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I was a proud day 1 owner of the Nintendo WiiU, I was very skeptical of the WiiU until I saw the WiiU exclusive Rayman legends the game sold me on the WiiU potential. Little did I knew that Rayman Legends would do more than just miss the WiiU release windows but eventually get delayed to September 2013.

Looking back now I would never have expected that the WiiU launch would have been the height of success for that consoles and never anticipated the many software’s droughts, complete disappearing act by 3rd parties and the life cycle would only last less than 4 years. (WiiU pretty much life cycle ended with the Nintendo Switch announcement in my books) 

Here we are less then 2 hours away from a Nintendo stream promising a new day for Nintendo and hyping the start of yet a new hardware cycle for Nintendo. The painful early death of the WiiU can be replace by possibly the best Nintendo launch lineup in its history.  The Nintendo switch doesn't seem to have the attention of most third parties. But, they might of gotten the attention of the one Third party that can make a difference with Square Enix.  

My main concern going into tonight stream is battery life, price and third party support. Nintendo can really get me on board If the Nintendo switch can combine my 3DS and WiiU and finally get decent third party support (talking about games that I can't get or want to play on PS4/Xbox 1). I just hope that Nintendo is straight foward with us tonight and answer our questions rather then leave us with more uncertainty.  

 

 

 

 

 



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*shrugs* I dont know.

I did go to my gamestop and got them confirm they will have 50 Switches up for pre order tomorrow!



Not sure about the third party.......... But its going to have a UNIFIED FIRST PARTY SUPPORT. Meaning we will get to see the next Pokemon, Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, Fire emblem and Splatoon on 1 system.

If all of these fan base buys the Switch......... thne Third party devs may start developing games for it because of its high user base.

Nintendo needs to make the first move. And I feel like they will!



Pocky Lover Boy! 

Nope. Don't buy it. Wait 3 years, rent the thing and play all the games you wanted, then return the whole thing. I imagine you could do this with Gamefly and maybe a couple weeks worth of rental.



Nintendo's never been made a fool twice. When they fail, they come back twice as hard. I'd say that my expectations are high and Nintendo could meet them if they play all their cards right. Being the first commercial hybrid from the big 3, there's so much that could go wrong and so much that could go right.

I keep hoping that they don't spend half the stream talking about Wii U ports, that would be a huge fail for me. I want them to show off at least 1 new IP and revivals from Metroid, F-Zero, and of course the next iterations in Mario, Zelda, etc.

I'm going to be frank with you, if 3rd party is what you want, if WESTERN third party is what you want...you might want to set up camp with Playstation, Xbox, and PC. There will be a lot of smaller western devs making games for Switch, and maybe 7th gen and a handful of 8th gen ports but Switch is mainly going to be a Japanese content system. It's essentially going the be the 3DS on crack in terms of software.

Battery life, I'm expecting 3-5 hours which most devices do these days. I think the Switch is going to be something that lasts a very long time at Nintendo.



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Ljink96 said:
Nintendo's never been made a fool twice. When they fail, they come back twice as hard.

Oh yea, like when they released the Nintendo 64 and got massacred by the Playstation, then released the Gamecube and massacred the Playstation 2, right? 



Sounds to me like a solid No as I don't expect the third party support you are hoping for to be in the initial wave of Switch information from them.



If full third party support is an absolute must for you then no probably not.



Ljink96 said:
Nintendo's never been made a fool twice. When they fail, they come back twice as hard. I'd say that my expectations are high and Nintendo could meet them if they play all their cards right. Being the first commercial hybrid from the big 3, there's so much that could go wrong and so much that could go right.

I keep hoping that they don't spend half the stream talking about Wii U ports, that would be a huge fail for me. I want them to show off at least 1 new IP and revivals from Metroid, F-Zero, and of course the next iterations in Mario, Zelda, etc.

I'm going to be frank with you, if 3rd party is what you want, if WESTERN third party is what you want...you might want to set up camp with Playstation, Xbox, and PC. There will be a lot of smaller western devs making games for Switch, and maybe 7th gen and a handful of 8th gen ports but Switch is mainly going to be a Japanese content system. It's essentially going the be the 3DS on crack in terms of software.

Battery life, I'm expecting 3-5 hours which most devices do these days. I think the Switch is going to be something that lasts a very long time at Nintendo.

There's always a first but I think Nintendo will learn from the failures of the Wii U. I'm more interested in how the Switch and 3DS (or its successor) will coexist. I believe Nintendo has said that the Switch will not phase out the DS line but I can't see them both working on par. I'm definitely excited to see what Nintendo has to offer, even though it's unlikely I'll ever get a Switch.

EDIT: As AngryLittleAlchemist mentioned, Nintendo did get slapped around twice in a row with the N64 and GC.



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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Ljink96 said:
Nintendo's never been made a fool twice. When they fail, they come back twice as hard.

Oh yea, like when they released the Nintendo 64 and got massacred by the Playstation, then released the Gamecube and massacred the Playstation 2, right? 

Okay, that ONE TIME. But 64 was still a success. Just not as big as PS1. Same story with GC and PS2. GC wasn't as popular but Nintendo still posted great profits in those days. It's all about software sales really. 

But When Nintendo throws that Nintendo Haudoken, you ain't dodging that worth shit.