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No such thing as bad pr when your company has millions of brainwashed fans who have literally never played any other games.
I know a lot of people including me that haven't bought a switch 2 after owning every nintendo console released in their lifetime because they're disgusted with with Nintendo's behavior. I'm sure some percentage of them will cave eventually but it's definitely a non-zero amount of money they've left on the table by being like this
Yes. The bullshit lawsuits are what finally curbed my Nintendo habit.
According to Switch 2 sales numbers, you are sadly the rare exception. Nintendo fans are gobbling up the stuff big N is churning out and asking for seconds.
We must be, "sadly", 2 rare exceptions. My kid is still playing on the switch with no hope of getting the switch 2 until he is old enough to leave my house and buy it himself. Fortunately, he hates Nintendo's bullshit behavior as well, and has been playing more on steam instead. And yes, I am brainwashing him against all the corpo crowd. Sue me.
Sounds more like you're deprogramming them.
The brainwashing is the Marketing and PR from the big corps that turns people into mindless consumers and even fans.
The overwhelming amounts of Advertising everywhere every day aren't there because people are naturaly prone to love brands, they're there to (mainly using techniques from Psychology) shift people's perception feelings about a brand to make them love the brand, and if you pay attention most of it is designed to influence people via their subconscious pathways (such as familiarization and associating the brand with other things they feel as positive) rather than to convince people with rational arguments via their conscious mind. So it's the Advertising that's using the same kind of technique as brainwashing.
If you're trying to change your kid's mind via convincing them of something (i.e. rationalizing with them) rather that through psychological trickery (for example, relentless pressure until they comply), then what you're doing is the very opposite of brainwashing.
Thanks, your way of putting it does make much more sense.
That's me. I've been a day one customer of Nintendo systems for as long as I remember but they simply don't deserve my money now.
You're already not considered the average consumer by using lemmy
Hey that's me and my pokemon/Zelda/monster hunter stories obsessed daughter! Fuck you Nintendo, you used to be cool. Well...you used to pretend to be cool. Well...we used to buy your games and not think too hard.
I've now managed to pirate all the Switch 1 Pokemon games through an emulator.
Sooner or later, somebody's going to emulate the Switch 2. I can wait.
I haven’t owned every Nintendo console, just Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, N64, Wii, New Nintendo 3DS, and Switch. But yeah, all the shit they’ve done recently means I’ll never buy a Switch 2, or whatever comes after it.
This. I was already losing interest, but I hard left Nintendo when Tears of the Kingdom came out and felt like an unfinished game
This right here 1000%. Nintendo used to get a lot of my money. Not anymore, screw em.
That's okay. Youtubers still buy the new Nintendo games and consoles day fucking one all in the name of "cOnTeNt". (RTGame, Poofesure, and others)
So basically good fucking luck trying to get anyone to change when you have people advertising for Nintendo basically for free.
Oh no like 1000 people buy them
Or we can watch those YouTubers to still partake in Nintendo games while not buying anything.
If you can help it, you shouldn't. It promotes the games to a wider audience if they get views/likes/comments. Nintendo doesn't deserve that free marketing, and you engaging with it makes it more effective.
I'm not responsible for other people deciding to buy shit.
I never said you were. I said that you're responsible for your actions. Your action in this is helping Nintendo. This effect is something you own, and you can't push it off on others. What you do with that is on you.
I watch maybe 5 minutes of any of those Nintendo game videos because after those 5 minutes it becomes incredibly stale and boring looking at the same bright colors and round shapes all the goddamn time.
Also the fact that almost all Nintendo games amount to what is essentially a fancy arcade game with not a lot of depth to them.
I'm in the same boat.
Hey that's me and my pokemon/Zelda/monster Hunter stories obsessed daughter! Fuck you Nintendo, you used to be cool. Well...you used to pretend to be cool. Well...we used to buy your games and not think too hard.
have you see then gatekeep the current slop of games.