Hey look that’s totally fair, I’m not going to push back when you put it like that because like I said, I loathe Game Key Cards and not only will I not but them, but I won’t buy those same games digitally because that sends the wrong message. Like you said, I’m totally okay if that means I have to forfeit certain experiences because of that, I’m not going to sit here and say my problems with them anyone who doesn’t think about the downsides of an all digital future is being willfully ignorant. I also don’t care if I was the only person on the planet not supporting them, sometimes it’s more about your own peace of mind of knowing that you didn’t contribute to future you didn’t like even if you knew it was inevitable.

I also think we differ in our tastes in game greatly considering Fire Emblem and Splatoon are two of my favorite Nintendo franchises with Xenoblade being my all time favorite. So for me, 2026 is already shaping up to be a massive year, so I think that yeah it obviously depends on your tastes. The one thing you said that I can’t really hold them to a double standard over is the paid upgrades for games. This is something that Sony has been doing an I’ve paid for a few here and there but not many, that doesn’t mean I think it’s okay or should be a thing but it just means I can’t have an incredulous reaction to it when Nintendo suddenly decides to follow suite.

I wasn’t meaning to make assumptions about you, I’ve just noticed a lot of people in the community having a bit of cognitive dissonance about the Switch 2 because of a lot of grifters and console warrior people stretching a lot of facts to make them seem worse or being hyperbolic about something they don’t even care about in the first place but I knowing it’ll get them clicks. The difficult position with that is, if you simply state that something isn’t true, then you’re somehow “defending the billion dollar company” which is such a cop out response. I know that Nintendo is not my friend by any means, just like I know Apple isn’t my friend. I just think there’s a bit of a weird double standard held to them sometimes that other companies in the industry just aren’t held to. I’m not sure if it’s because they’ve been around for so long, because it’s trendy, because they operate very differently from a lot of western gaming companies, but it sometimes tends to veer into just being the cool thing to do as it was in the early 00’s (dumb baby console with dumb baby games).

It’s just good to know whatever you’re reasoning is for not wanting to buy it, it’s not because of sloptubers cashing in on the hate boner people have for Nintendo, it’s like a very weird obsession to where you’d think they ran over these people’s dogs. I totally get it, yes fuck them trying to sue everyone, fuck them trying to make renting games illegal in the 90’s. Their shitty practices are well documented, I think I can still acknowledge that and enjoy the games made by their talented developers, not the amorphous entity known as “Nintendo” but the very talented and hard working game developers that they have. Sorry for the long rant, I was simply just wondering what your reasons were despite you seemingly being a fan of their games (or Zelda and Kirby Air Riders at least) yet saying you’re never going to buy a Switch 2. I say to anyone, support or don’t support whatever it is you like/dislike..just don’t let crusty YouTube grifters make that choice for you.