I Think We're Going To See A lot Of Tablet Consoles (Switch Knock-offs)

[Ganoncrotch]

BasilZero said:

zorg1000 said:

Not sure what Wii U sales & lack of replacement gamepads have to do with Switch........what about the Switch concept don't you like?

 

Making the tablet portion propietary - they will end up doing it like you would need the WiiU Gamepad for most of the controls in certain games which will of course turn off a lot of devs from making games/ports of their games whether they be late ports or simultaneous releases.

The thing I got pissed off the most with the WiiU (despite hating the controller design)  - is the fact that if your gamepad for whatever reason got damaged or stopped working, your only solution would be to ship it to Nintendo for a replacement or repair - you cant just buy a replacement from the store which irked me a lot. Its like Nintendo themselves didnt have faith in their system, if so, how can you have faith in a successor that will have a somewhat similar controller design?

 

Edit: Pretaining to other knock-offs - I dont want to see another disaster like the PSMove or Kinect - where they were trying to mimick the motion control success from the Wiimote ~.~. 

The tablet idea is oversaturated - motion controls were one thing but the market already has enough tablet type devices for various needs, I wont be surprised if the Switch ends up like the WiiU in that regards.

Its the systems video output though, would obviously have tech inside it which would need to be reverse engineered for there to be 3rd party replacements, would be like saying that Sony and Microsoft should have allowed 3rd parties replace the HDMI port on the ps4/X1 with something else, it's a part of a closed system, and again here, it isn't related to the Switch other than the N branding on the front.

If you mean "I don't trust Nintendo as a company because of the mishandling of the Wii-U" then that's understandable, they handled the system really poorly from conception to it being discontinued, agree with you completely there.

But I am pretty confident in Nintendo making a new start on Consoles with the switch and think they're going to be trying to move on from the Wii-U in as many ways as possible, the delayed launch to insure no software shortages is a great first step as long as they achieve it correctly.

All I can say Basil is have faith in them, they've been around for over 100 years :)