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Soundwave on 05 January 2017
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

If by pleny of people you mean the same people who bought a Wii U, sure. 

As a home console, it's functionality is fairly poor and it doesn't have the price benefit either, PS4/XB1 will be $250, maybe even $199.99 by next year with thousands of games available, I don't really think the same sales pitch of "well we got Mario and Zelda" is going to seriously be a game changer in that sense. 

Switch is going to need to hold that 3DS base, and even that I think Nintendo is in for a tough challenge there. 

There's no Wiimote miracle coming to bail out the fact that it's a fairly mediocre console, terrific Nintendo games notwithstanding but every Nintendo console has terrific Nintendo games. 

I mean a significantly larger number than Wii U owners. Easily more than half of the people who'll buy Switch will make use of its home console functionality.

Your thinking is too constrained anyway. You always think in terms of "there's no way that Nintendo can get anyone who didn't own a Wii U or 3DS to buy a Switch, so that's the ceiling we have to work with." As soon as you realize that Switch has motion controllers, you'll freak out and declare that nobody is interested in that anymore. Dito when Nintendo shows some pesky "casual" game or other Switch features that don't fit your idea of gaming. Nevermind that "all Nintendo games on a single platform, play them how you want" is a huge draw in and of itself. There's potential that a lot of things can be implemented at a low price.

And you need to get over yourself and stop treating Switch as a handheld for no other reason than it doesn't fit your idea of what a home console has to be. You didn't like the Wii, so that should give you a clue that your desires and views are not in line with the market.

OK, putting aside Nintendo franchises, for $199.99-$249.99 what proposition from a games perspective does a Switch offer above/beyond a PS4 or XBox 1 both of which will have thousands of games just as the Switch is getting it's 25 games?

You can't use the Wii thing, there is no Wiimote "hook" here, if there was Nintendo would've made it front and center the focus of the machine from day 1. 

I didn't like the Wii but I did predict it would do very well on the market, there was a clear hook there and a clear audience that was under-served and a completely different way of playing. Switch doesn't have any of that. 

The 3DS base has to be the one that shows up to this party, because it's not a very appealling party to other people who don't really life/eat/sleep Nintendo franchises. There is no $600 PS3 to take advantage of here either, as I said by giving Sony/MS almost 4 years to get their costs down, both of those systems could be $199.99 next year.