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Nintendo Switch?

Amazing! 96 33.57%
 
Very good! 51 17.83%
 
Nice. 60 20.98%
 
Terrible. 29 10.14%
 
It will flop. It sucks. 50 17.48%
 
Total:286
SvennoJ said:
I don't see it. Every time I have played a ps vita / psn cross-over game on ps3 I came away underwhelmed. Big screen and small screen experience are different and often not interchangeable to me.

As a successor to the 3DS, sure. Although without the second screen BC for 3DS games is out too I guess. I've tried handhelds, never had much fun with them, just not for me. So the idea of games being tailored to be a good fit on handhelds is a downside to me.

I liked the gamepad features of Windwaker HD, but this bullshit excuse makes sense now
http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/gamepad-features-for-breath-of-the-wild-rejected-due-to-disrupting-gameplay

To me it's a WiiU with less options, now the gamepad is locked inside the dock if you want to play on the tv, no more BC, no more dual screen multiplayer. Bad trade for working anywhere in the house. (not that the wiiU console is hard to move around if needed)

“We realized that having something on the GamePad and looking back and forth between the TV screen and the GamePad actually disrupts the gameplay, and the concentration that the game player may be experiencing. You have your car’s GPS system on your dash. If you had it down in your lap, you’re going to get into an accident! Still, you can play the game entirely on the GamePad screen, if you like. Considering how vast the world is, it would keep you from monopolizing the TV." — Eiji Aonuma

I know a lot of people  just can't stand Pachter (I always enjoyed his Pach-Attacks), but when WiiU released that was one of his main issues with it.

OT: I'm not sure what the market for Switch is...apart from Japan, I really don't understand what demographic they're after.



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The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. Optimists are usually too optimistic. Pessimists maybe too pessimistic.

Unless it was the Wii U, I think that sold less than almost anyone expected, lol.



Switch is very interesting, different and despite concept practical product.
With right marketing and pricing definitely has chances to be huge hit.



Does this game have its own internet(4g) or is it wifi only. If it's wifi only its dead.

edit. I didn't realize that the tablet was the console. We will see how it turn out but as others have said the handheld market is declining and potential lack of 3rd party support could hurt it. But then again I never thought the wii would fly off the shelves.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

I dont see how this can stick out of all those ipads and mobilephones with controller attachments. On android you can play amlost everything you want with emulators and so on. And its much faster and comfortable.
If nintendo somehow made this thing fast, unlike wii u that was slow, then it could work. If battery holds for 20 hours full load.
Besides it doesnt look nice. It looks cheap. Where ps vita is very stylish and cool.



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hudsoniscool said:

But then again I never thought the wii would fly off the shelves.

Nintendo had a huge sellingpoint back then thanks to those motion controllers. From advertisements average people tought this really works. Besides Nes had something similar back then already. And with wii they improved it. But who would have known that the devs still incapable of making it work. 



SuperNova said:
bunchanumbers said:

Consumers look at things in the simplest of terms. Why buy this when a ipad does more, and gives access to ios? Why pay for this when it has a blurry 720p screen? Why pay for this when there are far more many tablets that offer more?

By chasing the blue ocean, they jumped into the reddest ocean on the planet. And I think they messed up bad. Instead of only facing Sony and MS, they are facing apple, samsung, lg, Sony, and every other mobile device on the planet.

They arent positioning themselves as a tablet though. They are positioning themselves as a gaming device first and fremost, wich is the smartest thing they could have done in this situation. There was not a single social media app/non gaming application shown in this teaser, not even mobile games.

They are firmly placing this in a space that is NOT in competition with Apple, Samsung and al of the other big fish and their marketing was clear and concise for once. That is my big takeaway from this reveal, personally their marketing was on point and that is going to go a long way of deciding if this thing becomes a success or not.

But they are positioning themselves as a tablet. Because they made a tablet. If they were positioning themselves as a gaming device, they would have made a home console, or they would have made a dedicated handheld. Instead, they made a tablet and are telling you that its something else.



It'll do great. I see it roasting the 3DS where launch sales are concerned but then falling in line with the 3DS sales after year 1. Later iterations could allow it to excel. Like a cheaper standalone portable $199, a $99 console/TV box and a 9" high end tablet version $349.

As a Nintendo fan who wasn't so hot on the 3DS or Wii U, this really fixes my issues with both. The 3DS was too dated for my tastes, I'm not as crazy about handheld gaming as I was a decade ago, also the scope of its games generally didn't excite me. It's a great handheld but as a casual handheld gamer, I never felt I had to have it. I used my brothers to play Pokemon and left it at that. Meanwhile the Wii U didn't have enough games and the box was too expensive for me to pick up just to play Smash Bros and Mario Kart with my family.

Nintendo consolidating it's two markets into one is the selling point for me. We have a super powerful, modern handheld (hopefully with tablet functionality) with large scale games from big franchises. The same system also just happens to be a home console great for the couch multilayer games many look to Nintendo for, and more games than the Wii U could dream of including a HD Pokemon RPG game.

Part of its power is in appealing to fringe fans by offering all of Nintendo's selling points and in one fairly cheap package. If it launches with Zelda and several Wii U games that I missed (splatoon, Smash Bros, Mario Kart), it's a day 1 purchase for me.



Warch dogs 2 sounds amazing! Is it an exclusive for the Switch?



They still appear to be aiming for two very different markets with one product, which has proven to the be downfall of the Wii U. Also, Nintendo's handhelds have been in a steep decline with the 3DS, and their answer if coming up with a console that is almost exactly like the most fierce competition in form factor? That doesn't seem very smart (pun very much intended), and detachable controllers have been around for some time but were never popular, there's a reason for that.

As the go-to alternative for simple on-the go gaming in small bouts, phones will still be king, bringing your friends out to the park or the basketball court to play local multiplayer is a highly unrealistic target for any console, more focus on online would make a heap more business sense at this point but they have yet to show a shred of focus on their famously poor online components. On the airplane; what sort of multimedia functionality will it have? Not a single mention of this. Can you have Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime on it, what formats does it support, codecs? Youtube integration, social media and sharing possibilities?

I'm sorry, but once more, they take a couple of market driving features, mix them up in a bowl and add their own zest to it, thinking it will start some revolution. Besides Pokemon Go, people just don't play games in the manner their trailer suggests, and they're likely not about to start. It seems like the classic "there's no real market for this but we will force one into being", add to the mix that they seem to be re-introducing Wii like controllers for mobile gaming, after a 4-5 year hiatus, and the confusion becomes complete.

You know what, after thinking on the whole thing some more, I have very little faith in this concept, game library and specs be damned (it will be beaten on both these fronts at any rate).
So, for home console gamers; it won't be cheap, probably, the competition will offer more power and vastly superior libraries of software as well as likely a lot more multimedia and online functionality, for the mobile bit, it provides little to no incentive over a smartphone, which thrive on free or nearly free and simple software with simplified controls and everything tailor-made for on-the go bursts of gaming out of the box. Delving into an open world RPG on the bus on a tiny screen and with click-on controllers or a flailing Wii like remote has an extreme obscure appeal in the real world.

They are set to butt heads with two markets once more, but from where I'm sitting, they'll end up with a huge headache at best and broken horns at worst. Quite honestly; I'm really worried about Nintendo right now if this is their master plan to remain relevant, or even a proper presence, in the console space. Of course, I could be sorely mistaken, and I hope I am for all our sakes.