• d00ery@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    As a PC gamer I would never condone such a statement about my console brethren (and sisters), but lol.

    The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out today – as expected, it is a bare-bones story supported by a cavalcade of Nintendo cameos and bright action scenes. Dubbed “a bland screensaver of a movie” by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, expect smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers.

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      3 months ago

      Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.

      ~ Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer

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        • lol

          They literally make games for the lowest common denominator and everything on the Switch 1 and 2 is so much worse than anything they’ve ever made prior to these systems. They look nice, but they are pretty brainless to play, geared toward young children, the elderly, and people who have never ever played a video game before.

            • I think the Nintendo fanboys need to take a step back and look what is actually being said.

              They are smooth-brained games for smooth-brained players. As in they are basic, simple, and hand-holdy. There is no challenge. You basically do not need a brain to enjoy Nintendo games.

              That isn’t meant to imply they can not be enjoyable. But there was a time when Nintendo made games that were way more complex than anything they have made in the last few years.

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      3 months ago

      Is it bad that smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers sounds about exactly what I’m equipped to handle right about now?

      Like zoning out to some seriously tepid nostalgia-slop sounds good.

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        3 months ago

        Last time I checked Mario Bros was supposed to be happy and fun and simple not an art house intellectual experience.

        I wonder if a lot of the reviews are just the bitterness that it’s going to be a 1.5B movie and that ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office these days, very rarely to they even make $100mil

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    3 months ago

    Gaming is cheaper than ever. Just don’t buy new games. I haven’t bought a new AAA game in decades. There are thousands and thousands of games you can play for free or nearly free.

    It’s like music. You can listen to lifetimes worth of music for free or nearly free. The only expensive thing is going to some fancy concert and giving a ton of money to Ticketmaster.

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      3 months ago

      Well, you still need something to play it on. And since GPUs and RAM costs about a child and a half these days, I’d say it’s quite expensive.

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    3 months ago

    Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.

    The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.

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      The only people with money to spend are the upper-middle class consumers. Incomes of 100K+. 60% of consumer spending across the USA comes from people in this bracket… and for people under 100K income, spending is going down. Only 18% of USA population makes this level of income…

      Hence if you want to make money, you have to move your products up-market to appeal to people who have all the disposable income to spend. This trend is all over the economy. Travel, clothing, food, etc.

      The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over, because they are broke, so nobody gives an F about them.

      Going forward it’s about fewer sales, but higher margin sales.

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        The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over

        It’s not over forever. We’ve had K-shaped recoveries in the past, which is why we have a name for it.

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          3 months ago

          nobody is investing in the lower or middle classes. they are de-investing.

          everyone is investing in the rich people. especially other rich people who are trying to grow their businesses.