With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and none of it matters, cause they have literal legions of fans that will ride their ride, no matter how much it costs, no matter how poorly made it is, no matter how much nintendo spits in their face.

So Nintendo sees no significant economic repercussions from their behavior, and thus has incentive to change.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I was one of those but they were losing me more and more every year... But 3 years ago it became way too much, and I got off the bandwagon. Screw that lol.

I hope they don't make as many sales as they expect... But you may be right, too many people who will buy their crap however expensive and how much they're being mistreated by the company.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

and for every one like you.

Theres people who buy multiple of the console.

One person in my family bought 4 of the Nintendo Switch. One for him, his wife, and one each for each of their two grand kids.

and they also buy multiple copies of games, so they don't have to worry about wanting to play a game someone else is already playing.

and I would not be shocked at all if they buy at least two of the Switch 2 the second it becomes commonly available.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure.

All of my friends who are less pissed off at Nintendo than I am are not even considering buying a Switch 2 because Nintendo basically priced themselves out of the market. All of my friends who have a Switch 1 will not be buying the Switch 2, that's pretty significant IMO, but I guess we'll see.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and "I guess I'll get a switch as a second device" gamers. These people aren't going to look at a switch that's roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think "yeah let's grab that one".

The wii u showed their demographic of "die hard fans that buy no matter what" is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we're going to see a repeat of that.

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

I bought a WiiU refurbished directly from Nintendo shortly before the Switch came out. I did it purely because the first big hax was released and I was able to easily port my GC\Wii hacked HDD to it AND also have WiiU games hacked games available. WW and TWP were also a big part of that purchase decision for me.

I got a Switch and BotW ultimate CE on release, but will be skipping the S2 for some time. Likely until the next Zelda comes out if the Steam Deck can't easily emulate other S2 titles by that time. I'm bummed I'll be missing the new DK game (only 10GB file size though so not very big) and Hyrule Warriors game as the last one was amazing, but it's a basic beat em up so no love really lost there.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I hope it does worse than the Wii U tbh, Nintendo needs to be knocked down quite a few pegs. I am quite fed up with them.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

Its also fucked up that the switch is still 300 dollars, despite being released over 8 years ago.

What happened to consoles getting cheaper? You know their cost to manufacture it isnt the same as it was 8 years ago.