Nintendo fan boys sure are something else....... Metroid can be emulated day 1..
They seem to think that the world is ending now because of it.......
"Hey guys it's okay, look it's the best selling game on these charts and stuff"
There is no need to worry everything is going to be fine......
I just weird, I mean, even if you could emulate Pokemon day 1, it would still sell 10 of millions of. Copies and would in now way out the series in danger of being put on "ice" and Nintendo never making another Metroid game again.
I don't think they seem to understand how Piracy works and also I'm guessing that they also likely believe that even if I own both a Switch, and a copy of Metroid (I have the SE and the amiibos) but if I choose to play that game on my PC with emulation and also didn't open up my Amiibos something tells me that they would call me a pirate....... Just wow. Nintendo does some "good" but boy are they scummy as hell as well.
There are some more level headed people that play on everything and you can have a conversation with them about games and even some Nintendo stuff but with Nintendo fan boys it feels like anything even remotely that could "challenge" Nintendo is a threat on that individuals entire existence.
Take the Steam Deck as an example some people seem to think it's a threat and that's why you do see a lot of negative talk about it, you also see those that are more level headed that know, it's its own thing. The Deck at most MOST will maybe sell 5 million units, but in reality it may say like 1-2 million within 3 or so years (maybe even a little sooner). So that's no threat to something that is already selling over 30+ million units.
The only real threat that the Switch faces at all from the Steam Deck comes in the form of indies and that's pretty much it. I say this since I doubt ever switch owner cares about indie games, even going back to the NES people were buying Nintendo stuff primally for first party stuff, and as of now there are even Switch games that have a 20% user retention!!!!!!!!!! Sony can barely get 10%!!!!! For it's first party games (so on average only 10% of Sony users buy first party games, that means that of their users 90% are not interested in buying a particular first party game)
Now the "threat" really just comes from sales numbers of indie games and some indie game are likely going to sell a lot less on Switch and in some cases sales may drop by something like 10k units? Depending on how many people that would say "I prefer to play on the go" switch form buying indies on Switch to PC you may see Nintendo losing a few million dollars in potential says actually, but nothing that would ever put the company is financial ruin or anything.
I spent some time reading an article about what I'm saying and some of the data that they shared is rather outdated. And then you get to this part.......
"Many developers dream of releasing their games on a Nintendo platform before they even think about putting it out on PC, simply because being able to develop for Nintendo is an honor."
And I'm sure some of it it is childhood stuff which sure fair enough, but what if your game was not chosen for an indie show case?
I'm just stopping this here since that article just threw me off track. Especially with how they focused more on Nintendo and not indie devs persay "it's Nintendo gameplay that will determine if indies will sell well", is what it sounded like it was saying.
As an example let's say 80 indie games released in 2022 and each one was sold for $12 (this is average the price of the game include how much it was discounted at and also regional pricing, and how some games are not just $20 but can also be $30 or more). Each of these indie games sells 80k copies (that is a lot for 80 indies games to accomplish but it can be done) but the big thing is that these 80k would have gone to switch but are now on Steam Deck. And with the 30% cut, that is $14 million USD that Nintendo lost out on. Maybe in reality Nintendo will lose less in a year and it will only be $4 million maybe it will be even higher and they will lose $20 million USD in potential sales.
some of the indie game sales that the Switch won't lose are physical only people but I think that's not a lot really, since you will still have a large portion that will buy the digital version if it's cheap.
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