shikamaru317 said:
Controllers: 5/5 (I like the controllers, but the Pro controller is much too expensive. The advanced rumble features sound nice, even better than XB1's rumble, which is quite nice in certain games, especially racing games. Combined with the motion features, I can see the potential for some excellent racing games with motion controls and realistic vibration feedback)
Battery Life: 4/5 (3-6 hours is about as good as we could have hoped for, considering this is the most powerful handheld ever made. Hopefully we'll get a new model in a few years with a shrink to 16nm giving us longer battery life)
Online service: 1/5 (Honestly it sounds terrible to me. No achievements, only 1 free game per month and it's an old NES/SNES game instead of newer Virtual console game and it's not permanently owned, voice chat uses a phone app instead of Switch itself)
Internal storage/Game Cards: 3/5 (32GB is low, but assuming games play off the game cards and don't need to be installed, this is only really a problem for digital gamers. They'll be stuck paying $40 for a 128 GB SD card)
Graphics/specs: 4/5 (If you treat it as a home console it's weak as heck, roughly on par with Wii U, maybe slightly better. But if you treat it as a handheld like I will, it's the most powerful handheld ever, a huge leap over 3DS and big leap over Vita. Overall I'm not really blown away by the graphics we'veseen so far, but they're certainly not bad)
Console and Game case aesthetics: 5/5 (The console itself looks pretty good with the gray joycons not a fan of the colored joycons though. The game cases are great)
Screen: 4/5 (1080p would have been nice for Netflix, Youtube, etc., but realistically games will never run at higher than 720p with the undercloked chipset in handheld mode, so a 720p screen is fine. It's a capacitive multi-touc screen, which is nice)
Launch lineup: 2/5 (The launch lineup is weak, no two ways about it. If you're someone who isn't a Zelda fan, there is literally no reason the buy Switch at release. I think Zelda looks great personally, but Nintendo really needed a better game variety at release)
Joycon Features/Games: 3/5 (Nintendo is clearly trying to win back some of the Wii fans with those features and games, but I don't know how successful they'll be, motion controls were kind of a fad that has since died out).
Exclusives: 3/5 (Not really blown away by the exclusives announced so far. If you're not a fan of current Nintendo IP's, they didn't really announce anything to win you over last night. The only 3rd party exclusives announced so far are Bomberman, Ultra Street Fighter 2, and Season of Heaven I think.)
3rd party support: 4/5 (The 3rd party support from Japan seems quite strong; Shin Megami Tensei, 2 Sonic games, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Nobunaga's Ambition, Disgaea 5, Ultra Street Fighter 2, Dragonball Xenoverse, 4 different Dragon Quest games, Setsuna, Tales, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and more. However, western 3rd party support seems very weak. Activision announced only Skylanders, EA announced only FIFA, 2K Games announced only NBA, Ubisoft didn't announce any of their AAA games for Switch, Bethesda announced only Skyrim (a 6 year old game), Warner Bros announced only Lego City)
Price: 2/5 (With the specs Switch has, Switch should have been $250 at most. To make matters worse, the accessories are mostly overpriced, and if you buy it as a handheld, the price of your games goes up from the $40 you paid on 3DS to $60 on Switch. And the cherry on the pricing cake, paid online services. Nintendo really blew it on pricing)
Total: 40/60
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