It’s the biggest market but also 1/3rd of global revenue only.

Revenue by region in $M 2024:

• US - 4,052
• Europe - 2,687
• Japan - 2,401
• Americas (ex. US) - 857
• Other - 1,073

Haven’t used it in a few months but I haven’t heard about it going away. Officially it doesn’t exist anyway :P

That’s an issue with the Amazon services but the device itself is pretty much as capable as it was before so you can source your books elsewhere, which I think many people do. Now, if they took away their undocumented format converter that works over email, then I’d be angry. My next device won’t be a Kindle for other reasons though.

For corpos that rely on this kind of infrastructure it might be ok because Dell stuff isn’t really that cheap either. I’m more puzzled that somebody could be interested in this. I’ve been through multiple companies that relied primarily on thin clients using Citrix/VMware for virtualisation on the other end and they all retreated from that idea during the pandemic even though one would think it would be the opposite.

The world doesn’t really revolve around America though so I don’t know why they would treat it special. They’re a business, they exist to make money, not redistribute wealth.

Apps make or break those platforms. Lemmy apps are way better than what Mastodon has for example (but I have to tip my hat to Phanpy). We got really lucky that Lemmy exploded in popularity due to Reddit API changes which meant many app developers gave Lemmy a shot. I probably wouldn’t use Lemmy so much if Voyager didn’t fill the hole Apollo left in my heart.

I was always hungover when drinking young. Then I stopped getting hangovers because I had an alcohol problem. Then I stopped drinking. YMMV.

That’s incredibly American thinking. Why would anyone else have to cover for your own import tariffs? Do I pay for higher prices in Brazil? They have very high tariffs on electronics too.

It would be kind of weird to even try to guess something this unpredictable and most claiming to have any idea turned out to be wrong. I mean, how do you plan for tariffs that could be anywhere from 0 to 50%?

The tariffs kind of do?…

I don’t think that those prices for US reflect new tariffs in any way. First of all, they were announced before tariff rates but importantly it’s also a complete tossup if they’ll be in place by the summer and in what form. If they remain as they are then I think Americans will be paying noticeably more for their consoles and games.

But I don’t live in the US.

It was a part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars bundle on Switch 1 although not having an analog trigger kinda sucks. New controller seems to have digital triggers again unfortunately.

Nothing in Poland, probably because Nintendo has no presence and rely on some weird Czech distributor. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was easier to preorder or buy Switch 2 outright in a store at launch day here regardless because Nintendo is not very popular in those parts.

That’s why they sell you a special controller. You can pay to be able to pay for the games you are paying for.

They used some kind of hybrid solution for Super Mario 3D All-Stars but I can’t imagine Switch 2 won’t be powerful enough for regular emulation. Even relatively old Android phones can run Dolphin now.

I was also baffled at using WW for the demo. Give me that port of Wii U port you cowards.

I’m a completionist so I watched it until his fake death and now I pretend he’s dead for real.

Please make it stop or it’ll end like if they didn’t stop making Highlander movies after the first one.

Loved Alley Cat on my moms work IBM PC in very early 90s. It didn’t age well but I load it up on archive.org sometimes and play a couple of rounds because it’s one of the first games played in my life together with Barbarian and Digger. Maybe if I had Amiga I’d know more of this guy. Bittersweet ending to that story.