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Europe bad, why do this, why not make for America too? Should America invade Europe for this reason? Why not? /Joke
Good thing too, I've a Vita and gameboy micro that both need new batteries and are otherwise perfect, I can't seem to get the batteries delivered to Northern Ireland (been like that since Brexit).
User replaceable batteries might actually be sold in big stores and are easier all round they never should have went away.
Nintendo really dropping the ball at every opportunity. Life long Nintendo fan here and I'll never buy anything from them ever again.
Last Nintendo console I’ll ever buy is a used New Nintendo 3DS XL which I’ve modded with Homebrew and all that and loaded with emulators with tons of ROMs. It’s a fantastic piracy machine that runs NES, SNES, SMS, GEN/SMD, N64, PSX, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, DSi, and 3DS games!
I love Nintendo. I've bought every single one of their consoles. I am skipping the Switch 2 though.
I feel like giving someone a Switch 2 is a bit like a white elephant. I can't say that I'm a fan of what's happening lately. It's a shame because the industry is where it is because of them. It's a shame they can't treat their customers a little better.
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Ah, man. All the US got was a price increase! But, to be fair... Art of the Deal... /s
I used to be loyal to Nintendo
No idea why anyone still supports them after the joycons were never really fixed on switch 1
The joycons are egregiously priced. Doing any sort of fix on them is a massive pain in the arse. I hadn't used my Switch in a while, it was packed away in its (official) carrying case, inside a box that's kept in a decent environment. The joysticks had melted.
I bought replacement joysticks, with hall effect sensors, for €15. Two batteries for €10. Pain in the arse to replace, but it's possible. The new joysticks even have exchangeable caps so if they melt again for some reason, you can just pop them off.
Nintendo intentionally designs things to be shit, so you can buy new joycons at insane prices. It's why they also offer them in limited collections and whatnot.
How to motivate right to repair advocacy in other regions in one easy step....
It's because Nintendo executives don't really understand the Western world.
Apparently Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America are constantly at loggerheads with Nintendo of Japan over their various brain dead, ultimately self-defeating, schemes.
For starters I cannot imagine that having two product lines with minor differences can be economically viable, and secondly what's the point in pissing your customer base off? There is zero logic behind this decision.
Good, if only they could ever drop prices I would maybe even buy one
Unfortunately game console price drops are pretty much gone for the foreseeable future and have been since we started getting to the 7nm-ish node sizes.
The main reason for price cuts in the PS3/360 era and earlier was technological advancement in terms of shrinking the node. This gave instant massive price reductions to the company, and allowed them to then redesign the console to be much smaller with less cooling since the chips now are smaller and generated way less heat.
That doesn’t happen anymore. There’s no shrinking to be done.
When you add in the cost increases for RAM and SSDs, it’s a match made in hell for customers.
The incentive to buy one comes from the expectation it‘ll be even more expensive this time next year. Not sure it‘s working, though.
