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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 month ago

Nintendo switch had 527 games released this year

Xbox had 355 games

PS5 had 395 games

I'm sure there are other factors (like quality of the games, platform exclusivity, etc), but switch is still doing pretty good for an 8 year old console that's too weak to run new multi-plat games.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There were too few submissions for the Best Nintendo Switch category this year. The award committee, therefore, decided to cancel the category.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 15 points 1 month ago

I would assume they're taking about platform exclusives. I bet Nintendo is the only company making games just for Nintendo platforms. Any other company making games for the Switch has a strong inventive to port their game to other, more powerful platforms.

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

I'll add that according to that site:

  • switch has 11,439 total games
  • xbox series has 3,285 total games
  • PS5 has 2,699 total games
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 month ago

How many of those PS5 games are actually PS4 games?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago

And how many of those Switch games are multiplat indies?

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

And how many of each of those is just shovelware?

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

That's fine. Nintendo would probably sue them for copyright something or other anyway. Like they do to everyone everywhere.

[-] zfirerose@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

What does that even mean...? Sue them for an award?

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

They sued people for competing in a competitive game they made, so they're not above it.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Is this true? What's the story here?

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Super Smash Bros. has a long history of contention with Nintendo.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Enough for something to actually end up in court? Because that's pretty specific

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour ‘without any warning’

Said tournament was going to have the largest ever prize pool of $250,000.

Given the company’s aggressive copyright enforcement, this isn’t the first time that Nintendo has forced grassroots competitions using its games to stop operating, having similarly shut down a Super Smash Bros. tournament in 2020. Nintendo also notably ordered Evo — the world’s largest fighting game tournament — to shut down a planned Melee event in 2013 before reversing the decision.

The Smash World Tour said it will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of the shutdown but reassures all attendees of the canceled events that they will be issued full refunds.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

Not a lawsuit, but I agree that's pretty nasty

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Presumably if they didn't comply it would have been a lawsuit

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

More like waving around legal orders against people who comply because they can't afford to challenge them in court. For this and other reasons, fuck Nintendo.

[-] zfirerose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know but the joke doesn't make sense in that context. They would not be using their property; they would recognize them for it.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I would be unsurprised if Nintendo tried to sue a Patent Office for looking at Nintendos name on their own damn patent submission.

At this point they'd probably sue their employees for uttering character names outside of work.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

It doesn't need to make sense. It just needs to paint companies in a bad light.

[-] zfirerose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I mean whatever, if you hate Nintendo that's one thing but the joke is such a stretch, lol

It's not a matter of whether you hate them or not

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

You seem to have misunderstood what I said. I was being sarcastic, taking the role of the person making the joke.

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