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curl-6 on 11 October 2017
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CrazyGamer2017 said:
curl-6 said:

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.

That is indeed a possibility, one that I don't like but that I nonetheless must face. As far as the Switch goes it is exactly the case, I was just hoping they would get back to home systems when next gen knocks at the door. But they may never do that and as I said jokingly to someone else on this issue, I may have to send my divorce papers for Nintendo to sign. (That person replied jokingly that I must expect Nintendo to keep the house and the kids)

And the fact that the Switch is selling well is definitely not going to make Nintendo think about going back to dedicated home systems. So yeah, I'm only clinging to the hope they might, it's not impossible but it's clearly not certain either. Perhaps I'm too demanding...

I want to keep some hope because of the Wii, it was a different system granted but it still was a home system and despite that it sold tremendously well, past 100 million units so I hope Nintendo can see that a dedicated home system can still do the trick.

I don't understand why people are so into "mobile gaming", why that is so important to them? How is gaming outside, in the cold, the rain maybe, risking someone would steal your system, risking to drop it to the floor etc. A thing so important, that people want to make that their primary way of gaming? Aren't you more comfortable at home, where it's warm, where you're sitting on your comfy couch, in front of a big HD TV screen, not mentioning that when I'm out going somewhere I'm thinking of whatever I'm out for, having papers to sign, seeing someone, talking to someone, going somewhere etc. Not a state of mind where I want to play a complex game like BOTW where I would need to focus on the game and I'd want to do that in the comfort of my home, on my giant TV screen, how is a tiny screen more important than your big home screen? All this in my opinion of course, it's just my experience of gaming, I'm not saying anyone's bad cause they game on the go, this is really something I ask cause I don't understand it.

Well, I personally don't value portable play; my Switch stays entirely in its dock and I use it as if it were a home console. I too prefer to game while relaxed on my couch in the comfort of my own home.

But from what I glean from other people who do value portability, is that they like that it gives them the flexbility to play their games whenever they have a few minutes spare, like on a boring bus/train ride to work or on their lunch break.

I myself am lucky enough that I have the time to relax at home after work and play, but I suppose for those who work long hours, have little kids, etc, they may not have as much free time for big screen couch play as you or I.