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Soundwave on 20 October 2016
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wombat123 said:
Soundwave said:

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm planning to buy one, hell I basically predicted this form factor over a year ago here and even was talking about Tegra for months. 

But still ... I can't help but feel like ... "that's it?". This is what was kept under secret and a "new concept" that was totally different from the Wii U (lol)? It has Mario and Splatoon and yeah that's cool, but this is basically just an amagalm of stuff Nintendo was already doing. 

The Super NES was a huge leap over the NES. The N64 likewise over SNES. Then GameCube over N64. Even Wii, while it was basically a rehashed GCN tech wise, the controller was earth shatteringly different for its time. Wii U was a full generation upgrade over the Wii with a new controller. 

Switch basically just seems like the Wii U "Take 2" ... this time done how Nintendo wanted to do it in the first place (with the chipset inside the tablet rather than requireing a seperate "console" for it, remember Nintendo even joking that they were trying to "minimize" the console as much as possible at that time?). 

There's nothing really new here. There isn't really much of a graphical leap from what I can tell either, Mario Switch looks marginally better than a Wii U game I guess, Splatoon and Mario Kart looked basically identical, Zelda looks identical, the Bethesda game is a port of a 5 year old game, NBA 2K looks like the PS3/360 version. It looks like they're going to take a lot of port dumps from the Wii U and try to sell those games all over again. 

Yeah, what Nintendo showed us was essentially everything I was hoping it wouldn't be.  It's like they just doubled down on the Wii U gamepad even though its biggest negatives was that its gimmick was too expensive and didn't add anything worthwhile.  All I wanted was a somewhat powerful Nintendo console with a cheap gimmick -- hell, I'd have been happy if they just made a Wii-HD and just doubled down on the wiimote.  Instead I get a tablet device that tries to do too much and doesn't have a defined audience outside of Nintendo fans -- just like the Wii U.

Yeah remember all the bruhaha over the Wii U tablet screen being such an unneccessary cost? Well now if you don't plan on using this as a portable, it's basically a wasted LCD display just sitting in the "toaster dock" doing absolutely nothing (plus the battery that needs to be inside of it), lol.