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nemo37 on 12 January 2018
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Nozz-A-La said:
SegataSanshiro said:

Poor communication with consumers that it was a new console. Bad name. Poor marketing. Not attractive hardware for 3rd parties making for poor 3rd party support. Clumsy gimmick. Bad API. Red ocean console. Keeping the Wii brand when the audience for Wii had moved on by then. Expensive dev kits. Nintendo having a distant relationship with 3rd parties. Didn't promote 3rd party games much at all.

 

Switch fixed every single issue listed above.

They just need to fix the online experience now.

A web browser and streaming apps like netflix and Amazon prime are not to much to ask for in 2018. 

Streaming apps (Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, Twitch, etc) I think are reasonable to want and I do hope Nintendo does partner up and deliver on them (though I am not fully convinced yet that this will happen, as only Hulu has been released so far). While I do not believe the value of these apps is as high anymore as they were before cheap streaming boxes, Smart TVs, and smartphones. Nevertheless, for certain people it might negate the need to purchase an entertainment tablet and it adds more value for the $300 asking price.

Web browsers are a bit more complicated. They are doubtlessly a good feature (again perhaps not as big as they once were before smart devices) and add value. On the other hand they are also a security risk. The 3DS, Wii U, Vita, and PS4 all have hacks that use the browser one way or another. There is a hardware hack being developed right now on Switch that will allow piracy (though Nintendo can address it with a revision to the hardware so it will not work on future systems) in the coming months; this hack was partially developed (or at least the speed of development was increased) because of a flaw in the mini web browsers that the Switch includes to access Wi-Fi hotspots that allowed hackers to look at the internal content of the console's storage. Again this was also related to a hardware flaw, so it is possible they might not have needed the browser at all, but the browser did give them help with information about some of the inner workings of the operating system. A full fledged web browser could become an easy entry point for future software hack, like they did on the other consoles I mentioned above.