>>719081362
Thats not really surprising when you think about it. Most of the shit from Triple A has been complete shit during that time, and those would be the games that are over $50. Then add in the economy and how everyone is spending their money on groceries, and you see people would prefer F2P or cheap games. Gen Z is hit especially bad by this too. It also helps that its easier to get a friend into a 10-20 games than a 50-70 game. They also like friendslop games which tend to be in that price range. And there you go. Thats why everyone is playing cheap games.

I always thought it was silly that publishers want to make games more expensive. Its clear the game prices will be pushed down as the higher cost games sell worse than the low cost ones to the point where more money is made at the low end. The high cost games sell faster but worst overall (see Monster Hunter as an example). Prices will keep going down on games overtime especially as Zoom Zooms have less disposable income than the millennials had at the same time in their life.

>>718671301
There are basically two types of Nintendo fans
The first are the people who like Nintendo but aren't cultish enough to defend every little thing they do. They are old enough to know that Nintendo has highs and lows but still enjoy their games
The others are this weird new cult that is basically akin to Sony's Gold man but less funny. They basically care about sales and nothing else. They're the schizos that talk about Eric all the time

Honestly, Nintendo really isn't doing anything interesting right now. Its been a pretty weak year despite being a fucking launch year for the console. This might be why the latter has to hype up sales because there really isn't anything left to talk about. It's just Air Riders and nothing else.

>>712544483
If anything, that show's Nintendo's demographic isn't kids anymore but young adults. I believe that graph was from 2020-2021 so those 20-30 year olds were Wii kids. But as it shows, kids today aren't interested in Nintendo. They care way more about Fortnite and Minecraft. The audience Nintendo would appeal too is going to be far more comfortable on PC then when the Switch launched. The risk to Nintendo is that the nostalgia play doesn't work anymore. You can already see this. Everyone playing Mario Kart World is in their 30s and as you get older, you play games less. Nintendo hasn't created anything new and they've been relying on Millennials and early Zoomers to buy systems. This generation is at risk of falling out of games as they build a family, go up in their job and (maybe) buy a house. The Switch 2 will likely everywhere outside of Japan (it will dominate there again) as it struggles to keep the nostalgia audience. And because I know someone is going to say it
>BUT MUH 3.5 MILLION
Japan by itself was about 30% of that and UK, Spain and France made up another 450K, so US sales were likely underrepresented. This is likely why you saw a fuck ton of pictures where stores had a ton of them. Its not unlike the 3DS where Nintendo struggled to break 75 million and Japan remained its best selling market until the US barely overtook it in 2017. The nostalgia audience aging out is why its going to struggle in the US which is Nintendo's biggest market.

The risk to Sony is actually Steam though they are kind of losing that fight. PS6 without COVID stimmy checks will be the real test.