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Funny you say that because I mostly only buy used I bought a used PS5 on Ebay and buy used games, I did splurge on Ghost of Yotei first game I've bought new since I bought a PS5 two years ago, so I'd say my complaints have meaning according to you.
Why not? The deck is literally cheaper than the Switch 2. Even at launch. What excuse does Nintendo have?
Well... Yes and no. The shader cache uses more storage not ram. The shaders compile either way. The only difference is that you're loading pre-computed shaders off your drive instead of recompiling them every time. As for the UMA buffer (aka the VRAM) the amount you set it to is the base amount of video memory reserved for the GPU. It can and will dynamically allocate more memory to the GPU if you need it too. It could even technically allocate like 14GB to the GPU and 2GB to the CPU. Although no game that only uses 2GB of ram would realistically use 14GB of video memory.
It's funny, I remember when I thought Nintendo could do no wrong.
Console manufacturers must love you. You're so damn gullible. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, have NEVER taken a loss on any console. That is nothing more than a marketing gimmick to make gullible people like yourself believe you are getting a better deal than you are actually getting.
thats why the gamecube won that generation right?... well wrong... gamecube came in 3rd place and before the wiiu it was the worst selling home console by nintendo.
I've always wondered about that claim.
You must be too young to know any better, but they gave you a deal on the console hardware because game prices were much higher back then, especially when adjusted for inflation. Not to mention the price of accessories. At launch there were DVD players that cost more than a PS2, and Blu-Ray players that cost more than a PS3.
True, but its power wasn't the reason for its poor sales. Nintendo decided to learn the wrong lesson from that generation.
It's never been indefinite. The more units you manufacture, the cheaper it becomes to manufacture them, and a couple years later hardware sales become profitable. The initial loss on each unit has never been anything crazy either AFAIK, usually around $50 or so. Still, assuming Nintendo profits $100 on each Switch 2, that's $150 which could've gone toward a better CPU, or a better screen at the very least.
I mean...anyone that's played Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on PC can tell you that much. That game absolutely required mods just to have decent performance AND a functional multiplayer.
As pointed out, the Steam Deck version of Elden Ring was actually quite bad early in the Steam Deck's life time. And it didn't seem like FromSoft was going to fix it any time soon (since they didn't officially support Linux), so Valve had to fix it for them. Much like modders had to fix Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on PC, because it was such a terrible port of an otherwise solid game.
