Do you think Nintendo will ever cave in at some point and consider putting their games on steam?

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

I don't expect Nintendo to. They are too busy selling their consoles and trying to keep stuff on their consoles to consider going off.

The best thing we can do is not buy from them, and enough people get annoyed at Nintendo's antics that the entire gaming industry starves off and removes the bad portions.

 

[Fat_Wombat_55]

Yahyah, in all seriousness Nintendo wouldn't want to affect their hardware sales by doing that! They're pretty successful all things considered, they're not what they used to be sure but they aren't Sony of California (vomit emoji) or what's become of poor Sega. If Nintendo ever crashes and burns MAYBE they might license out their games but that won't be any time soon. The Switch is still selling quite well even today across most regions and it came out in 2017!! It's insane when you think about it.

It is insane, it's also insane that in my region (AU) people keep buying them at full retail price:
$539 OLED
$469 Base
$329 Lite
...20 seconds on google and you can easily get it cheaper but people don't seem to care.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

no

 

[Clippy]

It is insane, it's also insane that in my region (AU) people keep buying them at full retail price:
$539 OLED
$469 Base
$329 Lite
...20 seconds on google and you can easily get it cheaper but people don't seem to care.

Do you expect fangirls with no impulse control to be smart with their money?

 

[YuriSukiSan]

It is insane, it's also insane that in my region (AU) people keep buying them at full retail price:
$539 OLED
$469 Base
$329 Lite
...20 seconds on google and you can easily get it cheaper but people don't seem to care.

500 dollarydoos for the OLED and 400 kangaroobucks for the base? That's a lot! It's still quite over priced here too at like 300 euros.. but still, yeah!

 

[Zemus]

Barring a colossal change in fortunes, like the upcoming Switch 2 not selling a single copy,

Once I saw it I considered it actually might have comparable sales figures. It's virtually indistinguishable from the Switch. Maybe they're trying to do "another DSi"?

 

[Zerpina]

500 dollarydoos for the OLED and 400 kangaroobucks for the base? That's a lot! It's still quite over priced here too at like 300 euros.. but still, yeah!

Isn't that like.... 14 Pineapples?

 

[Bakuma1997]

Short answer:

Long answer: They already have a iron fist with their monopoly of exclusives, now imagine if they had control of our PC via virtual store, aside their consoles has hard to replicate on PC gimmics without selling organs, you'd like to pay 1999,99 for PC implements to emulate gtroscope and touch to play Zelda: Attack of the sequel only to turn out it detects your emulators and permabans your account that you NEED to play even online games?

 

[Zerpina]

Short answer:

Long answer: They already have a iron fist with their monopoly of exclusives, now imagine if they had control of our PC via virtual store, aside their consoles has hard to replicate on PC gimmics without selling organs, you'd like to pay 1999,99 for PC implements to emulate gtroscope and touch to play Zelda: Attack of the sequel only to turn out it detects your emulators and permabans your account that you NEED to play even online games?

Ssssshhhhh <_< >_>;; Don't give'em ideas x_X

 

[DanCalibur]

Not gonna happen, Nintendo is smart enough to know how small she is compared to behemoths like Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo can only survive in a controlled environment. The only possibility I see of Nintendo going to PC is maybe with the creation of her own closed game streaming service

 

[zilbert25]

I really hope not, it's refreshing to see Nintendo do what they do for so many years. They look after their products well, no selling out and different from the competition.

 

[Stingy Perry]

It’s highly unlikely now that they announce the Switch 2.

 

[Skeetos]

Maybe in 20 years when they wake up from cryosleep to see that Playstation and Microsoft hit a small monopoly 20 years ago when they started releasing stuff on PC. Seriously though I'm buying a Switch 2 just for it to be a paper weight while I wait for the inevitable. I missed out on the first years of the first one I can't miss this.

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

A list of things that will happen before Nintendo releases their games on Steam
-Square Enix stops beating money out of Final Fantasy VII like alchemy
-Sony stops being allergic to good business decisions
-Windows stops being more bloated than a Youtube video essay
-Nintendo stops being lawsuit happy
-Sega makes a new console and doesn't royally fuck it up due to infighting
-The retro game market stops being scalped
-MacOS becomes a dominant gaming platform
-GNU/Linux desktop development actually gets professional UX designers, preferably the ones Microsoft must have fired.
-My dad comes back from getting cigarretes
-Konami cares about video games again and pivots away from gambling.

 

[Darklink]

The only way they'd do it is if they have something like two or maybe even three straight console failures in a row.

 

[newageretrohippie]

I hope they don't, I hate Steam.

Why? Steam is the tits meow!

its literally the only modern digital platform that i feel completely safe purchasing games and knowing i will be able to play them whenever and wherever and however i want (as long as its on an x86 of some sort, i guess)

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500 dollarydoos for the OLED and 400 kangaroobucks for the base? That's a lot! It's still quite over priced here too at like 300 euros.. but still, yeah!

Lol@"500 dollarydoos"

is this why bluey's parents hate video games?

 

[Ikagura]

I'll be honest, even when Xbox exclusives are getting ported on PC via their Microsoft platform and Sony games are getting published on Steam they're either a hassle to play or not optimised at all.

PC gaming is also not the best from japanese devs for some reason.

 

[Leon]

Nintendo will resist to the very end but i don't think they will have a choice eventually, consoles are dying and stuff like the steam deck keep eating their lunch in the handheld market.

I wouldn't put it past nintendo to try and ban pc gaming in japan and elsewhere if they think they have a shot in hell.

 

[Zerpina]

Nintendo will resist to the very end but i don't think they will have a choice eventually, consoles are dying and stuff like the steam deck keep eating their lunch in the handheld market.

I wouldn't put it past nintendo to try and ban pc gaming in japan and elsewhere if they think they have a shot in hell.

And let's be honest, when Nintendo Releases a new Console, it's about 2 Generations behind even 5 year-old Laptops Spec wise

 

[Tsetskhli776]

Doubt it, Nintendo consoles lives and dies with their exclusive games. And with how assblasted they are with emulation, that only makes them move further away from PC.

 

[Ikagura]

And let's be honest, when Nintendo Releases a new Console, it's about 2 Generations behind even 5 year-old Laptops Spec wise.

To be honest power isn't really what everyone should seek in games, a laptop's first usage is for internet browsing and text-related works. Okay it can play older PC games and emulation but that's it.

Also the technological gap has become less noticeable after two generations, a 2024 game does not look that different from a 2009 one while a 2006 game on the PS3 looks considerably different from a 2001 PS2 game.

And even raw power is just one side of the prism, some devs preferred to develop on the objectively weaker Xbox 360 because it was also easier to dev on it, same with late life game on a gen being better looking as it uses the hardware to the max than an early next gen one that is too fresh to use to its full potential.

Nintendo will resist to the very end but i don't think they will have a choice eventually, consoles are dying and stuff like the steam deck keep eating their lunch in the handheld market.

I wouldn't put it past nintendo to try and ban pc gaming in japan and elsewhere if they think they have a shot in hell.

I love PC gaming but it would pain me if consoles are dead.

Usually consoles are more convenient for their plug n play aspect and not having the hassle to fix issues as configs are all unique. I also see that some PC ports are botched and that some games are meant for a specific hardware.

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

Why? Steam is the tits meow!

It's a good storefront/launcher and I use it regularly, and I give credit to Valve for helping Linux be a better platform for gaming, but it has it's share of bullshit.
-Steam dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8/8.1 a few years ago and Valve provides no alternative way to verify and run your legally obtained games. I don't expect them to offer full support for old platform, but why do I have to crack games I legally obtained to run them on the OS they were fucking designed for? Some old games run like ass or just don't work on Windows 10 and 11.
-You're buying a revocable license. It's unlikely that said license will be revoked in the foreseeable future, but you are still at the mercy of Valve. If Valve ever goes to shit, and I'm willing to bet it will eventually when people far greedier than Gabe take it over, your games are then bound to a platform undergoing enshittification. Maybe this won't effect you, but if you ever pass your account down to your child, it may effect them.
-Will Valve stop popping advertisements in my face when I start Valve to browse my library? If I wanna buy a game, I'll go to the storefront and buy a game, or obtain a key from an authorized seller. Until then, fuck off.

 

[Raccoonus]

I think the more likely thing is they never put their games on PC. But If by some miracle they ever did it would be on their own platform with their own rules and all the profit going to them. I mean if they actually put a service like that on PC and had achievements or something on all their classic games they put on their I would probably use it a ton and sink lots of money and time into filling out my catalogue. Having all my games in one place is just so convenient but I obviously appreciate playing games on the intended hardware which is why I have all the consoles I own now.

 

[newageretrohippie]

It's a good storefront/launcher and I use it regularly, and I give credit to Valve for helping Linux be a better platform for gaming, but it has it's share of bullshit.
-Steam dropped support for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8/8.1 a few years ago and Valve provides no alternative way to verify and run your legally obtained games. I don't expect them to offer full support for old platform, but why do I have to crack games I legally obtained to run them on the OS they were fucking designed for? Some old games run like ass or just don't work on Windows 10 and 11.
-You're buying a revocable license. It's unlikely that said license will be revoked in the foreseeable future, but you are still at the mercy of Valve. If Valve ever goes to shit, and I'm willing to bet it will eventually when people far greedier than Gabe take it over, your games are then bound to a platform undergoing enshittification. Maybe this won't effect you, but if you ever pass your account down to your child, it may effect them.
-Will Valve stop popping advertisements in my face when I start Valve to browse my library? If I wanna buy a game, I'll go to the storefront and buy a game, or obtain a key from an authorized seller. Until then, fuck off.

That's something i hadn't considered. I imagine they stopped supporting those platforms because microsoft did... (and i imagine that means win 10 support will end soon)

the ads are a bit much, i know what you mean, but you gotta be stoked if you are the developer of a featured game!

it is a revokable license, but ive never heard of them actually *revoking* a license (unlike pretty much every other digital platform i can think of)

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

it is a revokable license, but ive never heard of them actually *revoking* a license (unlike pretty much every other digital platform i can think of)

True, and I doubt they will any time soon, but Valve will eventually fall under new management like all companies that don't die first inevitably do. Our libraries on Steam are ultimately at the mercy of entities that aren't us, which is bullshit. Software purchased by the user should be the user's bitch and no one else's. Try to buy from GOG if a game is available that way. Even if they got a wild hare up their ass and revoked your access, games from GOG are DRM free, so you can still play as long as you have the files.