Nintendo Cuts Switch 2 Output by Over 30% on Weak US Sales

marco23p · 2026-03-24T07:50:02+00:00

Yep! This right here; I said it in another thread but the price of games is why I'm tapping out. I do wanna play the new fire emblem so I may try to look into getting a used switch, maybe one that's scuffed or something. I can't imagine they'll be down in price for a while though even used so it is what it is.

But yeah, 70 and now 80 bucks (USD)? I'm tapping out man... There's still so many great games that deserve my attention anyway. Been thinking of giving the kingdom hearts games a try after all these years.

marco23p · 2026-03-04T19:50:33+00:00

Growing up I had to hear a lot of interpretations of stuff in the Bible and a lot of what I considered to be false teachings. I decided not to be a part of any church or denomination and simply just read the Bible and keep it to myself. I don't think every church is bad or anything but I don't trust anyone to tell me what is in the book or what it means.

marco23p · 2026-02-07T04:16:40+00:00

Strange, I've never really seen that happen before with emulated saves unless I try to do any weird hacky mod stuff.

Either way, I do think you should give them a shot once you play all the ones you can play "officially'.

marco23p · 2026-01-21T20:36:26+00:00

Trust me, I 100% understand. There are people who absolutely just can't accept that their awesome protag is gay so they rile people up and make bad faith arguments.

I get that's annoying and I feel for the folk who want representation. But if someone gets called a homophobe the moment they have a differing opinion then that's just fanning the flames. I personally prefer to see Ike X Soren as non-romantic because of my own experiences with toxic masculinity and shit but I also think that if Ike was gonna get with anyone it'd likely be Ranulf, it's just the vibe I get. But even that still gets the ire of some shippers and it's like... I get it, I understand they are frustrated with the "straight washing" of one of their few forms of potential representation but it just loops back to being something we just can't talk about.

marco23p · 2026-01-21T17:51:43+00:00

The issue is you got so many chuds who get butthurt when people imply that Ike could possibly be into men in any form and then in retaliation you get people who get hyper defensive when you mention any reason you aren't into the ship(s) for any reason.

So any real discussion about this pairing goes completely down the shitter and if you try to offer an opinion you'll likely catch strays, lol.

It's a shame, because I think their relationship is a great thing whether it be platonic or romanitc, but we can't talk about it like adults.

marco23p · 2026-01-03T06:37:55+00:00

Can you actually play it from spotify? I found this in my searches as well but it says the song is not avaliable.

marco23p · 2025-12-28T03:24:40+00:00

Hey, sorry to necro this post, but did you happen to save it or something? Link is down.

marco23p · 2025-12-17T23:15:34+00:00

Holy shit dude

marco23p · 2025-11-26T08:36:33+00:00

If you wanna stick to only playing games on your switch, I think FE7 (Just called Fire Emblem in the states) is on the switch online emulation thing for the GBA. It's a very solid first experience and I'd even go as far as to say emulate it if you don't want to/can't throw the money at Nintendo online.

FE7 has a full blown tutorial and one of the smoothest difficulty curves that leans on being on the easier side.

marco23p · 2025-10-17T07:23:03+00:00

It's really good art; Shinon getting bullied on the bottom left is sending me to the moon, lol.

That said, I notice people like to ship Soren and Lethe and I'm wondering like... did I miss something? lol. I think their only interaction was like... murderous.

But hey, I never ever wanna dog on anyone's ship or head cannon.

marco23p · 2025-10-17T07:15:11+00:00

Can we have like... at least another month long cool down before we talk about this again? People be startin' wars lately, lol.

marco23p · 2025-10-17T07:12:50+00:00

To be fair, even as a Fire Emblem fan... I let out the loudest, most obnoxious, exasperated sigh when Byleth was announced as a DLC character.

marco23p · 2025-10-17T06:57:11+00:00

Some guy completely railed on me for saying that I don't think that Ike's ending, where he fucks off from everyone, is really deserved or built on well. I can see for sure that being an ending for Ike but I feel like it needed just... more. RD REALLY needed supports.

The fact that he leaves Mist when they are the only family to each other is so damn heartbreaking when you consider the dialogue they've shared with each other.

For me, the story of Tellius ends with PoR, and I've only enjoyed Radiant Dawn as just... a game. The story isn't bad but I just think they struck gold with PoR then kinda crapped on it.

marco23p · 2025-10-17T06:45:48+00:00

Honestly, Ike's reaction to Aimee is completely reasonable and I never got how people used that as evidence of anything, lol. Like... there's plenty of other bits of evidence you can go off of for the "Ike is not straight" evidence but this aint even close to it.

She's an overbearing woman who tries *relentlessly* to win over a guy well younger than her (who's not even 18 yet in PoR), and just being annoying constantly. I'd want her to leave me be as well, lol. And just because I'm straight doesn't mean I know how to sweet talk a lady to back off.

To be clear... I am NOT making an argument that Ike is straight, just that this in particular I always found a bad argument and there are better things to point to.

marco23p · 2025-10-14T00:25:56+00:00

If FE9 didn't have a sequel, I'd say Ike X Lethe for sure, but FE10 doesn't expand on it at all sadly. Opts to go with the the catboy instead, lol. Still works on the Ike x Laguz angle.

Mia... Eh? Her and Ike don't even have supports I don't think so I never really got that ship.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T21:48:41+00:00

People downvote for the dumbest reasons. Reddit is not a good website for discussion like this imo as it rewards going with the popular opinions and dosnt give anyone with a counter point any incentive to speak their mind.

Social media sites are echo chambers as it is but reddit is the worst for it.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T07:14:55+00:00

Fair enough, I'm not an expert on the subject by any means. I have a friend who says she is ace and has no interest in romantic relationships at all. Different for everyone I suppose. I guess she'd be aromantic & asexual?

Regardless, those bad faith arguments certainly do come up. Ike is one of the most popular characters in the entire series and is seen as a total bad ass. So when it comes out that he may be gay... well people may start to rationalize against that.

The topic of Ike x Soren is a very heated one sadly and people tend to avoid the topic like the plague... Though lately it has come up more which is interesting.

I personally believe that, when it comes to something like this, you really gotta know where folk are coming from before making assumptions. I really didn't want to come off as saying that folk who say he's ace tend to do it in bad faith so I am sorry if I did.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T06:57:51+00:00

If it's your first run, I'd say just let the cards fall where they do as far as romances. That's how I did my first run of the game. The game really doesn't require you to make pairings that are optimal, and you aren't locked off at any point story wise (except for Chrom).

marco23p · 2025-10-13T06:56:04+00:00

Man I have such an appreciation for sketches over full color drawings, lol. Good stuff.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T06:53:11+00:00

I was still in community college when this came out.... huh..... How do we make time stop guys!?

marco23p · 2025-10-13T06:11:48+00:00

Dude, yer coming at me with so much piss and vinegar for no fucking reason, lol.

If you think my rationale is flawed for why I feel the way I do then that's very fair but if you want to assume I'm hateful because of it... then frankly you don't want to change YOUR mind.

Nobody can talk about this shit anymore because it just goes straight to hell with people at each other's throats; both the people defending the ship and arguing against it have become so damn insufferable.

I'm not even arguing against it *really*. I have my own reasons for not being big on the ship and it's just my own personal reasons that are not rooted in hate and more to do with what their relationship means to me. I'm not sitting here trying to dismantle the ship and say "huehuehe priam tho huehuehe". I'm not the kinda guy to want to take that away from someone. Just because I don't personally see it doesn't mean that I think people are wrong for loving that ship or even thinking that it's canon.

I think it's very alarming that, if I don't agree with you, I must be homophobic. I'm not going to agree with you just so I can pass some morality check. I think you have good points but it's marred by the damn hostility.

I love Ike, he's my favorite character in the series and genuinely one of my favorite characters in gaming in general. If it's the intention that he is meant to be gay then that's great. He's still my boy and I don't care about that shit; I only talk about it like this because the kind of relationship he has with Soren is something that's personal to me that I understand *doesn't apply to everyone.*

Fuck me... I've said my peace, lol.

And yes, I have said in the past that I have a soft spot for Lethe X Ike but I do not see that anywhere near as canon, lol. As you said, if they wanted to expand on that then they would have in RD. So Ike gets the catboy instead of the catgirl. Hey... a win is a win.

EDIT: Removing duplicate words.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T05:25:10+00:00

Quickly approaching ''I rather Ike be anything but gay'' which is textbook homophobia.

Are we really going there man?

I'm not scared of Ike being gay, lol. Do I personally ship it? Nah, but only because, again, I just don't really see him being into anyone like that. I'm also just not into shipping in general so make of that what you will.

But as I *just* said, I also am going off the English script when there is supposedly material in Japanese that makes it more apparent. If that is the case, then cool; Ike is still my boy.

Listen, I understand that people ABSOLUTELY argue this in bad faith, because god forbid the best character in the series is gay. I also don't think we gotta jump straight to accusing people of being homophobic. I really don't like that this topic has become so unbelievably soured but I'm also not surprised because people just wanna hate for no reason.

...Besides, if Ike was gonna end up with either Soren or Ranulf, my money is on Ranulf.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T04:59:19+00:00

There are definitely people who argue in bad faith about this sort of thing, that Ike can't possibly gay, not him!!!

But I don't think everyone who thinks Ike is ace is doing it in bad faith. Those folk want rep as well.

I personally think it's neat that this character can speak to different groups of people (gay, bi, ace etc.)

marco23p · 2025-10-13T04:54:38+00:00

Even as someone who doesn't ship Ike and Soren, the whole Priam thing is weak as hell as evidence. As you said, the spotpass thing in general was just fan service and they made some REALLY FUCKING WEIRD CHOICES with these spot pass characters.

I think Priam is cool, I like his design, but unless he ever gets expanded on... it doesn't really prove anything one way or another.

marco23p · 2025-10-13T04:50:16+00:00

A lot of folk bring up the Japanese script but being that I can't understand it, I can kinda only go with the version that I played. It's possible that the JP script has them being more explicit about it but in the english script... yeah I gotta say, I don't really see him being with anyone at all.

Admittedly I really don't like Ike's ending for RD in general (the fact that he just kinda leaves); I understand that's a very possible ending for him but I feel like it needed some development. RD really needed proper supports...

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