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Should the Switch have a touchscreen?

Yes 32 74.42%
 
No 11 25.58%
 
Total:43
Soundwave on 21 October 2016
MohammadBadir said:
Soundwave said:

It has a touchscreen. Emily Rogers and Laura Kate have both said so, and since they basically got everything else right I'd say they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Besides, it would be completely idiotic not to have one anyway. How would Mario Maker work on NS? How would DS/3DS Virtual Handheld work? Let alone just OS and modern game play it would gimp the system in many other aspects. What if Nintendo wanted Super Mario Run or Pokemon Go or versions of some of their mobile games?

Who the hell even makes LCD panels of that size that aren't touch based, lol. It's not 2003 anymore.

Are you suggesting handheld-mode-only games?

Uh yeah?

Switch has to accomodate ALL of Nintendo's IP, not just some. 

How is a Mario Maker game supposed to work? How is DS backwards compatibility/VHH supposed to work? What if Nintendo wants to make a new Brain Training? Or Clubhouse Games? A new Nintendogs? Or a touch-based Kirby game? This has to be able to play them all, not just some of them. 

It has a touchscreen anyway. It's already been confirmed by multiple sources who got everything basically correct, so this is not really a "debate". It has it. 



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Ljink96 on 21 October 2016

Also rumored that it is touch based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeF-9Bexv0

Mario Maker is rumored also to be a title for the Switch and will use these touch feature.



V-r0cK on 21 October 2016

Definitely. Nintendo would be stupid not to.



Zkuq on 21 October 2016

No. It adds to costs, and most of the time, you can't even take advantage of it because you'll be playing on your TV anyway. Unless it costs very little to add, it's just not worth it.



teigaga on 21 October 2016
Zkuq said:
No. It adds to costs, and most of the time, you can't even take advantage of it because you'll be playing on your TV anyway. Unless it costs very little to add, it's just not worth it.

It costs very little to add



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Zkuq on 21 October 2016
teigaga said:
Zkuq said:
No. It adds to costs, and most of the time, you can't even take advantage of it because you'll be playing on your TV anyway. Unless it costs very little to add, it's just not worth it.

It costs very little to add

Well, I guess I'm all for it then.



Soundwave on 21 October 2016

It has it. It's like being panicked that it doesn't have a rechargable battery and Nintendo's going back to having to buy batteries from the store like you did in the 90s because the teaser trailer didn't explicitly mention it.

No one cares about touchscreen anymore, it's a standard feature, there's no reason to show it in the trailer. A $40 kids toy tablet has a touchscreen these days. 



Mummelmann on 21 October 2016

If it doesn't, it will be seen as a lacking feature for sure, but if it does it will be compared even more directly to regular tablets, which isn't wholly positive from where I'm sitting.

I honestly don't understand the grand plan with this device right now, maybe they'll shed some more light on the situation soon. I'm also concerned at their apparent lack of focus on online, once again, that is something that you simply cannot ignore in the modern market, local multiplayer on a small screen with small, detachable controllers has a very, very limited market in my opinion.



Soundwave on 21 October 2016
Mummelmann said:
If it doesn't, it will be seen as a lacking feature for sure, but if it does it will be compared even more directly to regular tablets, which isn't wholly positive from where I'm sitting.

I honestly don't understand the grand plan with this device right now, maybe they'll shed some more light on the situation soon. I'm also concerned at their apparent lack of focus on online, once again, that is something that you simply cannot ignore in the modern market, local multiplayer on a small screen with small, detachable controllers has a very, very limited market in my opinion.

It has a touch screen. 



Ultrashroomz on 21 October 2016

Having a touchscreen on a portable device is pretty much a standard at this day of age.

Switch not having a touchscreen would be unacceptable.



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