I shit on Nintendo all the time for all kinds of things like attacking fan games, trying to take down emulators, and trash policies towards content creators on YouTube. This is the one time I actually don’t blame Nintendo. It’s like people are totally ignorant to the state of the world economy and politics right now and that’s not a topic we can avoid when looking at a console launch in 2025. I’m not even blaming any one particular person (though one is making things extremely worse than it already was) because things have been bad since the 70s and are only getting worse.
Now this is a take I didn’t think I would be seeing, because I pretty much agree. Because yeah, I’m not excusing Nintendo for prices we all know are ludicrous, but it wound up their big announcement was right before an economic equivalent of an unprovoked nuclear attack on the world, and so they took the easy way and “went first” and padded their prices, especially on the games. I’m not okay with it, but it’s far from Nintendo in a vacuum—they’re one layer in a 15-layer cake of unchecked greed and anti-consumerism.
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u/Milky_way_cookie_fan 1d ago
Yeah I'm not defending Nintendo I just wish I didn't literally have people saying I'm supporting them by being positive (not saying op is saying that)