The Switch 2 is a Tone-Deaf Moneygrab
I mean, that's certainly one way of looking at it.
On the other hand, I know how much people were pooh-poohing the specs of the original Switch, and saying if Nintendo had just invested $50 more into it, it would've been such a better platform.
I guess you can't have your cake and eat it, too, and hardware development cycles are long, drawn-out things. The hardware you develop and finalize during times of relative plenty can come to market during times of great paucity.
I don't know if the price is justified based on the hardware/B.O.M. I know it's not justified based on the current market, but there may not be much Nintendo could've done about that.
As I've written about in the past I'm really not a gamer. I don't have the patience or focus to enjoy most games that require the careful cultivation of specialised skills, and I don't honestly enjoy exploration or games that require long-or-medium-term strategizing.
I do, however, have a peculiar history with Nintendo consoles: I have owned (at some point, not currently) every other Nintendo home console:
Even though I'm not particularly interested in the Switch 2 (or in mobile gaming in general [points to middle-aged eyes]), I might buy a Switch ("1") if the prices come down.
I miss my friendly neighborhood Italian plumber. ;)
100 Days to Offload 2025 - Day 17
A KSP Design Log
I had only intended to post this as a reply to my own "toot" on the Fediverse, but it actually went over my instance's post limit of 5,000 characters, so here we go! 😆
On Friday night, I posted a toot saying that I was intending to play Kerbal …
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I Miss Palette Rotation
Background
In the halcyon days of 16-bit microcomputers, there was a computer graphics technique used by many demos and some games known as Palette Rotation, Palette Shifting, Palette Animation, or Color Cycling.
Computers weren't fast enough to change the entire contents of screen memory in graphics mode (even relatively low …
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My Odd Relationship with Minecraft
Unlike most young people, and not unlike many of my GenX peers, I haven't played much Minecraft.
I got into it a little bit with my cousin's kids when they were young around 2010, and I even played it a little bit on my own at the time, but the …
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I'm not a gamer, an introspection
Since I haven't blogged in a couple weeks, I put out a challenge to my fedifriends to help me come up with a subject to blog on, which I would write in the next 48 hours. I put out a poll to decide what to write about, and the idea …
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FOSS Games, Part II
I got a lot of wonderful feedback on my original FOSS Games are actually pretty good! article, and I wanted to share with you all the information that was so kindly shared with me.
Here are some FOSS games highly recommended by the community, although I have not personally played …
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FOSS Games are actually pretty good!
There's a lot of talk about gaming in Linux these days, and that's exciting, because it's drawing attention to Linux's capabilities. While the games being spoken of are mostly proprietary (and pretty awful, from a software-freedom perspective), it's good to see people getting interested in Linux, even when for only …
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