Variety.Gamer 4438
Always start again
My sister came up with the idea that similar to how cars nowadays break down on purpose as a way to get the consumer to shell out money for repairs, Nintendo and other game companies may be designing crappy controllers on purpose in order to make more money off of consumers buying warranties for their controllers and eventually buying new controllers altogether when the warranties expire.
If there is any truth to this, this is a very shady and unnecessary practice imo for video game companies to undergo especially with all the plethora of ways they make money already, i.e. collectibles for use in games, spin-off board games, and paid DLC just to name a few. I'm just not so sure I want to support Nintendo in this practice and I am thinking about just playing my retro systems' video games, as well as more computer games, for the most part and no longer buying Nintendo's new products and games until Nintendo decides to fix their controllers and bring them back to how they used to be.
If there is any truth to this, this is a very shady and unnecessary practice imo for video game companies to undergo especially with all the plethora of ways they make money already, i.e. collectibles for use in games, spin-off board games, and paid DLC just to name a few. I'm just not so sure I want to support Nintendo in this practice and I am thinking about just playing my retro systems' video games, as well as more computer games, for the most part and no longer buying Nintendo's new products and games until Nintendo decides to fix their controllers and bring them back to how they used to be.