wombat123 on 21 October 2016
| Podings said: I'm not inclined to fully agree with your assessments here. I feel it doesn't the portable part better than the competition. I don't think it's too big, and I'm sure the battery life with be tolerable. The portable screen with joy cons might not be a cool thing for you and your friends, but it's huge thing to me, the way it's shown working on the plane in the trailer. I'll be using that shit all the time. And regarding it's home console potential. Nobody gives a flying fuck whether it's underpowered compared to the competition. It playes Mario Kart and Splatoon, and none of the others do. And the cartridge storage is almost a non-issue when stuff like Breath of the Wild and Skyrim are shown to be able to fit on there. So just to be fair, I think you're raiding some interesting points, but you may be reading a little too much of your own preferences into what others would think about this. |
I do to an extent. The fact that it may be underpowerd (fingers crossed that the dock adds power) means very little 3rd party support. Very little 3rd party supports relegates it into 'companion device' territory for the average gamer even if Nintendo decides to go for a unified library. I think for the NS to succeed based on what we know of it and what can logically assume of it, Nintendo needs to regain its lost casual/children's audience that was stolen from them by smartphones and tablets. They might be able to do it if they leverage their smartphone games well enough but I have my doubts on that front.
