| OTBWY said: The narrative will change. Slowly but surely the same arguments against the Wii will come up. You can already see a glimpse of it: The Switch is for casuals. The Switch has a lot of shovelware. The Switch is a gimmick. Calling it now. |
it's a lot harder to label,Switch a casual console: no grandmas playing WiimSports here, but gimmick and shovelware, maybe. There's definitely been a "no AAA games" narrative from day 1, but that's slowly becoming harder to substantiate.
at any rate, none of it matters if Nintendo can keep up the pace. IMO, Nintendo failed the Wii in the last 2 years as we failed to get new concepts and tried harder and harder to push GameCubesque software at theWii market. Wii gamers could have eaten up a fantasy swordfigting game with controls on par with Wii Sports Resort, but the closest we got was Skyward Sword which is weighed waaay down in baggage that Wii gamers weren't looking for: dialogue, puzzles and fetch quests galore. Switch should be easier because the audoence already enjoys traditional gaming, but there are wyas it could go south.
