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Soundwave on 28 November 2018
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

For a product that's portable, it's pretty high end. 

People are buying it because it's just high end enough to be feasible as a console. But if you let that run long in the tooth, that appeal fades and it just because a Game Boy type thing with a TV out. 

Keeping the discrepancy from modern home consoles to the Switch concept within 1 console generation is the key, that's close enough that you can have impressive experiences on the Switch that people don't associate with a portable machine that are relatively modern. PS4/XB1 are better hardware but Zelda: BoTW is still a game and overall experience that's relatively comparable to what you would see on a PS4/XB1.

When you lose the appeal of "wow, this little sucker can really play some modern style high end games" from the Switch concept, that concept as a whole loses a lot of steam. 

I guess we're just gonna have to disagree, the way I see it, from day 1 Switch was never getting the Battlefields, RDRs or Witchers of the PS4/Xbone space, it was selling as Nintendo products have for over two decades now on its first party killer apps. Heck, it's latest system seller, Pokemon Let's Go, looks like a 3DS game in HD yet its got people the world over running out to buy a Switch.

Nothing about the Switch strikes me as a system that's dependent on being technically up to date to sell.

It doesn't need to be on par with the modern stationary home console, but a 1 generation gap (which is a lot still) should be the most they should allow. 

It's not a Game Boy or DS or Wii either. It's not something that's going to sell off "being cheap + kids + casuals" either. 75% of Switch owners own a PS4 or XB1, these are core players, Switch is a high end product for a portable machine, there's never really been a portable that delivers full scale console type experiences before that don't feel like they're 10+ years behind what's relevant today. 

Pokemon Go doesn't look that great, but the Pokemon producer has already said Gen 8 will look considerably better, and Zelda BoTW, Mario Kart 8, and Mario Odyssey ... you could put any of those games in 4K resolution on PS4 Pro or XB1 X and people would happily play them and not really make a big fuss about the fidelity. 

Doesn't look far off from this on PS4:

Is still at least somewhat in the same ball park, it's not DS to PS3/XBox 360 (a two generation gap). 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 28 November 2018