CrazyGamer2017 said:
I meant comparatively holding it to past standards. Again, the farther back you go the less demanding our standards. Simply cause a wooden cart pulled by horses 200 years ago was OK according to those days' standards does not mean that if they make a crappy car today that people does not have the right to call the makers on the flaws of that car. And if the maker of the crappy car say: Hey, 200 years ago people were happy with a wooden cart pushed by horses, my crappy 2017 car is WAY better than that wooden cart, so if people were okay with that wooden cart, you have no right to complain about my crappy car... That would be a cop-out. Just cause standards were lower back then does not mean you must accept a poorly designed modern car today. In other words EVEN IF Twilight Princess was not good technically (which I keep insisting that game did not stike me as outdated back then), but for argument's sake, let's say even if, does NOT mean I cannot hold the Switch to 2017 standards, it's a 2017 system with 2017 standards and 2017 competition and 2017 level of information for consumers. Therefore a 2017 level of criticism on it. |
If we're going to hold Switch to "2017" standards, should we not also hold it to the standard of what it is as hardware? That is, a portable device, not a dedicated home console like PS4 and Xbox One.
Now, you've said that you'll hold it to home console standards because that is what you would use it as, but maybe this disconnect between your needs and what they provide suggests that Nintendo itself is simply no longer for you. There's nothing to suggest they are going to go back to making powerful dedicated home consoles in the foreseeable future, because there is so commercial incentive to do so; the market cannot sustain three similar traditional consoles, Nintendo's only real success in the past two decades has come from non-traditional systems that avoid direct competition with MS and Sony.
Sometimes, like relationships, our love for game makers isn't forever. I myself used to be a diehard fan of Rare, but the company drifted away from what made me love it and eventually I had to make peace with the fact that it was over and I had to accept that and move on. Maybe that time has come for you and Nintendo.
