heavy hitters on multiple platforms could be because so many of the games are micro transaction festivals
Good games. That's it. They focus on fun and gameplay. Win.
Why don't Microsoft commission indie devs to make Xbox exclusives? Get some use out of dormant franchises as well
They appear to be doing that with Toys for Bob, who might be making the next Spyro game
0:53 NO don't you dare lump Sword and Shield with actual good games. They don't deserve to be called good lol
S/V putting aside all the bugs and general GameFreak laziness... I actually had fun and was kinda invested in the story. It's no Black and White level of story but i still liked it
Because it's the only console that actually has games on it.
Exclusives that i can't get on any other platform have to be the reason to encourage me to buy these consoles. With what little there is on either Xbox or PS5, i don't even know if i still want one anymore. It doesn't even matter if everything comes out on all platforms anyway or eventually port to PC. This is why i still like Nintendo consoles, because they have things these other consoles don't, like their own weird gimmicks, brand recognition with their games and characters, being able to keep things "fun" which is an important key factor, being able to give players what they like, good strategy when to release most of their games every year. I can go on and on, but Nintendo really knows how to keep their stuff together, even they have their poor decisions sometimes.
Nintendo has a deep bench of development studios/subsidiaries to make 1st-party games: their own EPD (packed w/developer vets like Tezuka and Aonuma), HAL Labs, Retro Studios, Monolith Soft, Intelligent Systems.
Don't forget: during the GAMECUBE era, SSB Melee was able to expand their fighting game roster from 12 (SSB 64) to 26...w/o any 3rd-party characters (they started to appear w/Brawl). That is how extensive Nintendo's IP pool is.
It would help them all greatly if they follow Nintendo's example and not feel the need to push the system to it's limits with every game. Change up the art style, use graphics that get the job done but allow developers to focus on ironing out the gameplay which should be priority one. Also I'll keep saying this their new consoles should never have been released in 2020, the ps4 was still doing well and I think even Xbox was too, if they had just coasted along like Nintendo did there's a good chance all of these problems would not be an issue now.
The more powerful a console is, the more difficult, the more expensive and the longer a game takes to make. Most Nintendo franchises are either cartoony or like an anime, they don't need that much power, the power of the Switch 2 will probably only be used for the frame rate and resolution, the rest will probably be used for bigger games with better gameplay
"Where did you get the idea that that's the truth" sounds like the line from a political drama lmao
Microsoft definitely seems like they're moving more towards becoming a publisher/software rather than a hardware brand.
PlayStation though, their studios are so obsessed with making enormous critic-bait games that they the up in situations like this year where they literally just don't have anything ready to release.
I feel like PlayStation is starting to lose square Enix limited exclusives which may have a bigger impact
perhaps these companies like microsoft acquiring massive game companies and making everything exclusive is bad actually, sorry dude but defending that is bad, especially as they keep closing studios
My games may only going to be steam exclusives, but i have confidence to make my own consoles.
Also we might see a port of smash Ultimate in the next console despite the whole smash 6 reboot jamboree is going on since 2021.
tbh the only games I play on the Switch are the exclusive 1st party games and I haven't bought a Sony or Microsoft console since the original Xbox. I almost always buy and play games on Steam because I don't like to cling onto a specific piece of hardware to play a particular game
Apples and oranges the Switch is a handheld and the only platform that’s a nice companion to every other platform but not great by itself.
being out for 3 years longer helped LOL porting most games from the wii u helped, play station and xbox did have exclusives this generation, i think since nintendo has nurtured its properties for forty years and been able to maintain the quality of those titles while innovating is insane and is the key because everyone knows who mario is, zelda, pokemon, and now animal crossing too, they've made it known to everyone people who don't play video games, most people who own a switch probably don't actively play it, they either got it the first year it came out which is a big chunk, got it when animal crossing came out another big chunk, and is either a child that got it for christmas one year who only uses it for fortnite LOL and that's the thing we're the enthusiasts making and watching videos about this stuff but most people really are casual and don't think too much about it and that's where the numbers come from because even on nintendo's biggest trailers for zelda and mario the numbers don't match switch ownership
Nobody cares if your console has the absolute best specs of the generation. They care about the games the console has. I can't think of a single game I'd buy an Xbox or PlayStation for when I can just play it on PC. Nintendo has tons of exclusives that warrant it a lot more.
The amount of care, polish and attention Nintendo puts into the exclusive AAA titles makes everyone else look lazy.
I'll take, being more affordable, and having more new and consistent games than both the other consoles combine for 500 alex.
I had no idea doom was an activision game
No it’s a ID Bethesda
For me, the best combo is PC and Nintendo. Don't need more. You can play 99,9% of everything interesting included Retro Gaming.
The problem with xbox and ps were they focused on power but we've hit the point of deminishing returns.
Games are so expensive to produce. So almost every game has been cross gen, remakes/remasters, and sequals. Exclusives feel like dlc content for the previous game because they play the same.
The consoles are super powerful but look at the xbox series s vs x comparisons. Most games look the exact same. The series x will have a few extra blades of grass. Background stuff you'll never notice when playing. Otherwise they look the same.
The only difference between this gen and last gen are load times and frame rates. All that extra power and all they could do is double the frame rate.
Last gen was lackluster this gen is a waste of time. Only things worth while ate Nintendo's ips and gamepass, but thats about to go up in price to become not woth it.
One word: exclusives
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Zelda majora mask stone temple.
Playstation could have all of the cinematic, over the shoulder, sad dad sims/third-person shooters it wants and it still wouldn't hold a candle to Nintendo because it's not about exclusives, but about video games that feel fun to play.
It’s about both.
PlayStation and Xbox need to step up. Can’t let Nintendo get too relaxed.
If all 3 are good, we benefit.
Wait....Cuphead is on Switch?
Yeah
If it aint comin to pc i aint buyin, unless its nintendo, theres games i care about there, ima wait for gta6 or whatever games theyre trying to make console exclusive to come to pc
What gets me going back to the Switch so much isn't just its newer games, but the NSO library. It started out kinda small, but now there are a LOT of classic games you can play for multiple consoles. Playstation does have its classic games option, but it's much more limited and costs over $100 more a year, because they want to rope in a bunch of other crap that you may or may not be interested in. For example, I don't really play online, so I don't need online multiplayer; I also don't need the Game Catalog, Ubisoft+ Classics, cloud streaming, etc... However, I have to get all of those, even if all I want is the Classics Catalog (which only has a little over 20 games in it right now, according to the search I did on their own website). $160/yr just for that? No thanks. I still have most of my old Playstation games, and my PS3. I'll play them through that. I'm kinda out of luck for PS2 games, but thems' the breaks.
I suspect Microsoft is planning on dropping out of the console business and will focus on being a publisher. They know that the profit margins on hardware are eclipsed by software sales, as long as the software is good and well marketed. Series S/X may be the last Xbox.
If power and graphics were everything, the psp would've outsold the ds, the ps vita would've outsold the 3ds(even if sd cards were cheap they still wouldn't have outsold it. Would've been more successful, but definitely not outselling 3ds.) And the wii wouldn't have sold so much and been so successful. Also, I don't know who brainwashed everyone into thinking that exclusives don't matter, but they do. If you could play nintendo games on xbox or playstation, would you really bother buying a nintendo console? Let's be real here. They absolutely matter. Not just for nintendo but for sony and microsoft too. Makes no sense to stop doing that. First party games exclusive, third party multiplatform. Perfect.
GAMES
Can you please be more explicit. What does it mean to go “full hog?” Please
Once we got to the ps4/xbox one era thats when the graphics improvement should've been stopped
went with its competitors. Truth be told expected Ninty to crash as last time. Ninty was a surprise domination despite weak hardware and scoffing at online.
So the talk of exclusives is, in my opinion, mostly true. But only because of the current pricing for xbox and playstation. There is an immense paywall when it comes to acquiring these consoles, and playstation had a hard time getting it out to customers. The Switch is an easy to obtain console with welcoming features. It may not be as powerful, but it delivers on fun games, which is also something that xbox and ps are currently lacking. Now, there is definitely more money to be made on non-exclusive games as it is able to reach more customers. But exclusives also help sell consoles. Now, Nintendo actually needs to start spreading to both mobile and PC as they are the real competitors in the gaming market, mobile especially. Hoyoverse and others have proven that high grade games can be sold on smart phones and make tons of money and havd thus overtaken the handheld market, which used to be exclusively Nintendo's territory. Nintendo needs to make a move to stand toe to toe to pc and mobile, not xbox and ps.
Lmao shut up. There are already Nintendo games on mobile. And genshin is a gatcha game. Not a paid title.
Im sorry to say but comparing ps5 sales to switch sales to try and make your point is just stupid. Switch released nearly 4 years earlier then the ps5 and thus has a huge headstart in sales.
Hot take here- I don't think the console war is going to be a thing anymore. Certainly Microsoft want to sell consoles but it's always been the case that games are the money makers. Getting them to multiple platforms where they can charge the base price + expansions + DLC or even push the live service thing is clearly where they see the $. Drive sales with a few exclusives at the start of a console cycle but gravitate towards multi-platform releases towards the end.
All the while pushing Game Pass which is guaranteed money coming in regularly appeasing the shareholders. Sure they're putting some crazy good games on there soon but that's just to drive subs. When they've hit peak they'll increase the price a little and before you know it you've got a legion of fans who wouldn't necessarily buy or even try certain games on the regular paying to do so on the regular.
It's looks like a risk sure, but as you said Xbox is dead last this time around. Makes sense to try something new and I'm sure they know what they're doing.
Game Pass sales stagnated. Not every xbox owner is gonna buy game pass.
@@emersonssbb It went from 25m subs in 2022 to 36m in Feb this year. They want to push it to even more people hence the crazy good exclusives announced recently. It's only going to trend one way, what remains to be realised is how profitable it will be given the huge games they're missing out on the box price on.
@@Avenrise How is their first party software sales though.. Did any game sell 20-30m copies. I dont see any xbox games reaching 40-50m or 60m. Heck i dont see a xbox game sell 5m copies. XBOX screwed themselves with game pass no one is ever gonna buy their games digitally or physically.
Where did they get the idea exclusives don’t matter? There is actually an answer. Sony makes 50 percent of their money from ten games. None of which they made so it’s all profit. GTA, Fortnight, FIFA, etc. give them far more money through 3rd party fees than any games they can hope to make themselves. This also tells us why they are chasing games as a service. Problem is it will only continue if PS5 remains dominant (with people who play these 10 games.) They could sit back and collect from 3rd parties or invest hundreds of millions in a single player exclusive. They’ve shown what they hope the future holds.
They're simply Nintengoat
I think Microsoft and Sony typically make more profit from game sales than the hardware anyway, why not put the games everywhere?
Sony is struggling the hardest of all of them. Microsoft at least can survive with no exclusives, because they own the PC market too.
Because Mothers erase accounts.
Switch is PS4 generation, not Series/PS5
Exclusives are stupid. Nintendo wins at targeting the causal market and offering a unqiue console with the hybrid focus.
Switch really aint considered to be as part of this ps5, xsx gen they r more in line with the previous gen. New switch next year will be consider3d part of this gen
Nope it's still competing with ps5 and xbox x series. And wining
@@angelvillegas9604 not really. the wii u was such a massive failure its life got cut short so switch is far more in comparison, barely, with ps4/xbox/xs
@jago09 nope it still competing and outselling them. Switch will be the best selling console of all time.
@@angelvillegas9604 its not with this gen. an almost 8 year old console is not part of this gen thats barely going to turn 4
@@jago09 nope it is part of this gen and wining
Exclusives suck for everybody.
Nintendo players are very happy though :/
The switch isn't from this generation
I'll say this because the higher the level
Ps5 85%😎⚠️⭕❎🔳👍
Xbox Series s 68%🤔
Nintendo Switch 100%🤨
PC stream 41%🤣👎
The switch 2 is dis gen console
Exclusivity is good for console makers and bad for consumers. Encouraging anti-consumer behavior is not a good thing.
I see this a lot but I do disagree. Exclusive games boosts the value of a console which in turn boosts console sales which in turn creates competition which in turn creates options for consumers and prevents any one company from becoming a monopoly.
Which that is pro consumer
It's not anti-consumer to own IP. It's makes it more competitive and thus is pro-consumer.
@@ShesezTheNews It's an artificial value though, the console is only perceived to be more valuable because exclusivity lowered the value of all other consoles. You have phrased the question backwards which skews your answer by asking "what exclusives does it have?" you have already limited yourself to the idea that other consoles need to be incapable of running a game for the console in question to have value.
For the record more sales actually decreases competition, I seriously have no idea what you are on about with this? It's an intrinsic fact that competition requires resources in this case the number of consoles being bought to be finite scarce and mutually exclusive, in other words if everyone is buying every console there is no reason to compete.
Also Copyright law is literally described as a legal monopoly by those advocating for it. So something like exclusivity has all the problems that come with monopolies and is really just an excuse to not compete on the fronts that actually matter like features, price and hardware. You are literally arguing in favour of a monopoly/oligopoly while claiming that it's somehow preventing that exact thing.
You are weirdly right in a way it is "pro consumer" because they don't want people to act for themselves or within their on best interests what they want is people to be mindless "consumers" who buy more than what they need and endlessly consume products as if everything is supposed to be disposable and replaced regularly. But when most people say "anti-consumer" they aren't talking about freeing people from the burdens of consumerism what they really mean doing something that harms the very people who are using what they are selling.
Things like HDCP don't fulfil their intended function but they do act as a toll on hardware manufacturers and I am sure that extra expense is being passed onto the consumer. They have somehow convinced people to pay for shackles on their freedoms and for reasons I don't understand they have succeeded in convincing people to like these restrictions. This goes both ways as well if you are a game developer even if you put in all the effort needed to port your game to all consoles it's still up to the console manufacturer to decide if it gets "approved", they may have low standards with a bunch of shovel-ware and scams getting approved but it is still only "approved" content that sees anything better than intentional destruction.
Remember their goal with copyright is not to "protect artists" their goal is the destruction of all culture they can't control.
Shesez, no. I respect you and love your content, but everything you said imho is just plain wrong.
As an owner of PC, Switch and PS2, in my opinion what you are doing right now is just gatekeeping. Or, even worse, encouraging rivalries and wars between players.
Exclusives are a legalized form of blackmail where companies try to force people to purchase expensive systems they don't need just... to play a game? Multiple games? Games they will NOT have time to play anyway, and sometimes even room in their houses to put the actual consoles? You really want people to bend over to the big company's will and buy every console the market tries to shove down their throats?
It probably works on you americans, since you're already used to paying insane amount of money for things that shouldn't be paid (like healthcare or universities) and your economic system supports the big corporations rather than the consumers, but I can assure you that the vast majority of normal people will AT MOST have a PC and a console, and their PC will not even be a gaming one, because they won't have time to game on it, or the interest in it.
"Business perspective" my ass, why do you think Square Enix dropped that? Because they saw the numbers and realized you sell MORE GAMES if you allow more people to play them.
Seriously, look at me: do you REALLY think people will willingly buy a second console just because a game is an exclusive?
No, *they will not play it* and wait, exactly as people has been doing for the PC version of Bloodborne.
You, console player, are underestimating the patience of gamers, especially the PC gamers.
I have no intention of buying any other game system, I don't have space in my house for it nor the time to play it, and I already have a truckload of a backlog to play.
You obviously didn't listen to the video. And saying 'hurr dumb Americans' shows you have a massive superiority complex.
Good point. I think exclusives have their place and does help with a more competitive market though. Entertainment is not something we have to have and no one is forcing us to buy it so IP becomes important. I believe the platform holders have a right to make IP but locking third party as exclusives I disagree with. Edit: I also only own a Switch and see no reason to buy the other platforms.
Copyright law is literally described as a legal monopoly by those advocating for it. So something like exclusivity has all the problems that come with monopolies and is really just an excuse to not compete on the fronts that actually matter like features, price and hardware.
I used to be in favour of "exclusives" because I thought it was important for a console to have an identity but now I realise there is no reason that exclusivity is required for that.
I still think the Switch would have sold exceedingly well even without exclusives because it's cheap and it's portable and people seem to want those two things.
Things like HDCP don't fulfil their intended function but they do act as a toll on hardware manufacturers and I am sure that extra expense is being passed onto the consumer. They have somehow convinced people to pay for shackles on their freedoms and for reasons I don't understand they have succeeded in convincing people to like these restrictions. This goes both ways as well if you are a game developer even if you put in all the effort needed to port your game to all consoles it's still up to the console manufacturer to decide if it gets "approved", they may have low standards with a bunch of shovel-ware and scams getting approved but it is still only "approved" content that sees anything better than intentional destruction.
Remember their goal with copyright is not to "protect artists" their goal is the destruction of all culture they can't control.
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Switch is not apart of the ps5 generation
It's weird how that works the "half generation" really messed with things and I hope we don't see something like that happen again. However I don't think it's likely since 8k is really impractically large and troublesome to develop for so that only leaves higher frame rates which developers and marketers have successfully gaslighted people into not caring about so it would be really hard to pull a 180 on that.
It kinda is… but even if you remove the sales from 2017-19 it’s outselling by 50+ mil
you don't understand what a "generation" is, the switch was a ps4 competitor and has YEARS on the ps5/xbox. L video.
Ok sony pony you just can't handle it
Either that or you’re in denial.