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joora on 09 February 2017
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potato_hamster said:
joora said:

The same company also made: NES, SNES, DS, 3DS, Gameboy, GBA (and failures as VirtualBoy, GC, and Wii U, I think N64 wasn't a failure). It has 10 billion $ cash on hand, and was highly profitable almost every year based on production and sales of gaming related hardware and software and gaming related merch.

But please, do tell me how they are clueless when it comes to gaming hardware design.

Also, funny you should mention Gamecube, because it was exactly what "real" or "hardcore" gamers wanted -  the most powerful console of the generation.

Where did I say that Nintendo was clueless? I just said we have a right to question their design decisions. Now, I believe we have a right to question Nintendo's design decisions, as well as Sony's and Microsoft's as we see fit. Your argument was that Nintendo made the Wii, therefore we have no right to question them, which is completely ridiculous.

"Customers do not want online games" - Iwata, 2004

We can always count on Nintendo to know better than us about what we actually want.

But of course everyone has the right to question design decisions of any product/company - at least in places that promote free speech. There is no product in any category that would fully satisfy the needs/wants of every person on this planet - if there was, it would be already game over for other companies.

Switch, as any other high-profile mass produced tech product, was result of balancing of numerous factors - research data was one of them. There was also need for distancing from competition, meeting planned budget and time constraints, and so on. Unlike your or my opinion on what the Switch should be or should do/have, Nintendo's opinion is based on much better insight of the needs and wants of large groups of people. Sure, that doesn't necessarily guarantee success (hence WiiU and GC failures), but dismissing a currently hot gaming product (preorders sold out) as a bad design on a basis that it should have a mic jack on a controller or web browser or X feature is a bit naive.

It's obvious that the Switch has a premature launch, but what does the gaming community expect - that the Nintendo execs come out and say "Please don't buy our product, it isn't fully ready for primetime." They obviously expect that the games and innovative features will compensate for the shortcomings. And, judging by initial reactions, they might be right.

Even if everything goes south, all they need is to announce a Switch Pokemon game.

And sorry about the Wii argument, but you do realize that it was just reaction to your Wii U argument, so you were the origin of that bit.

 

Edit: the bit about the premature launch is aimed toward lack of certain software feautres (browser, netflix).



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