They have enough first party games which only release on their hardware that people are willing to buy a Switch for nintendo games, and another gaming device for everything else.
Sad part is that I would be willing to pay a substantial mark up to be able to play some of those first party titles on my PC, but since my kids have a Switch I just settle for using it. So even if I don’t think I’d buy a console just for their games, I’m gonna end up buying it anyway and Nintendo still wins.
I love great graphics but , Nintendo carved a nice big niche out for themselves by recognizing the constant drive for best graphics is a bit of rat race.
Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Starfox, Pokémon, and a few other less super famous and internationally known IP franchises. The core games and their spinoffs make more games than most children can reasonably expected to play through childhood and early adolescence. That the machine then collects dust doesn’t hurt Nintendo because they already sold it.
Yes Steam has huge library (my ‘want to play’ list is over 100 titles at this point) full of games of all genres, qualities, and niches. But Nintendo has more than enough to do what they have done for years, i.e. sit tight on their beloved IP and dole it out at varying levels of quality on strictly low end hardware and watch their earning go up.
Though, to be fair, my kids steal my Steam Deck from me more often than I try to get the Switch from them. The family share features of the Switch leave a lot to be desired.
People rarely buy a platform for the platform, they buy the platform to do the thing they want to do. A game is just a genre of software.
It is far, far better to have tons of high quality software available for a platform, than to have an amazing platform, but a limited choice of software.
I challenge you to take a critical look at the performance of things like PHPBB and see how even naive scraping brings commonly deployed server CPUs to their knees.
I'm seeing more big botnets hosted on Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and one on Tencent Cloud that run Headless Chrome. IP space blocks have been the solution there. I currently have a thread open with Tencent Cloud abuse where they've been begging me to not block them by default.
I don't consider cloud IP blocks a solution. We use Amazon WorkSpaces, and many sites often block or restrict access just because our IPs appear to be from Amazon. There are also a good number of legitimate VPN users that are on cloud IPs.
This was a tactical decision I made in order to avoid breaking well-behaved automation that properly identifies itself. I have been mocked endlessly for it. There is no winning.
We don’t but now that we’ve talked about it publicly on the Internet they’re gonna start doing that. I'm sure they previously were, but now we've gone and told them, uh yeah.
No problem. I wish I had found it sooner, but between doing this nights and weekends while working a full time job, trying to help my husband find a new job, navigating the byzantine nightmare that is sales to education institutions, and other things I have found out that I hate, I have not had a lot of time to actually code things. I wish I could afford to work on this full time. Government grants have not gone through because I don't have the metrics they need. Probably gonna have to piss people off to get the bare minimum of metrics that I need in order to justify why I should get those grants.
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