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Miyamotoo on 27 October 2016
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

 

I think hole point of Switch is to be "jack of all trades, but master of none" at price of a just home console. With good price, good marketing and good launch lineup, can be very attractive for both home console and handheld lovers, not to mention that will certainly be interesting for some casuals also.

Lets be honest the main buyers for this thing are going to be 3DS owners.

This isn't going to compete with a PS4/XB1, with the revelation of no HDD today, it likely cannot even run a lot of the big AAA home console games as some of those games are the size of an entire 128GB SD Card. 

Who said it will compete with PS4/XB1!? But actually can be very interesting secondary console for PS4/XB1 owners. Why would Switch need big HDD when with cartridges they don't need to instal games!? Saying that some of AAA games take whole 128GB means that ond standard XB1/PS4 can be instaled only 4 games, digital or disk (beacues they need to be instaled in order to be played). If developers wants they can easily put 120GB game on 64GB SD card.

 

DonFerrari said:
GoOnKid said:

This would make NO sense because they would kill their winning product and replace it with smething else while remaining it's underperforming console.

I assume you would accept it as a hybrid if the trailer showed the Switch half the time in the dock and half the tme outside. Is that right? But the trailer showed it in the dock, and that's okay. What else should they have shown 1 more minute? More people playing it at home? HOw would that make a difference? The trailer rather showed a) it's use as a home console, b) that you can take it out and play wherever you want, and c) that the controllers are detachable. C mostly makes sense when it's outside of the dock. So the trailer is completely fine.

Every time a generation change you start from 0 sales. So I don't know what you are trying to imply. What I'm saying is that they are focusing more on the HH aspect of the machine because there is were they have better chances.

I would accept it as hybrid if the dock had any relevant function. But it only does anything, so for me it's just a HH that you hook to your television, and the worse part is that you lose the screen when docked while they could just have it transmit the data to the TV and it working as mirror screen. The most we can guess from the dock is that it may cool and give more energy so the chip would increase it's perfomance, still, everything needed for it to work are really inside the HH part.

The point about the trailer is that it really showed it working as HH even if their PR says otherwise (perhaps showing more it's capabilities as home console would help... but when the games seemed just equal on both stances it doesn't help nintendo claim).

Miyamotoo said:

Wii U is dead for them, they almost didn't mention at all, only Zelda left for Wii U, but 3DS is still selling and still has games, that's why they still mention 3DS and make comparison to Switch.

Yes, that is why they pretend this isn't 3DS successor so they can still sell hw.

Yes, but its not only 3DS successor, its Wii Us also.