Should’ve been “Until the tariffs are gone, right?”

Well, families on NSO have a limit of 8 users. So I thought 1 could play online, and 7 offline at most.

“Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!”

We have Polygon at home.

The Polygon at home:

Polgyon

Interesting – I thought they always restricted it to only one user playing the same game online at a time!

That wasn’t directed to you, just in general. Sorry about that! Haha

Yeah, I can definitely see Twilight Princess being a system seller! Plus the Wii had a completely new playstyle, and was basically a GC with the controller ports and memory card slots. If you didn’t have a GC, it made sense to get a Wii.

It was also a lot cheaper than an S2 IIRC…

Yeah, I didn’t get the hype for those consoles either, lol

Not that there was much for the new Xbox…

Yeah, exactly. The post is about the launch date, but I guess I still should’ve clarified that I don’t get the excitement for the Switch 2 on its launch date in particular.

Yeah, new Nintendo console. But new consoles haven’t really been particularly exciting for a while imo – they aren’t really doing anything new. The Switch did new stuff (the first “hybrid” console/mobile device), and the Steam Deck made PC gaming (and the Steam library) handheld.

But since then and aside from that? I really don’t understand what’s to be excited about a new console launch at such a high price point, especially when they’re setting a new standard (high) price for games. I’m not seeing anything new that hasn’t been done before.

…and the downvotes are not changing my mind, lol…that suggests to me that it’s just fanboyism. And that’s great for those who are excited. To me, it seems like successful brand marketing with little substance behind it.

Used consoles have been cheaper though. And with such a high launch price, I could see it having “room” to drop. Tariff fears and such may have been priced in.

Of course. I do expect the price to drop significantly over time though.

I’m not seeing what makes it worth that much money to have on launch day.

You can point to many consoles throughout history and ask “wHaTs tHe PoInT???” based on their launch titles.

Yeah, exactly. Some consoles had a killer app, like Super Mario 64. Or 3D graphics. Or the console doubled as a DVD player. Or it had some other sort of new tech.

I’m not really seeing what the killer app the Switch 2 has that makes it worth such a high price.

I can have fun with the original Switch, my computer, my phone, myself…lots of options! Lmao

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. I’m certain prices will go down eventually

English would also be unrecognizable in 1375. At a glance, it seems like it was Middle English, which means you’d probably get as much intelligibility with any other English speakers as a monolingual Dutch speaker would have with a monolingual English speaker today. Maybe a bit closer, but still.

Shakespeare was still hundreds of years away.

…Not that any of this would matter to anyone living in North America.

Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.

This is what seals the deal for me as the news companies being in the wrong here.

After an episode of The IT Crowd was criticised as transphobic, Linehan became involved in anti-transgender activism. He argues that transgender activism endangers women, and has likened the use of puberty blockers to Nazi eugenics. Linehan says his views have lost him work and ended his marriage

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your options are shite and I refuse them all is a valid vote, why make it harder for someone to choose that than necessary?

The only way that’s communicated is by officially declining the ballot. And I agree with the other commenter that it should be easier to do this.

By not voting, you’re communicating “They’re all fine; I can’t be assed to pick”.

Amazing find and well worth the read!

You don’t actually have to fill out the ballot. You can tell the voting officer that you decline it, you can write profanity on it, or you can vote for your dog.

It’s a minor civic duty. Much less onerous than jury duty, lol

Yeah, broadcasting to the world that you’re playing a game that hasn’t been released yet isn’t a great idea. Particularly when it’s Nintendo. It’s pretty common knowledge how petty they are even with stuff that’s less flagrant

It doesn’t become useless, it just misses out on a bunch of useful features for the drives.

Still ridiculous, of course