I don't understand what is going on.

The Swith 2 is the first console I haven'꧟t bought🌟 day 1.

I'm seeing loads of scalpers trying to sell units online, but their stock availaℱble doesn't se🦂em to be decreasing.

No one from my friends list (284 🐠ppl) got a Switch 2, of th🐼eir friends only a handful got one.

Yet it's selling better than the original? At a higher pric🍸e. With more expensive games? In this messed up economy?

Nintendo did a 🅰awesome job managing my expectations.

I expected the S2 to be overpriced, it was.

I expected the games to be overpriced, they were.

I expected a pletho🌌ra of pre🥀-order issues, there was.

I even expec💮ted people to talk about 🔯how the S2 pre-orders sold out, while completely ignoring the fact that scalpers are responsible for easily half of those sales.

Nintendo did its job well.

I expected to get the S❀2 a year or two after release at a lower price, and that's precisely what will happen.

GG Nintendo.

First, whines about a upco🌞ming 3rd person game for not getting to see it.

Second, whines about Sony lacking variety.

Third, proceeds to ov🉐erwrite the first whining by admitting they like that type of game.

Fourth, goes off in butthurt console war style doomsaying "🔜Sony is only hurting itself".

Loads of creative variations on Playstation, platformers, 1st person stuff, 3rd person stuff𒉰, action adventure, rpg all in variations not cookie cutter builds.

One of the best selling franchises of all time, not just on Playstation but all platfor❀ms, is The Last of Us, even leading to a highly successful TV series, but "it's a♔ creative dead end".

Was this article A.I generated? Some mental breakdown or serious logica♚l flaws peppered th♒roughout.

No matter what sid🥀e gamers fa⭕ll on, in their feeling's as to whether AC:Shadows is "Woke-ism" or not, is irrelevant now.

Ubisoft has a job to do.

With declining sales, plummeting stock values, angry shareholders, confusion and confidence issues 🌜with the upper echelon of leadership, Ubisoft must, undeniably, must, make AC:Shadows a commercial success.

They simply can not af🧔ford for things to go anyꦰ direction but up.

Honestly, after watching the various trailers for AC:Shadows, if extreme polishing was not on the table, I wo🥂uld have been shocked, even more so a🏅fter Sony revealed their next title in the Ghost franchise.

If the focus is simply "historical a🐼ccuracy" expect a BIG shak🎶e up at Ubisoft in the near future.

Awesome, looking forward to it.

I had downloaded Stardꦗew again when I heard about the update several months ago (on PS5), but aft𒈔er the delay never bothered starting it up, now that we got a release date I'll got it ready to go. 👍

This isn't technically new,ꦓ sure it's the first time Sony has gone all scorched earth on a title, but it's the way❀ of the digital world.

Anyone who has been buying digital should know, upfront, they are NOT buying the games, these days even buying physical media your st😼ill not buying the game most o♛f the time.

What your paying for is a limited license to have access to the content for a duration that is influen🐬ced by various factors.

For example, your account standing on PSN, Xbox, Nintendo, Steam, Epic and so on, if you do things 🔯that cause you to become banned or other type things like that, you can have your purchased licenses revoked, aka, you lose them, because you never owned them in the 🅰first place.

When servers are shutdown for online only games𝓰, they tend to stay in a pﷺlayers library, but they do nothing, you get to see a icon, that does nothing.

Removing said icon really does nothing, but s💞ome might want to keep it as a reminder, I guess. However, there is no obligation for any of the companies to allow it to stay.

In the case of Con🧔cord, it was viewed as such a stain that Sony wanted it bleached from existence, with the only evidence of that existence left in the profiles of those who played.

Retro media, carts and older gen disks that never required a network connection are the only true games players purchased that were ever reallyও owned, everything els𒊎e is a license rental.

I agree with the sentiment behind the article, it's difficult to feel like some things are gone for good, especially when they ♎exude such n🍨ostalgia.

But much like🎃 the Minec🃏raft movie, perhaps the target audience isn't you.

I'm a 55+ year old gamer, I've seen franchises, characters, even entire worlds come꧟ and go, many of which have a special place in my heart. Am I sad their gone, sure, am I gloomy about seeing they adapted into s💦omething new, not at all.

I'm h🎀appy 🍎and excited to see some "old friends" again, I'm not sitting in frustration that their gone.

Truthfully, I feel the biggest takeaway I got from this article had nothing to do with the game or characters. Rather a jaded, cynical and overtly gloom & doom outlook on the industry that prevents seeing joy and excitement in what is an꧑d what could be, inst🌄ead of only what was.

Don't get me wrong, I not ওonly unde♍rstand but also agreed with some aspects in it.

Perhaps it's because of where I sit, with IRL friends no longer around that I used to play the classics with, that I can see again in memories as I play with these characters again, maybe that's w💎hy instead of seeing a gra🃏veyard I see PlayStations days of play, both those behind me and ahead.

*shrug*