Misery loves company

It seems that there is a large contingent of people out there that are completely miserable because despite all their efforts, the Nintendo Switch 2 continues to break records in various categories. It sold 6 million worldwide in it's first 7 weeks of being on the market. It sold 2 million in Japan in 14 weeks which makes it the fastest-selling console in Japan CRUSHING the previous record held by the GameBoy Advance at 900,000, and it has become the fastest-selling console in US history at 2.4 million thus far besting the previous-record held by the PlayStation 4 at 2.2 million. At this point, while it is not confirmed yet, the Switch 2 has approximately sold 9 million units in just 4 months. By the time the Holiday season ends, the Switch 2 will have outsold the Wii U, and have sold more than half the units of the GameCube. Think about that.... Meanwhile, many people continue to say things like "People aren't satisfied with the Switch 2..." "The sales are slowing down..." "It's too expensive... "There are NO games for the Switch 2... "The games are too expensive..." "It's just an overclocked PS4..." "It's underpowered..." "Nintendo is suing this company, or that company...." ...BLAH-BLAH-BLAH yakkity-shmakkity. First of all, EVERYTHING is too expensive nowadays for EVERY THING. The prices of Switch 2 games are roughly the same as games on the PS5 family and the XBOX Series family with a few exceptions. However, people will tell bald-faced lies to push a narrative. They will say... "Donkey Kong Bananza is $90 dollars!!" The game is $70 dollars and in my opinion it is worth it as a major AAA, 1st-party title. However the DLC pack which includes DK Island and Emerald Rush is an extra $20 dollars. DLC is NOT REQUIRED to fully enjoy Donkey Kong Bananza. No one knew this DLC pack was coming, and no one complained about the game as it was. So, to act like the game was "incomplete" and now the DLC makes it "complete" and thus the game itself is $90 dollars is nonsense. No one has any problems being nickel-and-dimed to death by games like NBA 2K or Madden when you at literally paying the SAME PRICE ($70 dollars) as Donkey Kong Bananza, but you are just getting the exact same game you paid $70 dollars for last year, and the year before that. We haven't even mentioned the PAID content packs and DLC that IS required for a "complete" experience if you are a seasoned-player in those types of games and not just a casual. People complain about Mario Kart World being $80 dollars. I don't think it's worth that much personally, and I think Nintendo did kind of play themselves of overestimating the importance of Mario Kart and I don't think that they put enough into this game to warrant the price increase. They were heading in the right direction of a good idea of making Mario Kart open world, but they didn't follow all the way through on that concept and kind of took the cheap path. This game DOES feel incomplete but only because of the open world aspect being pretty bland and vanilla. It does feel like the results of the game do not match their ambition. That's fine because as a creator myself I experience that first hand, but don't charge the consumer for what it COULD have been (or even SHOULD have been.) Charge them for what it IS. So, with this game I'll let people have their complaints to a degree, but as I said before, you could have just bought the pack-in Switch 2 console and got the game for $50 bucks. It is definitely worth that. Just sayin'.... There are other games coming to Switch 2 that people are complaining about being too expensive by lumping in the price of OPTIONAL DLC packs rather than looking at the MSRP of the game itself, but I've already proved my point that this is balderdash. Then you have people that comb the Internet searching for literally ANY and EVERY single news story that has even a remotely negative thing to say about the hardware capabilities of the Switch 2, and if they cannot find any, they either just regurgitate the same false narratives (e.g. the Switch is just just a PS4,) or just tell bald-faced lies about it's capability. However, when developers from major 3rd-party studios known for producing games that push hardware come out themselves and explain just how capable the system is (in addition to being able to see it with our own eyes with games like Fast Fusion, Cyberpunk 2077, Street Fighter VI, Star Wars: Outlaws, Final Fantasy VII: Remake, and even Resident Evil: Requiem) those people get REAL small, and REAL quiet. To anyone that has a functional synapse left in their brains, it is clear that you can see the difference between optimized and unoptimized games on the Switch 2 (or any other console or device for that matter.) Games that are optimized look really good and even come close to the XBOX Series X and PS5 versions in some aspects, and games that aren't optimized look and run pretty bad, again just like on other platforms. The part where the cheese falls out of the sandwich in this is with people the will for example look at Madden '26 for the Switch 2 and say, "Ha! There is PROOF that the hardware is weak-sauce!" Again, purposefully ignoring all the previously mentioned games that show off it's capabilities. However, what you WON'T see them do, is go and look at the reviews of the PC versions of Madden '26 and you see literally the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS the Switch 2 version has and even some problems the Switch 2 version doesn't have. What are the commonalities here? Neither version is OPTIMIZED!!! There is no excuse for someone having a monster-rig of a PC that stomps all over the PS5 Pro in literally every metric that exists and have a vastly inferior gaming experience compared to playing it on a PS5 Pro. This is about laziness and greed. Not hardware capability. EA doesn't care as long as the get your money. They'll figure that since there hasn't been a Madden on a Nintendo console since the Wii U, Nintendo fans should be happy with whatever version they get, in whatever STATE they choose to give it, and if they don't like it, too bad. If they game does poorly, EA gets to say, "Hey, we tried," and then have an excuse to not bring another Madden to the Switch 2 in the future. Getting back to the chronic complainers. People will not give up talking bad about the Switch 2. They REFUSE to stop. EVERY time I type in "Nintendo News," or "Nintendo Switch 2," in the feed on YouTube, X, Google, etc., it is ALWAYS a barrage of NEGATIVE banter and you literally have to put in a concerted effort to search for anything positive regarding Nintendo. Not that it isn't out there, but it is just buried underneath layers of horse-crap that has been proven WRONG numerous times by legit sources. The only conclusion that I can come up with is this. People that worship at the alter of hardware specs are upset that the Switch being as weak as it was completely destroyed the competition in sales, and by the time the Switch is no longer in production, and the last Switch console sells in a retail store, the final tally for the Switch WILL BE OVER 160 MILLION making it the best-selling video-game hardware of ALL TIME, and there is NOTHING they can do about it. Not a blasted-thing. They can't handle that. To add to that, the Switch 2 while still not as powerful as the competition, turned out to more capable than they expected it to be and major AAA 3rd-party games designed with the PS5 and XSX in mind when properly optimized run so good that you literally have to pause some games side-by-side to point out tangible graphical differences. The Switch 2 being what it is has no business being able to do that, and that also drives them nuts. Lastly, despite prices being higher than expected on the games and hardware, and no real "killer-app" type game on the Switch 2, the console literally has broken every single record there is to break while in a recessed-economy. That is the 'Coup De Grace' so-to-speak. So, these people do everything they can to try and make everyone else feel as miserable as they do. The prices of the PlayStation and XBOX games, consoles, and services keep going up every few months, yet the same people don't say a peep about that. By the time the first calendar-year passes for the Switch 2, it is not a stretch to suggest that it will have more AAA 1st-party titles than the first 6 years of the PlayStation 5, and by the end of the year it will already have more than the XBOX Series X. Now, I have no dog in this fight. I'm a PC gamer and I primarily game on Steam. I bought a Switch 2 so that I can play Nintendo titles. I'm not interesting in playing 3rd-party titles on the Switch 2 unless there is something unique about the Switch 2 version of a 3rd-party game. I just like to point out hypocrisy. I find it laughable that people have so much time on their hands to talk about anything and everything negative regarding Nintendo. I mean, shouldn't you be playing your amazing games on your "superior" PS5 and XBOX Series X????? HMMMMMMMMMM??????