So, hypothetically, if a friend of mine wanted to play some switch games on his/her steam deck, where would be the best place to… aquire said games? Again, purely hypothetical.
A friend of a friend of mine mostly uses this site, but you can always check out the piracy megathread. https://nsw2u.com/
Wouldn’t AYN Loki or Odin be better for pirated games?
Ziperto’s a good place to check in addition to the other site linked.
Hypothetically of course
GTA6: Hold my beer.
I’m really interested in the reaction now that Nintendo has popped the seal, because I think GTA6 even if it launches a buggy mess, ive seen people say they would pay $100 for it.
Speed run all games pirated any %
You can also install a Switch emulator and just keep it even if Nintendo cease&decists again.
I got a Switch for ACNH and BoTW, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay Nintendo’s exorbitant prices for a new system and games. I’ll experience it vicariously through others.
The switch direct unironically made me want to get a steam deck. I guess no rush, though.
I wonder if a Deck 2 is going to ever come out.
I was waiting for the reveal to decide, and they did an excellent job getting me to choose a Steam Deck. I’ll be sure to put as many Nintendo games on there as possible just because I know they hate it.
That’s because 90% of steam games are trash.
I dont think you’re wrong but Luckily Steam has a decent algorithm for making sure the best games rise to the top of your store page based on your similar games played/wishlisted.
This statement manages to be sorta true while also missing that there’s more great games on steam than the entire, mature Switch 1 library.
This is a crazy generalization.
Kinda the point of my comment, nobody sees the irony. I just went on steam and there are games that are $120+. All these companies have varying games and prices.i just want people to remember that Steam is a corporation and Gabe is a billionaire. Don’t let them pull the same shit musk did, stop worshipping corporations and billionaires and posting memes to start some sort of brand corporate team war
Not a Nintendo fanboy. But their own IP games are truly fun. That alone is enough incentive to buy the switch
Yeah, this is the only reason I have a Switch. I’m a sucker for their first party games, and I will probably buy a Switch 2 for Mario Odyssey 2 alone.
To emulate* on my desktop 😌
This.
“You can put pirated stuff on me and I don’t give a fuck. I’ll even help you run them through Steam.”
Have we really not grown out of this “console war” bullshit mentality?
People can compare products you know.
I agree, that’s why I choose the Steam Deck, not a console, it’s a linux computer in the form of a handheld.
The funny part is steam has the most exclusives of em all.
And gamecube games… and wii games and n64 games and ps2 games…
It also has integrated microphone and you can also talk to your friends while playing 🤣
And steam chat doesn’t require a subscription
Proof (as if it was needed) that just running a reasonable storefront generates more than enough profit.
Of course, and even if they do you could always switch to any other chat software because you’re literally playing on PC.
Sooo this is how I learn that my Steam Deck has a built in microphone.
I’m not very perceptive and thought the little notch at the top of the screen was nothing.
I’ve not tested it myself, but others have said it’s best to wear headphones otherwise there will be some echo for the voice chat.
If you’re not being sarcastic, check out “Desk Job” on Steam. It’s a free small game which shows all SD functionality.
Can anyone explain why there is so much hate against Nintendo?
Nintendo has been very anti-consumer for fuck I don’t even know how many years at this point. They get into lawsuits more than they get into game development. Shutting down fan projects any chance they get. Any dick move a company can make Nintendo has made it
Nintendo has been very anti-consumer for fuck I don’t even know how many years at this point.
About 40. Maybe more.
See post image for answer, also ridiculous litigation for emulation.
Also ridiculous patent trolling.
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It’s the internet hate machine. Everyone has hobbies, and some people’s hobby is to hate things. All kinds of things. Celebrities, sitcoms, children’s movies, but especially video games.
It doesn’t matter what you put into the internet hate machine; the only thing that comes out the other end is hatred. It’s not fact-based or even experience-based. It’s just pure negativity, perpetuated through shitty memes and circle jerk forum comments.
The claim in this meme isn’t even true. It was debunked days ago. Doesn’t matter. It’ll keep getting repeated by people on the internet who copied it from other people on the internet. The definition of a circle jerk.
The internet hate machine has killed lots of good media. It’s a shame to see Nintendo get caught up in it. I hope it doesn’t stick.
The whole basis of both the love and hate for Nintendo is that they are a 90s company with modern tech
Let’s be honest : the love is from one single thing - Nintendo’s game design.
Shigeru Miyamoto, and all the other major design leads at Nintendo like Masahiro Sakurai have been at this singular company for most of if not their ENTIRE careers and have done nothing but make video games for 40+ years now.
The game industry at large is riddled these days with 20-somethings and interns who’ve never shipped a game, or who are in survival mode and trying to just keep their heads above water employment-wise.
Many older game devs get burned out and change industry, or quit after a decade or so, and even the ones that stay never stick with the same company because so many cut staff after any game ships… except Nintendo and maybe a couple of other companies out there.
And it SHOWS. Nintendo’s game designers - like a 60 year old master carpenter or woodworker or a dwarven master blacksmith - have honed the artisanal craft of game design to a level of mastery otherwise unseen.
Yes Nintendo sucks at pretty much everything else not related directly to game design, but there’s a reason everyone tried to make their open worlds more like Breath of the Wild, or why Astro Bot seems to share so many platforming similarities with masterful 3D Nintendo platformers like Mario Odyssey, and why so many companies tried to copy Wii Sports at the height of its popularity.
Even games like Smash Bros have no comparable equal. Yes Sony did their own melee game featuring their IP, but to even try to compare the 2 games is a joke.
Outside of their masterful gameplay design… Nintendo IP is on the same level as Disney. Everyone else isn’t even Warner Bros. Animation Studios. They’re Hanna-Barbera.
It sucks that Nintendo is being greedy, but that Donkey Kong game DOES look fun and charming as hell and that Mario Kart game is something everyone will still go bonkers for.
I don’t know what Nintendo was thinking by doing the Nintendo tax bullshit harder than ever during a time when Americans are facing such heavy financial burdens
Most likely they came up with the plan while people thought Trump was not going to do the crazy stuff he kept talking about…
To still go through with it and have Doug Bowser give this “Do you guys not have phones?” level bullshit defense?
It seems these idiots do not have the emotional intelligence we try to enforce in toddlers to recognize when a mistake was done, make apologies and rectify… instead they quadruple down and keep pushing as if their idea is now even more genius than before.
This is how we end up with Trump literally destroying the US economy while people wonder “is it outrageous stupidity or intergalactic 17 dimensional chess?”
We have never (to my knowledge) lived in a real life, non analogy, of the Emperor has no clothes
These tariffs suck for sure, but America is not the center of the world : the pricing of these games is insane and looks like a poor marketing decision globally
I’m aware, but it’s worth noting since America is usually a big consumer country, and right now, we can’t onsume.
The Switch has the Switch tax. The Switch 2 will have the Switch 2 TARIFF.
Talking about being able to play gamecube games on switch 2 as though Dolphin doesn’t exist… or rather they wish it didn’t.
There are plenty of complaints you could levy but $90 minimum is obviously a fucking lie. And don’t come at me with 1-2 examples. We all know that’s bullshit.
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Physical in EU is 90€ for some reason but I thought US physical was still $80
It is - at least, depending on the tariff situation in the future.
Yeah its $80 minimum which is bad enough no need to lie to exaggerate especially since nintendo never has sales. But lets be real all the good games are gunna be at that price. You know all the games that you would buy a switch for anyways, ie mariokart, mario oddessey 2 or whatever it’s called, super smash, pokemon. The cheaper games will be all the games that you should just buy on another platform.
Who knows i could be wrong
Edit sorry misspoke,minimum isn’t 80 but I meant to say if mario kart is 80 that signals to me that most mario Nintendo games like kart, pokemon, etc will likely all be 80 as well. Maybe donkey kong is a little less because it isn’t an established franchise, or maybe the less popular stuff will be a little less.
That is to say the minimum isn’t 80 but any of the games that you will want to get a switch2 for probably will be close to 80 digital.
Also it hits harder because Nintendo shit never goes on sale, sure i guess you could argue it holds value or some dumb shit but some of us just want to play games and not spend $1000 on a console and 5 mario games.
I haven’t been a nintendo customer for a long time, but this will certainly dissuade me from buying a system in the near future
No it isn’t $80 minimum
It is for certain games only - the games that everyone will be getting a Switch 2 to play.
If we are being real you could look up the preorder prices of the games and see that 80 dollars is the maximum.
I can’t speak for the US but in the EU, some retailers are ignoring the RRP nintendo set and selling games way cheaper.
Even in the UK, where this isn’t the case, I am seeing £75 for mario kart. Only £5 more than most games cost these days.
Also £65 for donkey kong which is £5 less than standard.
I appreciate that nintendo games dont tend to drop in cost over time and perhaps like many others you would prefer to try to justify piracy (to be clear, and fair, i have pirated games,tv and movies of the years, but dont tend to do it much these days) then by all means, dont by these games, dont by the switch 2. But dont lie about what it is and what it costs just to be part of the rage.
I find it so strange that the people who pirate games are getting mad about the cost of games they are going to pirate anyway. I am not saying thats you, because i dont know you, but a lot of this rage comes from people who were never going to pay for it in the first place. Its baffling.
But anyway, the point is, if you are going to be mad at it, then at least be mad at what it actually is, yeah?
I think an explanation of the rage piracy people have is that they want to not pirate but prices keep going up so they are even more mad that they “have to”
And no that’s not me. I pirated games long ago when I was broke but frankly it’s easier now to just buy games. I don’t buy too many and I wait for sales when I do. I get not wanting to pay these high prices though. Even broke people ought to be able to play a year old video game for God’s sake. There are some games I waited several years for. Because a $60 game really is worth $40 4 years later, right?
That’s totally fair. I, like many, have watched in horror as games get more and more expensive. I dont buy that many anymore either. I dont have as much time to play as i used to.
If i am being fair, though, the scope of games has changed significantly since the early days of gaming in terms of hours of content and quality of graphics and what they can do. Storylines, cinematics, everything has been slowly becoming bigger since the days of playing streets of rage on a sega genesis and completing it in a few hours. With 3 characters to pick from and a limited set of moves with enemies that get more health, they hit harder but are just a reskin of a previous enemy.
I dont think 70 or 80 dollars is a good price. It’s too expensive. But i also dont think games should be 30 or 40 dollars brand new.
But in saying that. There were games back then that cost more than 80 dollars. And n64 games used to cost in the 60 dollar region when they were new. Same with ps1 games. I think over 20 to 30 years for the price of games to have risen by between 10 and 30 dollars is not that crazy, even if they are too expensive now. 60 dollars was a lot more in the 90s than it is today.
The original ps1 would cost almost 800 dollars in todays money.
Overall i think nintendo are greedy and they go to far with raising the prices. I just think everyone pointing at nintendo need to remember that its the industry as a whole that has raised prices to where they are, not just nintendo.
First off i edited my comment.
Second off if were being pedantic 90 is the maximum
Third i haven’t pirated games, i buy shit on steam or gog on sale.
Fourth im not really mad I just don’t think its good value.
If i am mad at nintendo at all its more for their ip palworld lawsuit bullshit.
80 dollars isn’t even the minimum. Donkey Kong is cheaper than that. It’s on nintendos’ official website.
Yes, 80 dollars is a lot and, in my opinion, too much for games.
It doesn’t matter. I just think it’s important to get the facts before forming an opinion.
You are only adding to the rage with misinformation.
I accept if you say you aren’t mad. But you are clearly not happy with the prices if you are commenting here with the message you sent. So i am saying just get the numbers right before posting.
Facts? Oh whatever, were speculating about new Nintendo game prices.
Only time will tell what variable pricing actually looks like.
Bro what misinformation lmao, what rage?
I did try to correct myself but i don’t think im far off. We can come back to this in a year, I think all the new super smash, mario odyssey 2, legend of zelda are 90 for disk which after tax is 100.
This is a pretty pointless argument ✌️
Dude, im not fighting you on this. Why are you being standoffish?
I agreed with you that it’s too pricey.
All i said against you is that 80 dollars, so far, applies to one game, mario kart, other games are cheaper.
The prices are on nintendos website. Look them up.
So yeah… facts. The ones on nintendos website.
Did you even look up the prices at retailers? Because it’s even cheaper there.
The misinformation is the 80 dollars minimum which you corrected from 90 dollars and still got wrong. Thats misinformation as there are already games available for pre order that cost less than that.
The rage? I mean you are arguing with me instead lf discussing, all of my replies to you so far have been in the spirit of debate. I dont like nintendo. They are a greedy company and they exploit nostalgia and have been milking their very popular forst party games for too long, and it keeps working, which is infuriating. But it doesnt change the fact that you are either lying or misinformed about the current pricing situation.
So yeah. I stand by what i said and i think you should reign it in a bit and lets just have a conversation.
