The Switch 1 sold about 150m units, the Steam Deck’s sold 6m.

Internet nerds like us aren’t really Nintendo’s target market, I don’t think. Installing emulators or jailbreaking a system isn’t something most of their customer base would have the want or need to do, IMO.

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oneeyedpigeon an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Even some of us internet nerds are Nintendo fans who wouldn't go anywhere near emulating. Apart from any of the moral concerns, it's just such a worse experience: I want to use a touch screen, a portable device, a proper gamepad, etc. Nintendo has built up quite a considerable amount of goodwill since the 1980s, and the reward for that is a pretty loyal customer base.

	▲	mschuster91 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I want to use a touch screen, a portable device, a proper gamepad, etc. For what it's worth: you can use your ordinary Switch controllers on any PC just fine.

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glimshe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So true. It's dangerous to form world views based on "What HN thinks". This is the best community on the Internet IMHO but were a very tiny slice of the population. "Real people" tend to not behave like us.

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999900000999 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same thing with GTA 6.

A tiny fraction of people might decide to go through hoops to pirate, but most will either play the normal way or do something else.

I had a thread disagreeing with me when i brought that up.

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doctorpangloss an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

all it takes is 1 TikTok trend