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Is Nintendo done with home consoles?

Yes. Their switch to mobi... 185 42.82%
 
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Some of you seem to be really threatened by the Switch, trying to spin things in very funny ways.



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Mar1217 said:
CladInShadows said:
You're arguing semantics and trying to place labels on things. It plays games at home, and plays games on the go. Whatever you choose to label them after that description is pointless.

Definitely complement my earlier statement about how this topic was mostly useless since it was obvious since the beginning that nobody was going to convinve anyone with their argumentation.

People already took stance on this matter since last october so I don't know why people keeps making this kind of thread.

Some of us had the stance since long before last October though... Even before Eurogamer's rumors, I had my position... once Nintendo said it would launch in March, I said, "it is a hand held" and have stuck to it despite scrutiny ever since.



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bonzobanana said:
Yomieeee said:
Sorry but with Breath of the Wild coming out on it, it's pretty hard to see it as just a handheld. It's almost as if it's some kind of hybrid console... nah that's too crazy.

I'm fairly sure Breath of the Wild runs in portable mode unless you have some new information that states it only works when docked.

If your making the point about its performance level well the wii u has less memory, cpu and gpu performance than some phones nowadays so its hardly a title that requires a powerful system. It's more like a refinement of Zelda Windwaker and twilight princess on the gamecube graphically which ran with a 8 gflops gpu. It seems if anything to be at a mid point between the 2 styles of graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRlDXGj0TPA

Simple question, what would you classify Breath of the Wild as? Handheld console experience or home console experience?



zorg1000 said:
the power argunent makes no sense, so Wii wasnt a home console because it was alot weaker?

Yes. Also, once newer consoles come out and make their predecessors less than an 8th of the power, they too become handhelds. Case and point, the NES.

 

What's so hard to grasp, people?



Fine, its a handheld. Now please stop complaining about the graphics.



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Yomieeee said:
bonzobanana said:

I'm fairly sure Breath of the Wild runs in portable mode unless you have some new information that states it only works when docked.

If your making the point about its performance level well the wii u has less memory, cpu and gpu performance than some phones nowadays so its hardly a title that requires a powerful system. It's more like a refinement of Zelda Windwaker and twilight princess on the gamecube graphically which ran with a 8 gflops gpu. It seems if anything to be at a mid point between the 2 styles of graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRlDXGj0TPA

Simple question, what would you classify Breath of the Wild as? Handheld console experience or home console experience?

I know this question is meant for someone else and it is a, "trap" question but I have to say that it is a poor question that has ends that do not justify the means. For example, Monster Hunter is clearly a home console experience but it is not on a home console. We have been seeing games like MvC on hand held devices with almost complete home console parity since before Switch, so to say, "I see it as a home console because there is a home console game on it..." like Smash is not on 3DS and Wii U is... ignorant to the current state of hand held gaming.



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AnthonyW86 said:
It's funny to see how many people are comparing the Switch to the Wii-U in a thread that argues that Switch isn't an home console. It would make more sense to compare it to the 3DS in that case.

Personally i think it should be compared to 3DS+Wii-U combined.

That's a fair point. But I'd say the software output is not exactly 3DS+Wii U. Considering Nintendo seems to be putting out mostly Wii U level games (HD, big worlds, online, etc), they can't put out such a big amount of games. It should me more than Wii U or 3DS individually, not combined.

In any case, 3DS year one is a pretty bad for software. Nintendogs, Ocarina of Time 3D, Star Fox 64 3D, 3D Land, MK7, Kid Icarus and RE: Revelations are the most notable. 2 remakes, 1 shovelware; the rest are fine.



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Then the Switch is a very powerful handheld that can run BotW. Amazing tech from Nintendo and Nvidia, worth of 500 years of engineering.



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I believe Nintendo stopped making home consoles after the N64. The Gamecube had an handle, so tecnically it was an handheld.



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