Soundwave on 25 October 2016
| theRepublic said: I have no idea what definition of inspired you are going with. Nintendo is trying to change the very definition of a home console here. Least inspired to me would be a safe evolution from the previous incarnation. Ignoring the different versions of handhelds that came out within a generation, I would say that would be either the SNES, Gamecube, GameBoy Color, or GameBoy Advance. So that is at least four I would put ahead of Switch. |
SNES introduced shoulder buttons (standard in every game controller today basically), the diamond layout face buttons (again standard), Mode 7 scaling, a large graphical leap, a helluva sound chip (thanks Sony), and the first "real" console 3D gaming with the Super FX chip.
GameCube brought optical media, a large graphics leap, analog triggers and other new things.
Switch does feel a little bit like the Game Boy to Game Boy Color or GBC to GBA leap though, I'd say one of those might be apt in comparison to the Wii U.
SNES and GameCube definitely felt like full generational leaps right out of the box.
