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I love Nintendo. I have all the residual warm memories, plus the disposable income to buy a Switch 2. I am the easiest segment of their established base to market to.
I'm not mad, I'm just not going to buy anymore.
In time, Nintendo will be something I used to love.
What makes love truly special has little to do with duration. Sometimes we need to set something free and remember the love we had and the joy it brang. We can always remember those good times, they can't take that away. It is time to let Nintendo go now.
Indeed it really seems they're doing a lot to piss off the, well, fans.
It might be a demographics thing, but instead of getting pissed off, I'm willing and able to simply let sentiment and any sense of fealty die.
Never mind calming a sense of anger, how will they get me to feel anything about their product?
Absolutely! I will just drop them if they're not deemed worthy.
The same with all the big ones that were too big to fail until they did.
I am sure though it's not that time for Nintendo. It might only be a thing on paper.
But the damage stays and sums up.
Nintendo be Nintendo.
Will this realistically affect switch mods at all?
As DRM has taught us - there’s always a way around. Make it harder? Well, that just makes it more of a challenge. It will hacked, and bypassed. All this does is make Nintendo look like a bunch of assholes.
Is this to me counteract the Migswitch specifically?
Seems like a load of crap either way.
I do understand their point in a weird twist of copyright and marketplace spirit:
Companies lose money on consoles, so they can't afford to sell the hardware without people paying for the software.
All in all, I don't think it's totally anti-consumer behaviour, but they will face the appropriate backlash in some form or the other.
As someone who grew up on Nintendo I don't wish them ill, even though they are suffocating that part of the emulation industry. I'd rather we find the reason of the imbalance why we don't have 80 bucks to easily shell out for a game and address why Nintendo feels it needs to sit on it's old IP.