for me, it would be Nintendo… In General

any time people are critical of something Nintendo-related it gets treated as a widespread boycott.

That way when the supposed “boycott” is inevitably unsuccessful, Nintendo devotees can sarcastically go “Another successful boycott, right??”

Has happened with every Pokemon release on the Switch since Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee

As someone who also enjoys Nintendo stuff, I find it pretty difficult to criticize Nintendo without a bunch of fans getting really defensive about it.

Like with this recent Switch 2 “boycott” narrative

there isn’t a boycott, it’s just simply people reacting to market conditions and overall economic conditions.

Wages haven’t met with inflation, games are getting expensive, times are hard right now with layoffs and a bad stock market. Prices for goods across the board are going up. Is it any wonder that people are just going to continue playing what they have or buy a cheaper (and maybe more powerful) alternative instead of being early adopters for a new console and 70-90 dollar games?

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      3 days ago

      gamers debating whether summons are part of miyazaki’s vision is like abrahamic sects debating the canonicity of apocrypha but infinitely funnier because while the writers of the testaments are long gone, miyazaki is still alive and he has specifically said that they are

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      I like from soft games, and it’s especially funny because miyazaki literally said in an interview that he doesn’t really care for optimal builds or extremely accurate play, and that he likes the kinds of builds that the community widely considers trash or ‘too easy’, like mage builds.

      • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Considering magic easy is pretty silly TBH. You’ve got an extra resource meter to monitor and multiple abilities to select from and manage and need to be much more careful about spacing. Strength is the easiest way to play these games. Get guts sword, bonk to victory