for me, it would be Nintendo… In General
any time people are critical of something Nintendo-related it gets treated as a widespread boycott.
That way when the supposed “boycott” is inevitably unsuccessful, Nintendo devotees can sarcastically go “Another successful boycott, right??”
Has happened with every Pokemon release on the Switch since Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee
As someone who also enjoys Nintendo stuff, I find it pretty difficult to criticize Nintendo without a bunch of fans getting really defensive about it.
Like with this recent Switch 2 “boycott” narrative
there isn’t a boycott, it’s just simply people reacting to market conditions and overall economic conditions.
Wages haven’t met with inflation, games are getting expensive, times are hard right now with layoffs and a bad stock market. Prices for goods across the board are going up. Is it any wonder that people are just going to continue playing what they have or buy a cheaper (and maybe more powerful) alternative instead of being early adopters for a new console and 70-90 dollar games?
Star Citizen. textbook example of sunk cost fallacy. it might’ve been a normal fanbase at the start but over the years it has been whittled down to cash cows that keep pouring their disposable income into it hoping to get the second coming of christ, meanwhile the game is on a death spiral where since they have spent all the crowdfunding money they keep using the money from the previous round of ships they sold to make the next batch.
It’s really really fun when the defenders get angry at those pissed SQ42 got shelved in favor of them doing the mp part (to sell png the game) when it was how the project originally was pitched.
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