I’m 100% in favour of ports. Skyrim, Disgaea 5, Undertale, South Park, Dark Souls, the Crash remakes, Mario Kart 8, and Okami HD are all games I would not have otherwise played if they weren’t ported to Switch. I play games games roughly 60% of the time in portable mode - especially Mario Kart due to multiplayer being WAY better with handheld versions than home console versions due to all the extra people that can play (local is the only way to play this one). I don’t care about age, nearly all of the top 100 games I want to play right now a year old or more; and the big limiting factor is platform - I like playing games way more on Switch than PC, and it is not likely I will ever get an Xbox or PS4 due to their limited capabilities — Even the Wii U wasn’t portable enough (nor did it lend itself to multiplayer enough) for my needs.
As much fun as online multiplayer can be, I have always found it falls very short of local multiplayer; it’s kind of like a long distance relationship vs a real relationship. I get depressed playing PC games online because I feel it is a complete waste of time playing games with people over online connections; relationship building with people I interact with regularly is far more valuable use of time - so I can relax and have a lot of fun and joy with it without depressing over feeling that I need to be doing something better with my time.
I live about 10 hours a week on the train, that’s why I like the Switch, portability drastically increases the amount of time I can play (since I only really play home console on TV on day off/holiday mornings), and increases the multiplayer opportunities I play by probably something around 50X over what I would normally do. So getting everything I want to play on the Switch is awesome; and it will have to be ports, because, as I said, nearly all of what I want to play is already released on other platforms; also, I want VC as soon as possible.
Last edited by Jumpin - on 13 March 2018I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
