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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue.

I'm your host at Zittron.

And let's start with one point. Fuck Nintendo.

Back in February, Nintendo said that shortages of the Nintendo Switch will not be a problem

and came up with a genius, to quote multiple outlets, means of keeping scalpers from buying them all,

by requiring those buying on Nintendo.com to have at least 12 months of Nintendo online memberships,

as well as 50 combined hours of Nintendo Switch gameplay.

Two weeks before, launched Nintendo America boss, Doug Bowser, and yes, that is his name,

said that the company believed it would have enough units to meet consumer demand throughout the holidays.

Guess what?

They didn't make enough, and now the Nintendo Switch 2 is sold sold out everywhere with Scalpers charging hundreds of dollars extra on eBay.

If you're someone who's going to email saying you're easily able to buy one, you're an exception to the rule and you fucking know it.

Fuck Nintendo. They do this shit every time, creating artificial scarcity and then blaming it on unanticipated demand.

That they know will be there.

They do this every single time. They did it back with the fucking we. It happens every time.

I despise this company. They have this weird, fucked up relationship with consumers where they

turn them into pay pigs, where it's just like, hey, we're going to do a new Zelda game.

You want to do that dance for me, you little piglet.

And I say this as someone who's bought a Nintendo Switch.

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