@santinegrete: Outside of Pokemon, I'm not sure I'd agree with Nintendo failing to release quality product. Switch has been amazing. And given the games you listed, you're talking about EA and MS, two of the poster children for why the gaming industry is in the atrocious state it's in.
The biggest companies, especially the western companies, have been obsessed with trying to find their live-service game since Fortnite and Overwatch blew up, to the detriment of the rest of their portfolio.
@olddadgamer: I imagine Satya Nadella would like to have all his divisions making money. We can't discount the incompetence we've seen from Phil Spencer.
@amichalski81: I dunno if you need a top of the line PC to play PCSX2 nowadays. It's a very mature emulator. Hell, my Batocera machine is a 2nd gen Ryzen 7 and an AMD RX Vega card, practically prehistoric at this point, and PCSX2 plays damn well. Dolphin is a similar story with Wii and GameCube. Might have to upgrade for PCSX3, but I can probably hold on a bit for a sale on 5th gen Ryzens.
Obviously the best solution would be for the systems to support their old games, but we're at the point where the community is stepping up, as it always does.
No company is a "saint," but Nintendo is clearly doing this in attempt to silence competition. That's bad for the industry, and quite frankly, bad for capitalism as a whole.
@gamerboy100: Well, I think the real issue with Nintendo's case is that they're not telling Pocketpair what patents were being violated. If Nintendo had a case, they'd have those lined up.
@faithxvoid: Indeed. There's no guarantee of any party winning just because of size. Hell, I remember back in the day when Capcom sued DATA EAST over Fighter's History, claiming it was an SFII clone.
If Nintendo hasn't given Pocketpair a list of the patents violated, why not? It's almost as if they know they don't have a case and were hoping Pocketpair would fold immediately.
If Microsoft isn't committed enough to even pay attention when games are submitted for certification, maybe it's time they get out of this business. Tragic as it would be to lose the Xbox brand entirely as a console option, this isn't much better.
@tsunami2311: Oh they know what they're doing. They're putting a bullet in the console business to focus on their cannibalizing Game Pass. The division hasn't been worth a pint of piss since Peter Moore left.
@teddytabs: Stop. Overwatch was diverse as all hell, and had a massive following until Blizzard crapped all over it with OW2.
Fact is, Concord could have been the most incel-friendly, Republican game on the market and we'd still be here because it offers nothing new, and doesn't even clone its competitors very well.
Quality is what drives the industry, not the racial grievances of you OR the journos.
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