I don’t think they’re actually expecting anyone to upgrade annually. But there’s always someone due for an upgrade, however long it’s been for them. You can compare what percentage of users upgraded this year to previous years.

“Except for all the people complaining, why is no one complaining?”

Misinformation has been one big game of telephone. There’s been a lot of legitimate confusion around VRR, I know Nintendo did claim it was supported docked at first but then had to retract it. FWIW, this is probably something that wasn’t ready for launch but will be patched.

But I’ve seen far more cases of misinformation used to bash on the Switch - I’ve lost count of the number times I’ve seen people claim Mario Kart is $90 somehow.

Regarding game prices, I’m not thrilled about it, but I also feel the need to point out that any AAA with DLC has already been more than $80 for a while now. If you don’t like it, don’t buy AAA.

Me, I don’t often buy games at full price, or basically any AAAs outside of Nintendo for that matter. For the handful of IPs I really love that badly, I’m honestly okay with paying a premium. It’s the price I pay for having niche tastes that have narrowed with age, it’s fine because I’m saving a lot on the games I don’t buy. If I have to pay $80 for Kirby Air Ride 2, I will because I’ve waited 22 years for this sequel.

There’s a lot that’s fucked up in the game industry, and I just don’t think Nintendo is anywhere near the worst right now. The circlejerk here on Lemmy in particular has become especially tiring, and I wish some of y’all could direct that energy towards companies that constantly screw over their workers, push gambling-based business models onto kids, or keep collapsing under their own weight when they expect every game to be the next Fortnite and speedrun shutting down any game that doesn’t meet unrealistic investor expectations.

I think we’ve reached a point where you’ve got the backlash, the backlash to the backlash, the backlash to the backlash to the backlash… and all of that keeps amplifying toxicity. Everyone needs to step back and chill.

I’ll give you characters that started on PC, but several of the characters you listed were always multiplat.

Never be fooled into believing that corporations are your friend. They are always just looking to chase profits.

But if corporations believe that Pride is profitable, that is a sign that society is headed in the right direction. Whereas if they turn around because Pride is no longer profitable, that is a cause for worry.

Projection is when you said “I guess you’re just upset because someone was critical of something you like.”

If you must know, I’m actually not a Mario Kart fan, played the older ones but haven’t touched the series since DS. More of a Kirby Air Ride and F-Zero GX kinda guy. But I can still understand the appeal well enough to not post this kind of thinly veiled “I’m mad that other people like something I don’t” thread.

I got to see him live for the first time last year, absolutely incredible show.

Are you really unable to understand why other people enjoy things? Is this a serious question?

But none of those are entire industries crashing. Audiences change, media changes how it targets audiences, business models change, but the medium still lives.

It’s a great show… whenever one particular character isn’t onscreen.

Loved the first four games, but I skipped 5 after hearing nothing but bad things. Glad to hear this is a return to form.

Them’s Fightin’ Herds has one of the best tutorials in the fighting game genre, but on top of that it also has a story mode cleverly designed to act as a second tutorial. Enemies and bosses are designed you on specific concepts like anti-airing or getting past zoning. It even has platforming segments to get you used to fighting game movement.

Sadly, the published pulled the plug so chapter 1 is all we’ll ever get. But that chapter 1 is still better than any other fighting game singleplayer.

The Atari crash was just Atari. In North America - and only North America, things were quite different elsewhere in the world - Atari was virtually the entire game industry at the time, but that isn’t the case today.

We already do see individual developers and publishers crash the way Atari did. All the time. But for every flop, there are a dozen hits. The industry is big, and it is not a monolith. And the audience is far far far larger. People will always be buying games. It’s not possible for the entire industry to crash the way Atari did.

It’d be like expecting the entire music industry, movie industry, or book industry to crash.

Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.

First try. I did make a few mistakes, but the 2600 made more.

It’s the beginner difficulty on very weak hardware. It’s designed to be easily beatable even if you don’t know much about chess.

I would expect anyone claiming to be intelligent to be able to beat an Atari 2600 set to its very lowest difficulty. This is a task on par with counting the number of Rs in the word ‘strawberry’, something the intelligent ChatGPT also famously cannot do.

Bear in mind that ActivityPub is so much more than just Lemmy. Mbin and Piefed both exist as alternatives.

A worthy opponent for all of my favorite niche games that I’ll never convince my IRL friends to play.

Turf War - 3 minute timer, whichever team has more ink at the end wins. This mode is only played in casual unranked, ranked is all objective modes. During Splatfests, there’s a special 2v2v4 variant called Tricolor Turf War.

Splat Zones - Standard King of the Hill. Ink the point to capture it (some maps have two points, you must control both at once). While your team is in control, your timer ticks down. Whoever hits zero first, or whoever has more progress after 5 minutes, wins.

Tower Control - Payload variant. Tower starts in the center, get on it to ride it along a track towards a goal in the opponent’s base. Ride all the way to the goal for a knockout victory, or after five minutes whoever has come closest to the goal wins.

Rainmaker - Reverse capture-the-flag. The Rainmaker is a special weapon that starts in the center of the map and has a barrier surrounding it, pop the barrier to explode ink nearby (and take out opponents that are too close, it’s a tug-of-war battle to control pop). Pick it up, and it replaces your normal weapon with a slow charge shot and reduces your movement speed, so teammates need to escort you to a goal in the opponent’s base. Reach the goal for KO, or whoever has come closest after five minutes.

Clam Blitz - Complicated. Clams spawn around the map, pick up 8 of them to form a Power Clam. Toss a Power Clam into a basket in the opposing team’s base to score 20 points, which also marks the basket as open so that single clams can be tossed in for 3 points each until it closes. 100 points to KO, or best score after five minutes.

https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Mode#Online_games