Personally they lost it when they didn’t incorporate 3DS backwards compatibility. Worst was that consumers were ok with that. Maybe it was because Nintendo could fool a younger generation with mediocre emulation.

People to this day want 3DS backwards compatibility but Nintendo isn’t to budge anytime soon. We gave that up when we accepted Switch with open arms and retired our 3DS. I was scoring New 3DSs for as low as $20. Tons of games left n right for $5 - $10 bucks. People abandoned the 3DS the same way people abandoned the NES back when the SNES first launched.

Nintendo handhelds had always had that niche of being backwards in compatible. Bringing the old to the new. But here we are. Yes the Switch 2 will play Switch games but there’s a whole 3DS line of games locked away in a whole other console format.

Now I’d you see the Switch game gallery, it’s a bunch of AAA games mixed with tons and tons of low quality flash-style games that look worse than a mobile phone game. Also, people aren’t stupid, they know what a decently powered machine is capable of playing/emulating.

This is true for the their frontpage at least. Many say it wasn’t a good knowledge base, I feel like it was. Specially for those who starting hobbies or running into issues. Also the most random knowledge would show up there.

If you were using it to get facts to form an opinion, I would say it wasn’t the best but then again, that style of research is difficult even without reddit.

I miss the good quality reads I’d get from it, but Lemmy is now that filler for me.