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Kai_Mao on 29 January 2017
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Barkley said:
Azzanation said:

You clearly havnt played those games. Mario Galaxies used the motion to collect star bits. Wasnt ground breaking but a fun feature nonetheless. It would have been dumb down on fun factor if released on PS4 and XB1.

I've played all of those games, removing pointing your dumb IR cursor to collect your starbits wouldn't be even a blip on the radar to Mario Galaxy. I wasn't saying they don't use them at all in any capacity, I was saying the games wouldn't be affected in any significant way, they'd still be great games. I'm amazed that you think starbit collecting was a fun feature though.

When it comes to ZombiU you may have a point, but really I feel that after the Wii Nintendo is just trying to force these "gameplay innovations". I'm not sure what you see in the Switch that will change the way we play games! Rock Paper Scissors IR? How many Ice Cubes are in my Controller?

The most loved games on the Switch will be the ones that would not be compromised in the slightest by not having these "innovations" present. And equally the most hated will no doubt be the shovelware trash that forces the use of HD Rumble and whatever else they can to justify the meaningless innovations that for the most part don't improve gameplay in the slightest.

The Switch isn't going to be loved because of games like 1-2-Switch, people are going to enjoy it because of Zelda, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing... all games that work fine without all these extra features they tacked on to try and recapture what they did with the Wii.

These forced "innovations" are not what I want to see in gaming.

The HD Rumble and the IR in the Joy cons are pretty interesting so I'm curious to see how they'll be integrated in the future. But these features aren't the main concept for the Switch anyway, it's the portability of home console experiences. I really don't like that we're assuming all this is trash, especially when we've been hearing more positive things from those who actually used them during the hands-on impressions. Let developers utilize these features if they want (various Japanese devs appear to think so). Just like having that touch pad on the DualShock 4 (which is kinda weird to have, imo, as I really don't see how anyone could use that thing gameplay-wise compared to motion controls or something).