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I find a lot of millennial devs like me are old, have responsibilities, kids, a family, barely have time to game. I bought a PS5, only own one game and I barel

I find a lot of millennial devs like me are old, have responsibilities, kids, a family, barely have time to game. I bought a PS5, only own one game and I barely play with it. I just have either no time or little energy to play. I wanna get Spider-man 2, but I know I'd just end up not playing it. Now the Nintendo Switch is another thing. I still play it quite a bit, especially the Zelda game. It's just so easy and convenient to pick up anywhere anytime. It boots up quickly and it's just so convenient. And that's it. That's life for a lot of us, squeezing in gaming here and there whenever there's time, whenever the wife gives the go ahead or whenever you've tackled your day-to-day responsibilities.

tcmart14 3y ago
As a millenial devs with kids, the switch is really the only reason I game for what you mentioned. Quick, easy and convenient. Also, my son is of the age of playing video games (7) and the switch just has good games to play two player with him on. (Time honored tradition of kicking the kids butt in Mario Kart).
- lotsofpulp 3y ago
  My main concern with games is avoiding the gambling. My kids are not old enough to video game on a console yet, so they just play some educational iOS game or maybe some from Apple Arcade. I used to play games on Xbox like Modern Warfare 2 and Halo, but I lost all interest many years ago. The games got too complicated, and as I understand, now you have to pay for more and more add ons. It all seems very complicated.
  - tcmart14 3y ago
    Oh yea, that is another thing I enjoy about the Nintendo ecosystem. I have co-workers who are single and still game a lot and the whole paying for add-ons to be competitive, or to get a feeling of completeness about a game and what not is something I really enjoy about the Nintendo ecosystem. Sure Nintendo games can have DLCs, but I've not met one yet where I felt like the DLCs were required to make the game feel complete or to be competitive (like map packs on Call of Duty). You can play BoTW without the DLC and still have a really good time, also really re-playable. Edit: Sure, Map packs weren't required. But it was shitty when all your friends had the map packs and wanted to play the new maps online and you didn't have them. But yea, I really hate the gambling aspects some of the big AAA studios have adopted.

tcmart14 3y ago

As a millenial devs with kids, the switch is really the only reason I game for what you mentioned. Quick, easy and convenient. Also, my son is of the age of playing video games (7) and the switch just has good games to play two player with him on. (Time honored tradition of kicking the kids butt in Mario Kart).

lotsofpulp 3y ago
My main concern with games is avoiding the gambling. My kids are not old enough to video game on a console yet, so they just play some educational iOS game or maybe some from Apple Arcade. I used to play games on Xbox like Modern Warfare 2 and Halo, but I lost all interest many years ago. The games got too complicated, and as I understand, now you have to pay for more and more add ons. It all seems very complicated.
- tcmart14 3y ago
  Oh yea, that is another thing I enjoy about the Nintendo ecosystem. I have co-workers who are single and still game a lot and the whole paying for add-ons to be competitive, or to get a feeling of completeness about a game and what not is something I really enjoy about the Nintendo ecosystem. Sure Nintendo games can have DLCs, but I've not met one yet where I felt like the DLCs were required to make the game feel complete or to be competitive (like map packs on Call of Duty). You can play BoTW without the DLC and still have a really good time, also really re-playable. Edit: Sure, Map packs weren't required. But it was shitty when all your friends had the map packs and wanted to play the new maps online and you didn't have them. But yea, I really hate the gambling aspects some of the big AAA studios have adopted.