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GoOnKid on 28 June 2017
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Pemalite said:
GoOnKid said:

Were they really happy with the Wii U? Also, remember that many gamers bought a Nintendo home console AND a portable console next to each other. Even if it wasn't you, theredefinitely were a lot of these folks. Now they only have to buy one. That's a great thing.

Wii U being a fixed home console wasn't what made it a failure.

The branding was shit... People thought it was a Wii addon.
There were dry spells in the games lineup.
The price wasn't appealing to some.
It was underpowered.
Nintendo's advertising was terrible... And so much more.

I know but it just shows that not all of Nintendo's home consoles were successes, for various reasons. Same goes for the constant sales decline their homeconsoles faced going from the NES to the Gamecube. Saying that consumers were always happy with N's home consoles is wrong.

GoOnKid said:


Also, you can just buy a fucking Switch and never take it out of the dock.

Or you just don't buy one at all.

Nintendo is in a unique position to placate both demographics here. And you are essentially screaming that they shouldn't.

No I don't, YOU do! I say buy it as it is and enjoy it with both of it's possible methods of use and if you don't like one of them, don't use that one. You are the one who wants it limited to TV only and have the portability excluded as a whole.

Taking a switch, throwing the dock, joycons, battery and screen away and selling it at a fraction of the price would appeal to a large audience, especially parents buying for their kids.

Why? The dock is just plastic, the joycons are by far not as expensive to manufacture as you would think, batterys either. The screen, I don't know, but yeah, that could be expensive. But you would want to include a faster chip on the other hand, and a HDD drive, and whatnot, to maintain higher power. I guess that will balance up and you gained no price advantage.

In case you don't want to improve the specs, you are limiting the Switch to just one method of use. Just because you think the price is too high. Wait for a pricecut.

And Nintendo releasing a cut-down stationary version of the Switch changes nothing for you. You can still buy the portable version, the world isn't going to end. More choice isn't always a bad thing.

The thing is that this machine is design around the switching between home and portable use. Taking one of these away destroys the product in itself. Why did nobody complain about the PS4 not being able to play on the go? Why the fuck can't I plug my Gameboy directly into a TV? Because these products aren't designed with that in mind. It's not their intention. With the Switch you have choices straight out of the boxes. More choice isn't always a bad thing.

And while were at it: why the fuck do consoles only come in one color these days? I want different colored versions! More choice, please. And I also want a PS4 slim to be even slimmer, because it still won't fit into my TV setup, Sony should definitely make an even smaller version, because I want that. And make it orange, because I like orange.

GoOnKid said:


Oh, you want one with more power? You and everyone else with this desire act like the Switch games look like they came straight from the 90's. Holy cow, there's more to gaming than shiny shiny. Now you will say that it's not wrong to wish for better graphics, which is true, yes. But it's no reason to pretend like everything looks like shit, either.

Having more power is never a bad thing.
I don't understand how people can justify having weaker hardware components.

I like to compare this to sports cars. If you buy one of them, you may have the option to drive 300km/h, but you are never allowed to do so and it serves you nothing in the end. Why do people still buy them? 1) To show what technology has achieved so far. 2) To show what technology may achieve in the future. 3) To pat their own ego. 4) To pick up chicks. Personally, I don't care about any of these reasons.

Nintendo could have given you more power, more battery life and they didn't. You shouldn't praise them for that, you should give constructive criticism where criticism is due... And in this aspect it is due.

Aren't power and battery life in direct competition with each another? And if you manage to raise both, your price will rise as well, and you are the one whe doesn't want the price to rise.