i do think being mad nintendo mainline titles got more expensive is kind of treatlerite. honestly. it's a luxury good thats been the same price for like 25 years. games were $60 for the n64 in 1999. if prices had been raised to keep up with inflation they would be like $115 today. the reason that you're mad is bc you want it & you want it to be cheap & if it's less cheap than it was before (even if the new price is still undervalued compared to what goes into making the games), that can't be because of how money works, it must be that you're being Personally Wronged by The Man.

if you can't afford an $80 game then don't buy it. we (usamericans) are literally entering a recession, that's the reality. a ton of people probably can't afford that kind of luxury good without saving for awhile or even at all. that goes for me as well; i live paycheck to paycheck too. i'll have to think more about what is worth spending money on. that doesn't mean the price is wrong, it means our economy is in the shit & wealth inequality is causing a truly unthinkable number of people in the wealthiest country ever to scrape & scrounge to have enough money for rent & groceries & medicine etc etc.

nintendo is not wronging you by raising their game prices after 25+ years. your landlord is wronging you by taking more than half your paycheck for rent, & if that weren't the case you'd be able to afford to spend an extra $20-30 on nintendo games much more easily. hope this helps

nuance and discussions of the value of art/entertainment aside, i gotta say

RIP to nintendo for announcing the price of a luxury item the day before the entire world economy was thrown into a doom spiral. baby girl, you didn't stand a fuckin chance no matter what your math was. L + ratio + F to pay respects.

The sad bit is the 450 price was probably them trying to predict the tariffs. They didn't realize how moronic the president is.

I'm hoping for 350 but it's probs 400. Noway it's gonna be over 450 tho.

Well i was right in a way. Granted noone could've predicted tariffs and the economy going down in literally every country...

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

I'm honestly surprised he's not just gonna sell it. Wouldn't that be more profitable than shutting it down?

Switch 2 Price: Objectively

Before I get started let me just say that I absolutely agree that $450 is a lot of money, not denying that one bit. Please do not be mean in the comments, I am mildly autistic and was abused as a child so I cry stupidly easy.

It goes without saying that some of this price has also been adjusted due to the new 24% tariffs on Japanese goods. (This has not been confirmed by Nintendo but it follows the market trend of companies passing those costs directly to consumers).

With that out of the way, lets look at the hardware specifications of the Switch 2 that have been confirmed by Nintendo and nvidia.

These specifications put the Switch 2 firmly above the capability of a PS4 in the form factor of what is essentially a tablet. The Switch 1 was about as capable as the PS3, which is also somewhat impressive for the formfactor. While we likely won't have actual benchmark tests until review units go out near launch, we can still see that the hardware is quite good based on the info we have. Now let's take a look devices with similar capability of Switch 2 that are currently available on the market.

The funny thing about the 80 dollar games is that's not matching inflation prices like most things do. It's 40 dollars cheaper. So they are refusing to make it go higher except in certain cases. 120 is what games should actually cost right now but the industry is one of the only ones I know that won't match inflation.

every time gamers get angry about something there’s a 0% chance they’re actually right

video games used to be way more expensive relatively than they are today

the new switch games aren’t even following inflation, they’re 20$ cheaper than they’re supposed to be

Which is crazy to me. The fact that they are refusing to match inflation prices.

Switch 2 Scalpers

per Tom Warren "Nintendo has a plan to challenge Switch 2 scalpers. It's limiting it's own preorders to Switch 1 owners that have an active Switch Online membership and have "spent a certain amount of time playing/purchased/paid Nintendo Switch games, prioritizing those with more playtime."

there was a new posters drop and I just realized what seemed odd to me

Every dragon were changed to look more realistic and I get why, but still there is toothless who looks the same

And I understand that he is the face of the move, people will go to see this big lizard kitty

But he look so much different compared to other dragons like

Why change everyone and keep him the same? Why not keeping every other dragon the way they looked in animated version...

I think it's because toothless design is so... at its core very simple??? So like theirs not much they CAN change tbh. While the others you can have aton of differences but toothless is very simple.

Using an anti-shipper's logic against them

"spam like = blocked" if you spam like me i am going to cast 1000 protection spells on you so nothing bad happens to you ever

Genuine question

why do so many antis compare loli/shota to csem?

Like seriously? How do you exploit a drawing?

Those two aren't near the same level.

One is extremly illegal and harms real children. The other is "icky drawings".

"Oh but loli/ shota cons may actually start liking real children" can any anti send actual defining proof this this is true.

Now I am not saying it's not impossible for that to happen. But had it actually ever lead to it?

Simple. They think csem is bad because it's "gross" not because it's actually hurting a living breathing child.

Not to have warrior cats thoughts on main again but I wonder if it's considered gauche to name your kit in such a way that it's really clear you're gunning for a specific warrior name.

Like if Appleflower over in the nursery gives birth to a tortoiseshell with one white paw and names her Whitekit, does her leader give her a strong side-eye and think I see what you did there, I know you're trying to railroad me into fucking Whitefoot or Whitestep, and I swear to StarClan if I'm still leader by the time that thing has a ceremony, she's Whitecloud. I'll do it just to be a dick to you specifically, you can't fucking tell me what to do

Yes. I always get so sad when rewrites replace those names. Like the point is those queens want them to have those names! It's funny!

but fr I'll never take it seriously when someone says "i was abused by men, I'm allowed to hate them and anyone trying to show love for men is an MRA" like you know how many of us were abused by our mothers and it's still (rightfully) considered not okay to say that women are all abusers just waiting to kill their children. If you blame violence on someones gender instead of the societal mechanisms that encourage and allow violent and harmful behaviour you're perpetuating that cycle.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and remember that same-sex marriage has only been legal in America for ten years.

I know that it seems like it's been this way forever, but when they were leaving it up to the states and Indiana legalized it for a whole 24 hours before Mike Pence got wise to it- me and a bunch of strangers ran around the city hall block with a rainbow flag because we were so happy. People were getting married on the spot because they'd been waiting so long and we didn't know if the ruling was going to stick.

It's wild to think about how much has changed just in my lifetime. Sodomy was a crime until 2003. Don't Ask Don't Tell was both enacted and repealed in my life.

The processes are slower than we want, but in retrospect- a lot has changed since the 90s.

Perhaps it's just because I'm a short woman who happens to enjoy both frilly dresses and sex, but I get so mad when people say Ariana grande or Sabrina carpenter are encouraging pedos by uh .... being short, enjoying cute things, and enjoying sex. I'm sorry some adult women are very cute and hot and like sex. And it literally has nothing to do with children. The people accusing them of being creeps are the ones inserting children into the discussion at all. (hyumjim voice) And I'm NOT supposed to be creeped out by that???