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@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal 🔆 @finite@mastodon.social

🔆 @finite@mastodon.social posts on X about nintendo, $7974t, gaming, soc the most. They currently have XXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social topic influence nintendo 11.84%, $7974t 10.53%, gaming 3.95%, soc 2.63%, all the 2.63%, accessories 2.63%, xbox 2.63%, beverages 1.32%, virtual 1.32%, tarrifs XXXX%

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"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Nintendo put the anemic tablet SoC in the Switch because the Wii U flopped and they needed to get something with decent gaming performance and the portability factor out the door pronto. They used Nvidia's existing designs to launch the console to tremendous success"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:10:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I don't think motion control itself was a gimmick but I do think the Wii Remote is a gimmicky controller. All the modern console controllers are packed to the gills with gyroscopes and motion sensors they just tend to get implemented in more sublte ways"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:50:23 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@J3rryH0well @durandalcomplex So what the fuck were you talking about If not for plastic bottles and plastic lined aluminum cans all drinks would need to come in glass bottles because it is not safe to store beverages in metal containers"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-19 03:49:01 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I remember. The classic controller was available relatively early on but I didn't know a single person who had one and there were very few games that even supported it outside of the Virtual Console. Any game could have supported any controller they just chose not to"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:36:37 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Yeah those are misconceptions. The price of the Switch X was reasonable when it was announced before the tarrifs and it has not been raised. It's the games and accessories that they're getting really greedy with"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:23:15 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat In a lot of ways the Switch is just a perfect execution of the Wii U's main gimmick while ditching all the other gimmicky shit about it"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 14:00:56 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@1mf_dave @Liam_The_Nerd You're right the room is too small"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-21 12:43:14 UTC XXX followers, 2016 engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Wii Remote is a very awkward multifunction device designed to look like a TV remote. For games it's a pale imitation of a game controller for racing it's a pale imitation of a steering wheel. The only thing it's particularly good at is navigating the Wii's point+click UI"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:15:17 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I do not think the Wii Remote is good enough for that one particular niche to justify the cost of buying one even if it was still a thing"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:51:45 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"Another James Gunn W. People in the comments proving that all hate for this movie is driven by motivated reasoning"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-20 19:30:34 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Switch already has too many overpriced accessories. Adding another one to the pile would piss consumers off. it would wind up collecting dust like the Wii balance board when there were only a handful of games that used it. It would have been cool to support the old ones tho"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:42:03 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat For the record I could tell that you don't know much about the Switch most of the assertions you made about it are either wrong or extremely misleading. I suspect you'd get why it's popular if you had one"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:24:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@SkippysaFilmBro @Liam_The_Nerd I really dislike crowds so that would make me a lot more comfortable. I guess he's trying to demonstrate that the movie is unpopular but I'll bet a bunch of those seats filled up before the movie started. Also that's not an IMAX screen lol"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-21 12:50:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Wii never had good ports of cross-platform games what I only played first party games on it lmao"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:28:08 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@arhourigan Let's face it it would be a matter of heated debate even if it was explicitly canon"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-15 21:05:51 UTC XXX followers, 30K engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I didn't understand how the MIOS worked at the time so I was confused about why the Wii Remote died when I launched the game (mind you I had never even seen a Wii before this point) and she came over and started flipping her shit as if Super Monkey Ball X would brick her Wii"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:54:10 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Okay I guess but there were almost no additional peripherals that used the nunchuck port other than a more traditional classic controller and the steering wheel was a cheap gimmick"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:12:15 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat That meme has been following Nintendo for decades The Wii couldn't handle modern graphics at the time either"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:01:19 UTC XXX followers, X engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Wii U launched in 2012 and the Switch launched in 2017. Both of them were rushed and Nintendo is all out of sync with the console generation cycle now but mind you console generations used to be much shorter. For comparison they supported the 3DS for over a decade"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 14:05:35 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@SkippysaFilmBro @Liam_The_Nerd For reference the showing I went to was almost sold out on an early Thursday afternoon and it actually was a Cinemark XD screen"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-21 12:54:15 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Well yeah the Wii U is basically just a hyper overclocked gamecube woth a tri-core CPU so. It's hardware certainly did outlive it 😂"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:19:28 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Gamecube blew the PS2 out of the water and went toe to toe with the original Xbox that's why Nintendo got away with it on the Wii. You seem woefully uninformed about the Switch though. It is anemic but it has way more AAA game ports than the Wii could ever dream of"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:08:31 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Most Switch games use a pretty typical control style because the Switch is a more of a serious gaming machine than the Wii"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:36:26 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Like I don't really see how that's different especially with modern cars shipping oddly shaped steering wheels and since you can't really let go of it anyway who cares if the object you're holding it round The gyroscope is way more accurate too"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:31:55 UTC XXX followers, X engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I specifically remember the vast majority of AAA cross-plat releases skipping the Wii back then the only exceptions being severely cut down versions of slop franchises like Call of Duty"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:40:06 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Yeah I remember when my cousins first got a Wii I brought a bunch of Gamecube games over to their house and when my aunt saw us trying to play them she bitched us all out and started talking out her ass about how using a function that it was designed to do would somehow break it"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:46:06 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I have been fucking losing my mind at Nintendo fans' willingness to defend their charging $XX extra for a software manual that should be included with the Switch X so I definitely feel you there. I try to judge products on their actual merits instead of blindly fangirling"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:43:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@BroSter_J @Jaytheamazing_ @DaRealGIB @DiscussingFilm Also it will absolutely get there without question. It's already so popular that they're extending the theater window and not announcing the home video release date yet. In spite of that home video preorders have been intermittently sold out on every platform"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-20 19:25:37 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Idk what you mean. Technologically each individual Switch controller (including half a joy-con) blows the Wii Remote out of the water. How developers use it is obviously up to them"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:36:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@EternalXshine @tylerthecreator Drake fan spotted"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-20 11:54:29 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Wii U is actually a really good machine. It's got a vWii and an HDMI port which is nice in and of itself plus you can use Nintendont to play Gamecube games and a variety of homebrew to emulate any old Nintendo console"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:30:01 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Wii Remote only has an accelerometer and the Switch Pro Controller has a gyroscope"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 11:26:33 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat What We don't need a hypothetical for that because we have controllers with gyroscopes and games that utilize them as such. Maybe MK8 on the Wii U even supports Wii Motion Plus (gyroscope add-on for Wii Remote)"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:46:18 UTC XXX followers, X engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Like the Switch was rushed out because the Wii U was such a monumental flop that it was threatening to kill Nintendo's home console business for good"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 14:06:34 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Bro you cannot make that argument when you're praising the goddamn Wii. That thing was basically an overclocked gamecube when it launched into the HD era. My point was that the Wii sought mass appeal among the casual crowd while the Switch is more of a return to form"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:49:24 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I'm not really sure what you mean by "alongside the Switch" though. The Switch is fundamentally a successor to the Wii U they make no sense alongside each other in a product lineup"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 14:00:48 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Wii Remote has a lot of really annoying limitations. There is a reason the entire industry has pretty much settled on this controller design. For Microsoft's many faults and there are many they did put a lot of good research into coming up with the best game controller"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:01:56 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The Nintendo Switch has a Wii Sports port though so this is just not true"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:24:09 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat I guess not but corporations will never be willing to support things forever. The Wii collected dust on most people's shelves and the Wii U flopped. It was the end of the line for this particular technology it's not like Nintendo didn't try (and everyone else for that matter)"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:26:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat It would probably be too niche. The right joy-con already does all of the unique things that the Wii Remote could do and the other Switch controllers can't but there are like two games that use it and no masses clamouring for more"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 12:40:03 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat It was not that much cheaper I actually remember the prices. Wii Remotes were $XX nunchucks were $XX I think I got the steering wheels used for $XX because I was offended by the $XX pricetag on the new ones"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:13:12 UTC XXX followers, X engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Okay now I'm really confused. The Switch infamously can't handle modern graphics It's got the SoC from a cheap Android tablet in 2016 that's not surprising. The Wii infamously didn't even have an HDMI port and it's SoC is literally an overclocked GameCube SoC"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:01:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Developers didn't support a legacy control style because they wanted to fiddle with their motion control gimmicks. That's why I say it wasn't a serious gaming machine it wasn't really competing with the PS3 and Xbox XXX it actively marketed itself as something else"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:27:08 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat Maybe so but I think the Wii U's biggest problem was having the Wii's gimmicks tied around to it like an anchor. It also had the worst marketing campaigns imaginable right down to the name of the thing"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:58:24 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Starl3ng814 @BombardierKat The lack of a traditional controller in the box was a problem but hooking up a gamecube controller was always an option so I doubt that was the only problem. Wiis were being snapped up by boomers that wanted to play Wii Sports. The AAA game industry wrote it off as a casual toy"
@finitecrystal Avatar @finitecrystal on X 2025-07-22 13:18:04 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements