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You have venomous cats?

Well, families on NSO have a limit of 8 users. So I thought 1 could play online, and 7 offline at most.

"Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!"

We have Polygon at home.

The Polygon at home:

Polgyon

Interesting -- I thought they always restricted it to only one user playing the same game online at a time!

imo, you read that with a positive interpretation.

If they were saying that, they should've said that their kids "never experienced it" or "never participated in it" or "didn't live through it".

But instead, they said their kids "don't know what apartheid is".

If they misspoke, fine. But I don't know with certainty that they meant what you said. I think they might've meant what they said.

I dunno, maybe that's true. People like watching humans be in danger, that's true.

Monster Truck shows probably don't need humans though. We like watching stuff get crushed by big things even if humans aren't involved!

If robots were racing, people would be rooting for the remote pilot, or the team that built it, or the designers of the engine, etc...

Does no one remember Robot Wars or any spinoffs thereof?

I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.

If your children are old enough to work, and they don't even know about your country's most pressing issue that only ended like 30 years ago, then no wonder they're at the bottom of the hiring list.

They're ignorant fucks! Lol

That wasn't directed to you, just in general. Sorry about that! Haha

Yeah, I can definitely see Twilight Princess being a system seller! Plus the Wii had a completely new playstyle, and was basically a GC with the controller ports and memory card slots. If you didn't have a GC, it made sense to get a Wii.

It was also a lot cheaper than an S2 IIRC...

Yeah, I didn't get the hype for those consoles either, lol

Not that there was much for the new Xbox..

Yeah, exactly. The post is about the launch date, but I guess I still should've clarified that I don't get the excitement for the Switch 2 on its launch date in particular.

Yeah, new Nintendo console. But new consoles haven't really been particularly exciting for a while imo -- they aren't really doing anything new. The Switch did new stuff (the first "hybrid" console/mobile device), and the Steam Deck made PC gaming (and the Steam library) handheld.

But since then and aside from that? I really don't understand what's to be excited about a new console launch at such a high price point, especially when they're setting a new standard (high) price for games. I'm not seeing anything new that hasn't been done before.

...and the downvotes are not changing my mind, lol...that suggests to me that it's just fanboyism. And that's great for those who are excited. To me, it seems like successful brand marketing with little substance behind it.

Used consoles have been cheaper though. And with such a high launch price, I could see it having "room" to drop. Tariff fears and such may have been priced in.

Of course. I do expect the price to drop significantly over time though.

I'm not seeing what makes it worth that much money to have on launch day.

You can point to many consoles throughout history and ask "wHaTs tHe PoInT???" based on their launch titles.

Yeah, exactly. Some consoles had a killer app, like Super Mario 64. Or 3D graphics. Or the console doubled as a DVD player. Or it had some other sort of new tech.

I'm not really seeing what the killer app the Switch 2 has that makes it worth such a high price.

I can have fun with the original Switch, my computer, my phone, myself...lots of options! Lmao

It was busy when I went. The workers said it had been like that pretty much all day

Canada could use another few provinces... California, interested?

I think those films generally fall into the either the "don't know how to turn it into a movie" or "the fans will buy anything" camps.

Now, gaming movies are getting bigger budgets and such, and probably more involvement from the game companies.

EDIT: Also, the IPs now have way more fans than they did before. Thinking of SMB, at least

What's the point of the Switch 2? It seems like it'll only have a small handful of exclusives that'll cost maybe $1,000... that seems crazy expensive for like.4 games. I'm certain prices will go down eventually

English would also be unrecognizable in 1375. At a glance, it seems like it was Middle English, which means you'd probably get as much intelligibility with any other English speakers as a monolingual Dutch speaker would have with a monolingual English speaker today. Maybe a bit closer, but still.

Shakespeare was still hundreds of years away.

...Not that any of this would matter to anyone living in North America.