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leam1983 · 2 years

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On Weird Narrative Choices

TechTubers might not think of themselves as creating stories, but the modding and homebrew scenes absolutely love walking a third party through the minutia of sticking a Raspberry Pi Pico or custom-ordered breadboard or PCB into Ye Olde Video Game Console for the sake of re-enabling features or expanding on a "reduced" model. Case in point, Macho Nacho Productions' soldering of SD and Memory Card slots onto a Wii Mini's motherboard, in order to re-enable features lost in Nintendo's shot at reduflation.

What's reduflation, you ask? It's a portmanteau of reduction and inflation, in which you take a given object, strip it down and then sell it either for the same price as the original design, or at a discount that's not really representative of the features lost. It's a design trend that inspires everything between "jumbo size" bags of chips being of the same exact size as last year's Regular-size bags, to electronics manufacturers portioning out a section of their inventory for a pared-down, supposedly "budget" version of their main offering.

Take the PS3, for instance, and its total of three instances, from the fat front-loader to a motor-operated top-loader and finally to the old reliable Push Button and latch-based slim top loader. The practice fits, but Sony's earning brownie points here, seeing as the PS3 Slim's two models are not just the object of cost cuts, but also of design improvements. This isn't quite the case with the Wii Mini. The red-rimmed console has the exact same board as its bigger cousin, the controller ports and memory card readers simply aren't soldered in. You can see the spot where there'd be joins on the PCB; there's simply nothing there.

Now, my gripe is with content creators who say that "for some reason", Nintendo would've chosen to do this. If you're going to tell a story, at least be thorough and mention that the early two-thousands saw a small electronics-related market crunch, which made some of the components needed to assemble and solder GameCube ports and Memory Card slots pricier than usual. Nintendo simply decided to pivot and to dedicate a measure of its inventory to a second-tier selection that wouldn't be affected by these increased costs, thereby maintaining the Wii lineup's profit margin.

In effect, the Wii Mini was made in the same kind of bull market that made GPUs very difficult to buy at MSRP, up until fairly recently. It wasn't drummed up "for some reason" - executives are far too money-hungry to not see the benefit of a costs-to-benefits adjustment.

Things are slightly different, nowadays. Microsoft is going to keep dividing its XBOX offering into incremental tiers to maintain the core offering's supposedly-premium status, Sony's more than likely exploring revised-cost editions of the PS5, and Nintendo's already broken through with the Switch Lite.

As for the opposite - trumping up a Deluxe build with artificial scarcity - Nintendo's smart about not pushing its OLED Switch too hard, or in not really quashing fan speculation about a Switch Two, Switch Pro, Switch Super or what have you. What they want is to create a situation where the Big Box retailer of your choice is left free to pout at you and say "Aw, shucks - sorry about your Super Mega Console Edition; we're not expecting new stock for the next three weeks. I can put you on a wait list; or maybe hit you up with a perfectly-serviceable Core model, with which That Game You Want is already fully compatible..."

That Gamer Envy model you want so much exists solely to drive up sales of the core model you were perfectly content with until the Company announced a slight uptick in processor speeds or an OLED screen that gives you barely darker blacks with no real upticks in performance.

In other words, they want you to make the stupidest choice you could make for the sake of firing off those dopamine and serotonin receptors - and saying that some stock management-related decisions are part of some cryptic and unknowable process we can't ascertain further propagates the notion that consumers of a market as volatile as the gaming culture's are at the mercy of its suppliers.

We aren't. Educate your viewers, don't make publishers and manufacturers pass for the Wizard of Oz. Lift the fucking curtain.

#gaming #gaming market #games industry #nintendo #wii #wii mini #modding #advocacy #consumer rights

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probsnothawkeye · 2 years

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There are only 3 acceptable ways to play golf:

1) Not at all.

2) Mini golf

3) Wii golf

#i hate golf so much its such a waste of space #mini golf and wii golf are great though #and dont destroy the environment by filling it with chemicals and removing biodiversity #the best way to play golf is not to play golf #anyway this is inspired by my brother playing wii golf the other day #pine throws thoughts into the void of tumblr

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chloesimaginationthings · 1 month

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⭐️Hey you want some Stone ocean miis,,,⭐️

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pocketscribbs · 1 year

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How About Tangle Playing Some Nintendo Video Games And Got Really Exicted About It While Playing Them!

she was playing wii boxing🥊

#got a little TOO excited #but what else is new #sonic the hedgehog #idw sonic #tangle and tails #tangle the lemur #miles tails prower #my doodles #mini comics #asks #wii sports #sonic fanart #sonic the hedghog fanart #sonic comic #my art

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arrozconlecheeee · 6 months

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I redrew some doodles from earlier this year on my priv twitter(о´∀`о)

Song: Supermassive black hole - Muse

#I remember when I first drew these a couple months ago it was between SMB by muse or Toxic by Britney Spears #hpma #harry potter magic awakened #hp magic awakened #hpma mc #hpma oc #harry potter #I wish I could show you guys the little mini fic my friend wrote a while ago bc that’s what I was referencing here #Christian just really likes dueling #he’s a little unhinged:)#Christian and Riley have dueling #Daniel and Riley have dance club #hehe #Riley has his tie around his wand is like Wii remote strap logic that’s how I best explain it #my art tag

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wiidoodles · 1 year

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Do NOT disturb! (◣_◢)

Lil Bonus:

#the quarry #hackearney #travislaura #travis hackett #laura kearney #fanart #mini comic #ship art #the quarry fanart #wii doodles #goin back to my roots #sorry its not in color the stars were NOT aligned for me to think abt color theory

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luckykittyzine · 8 months

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New redesing of him :3

And him

#Mini Minus Austin #Tiny Minus Eteled #wii deleted you #wdy corrupted mii #wdy #wdy au #friday night funki minus

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glitchmaker · 10 months

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I'm tired of people being like "if you were born after 2002 you wouldn't even know what a Nintendo DS is"

First of all, I wanna slap them in the face

Second, I own a 3DS XL, a new 3DS XL, a DS Lite, a Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Switch, and got a GBA for my 17th birthday SPECIFICALLY to play Game Boy games like Super Mario Land.

Like, idiot, do YOU even know a console named the "Pokemon Mini" exists?!

And half the time, they don't!

#i know what im about #nintendo #nintendo 3ds #nintendo 3ds xl #new nintendo 3ds #nintendo wii #ds lite #game boy #game boy advance #nintendo switch #super mario land #pokemon mini #nintendo fan

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yourbeginneranimator · 5 months

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Very tall

Also I hope y’all had a nice Christmas

#rhythm heaven #tap troupe #I got a wii but my RHF copy ain’t coming until Wednesday😔#so I had to improvise by playing videos of RHF mini games on my computer and act like it was a tv

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rarestdoge · 1 year

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Hey Cam! Do you like to play sports? If not, what's your favorite video game?

"In more detail, I played a shit ton of basketball back in my high school days, and I was one of the best players on my team! It's just a small hobby of mine nowadays, though."