“But the investors” and it’s ruined.

I’ve seen many debate whether or not the love of money is truly the root of evil, but I know it is the death of creativity

I think this is a saying but when you make something for everyone you end up making it for no one

Bring back the free bundled game with every console. You need that one game that everyone plays even grandma.

Welcome to the world ruled by accountants, investors and Lawyers

Your videos give me hope. The world needs to feel magical again.

“Switch 2 is safe!”

released a sequel to the friggin kirby racing game from 2003

Disney Channel content is the perfect example of what I consider being 'too safe'.

I mean. when people try not to be safe, it gets called a "problematic" media that "glorifies" and "romanticizes" (insert anything).

Or its a "woke" "agenda ridden" "propaganda piece" reeking of "the message", you can't win unless you hit that sweet spot which culture warriors of both sides can't weaponize your work, so obviously corpos would want safe inoffensive media being put out.

For safe hardware/software i see that as companies either learning from the proprietary BS of the early 2000s, or we've reached a bottleneck in innovation, there's not much further to innovate on.

To make it easier to see, lets narrow it to just phones, like Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Blackberry, etc. These brands fell out of popularity because android/apple started dominating because both struck on novel(at that time) tech that ensured customers get pretty similar user experience(UX) only differing in hardware components across vsrious devices.

But if you were a tech enthusiast at that time you know electronics & gadget companies tried various stuff to sell you hardware or components, even consoles were in this game with stuff like multitap or gameshark, PS Eye, VR, etc for the PS.

Back to phones—If everything is "safe" or simple and similar enough to existing products, its easier to entice a large number of consumers to trying the new product. You can move to a Samsung to an LG or whatever android phone and minor custom OS differences aside its pretty much android under the hood, for apple, its just the same usual iOS with new features once you upgrade your device. Back in the 2010s? Pick any different manufacturer and you get a large variety of UX for the same features. Messaging in motorola won't be 1:1 on a nokia for example, some phones had radio or built in antenna TV or absurd toughness/waterproofing or "console gaming" capability like with N-gage. Apple had their various i-devices at that time before jobs had the smart idea to mash all those different things into the iphone. TLDR companies made new products to sell, but now we've likely reached the peak of innovation that the most "novel" stuff people make now are new AI spying technology like the zucc perv-glasses or AI "friend" stuff.

Nintendo themselves have admitted that they focused more on 'sticking to what works while improving performance' rather than making unnecessary changes with the Switch 2.
I'm totally fine with this because it feels just like the jump from the GB to the GBA.
Plus, with the current inflation, consumers probably wouldn't follow along if they tried to do anything too risky.
Hardware evolution is likely on pause for a while, and that goes for companies other than Nintendo, too.

I feel like you answer this question in the 3 minutes. For every Wii and Wii Sports there’s a Wii U, and while it’s getting some appreciation now. It was the console of theirs that had so much personality and people didn’t care. It was hated and sold poorly on release. The Switch was a huge experimentation that just so happened to work and sell well. They were essentially back to where they were after the Wii. For the switch 2, they decided to just make the og switch bigger and stronger and make it as visually distinctive (in this case take an away all the color). They learned their lesson after they made the wii u too quirky, and i mean it’s working the Switch 2 is one of, if not the fastest selling console ever. So to unfortunately defend the corporation it’s kinda the consumers fault for basically paying for the safer options. Which to your credit, you do say later on in the video.

I like how this goes hand in hand with your video about stuck culture. It's like we're all paralyzed and trapped in limbo from the bombardment of once in a lifetime crazy things that have happened since 2020.

My conspiracy theory is that Hollywood lobbied the government and textbook manufacturers to dumb down the curriculums over years so they could push lower quality media to an audience who wants their phones to think for them.

That ape noise at the end got me lol... thanks for not playing it safe with something like a cat's meow.

I think a major part of the problem is that 90% of companies are trying to constantly grow at light speed and make as much money as possible. They are also often stock holder driven. The incentives are wrong. Unless you have a remarkable visionary, this is not a recipe for creative products.

Everything is progressing towards grey goo. At least on the most accessible, most public-facing level. But thankfully we will always have the little guys making stuff that remains vibrant, experimental, and culturally healthy. I just wish more people would put in the minute amount of effort to seek out these other options instead of sticking with the same massive conglomerates that are responsible for our grey goo future.

There are fair criticisms of the Switch 2, but playing it too safe with the hardware is not one of them IMHO. Outside of Wii Sports, and a small handful of games, the average Wii game with motion controls felt contrived to me. 3D on 3DS was generally pointless, and literally eye-straining. Many DS/Wii U games didn't offer much other than a shortcut to a menu/map. So, it didn't need a new gimmick, but even so, it still has that with the mouse controls. Rather, the problem with the Switch 2 to me is Nintendo's greed/laziness with the games.

I will say Hollywood already is changing for the better with films like iron lung, coytee vs acme, buddy and even backrooms and obsession it still shows people will go to theaters for new ideas with a bunch of risk.

The mouse mode on switch 2 is a more experimental function than anything on switch 1. The form was radical but the games could easily work on PlayStation. There hasn’t been a great use of it, sorry wheelchair basketball rocket league, but it’s still a more novel function than anything on switch 1.

I thought that's what everyone wanted? A more powerful switch with more 3rd party support? I guess you could say argue was playing it safe with the GBA, the SNES and the 3DS too – Some of Nintendo's best selling consoles.

And they did add something new for the switch 2: Mouse controls.