Unless you have no playmates, you basically play the games and later discuss with your buddies. In turn you passively encourage your mates to play the games, even if you pirate, the social force is there.

Boycotting works, we’re social creatures

What do you see as “general” topics? And why wouldn’t tech talks be a part of it?

If you design a product to be intentionally difficult to repair, using subpar parts, is it not planned obsolescence? I really don’t get what you are about there. Unless you require some sort of an internal clock to force brick the device to be considered planned?

Everything else is correct and I agree.

What it reeks of is Nintendo wanting to make things cheap and sell you multiple of them

That’s the “apple like” planned obsolesence part I was refering to. Think about airpods for example.

The teardown doesn’t touch on part serialization, although the ability to brick your device if they “feel like it” is on PAR with Apple.

Although I’m not sure we should be arguing about which of the two is shittier when both are already deep in non compliance of “modern right to repair regulations (lmao)”

The switch 2 gives out complete apple vibes. It’s repairability is pretty horrid after watching the teardown guide.

Controllers will fail sooner or later and will have to be replaced. Here it will end up replacing the whole stick just due to glueing small parts of the controller.

Battery will also fail sooner than later. The whole thing yells planned absolesence…

Nintendo is extremely aggresive when it comes to intelectual property.

There is an argument to be made, that IP laws are too powerful giving exlusive rights for shit ton of time (170 years or sth like that)

The law basically is there for corporations to force small companies out of business and keep their monopolies.

So just excersing a law written by the rich for the rich, for them to stay rich is evil. And by extension the company is evil. And by extension, not supporting the company is inherently good.

You can be principled on multiple fronts at the same time, food for thought…

Steam deck is as plug’n’play as it gets. With direct steam game purchase you just play.

Where do you see more fuss?

Why do you say so?

Easy there, Powder… Although you are absolutely right

Wasn’t there a licensing issue with jpeg xl for using Microsoft’s some sort of algo?

Hur durr… You have different interests… Therefore degenerate…

Do you even realize how incredibly stupid the whole concept of tribalism is?