For $50? Good luck with that

No. Imagination gun fight and imagination milk cow look like the best of a bad lot. Imagination sword fight looks like a contest between 2 mental patients in the psychiatric ward. Give me 2 cardboard rolls and we can bonk the fuck out of them without a Switch. Imagination table tennis has produced the absolute best trailer for something loosely related to video games ever.






It's absolutely glorious.

It's very very different. Wii Sports capitalized on a fitness gadget craze at the time. Same as Wii Fit. When announced it was clear it was going to print money.

That no longer works, and 1-2-Switch doesn't even try to be fitness oriented. It has the feel of demo game for switch, slash weak mini games compilation with no Nintendo IP.

1-2 Switch is just...awkward. The Milking game is just uncomfortable to watch... The marble game is cool though. However, I don't think this game "clicks" as much as Wii Sports did.

Maybe so. After seeing the major success of Splatoon, I feel anything is possible with any game. It's hard to tell what will sell, and what wont.... Unless the game in question is genuinely crappy.

One of the cool things about Switch is that you could take it with you, and I want a game to be able to use if I take it to a friend's house, or they come to mine. 1-2 Switch totally fits that bill.

It looks like a great game to play with casual gamers, and also an amazing game to play while drinking. I don't think it has the same appeal as Wii Sports, but in some ways it's better. Like, I can't see my grandma playing it, but I WISH this existed when I was in college.

Probably. Core gamers tend to live in a bubble when it comes to this hobby and are frequently unable to gauge the selling potential of games that aren't familiar or aren't targeted towards them. When we saw games like Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Nintendogs, Brain Age and so forth, many of us just overlooked them and thought they were inconsequential when all of them ended up easily outselling our beloved franchises. I honestly believe that 1-2-Switch will sell well just based on the fact that it's a launch title and people are going to want something else to play besides Zelda. The worst case scenario I can see for the game is that it becomes a cheap bundle tie-in for the Switch this holiday.

Well, I'm pretty sure it will be at least a million seller (mostly because Japan), which is pretty impressive to me for what it is.

Will sell at Wii Sports levels? No
Will it sell 1 million+? I think it will.
Will it help Switch be more successful? Absolutely. It's probably the best game to demo out the Switch to family and friends and get them interested in the system. It's such a weird, but accessible game that'll it'll attract attention to Switch when you take this game out to parties.

Just something to think about: many casuals didn't merely buy the Wii. They bought the Wii for Wii Sports because it was an accessible family game. They paid $250 to essentially just play Wii Sports.

10 years later, it doesn't seem out of the question to me that even only a fraction of the same audience would buy the console + 1 2 Switch.

I'm not convinced that casuals have exited consoles entirely for tablets/smartphones. I think there's a good many like the idea of a social, living room game - which 1 2 switch of course provides.

It's the same concept as the Wii U, but it's a full fledged portable now. Even video kojima admitted that the switch reminded him of an evolution of what Sony was trying to do with the PS3 and the vita where you could take your hd games you play on your PS3 on the go. I will agree that the portable aspect will make the console more attractive to Japanese people who like mobile gaming