Nintendo Switch is perfectly viable as a primary or even only gaming device...

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V-r0cK said:
I really enjoy my Switch but the way Nintendo's been it can never be my primary/only console. It lacks too many 3rd party games I enjoy and it doesn't satisfy my online gaming fix. (also because a lot of the online games I enjoy playing aren't on Switch)

Seems Nintendo will always remain as my party system and for only Nintendo exclusives games, which is why I will always need another primary console.

What I'm currently loving to do with my Switch is when I play Black Ops 4's Black Out mode, whenever I die, I just play Pokemon Let's Go until the rest of my friends die (or win). It's a great way to kill time inbetween.

I agree. The biggest games are on all other platforms: ps4, xb1 and pc, while Nintendo is more about Nintendo exclusive, Japanese stuff and indies. Games like FE, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Luigi's, Yoshi, Kirby, those are not the games for the casual market. When you want to be sure you'll getting all the games everybody's playing you need to go to the other platforms.

Besides, everything from Nintendo is more expensive. They just don't care about cutting prices. I can get lots of great PS4 games with the price of a weird SMT x FE for Wii U. Nintendo is too expensive.

I've got lots of friends with Switch getting dust. They went for "look how cool that is" and they ended up with a Zelda only machine. They're all playing RDR, Call of Duty, Fifa, Spiderman, right now while Swicht will get pokemon and smash that they don't give a damm.

Your main console has to be the console where you can find everything, shooters, sports, big triple a, big world, 4k graphics, backwards compatibility (either like xbox or PS now), apps, blu-ray, etc. Your main console is a console filled with entertainment features, all types of games, good prices and all the games that you can find on all other platforms. Switch is just it's own thing. Nintendo is selling its own product for its own market.

Of course the op will say that everything we're saying here is just our own tastes and opinions and that they're talking about games and not things like blu-ray and that graphics doesn't matter, and that they can have all the nintendo goodness and have a ps4 for the rest and in the end i don't think this thread has much sense honestly.

But still, nsw is more like it's own thing. it's not a modern console. doesn't look like one, doesn't have all the features, doesn't have all the games, doesn't have all the good prices.

Sigh so much wrong with this post.

 

Your main console is the one you buy and play most of your games on.  For me and many others, that is Switch.  I get more game time due to the portability of the device so I choose to game on it more.

 

I have a PS4 Pro as a side console  so I got my plat in God of War, beat Persona 5, RE7, Horizon, and got RDR2.  After I get the experiences the Switch does not have however, I go back to gaming on Switch because the versatility of it makes all the difference in the world.

 

Most of my gaming time this year goes to Ys VIII, Octopath Traveller, Dragonball FighterZ (double dipped this one), Wolfenstein 2, Valkeria Chronicles 4, Xenoblade Torna, etc.

 

Also what is a "big" game?  Marketed to a certain extent?  All of those games I listed above are just as good or better than most "big" games this year (Battlefield V and Fallout 4 anyone?).  Perhaps you are a bit narrow minded when it comes to what makes a quality game, but that is not my loss.  Heck in both quality and quantity, Switch has delivered more exclusive games in under 2 years than PS4 did in two entire years, and most of its games were on PS3 during that time as well.

 

If those things are important to you, that is fine.  Nothing is wrong with that.  But there is also nothing wrong with many people choosing portability and versatility over those things as well.  There are more than enough current gen games on Switch to support that, even without the overhyped "big" games out there.  Both consoles are equally viable pending on what the person in question needs.

 

What defines a primary console is none of what you describe, and the fact that you think otherwise is puzzling to say the least.  What defines a primary console is its ability to meet your gaming needs and what you game on most.  Nothing more and nothing less.