NintenDONT Boycott in Full Effect!
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Yet another reason for you peasants to throw down your pitch forks and accept the all mighty PC as your lord and savior.
I have had this long-term tendency in my gaming platforms where I alternate between PC and console as my primary long-term focus. For example, I remember that 2019 was almost nothing but VR gaming on my PC, but in more recent years I’ve used game pass on xbox to play all kinds of titles that I wouldn’t have otherwise.
My family uses the Xbox pretty regularly still, but I think now that I can use my Linux PC from the couch (without taking over the TV) it has broken me from caring about consoles. Like, I recognize the skill of Nintendo’s developers and I know I’m going to play the mario & kart releases eventually, but I haven’t even considered getting a switch 2. I know a family member has one, so likely my first time playing Mario Kart World will be at thanksgiving, lol.
I am also a fan of emulation. I’d be content if you only ever allowed me to play my NES, SNES, and PSX roms for the rest of my life. But since Nintendo’s business model means putting their beautifully designed games only on restricted/limited hardware, it’s a better way to play some of their newer stuff too.
I started pirating my Nintendo needs last generation and it runs so much better. Never buying from this anti-consumer company again.
Nintendo: "you bought our hardware, but we will brick it if you don't use it in exactly the way we like!"
Remember, when tech bros complain that Regulations Stifle Innovation, this is the kind of "innovation" they're talking about.
They want to innovate some more money out of your pockets.
They can have the moths over my cold dead body.
Nintendo has already disabled my ability to give a shit about Nintendo, let's see them disable my CFW 3DS babyyyyy
yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high,
heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die.
The current management of nintendo will never figure it out. Piracy is the competition. It's not about getting the thing for free, it's about getting a better service. I'd buy mario 3 again (again) if that meant I'd get a rom I could run on my pc through FCEUX and enjoy all the features/enhancements that software offers. There's a handful of gamecube games available on switch2, but all of them are better through Dolphin than what official hardware can offer. Nintendo's refund policy is a joke. The eshop is unpleasant to use. Even ignoring all of that, the original switch only had a handful of actual first party titles, not enough to justify the console's price tag (and each those were merely ok, not enough to justify buying a console for one game).
sega sells their games on steam, and while I don't like the emulator they use I can at least say that I own a legal copy of sonic spinball.
Well, their shitty attitude towards consumers is why I won’t be getting a switch 2. So they can try bricking my asshole.
I'll do what I did with Switch games: download the emulated versions, barely play them, and seed them.
i stopped buying nintendo after wii. fuck them
considers altering entire network stack to trick a Switch 2 into thinking it never leaves EU soil
"Nah, I'll probably just not buy one. Fuck em."
better consumer protection says what
It says "Sign the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative if you can"
I have, and I have advocated for it everywhere.
Still would be EU only.
Americans can't sign it, but the law would absolutely benefit American gamers.
If they have to do the legwork to leave the games in a playable state or pass it to the community, American gamers will be able to participate.
Nintendo, you are supposed to be the good guy company remember?
Sadly the good guys retired and left the company with the rats.
When they release a new system they will probably brick them anyway
This was the final straw for me, I'm done with Nintendo.
Because in the US, you guys aren't really consumers (which would give you a status), you're merely walking and vaguely sentient (hopefully enough to click on "add to cart") wallets that the corporations pluck money from at every opportunity. This is your legally enforced reality.
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Why do I suddenly hear someone yelling "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" ?
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