| invetedlotus123 said: I thought it would be bad too, but once I saw the JoyCon functionalities, I just changed my bets. JoyCon is a true successor to the wii mote. And remember, what made Wii great was the Wii-Mote, now JoyCon is like a very, very, very improved version of WiiMote and much easier too use. JoyCon has built-in IR Cam, so they can work anywhere and don`t need the IR bar Wii needed in order to work. HD Rumble can also bring some very interesting gaming mechanics if well used, I`m sure Nintendo is going to use it well. What I think could harm sales initially is the price tag, but again, if public see value they are going to buy it, going for a very low price tag could hurt more than help. I don`t get why people get this idea that price matters so much, people do buy iPhone and other premium smartphones every year or two years, it won`t be a 299 USD price tag that are going to stop it. |
One of the Joy cons has the thumb stick in almost the dead center of it. The controllers aren't even close to symmetrical because it allows the Joy cons to work best when used in tandem either on the sides of the switch, or in the controller dock. It is a horrible, horrible design when they're analyzed independant of one another, and used by two seperate players. It felt so much like an afterthought when they first announced the Switch. It's the one thing I saw out of the initial announcement that I thought "well that's a back of the box feature that almost no one will use and even less developers will support. You're losing almost half your controller inputs when you play a game with a friend! Who would want to design and implement all of these control schemes?" As it turns out its Nintendo's 'main feature' of the Switch. The problem is that the market wasn't screaming for a better wiimote, much less this monstrocity. The function of the Joy cons isn't going to sell this console the way the remote sold the Wii. The Wii had novelty behind it, a fun, free pack in game, and a cheap price tag behind it, the Switch has none of that going for it.
Nintendo is just so out of touch with the people that might be willing to buy their console. The people who bought the Wii have moved on. So many Wiis were bought by non-traditional gamers, used 3-6 months and collected dust. Why on earth would they do that again when they quickly realized they probably shouldn't have bought into the hype and bought a Wii in the first place? They didn't buy the WIi U after all. Speaking of the Wii U. from beginning to end the Wii U was a complete disaster. The console was panned for having a complete lack of software for the last couple of years, and everyone suspected it was because they were stacking the deck of software titles for the launch of the Switch. And what does Nintendo have to show for it? Two first party games at launch, one of which is a Wii U port, followed by little more than a couple more Wii U ports or "sequels" to new Wii U games until Mario hits this fall. Whoopdedoo. The launch line up is arguably worse than the Wii U launch. And those apparent handheld franchises that would show the world that the Switch is the console to get to experience the entirety of Nintendo's lineup? They're nowhere to be found. All they had to do was announce a Pokemon game for the Switch and everything would have been clear. Instead I'm not convinced they won't be announcing a 3DS successor in the next year or so. This is bad for Nintendo. Very bad. So much worse than I though, and I was pretty pessimistic about Nintendo's future as it was.
