Plus, Nex Playground heads to Europe and Phasmaphobia devs launch publishing arm

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          They’re already on some of the basic components - but no retail games are playable yet. Fortunately the architectures between the S1 and S2 are quite similar :)

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            Also the real code isnt on github anymore since the whole yu zu a while back. Its unfortunate but much safer this time around.

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              Tbh a self hosted git or gitlab vs github only really matters for takedowns lol. I wonder how far we could go if the scene just paid a random dude in China or Brazil to just run repositories for warez and reverse engineering efforts that are untouchable by the ninjas.

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            Wow crazy. My deck works pretty hard emulating switch 1, but keeps up fine. I imagine emulating switch 2 would not perform well.

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              Yeah the steam deck might be a bridge too far, but I’m sure any modest gaming PC could handle a S2 workload quite easily. If I remembered correctly the deck is CPU bottlenecked for S1 emulation, and that probably will be more pronounced for S2.

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      Their roll-out schedule for games is definitely unexpected, not making the new Pokemon a switch 2 exclusive was specifically a real weird move for Nintendo. Even if it wasn’t a mainline game, that’s usually their ‘sell that new console’ line.

      Definitely grateful, but I really wonder why Nintendo isn’t pushing Switch 2 games more.

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    You mean to tell me that the kind of people who didn’t have to buy one at launch aren’t convinced by a library consisting almost entirely of: games they already own on Switch 1, games available for less money on other platforms, DK Bananza, and MK World?

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      This right here. The Switch 2 offers nothing compelling the more casual Nintendo fans, and is a huge purchase comparatively.

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        It also offers nothing compelling for the hardcore Nintendo fan unless they just like to collect Nintendo stuff. No new Zelda, Mario, Luigi, Animal Crossing or Smash. I think Nintendo completely misunderstood the market. Mario Kart 8 is the best selling game on the Switch 1. So Nintendo probably thought they should focus on MK for the Switch 2 launch. But MK8 was not the main reason people got the Switch. Like for example they got the Switch for Animal Crossing and then bought Mario Kart as a side game. Mario Kart is universally like by Nintendo fans it’s just not a game that is on top of people’s wishlist. Nintendo fans don’t want to buy a new Nintendo console just for Mario Kart or Donkey Kong.

        Price isn’t the main reason why sales are dropping. I doubt that every Nintendo fan with the means to buy one market already has one. Most are just waiting for a game they actually want to play.

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    Nintendo should stick to making hanafuda and riichi mahjong sets. Those are the only Nintendo products I buy now.

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      I bought some hanafuda recently, but because I am boycotting Nintendo I went with a nicer set made by another company.

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      I bought a Nintendo hanafuda set last year and i don’t know how to play but damn they are pretty.

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        I’ve been playing since I was tiny, and it’s not much work to learn how to play! I’d recommend a game called koi-koi.

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    Well, yeah. I already have one. My company gave me a $500 Amazon giftcard for Christmas even though I never use Amazon so I spent it on something I didn’t really want that much. Besides that, even my neice amd nephew weren’t excited about it and were like “it only has like two games.”

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      That’s also the thing. It came out in June. Prices will not go down. Everyone who wanted one already got one.