To be fair. Netflix shouldn't need to make another one-off app. They should be able to port their Android app over and support both with the same fork.

Okay. So you need your phone to pair the Switch with to provide internet access. (Ugh.)

Then you need your phone to perform matchmaking.
You can't put your phone away as not all games have multiplayer matches that go for longer than a few minuits, one must assume you need to use your phone to deal with all of those logistics.

You also may be required to invite/uninvite people from your party, again requiring you to pull out your phone.

Then if you find someone who is annoying during the middle of a match and you wish to mute them, you again need to pull out your phone... And if you don't have headphones (I never carry mine) then you need to use your phone to talk into.

So yes. You will be required to juggle two devices... And this is only for the stuff we know about.

I do recognize that Nintendo decided to focus on other things.

However, they should not be above constructive criticism.

It was thanks to constructive criticism that got rid of the Kinect, lower price, more performance, removal of always-online DRM on the Xbox One remember and that benefitted everyone on the platform.

Or be in one of those rare places which offers free wifi.

But again, Switch doing what other things does wouldn't make it a device to purchase, say when it comes to the X1 Vs PS4, people say that the X1 is less appealing because it has less power and doesn't feature it's own exclusive software, obviously in the case of the switch it would have a fantastic developer making that exclusive software which you can only play on the Switch (Zelda on the Wii-u) But yeah, you would have the device as the place to go for Nintendo games over just your normal tablet for netflix and other free entertainment apps.

All I'm saying is Nintendo should not be making a person make the choice when they reach for a device of "do I pick up the cheap tablet, or my switch" they shouldn't put their games up against the unnessessary competition of something like netflix and youtube when it doesn't have to be there, they should have it so if a person is sitting down for tablet entertainment they pick up the Switch without question of what they want to do.... sure they might just use it to watch Netflix for an hour... or they might see a game on the E-Shop they wanted to buy, buy that, play it, it's the reason why the ps4/X1 want to be all in one devices, you sit at them for one thing, but you are in their closed environment then, if you want to buy spotify on the ps4 you need to go via Sonys psn store to get time for it, where they are free to advertise you games galore to tempt you into giving them more money.

To say that Nintendo has a strategy which invites putting their device down and not being the go to place for recreation time, is saying they are going with a strategy which gifts away free advertising to their rivals again... for the sake of an app which you can install on the damn Ouya lol.

Constructive criticism and the hardcore bithing and whining in the in the internet are two different things. The "constructive criticism" was also why we had Wii U in the first place.

I'm not getting why Netflix should not make another device specific app?

As for the matchmaking, you're just making a strawman argument over it while functionality is just your own assumption, because we simply don't know how it works.

You cannot point blame the consumer base for the WiiU bombing.
That was a disaster in Nintendo's own making, people voted with their wallets and wen't elsewhere.

Stop being apologetic.

Because they wouldn't be. Keep up with the conversation.

Are you being serious? Reggie stated that you will *need* to use your phone (Sucks if you have a Windows Phone? Or Non-Android/iOS based device?)
for matchmaking, lobbies, that kind of thing.
Of course there will be games which have slimmer options for matchmaking that doesn't require your phone...

And why are you defending this again?