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Smear-Gel on 14 April 2017
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tak13 said:
Smear-Gel said:

This looks like a massively egregious case of thinking about your wishes over the regular consumer base.

No, the future of handhelds isnt to buy a system that costs twice as much as the 3DS right now and has games that also cost twice as much, since even small stuff like Bomerman costs $50 dollars, and then have paid online on top of it.

Handheld owners wont just run to the Switch if the 3DS died, and dropping it now will most likely lead to Ninty jst losing those customers. The handheld market is more than just "we'll buy anything if it has a battery life." and the Switch absolutely needs to learn from the 3DS if it wants to get the handheld crowd in the future.

Couldn't have put it better... His comment oozes so much selfishness!

You pre-empted me from saying all these! :)

Neverethless, I would add in that, that I refer to the handheld consoles gamers that don't give a damn for home gaming on tv or high end graphics... If you're interested in both gaming ways, switch is a great deal, unless you want a more portable hanhdled part...

Yeah, even though one can pick up the Switch and walk out of their house with it, it is not catering to the sensibilities of a handheld in pretty much any other way. It's a huge benefit for console only buyers and people who bought both, but for people who only buys handhelds, this just means that the system they buy now is suddenly much more expensive to buy, get games for, and replace, with it's $80 controllers and $90 dollar Dock. Nintendo released a 2DS because they know that a huge barrier to entering the video games market is price, and then people want them to ditch the 3DS prematurely and expect all the people to shrug their shoulders and flock over to the Switch. Hell, the 3DS was flopping when it cost $250, and Nintendo sells refurbished 2DS' for $60 dollars. Shit like this:


But these other 3DS games? Likely wouldn't do much of anything for the Switch. If anything maybe this is a good compromise that lets Nintendo market/sell the Switch to a more upmarket group (read: older, actual disposal income group) while the 3DS can focus on broke/cheap kids. 

Give 'em all the Kirby and Mario Sports games they want, lol, I don't care, especially if they're farmed out to external devs. 

Let the 3DS be the kiddie portable, there's thousands of back catalog DS and 3DS games they could put through the eShop too so you don't even need much new software. It's good enough for kids.

It's borderline cringey. Hell, it's ignoring that in other countries, hardware and software usually costs a lot more than the american retail price and people who dont have like,  a thousand dollars to sink into a home console can still get to game on a handheld. Or that it's perfectly possible to be an adult and not have money for this. Not that these people deserve to be catered to by default, but they certainly arent going to be magically able to buy something because another thing was taken away. A mistake many people make is assuming that their situation is the baseline for the entire video games market. Nintendo gains nothing from condecending 3ds owners like this.

Luckily Nintendo did say they know that the Switch and 3DS are different markets and treats the system like a home console. At least for now, that's definitely the right move.