| d21lewis said: I barely play mine lately, either. Logged in about 10 hours of NSMB U, purchased War Groove and really expected to love it like I did Valkyria Chronicles 4, Advance Wars, or Final Fantasy Tactics. Instead, I've been playing Pikmin 3 on Wii U when I'm home and watching movies and YouTube videos when I'm bored at work. Thinking back, a similar thing happened with my 3DS, Vita, and PSP. I just go through a phase where I'm carrying them around everywhere but never playing them. Then I get in the mood and the battery is totally dead or even worse, months pass and I NEVER feel like playing them again. |
I've finally come to the conclusion that I just don't care about portable systems or portable gaming. If I'm at home, I want to play on a bigger screen and, especially, with comfortable, adult-sized controls. If I'm not at home, then I'm probably either driving, with people, or doing something that requires my attention. When it comes to being in a waiting area for a short period, I'm fine with playing a simple mobile word game on my phone, especially since I'll have it with me anyway. If I have to wait for a longer period, and I know about, I'll take my kindle and do some reading. There is simply very little need in my life for a portable system.
About the only deviation is with games that I really wanted to play, like Persona 4 Golden, or that one time when a hurricane knocked out the power and I wanted a short break from reading. Otherwise, I'm not really interested.
Obviously, the Switch can output to a television, but I'm a third-party > first-party person, generally speaking, which makes the Switch less appealing right from the start, then on top of that I'm not interested in most Nintendo franchises or the style of game they typically produce. I'd like to have one for those few games I am interested in playing but it just isn't worth a purchase at this time when I know I'd barely play it.
