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Can someone translate this to Nintendo?
Nintendo are an anomaly though, they're not struggling financially and when they do the higher ups take a cut so everything else stays business as normal for the most part and they just keep trucking along comfortably
I think they're slowly losing the goodwill of its customers with the decline of their hardware (and to a lesser extent software) quality and refusal to have easy access to its catalog of older games. Their insistence on taking legal action against their fanbase ranging from pirates to Smash Bros Melee tournament enthusiasts, and YouTubers who like to feature their games has personally turned me off from their offerings. Sure they may have yet another amazing Zelda or Mario game in their next gen console but it'll be a lot easier to ignore when I already have a huge backlog of games in PC.
Yeah, big doubt. Doesn't matter to me that I own 1000+ games on Steam and have countless games I can play, and want to buy from all sorts of genres and companies. Does not matter, at all. Upon Switch 2, or the next Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Smash/Kart/whatever. I'm buying. Instantly. Immediately. Hell I'm preordering. Don't care. Nintendo games are like nothing else on the market. Sure there's competitors trying to do what they do. But absolutely nobody, actually does it like they do.
I have zero concerns about digital ownership, or them not releasing their old catalog. Because it does not matter. They are the most emulatable game makers on the planet. I'll always have access to my old games whenever I want. So all that matters is their newest games on their newest console. I get that's a super unpopular take among hardcore gamers. But my whole life, Nintendo games have been the ones to deliver what is fun to me 99/100.
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