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potato_hamster on 15 January 2017
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Dulfite said:
potato_hamster said:

How do you know that the switch battery will be better than the Wii U? Nintendo claimed the Wii U gamepad would last 3-5 hours. In practice it wasn't that good with decent brightness settings. Now the switch is supposed to last 2.5-6 hours? With a larger screen, and doing all of the console's processing, and handling inputs from multiple controllers Sounds like it could actually be worse than the Wii U.

There's a huge assumption that Nintendo's online network is going to get substantially better. Almost everything about the switch kinda screams "money grab" from Nintendo going after their loyal 10-15 million fan base. They're gouging them on the price of the console. They're gouging them on the price of accessories. They're gouging them on the price of games. What makes you think they're not gouging them on Network play because they know their fanbase is willing to pay it?

Massively convenient for who? What makes you believe people want to be able to take their consoles on the go like that? I don't wish I could just pop my PS4  out of its dock to take over to my friends house, because it would be substantially less powerful in order to  do that, and hooking it up to his TV takes less than 2 minutes. Furthermore, if you want to play the switch on your friend's TV instead of that tiny tablet screen, it's just as much work to get your switch up and running as it is to hook up any other console.

Nintendo anticipated people using the Wii U mainly for maps and stuff, not off screen play 100% of the time. Their estimates with the Switch are far more reliable, therefore, due to people ONLY using it for off screen play.

The switch joy cons are amazingly small for what they do, so I'm not unhappy about their price. But yes, the rest of their stuff is ridiculously expensive and I don't know why.

Japan alone makes the convenience of this device worth it. That country has massive amounts of people that love to play games on the go. Also, if I'm taking my switch over to my friends house, it may not be in order to put it on the tv. Maybe he has a switch too and we want to do multiplayer? Maybe I want something to do while we are watching a movie, or while he is playing another game? Also, let's say I am going over to hook it up to the tv, the sheer size and weight of the switch objects makes it far more convenient than some massive clunky and heavy ps4 or xbone.

Then why did they spend so much time advertising and demonstrating the ability to play the wii u while something completely different is being shown on the TV its connected to? Sure not every game supported this feature, but many Nintendo published games did. Of all the scenarios you describe at your friends house as reasons to buy a switch you can also do with a Wii U with marginally longer set up time. In fact, bringing over a controller to use on your friends Wii U is definitely easier than bringing over another switch.

Also hilarious you find the Joycons worth the price. I personally think spending $110 to get a joycon pair and the charge base for them is totally unacceptable but whatever. Then again, you're willing to spend over $300 for what amounts to an extra minute or two of set up time vs bringing your Wii U over to a friends house, so there's that.