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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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tmvphil ◴[16 Jan 25 14:57 UTC] No.42726064[source]▶
I get this is Nintendo, so it'll never be fixed, but I honestly hate having to buy Nintendo hardware just to play the three or four big-name platform exclusives per generation. It would be so much better for consumers if they would just abandon the hardware and be a regular games company
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lenerdenator ◴[16 Jan 25 15:00 UTC] No.42726130[source]▶
I think the same thing. Metroid is good, but is it $250+ good? Meh.

Microsoft more-or-less does the same thing with Windows in the personal consumer market. With Office being online these days, the primary motivation for a lot of people to buy a Windows license for a computer instead of using Linux or buying a Mac is gaming, along with pure inertia.

This will be a problem with everything until games are FLOSS.

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1. legostormtroopr ◴[16 Jan 25 15:30 UTC] No.42726589[source]▶
> This will be a problem with everything until games are FLOSS.

I mean there is nothing stopping that right now. You can give up your time and learn game programming and asset design and make a game and give it away for free.