One year ago, today

[KLAMarine]

Proxy-Pie said:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=224485

 

"This is going to bomb harder than the WiiU."

 

Okay, maybe I overreacted a little bit, hehe.

 

S.Peelman said:

I wasn't happy.

I'm still not really sold on the hardware itself, and I'd still stand by the things about it I found questionable back then, but of course it's actually about the games. And because Breath of the Wild came out on WiiU, I don't have a Switch yet, but with Mario Odyssey, although I'm again not as confident as I once was about other things they made in the past, they did make the Mario game I've been wanting since Mario 64. So maybe I shouldn't whine, Mario Odyssey could be the game, even if not right away, that makes me get a Switch.

In all seriousness, I do agree with you on some things. I still think a better approach could've been executed with a console and handeld with a unified development environment, so that for example a base Mario Kart engine could be made, then different graphics/courses would be made for 2 platforms

 

Let's face it. A lot of the people who bought MK8 also bought MK7. Stuff like that, including 2D/3D Mario, leads to lost sales, but of course I don't have any definitive data. Maybe this approach could've been better for getting major 3rd party games.

 

As far as games go, Nintendo is not disappointing. Mario Odyssey looks amazing, a breath of fresh air we lacked since the original Galaxy (or 3D Land I guess). Metroid Prime 4 is coming up, and we haven't even heard of Mario Kart/Smash Switch. I can't not buy this thing eventually :p

And yet you still got that "Disappointed Patrick, happy Spongebob" gif on your sig, lol.