Everything is a market scam, here, now. Even wars are to make trades on the market and increase his billions.

They were the ones who, during COVI,D, had an issue with Final Fantasy VII and VIII, the original PC ports, breaking because they never patched the DRM since it launched and nobody was in the office to reboot the server when it went down. I think that went a long way to make people realize that server-based DRM is a horrible idea, and for them to realize that people were starting to question why they paid for something that broke when pirates had working copies.

They went from being the evangelist of third party DRM to reliably patching it out, now ever releasing several series on GOG totally DRM-Free. Still waiting on Dragon Quest, but the collection is coming along nicely.

I don’t think they do anymore, do they? I know all the ones I followed were part of toehr companies that nintendo owned, not of Nintendo themselves. Kinda like how Microslop or EA buys a great dev only to ruin them, They find a developer who wants to make a game for their crappy hardware, buys them, and locks them in. Then they are “Nintendo” but aren;t the risk of doing it themselves.

If they are owned by them, and locked out of porting to other platforms.

None of the other cosole companies flat out refuse ports, some of them have an exclusivity period, but none of them “Nope!” completely.

Probably because I’m running Nintendo games better with emulation than I did on the actual hardware so porting them would showcase just how much of a joke their hardware is…

Which was fine when they were built liek a brick and lasted forever…

My OG Gameboy, the momocrome brick that ate batteries almost as bad as a Game Gear, still works perfectly. I was on Switch number three by the time I gave up and just cracked my library to run o my computer.

I had every Nintendo system, aside from the original Wii, including that horrible Virtual Boy. They’ve lost me, now, though. I’ll never give them another cent.

Funny thing is my PlayStation Vita still works, too. And the motion controls and touch on it made things like Gravity Rush possible which worked so much better than waving janky Joycons around. Sadly Sony sabotaged it through their memory cards. The games were larger than 3DS ones by far, but the storage was tiny, slow, and expensive… This may not have been a problem, but we were already in the age of “Ship it broken and patch it later” so updates could end up being MASSIVE. Plus some were digital only, like the Atelier series had no western physical release, the Vita was not region locked, but if you didn’t read Japanese you had to buy digital. The 3DS didn’t need much space but it used standard SD cards that gave you cheap (Well, then, sd cards are insane right now) fast and easily accessible storage So the Vita died despite being on the level of a Switch when the 3DS was new.

I know not everyone will agree, and some will get downright angry at my take on it, but…

Animal Crossing is still great, though they have heavily leaned into forcing you to be online, and online for Nintendo is still a complete joke. I spent hundreds if not thousands of hours over years in forums and groups trading island codes to buy things from someone else’s Nook’s Cranny or to attend drop parties for registering rare items to order. All the while subscribing, since you have to be to get online, and while I met some nice people we taled online even when we were right next to each other on the game because Nintendo Online is garbage and everyone knows it.

Pokemon constantly guts anything good to add “new and exciting” things nobody asked for, they dropped the National Dex, and forced Home integration without even the option to buy DLC to keep all your Living Dex in a game. I spent twenty years collecting them all, every variant, every special edition from events or promos. Then they’re like "Nope, the fact that you buy four to six copies of every game isn’t enough. You must SUBScRIbE! Done. I’ll play on emulatos, or Palworld. Which, by the way, they spent more money suing PocketPair than they did devloping Legends Z/A.

Metroid was so iconic its very name defined (or half defined, but Castlevania isn’t an exclusive) a genre, but now it’s yet another third person shooter with generic RPG elements. Not bad, but there are better games to fill the same space, just without Samus and that suit which was one of the first things i obsessed over drawing.

Zelda lost me already, loved the old games, but when it went from a fun adventure to managing weapong breaks I noped right out and went back to playing my NES game. Metroid went from an epic, to the point of defining the genre, Metroidvania to another third person shooter with generic RPG elements.

We are Nintendo, we sue everyone, but it’s just wrong if someone sues us!

There’s a reason I sold mine and moved to Eden.

That $^#%ing skidmark of a company needs to feel the pain and learn like Square Enix did.

To be fair I’d be mroe likely to get a DEck if they didn’t insist on using a 2230 SSD slot that limits upgradability if/when the prices of drives come back down to sane levels…

Or people get fed up with being starved, poisoned, and having the climatre screwed and start disassembling data centers flooding the market with used SSDs ;)

Remember it’s the AI scam that did this, anyone who screwed us we need to remember when the bubble bursts and they lose that sweet sweet selling of debt between massive trillion dollar corporations.

Not sure how well that applies to a company who spends more suing people than it does making games and keeps trying to pretend they never had a massive number of broken JoyCons that they refused to repair without a fee that was higher than they werte worth.

The biggest problem with Nintendo IP is that Nintendo still owns it. THey’re not EA or Ubislop or Activision, but they’re doing their best.

Watch his trades, as he makes billions more off our suffering.

Okay, hovering is valid, and I suppose not everyone had huge hands whose thumbs can reach the screen while still holding it normally.

I was thinking Etrian, drawing on the map with a stylus like you did on the original 3DS version making it a lot easier than using a mouse.

Good to know, though I hate immutables, so I only played with a few while distro hopping after the 11 fiasco drove me bvack to Linux.

Though I guess it works since so many people force you to compile to get their stuff without using a flippin’ flatpak. Tossing it all into .var is fine if you have limited access to your own image, and I suppose it does help keep people from buggering their entire system on accident, but it’s kinda annoying to have half the things I want need to be compiled like Iw as still on Slackware 11 from before I moved to Windows 7 since flathub has become a Linux “app store” now.

Well, at least Valve isn;t actively evil.

Nintendo spends more money on lawsuits than they do development and has no concept of quality control these days as opposed to everything up to the NN3DS that still works, even my original brick of a Gameboy. I went through three Switches, before trying to just copy out my saves, only to find they had sued the guy who wrote the utility to protect their crappy cloud storage they use to justify the worst paid online service ever created.

They earned a reputation, and now they ride on it, with inferior hardware and terrible corporate greed as well as an actively antagonistic approach to customers and developers both.

But, to be fair, my ROG Flow tablet from several years ago plays Nintendo games better than Nintendo hardware via Eden. So I guess they are justified in their paranoia as everything works much better now that I quit giving them money.

Well, almost, still have some issues with Xenoblade 2 that played fine on official Nintendo hardware… Until it broke, again, and they wanted to charge me more to fix it than the whole machne was worth. Losing a $100 pre-order complete pacakge is a smal price to pay for not having to put up with their horrible hardware…

Bazzite beats SteamOS, if you want an immutable, though I prefer to have access to my system without trying to jam parts into an image or tack them on with flatpaks.

Why not just use the touch screen?

The “mouse” moves where my finger lands, and works fine for any game I’ve played, though I’ll admit right clicks ca be a bit fiddly with touch.

To be fair the Steam Defck being pumped in price puts it on the level of a Ally X, which has better hardware, and I suspect most who wanted a Deck are capable of installing their own OS on better hardware for the same price…

Plus a 2280 slot so if SSD prices are ever sane again you can drop 8TB + 2TB on a sd card in it instead of the horrible overpriced tiny storage slot Valve used. To be fair ASUS did the same with the Flow, and the original Ally, but enough people complained they changed it for the new model.

I was on the Fiio site, used to have one of theirs that was pretty much an iPod that used SD cards, none are so simple now but not bad compared to most that are pretty much an Android phone without a SIM card.

Honestly, the more I look, the more something like Tangara sounds right for me. That, or just rolling my own with a board, a DAC add-on, and some fiddling with Linux to make it work. Pretty sure I could set one up on RISC-V board I was looking at.

Them lobbying the W3C to add DRM as a web standard was when I told them to FTFO and never went back.

I didtched Netflix long before GenAI was a thing.

Well, tech was worse, when they at least pretended to obey the laws about spying…

Now they’re pretty much the same, and likely connected to the same datacenter for analysis and building profiles on us.

At this p;oint if I go to a site and they have an “AI Chat Assistant!” pop up I send them a “support” message telling them that I will not be purchasing from people who contributes to the bubble that is driving up costs for components.

I just did that for an MP3 player, why the everloving frak they need an AI assistant to give me a “compare” feature that’s been on commercial sites for decades…