That’s kind of the point. What’s an Apple Arcade game doing on the switch at all? It’s just a money grab to sell a mobile game on the switch.

The fact that one lord is more benevolent than another doesn't mean that the feudal system, as a whole, is just fine.

This was a big issue with WiiWare when Nintendo shut down the Wii Shop. People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything.

Download is only one way to buy Switch games, and at least I'll still be able to use one console - compared to zero as soon as I stop paying my feudal obligations to Apple.

And despite that, you still failed to do it.

> because of iMessage: if I leave they can subtly “break” my access to messaging with people I care about (and have done so.)

Even if you made sure to unregister your phone number and email addresses from iMessage first? You can do this while still using an iPhone to validate that it's worked before you give it up.

ta, fixed

Consider the total hours games like BotW offer and divide that into the price. That might alter your feelings that game prices are too high. I know it did for me.

You say that like games aren't already kind of absurdly cheap for how much work goes into them. People used to pay $60 of 1980s money for, frankly, pretty shit[0] NES games. That's ~$150 worth of money today. $30 games are downright cheap and I'm continually impressed by how entitled gamers can be when they complain about modern game prices. People pay $30 for a decent meal at a restaurant FFS.

Which isn't to say that you should by a switch. If you don't think it's a good value then obviously you shouldn't. I'm just saying that not buying it because 'the games are too expensive' seems like a pretty unjustified complaint to me.

[0] Not all of them were shit of course, but the catalogue is 90% shit and people did buy a lot of shit games.

Do you really think Nintendo doesn't require an NDA? And that they take less than the 30% from Apple?