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dahuman on 17 January 2017
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thismeintiel said:
dahuman said:

Nintendo has learned to make a better controller is about it and that made the price super shitty to a lot of people lol. Impressions are coming in and people that were kinda shitting on the joycons all like them a lot after hands on, but agree with me on that the HD rumble can be gimmicky unless it's used in a smart way in a lot of games. I don't think people realize just how much tech is inside controllers that are that small. I'm definitely not going to pay for online unless I see real value in it, that's why I eventually sold my 360 during last gen and never paid for PS+ and still don't have a PS4(X1 is pointless now if you have a PC.) The only reason NS doesn't fall into that category for me yet is because of the portability and local multiplayer potentials or there is noway in hell I'd have pre-ordered it. If the online is shit, I simply won't pay for it. You also don't need another set of joycons to play 2 player in most games as far as I can see so far, it's already beend confirmed that those things are comfortable even in big ass hands, I only pre-ordered another set with a charging grip because I'm lazy as fuck(1 pair stays on Switch for on the road and the other pair will be my primary home use ones) and I have money to spend, I still think the HD rumble is gimmicky as fuck and that jacked the price up but people seem to like it so meh.

Also, there is noway in hell they can get that shit to 199$ with the dock and those controllers, maybe without the dock and power and barely break even if you take into account the R&D costs, just think about how much power bricks/docking station cost for laptops, they'd loose too much money, and I don't see a problem with 720p at that size, 1080p would be really fucking dumb from an engineering perspective, phone vendors are basically at the mega pixel war(phone cameras) again, only this time, it's screen resolution, which put false ideas in people's heads that everything needs to be 1080p+ or 4k or it's not good enough, standard advertisement tactics, don't fall victim to it.

IMO, it's a worse controller. Too much focus on unwanted motion controls. Have to buy a separate piece to use it as a normal controller and charge it. The D-pad, something Nintendo is known for, is now shit. And maybe simplistic games won't need another set of Joycons, but anything else is most likely going to require two sets. Otherwise gameplay will be very limited.

Yes, they could. If I can get a 10.1" tablet with a higher resolution than 1080p and decent specs for less than $200, Nintendo can sure as hell pump this sucker out with a 1080p 6.2" screen for $200, especially if they went with less obscure chips.  Hell, the Chinese tablet they ripped off is the same price as the Switch, and that comes with pretty good specs, a 800p glassesless 3D screen, and a rotatable 8MP camera.  And since there's nothing special about the dock, they could have sold it separately for $20-$30. Nintendo is price gouging, no way to deny it.

I mean sure, you can get Chinese shit that feels cheap and works like horse shit for 200 bucks, but remember, you are also getting shit games and a battery that will drop it's charge % to nothing in like 1-2 years, and that's assuming if your charging tip is still functioning by then and haven't snapped off already, or, you can get a Nintendo Switch with controllers that actually doesn't feel like cheap plastic, which is already confirmed by most hands on videos so far. The fair comparison is about the line of mmmmm...... do you want to buy a PS4 or a Wii U right now? I mean, go ahead and buy that 200 dollar shit Chinese tablet if you think that'd make your point stronger, which I highly doubt would be the case. I'm also willing to bet they'll come out with a dpad left joycon down the road, just watch.