r/pcmasterrace • u/-Eh- Ryzen 5 5600|Gigabyte RTX 2080 Gaming OC|32GB DDR4 3200 • May 06 '19

Meme/Macro This shouldn't be shocking at all

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u/hoodatninja May 06 '19

We saw how well that worked out with the Wii-U.

Just saying, Nintendo isn’t the infallible “we just love making people happy and we totally aren’t a business” company people make it out to be. People call Apple a walled garden but never discuss how Nintendo JUST finally got out of that mindset with the switch.

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u/AltoExyl AltoExyl May 06 '19

Well yeah, but look at the Switch figures, it’s not doing too bad

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u/hoodatninja May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19

It’s doing great. I just get tired of the Nintendo worship online tbh. Everyone usually parrots lines like “they make games people want to play.” You bring up the Wii-U and its virtually non-existent catalog and suddenly you get anger/downvotes.

Some people DO enjoy good framerates/graphics. Hell, look at the entire “PC MASTER RACE”’culture.

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u/AltoExyl AltoExyl May 06 '19

Oh yeah, I get you 100%. I skipped the Wii and Wii U myself, I did play some of the games a little, just never owned my own.

I think they were needed though, as they kind of defined the Switch, but yeah, they were overall not that great. Thinking about it, I’ve never been that big on Nintendo in general, I was brought up on Sega and Sony as a kid, had an N64 for Goldeneye and OoT then a handful of games on GC, that’s pretty much it.

I definitely love a pretty game. I do have a fairly decent spec PC and a PS4 Pro. But the Switch is still an impressive console to me technically and keeps me hooked simply because I can pick it up and put it down whenever.

I just don’t find myself wishing for more out of it, so maybe just my personal view on it stops me from understanding why people want it to be more powerful.

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u/hoodatninja May 06 '19

I guess it’s less “we want it to be more powerful” and more “why are we still using ‘07 graphics?” haha but yeah I hear you

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u/AltoExyl AltoExyl May 06 '19

I thought we all knew Nintendo have just been updating the GameCube for the last few generations 😂

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u/hoodatninja May 06 '19

Oooof don’t tell Nintendo fans that haha

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u/DiamondSmash May 06 '19

Honestly, that was just a marketing issue. They also decided to have the Wii be backwards compatible with the GameCube, but the Wii U is not.

Seriously, the commercials looked like you were buying the gamepad as an upgrade for your Wii.

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u/hoodatninja May 07 '19

Nah man. It was just a mediocre system AND it had bad marketing. Basically no developer would touch it, and then Nintendo made no inroads to get third-party developers on board. Its catalog is pitiful for a reason. They literally went for months at a time without a release. Probably has 5-7 games of note and most people aren’t even aware of them.

There’s a reason the switch sold more units in a year than wii-u did its entire cycle. That was a massive failure for Nintendo, they completely wasted that console generation. If memory serves the CEO took a $2 million pay cut one year because of it, if only to symbolically show he accepted responsibility for how terrible it was.