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Dulfite on 15 July 2021
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Captain_Yuri said:
Dulfite said:

Yeah, lots and lots of third party, the vast majority of which has been out for years and doesn't have the lasting/evergreen appeal like Nintendo games do. Plus, it doesn't have any Nintendo games. And most gamers don't know how to emulate, let alone casuals. And the majority that do don't do it because they have a conscious. Only time I support emulation is when you already have purchased the game before, otherwise you are robbing studios of money they deserve and, more importantly, robbing individual developers of the raises/bonuses/time off they should get but don't because sales aren't as strong as they would be had some people not emulated.

You do realize that you can play all the latest third party games on this right? Sure it doesn't have any official Nintendo games but I don't see how that matters. People don't buy systems only for Nintendo games, the wiiU proved that. Most people buy systems for third party games and this allows you to play Xbox and Sony first party games that are playable on PC as well as the large library of third party games on the go.

Now whether or not you condone emulators doesn't matter. This device gives the option to if someone wants it and that's something that can't be done on the switch.

Now don't get me wrong. I am not saying this is a switch killer as this won't sell anywhere close to the switch. But saying that this is overpriced like you did in your original comment is 110% nonsense.

Wii U did not prove that. Wii U was the most misunderstood device in modern gaming history. The vast, vast majority of people didn't even know it existed or didn't know it was a console. I had a hardcore gaming friend of mine convinced (to the point of arguing it) that it was just a controller for the Wii. If even hardcore gamers were confused, then casuals really were confused or didn't know what it was. It's failures proves nothing about the power of Nintendo software and proves absolutely the significant of bad branding and bad marketing. GameCube doesn't count either, as Nintendo's popularity hadn't grown into what it is today prior to the Wii. I'm convinced 90% of the gaming community thinks the successor to the Wii was the Switch and wondered why it took so long for Nintendo to make a new device, being completely unaware that the Wii U ever existed.

And for the record, I flippin' loved the Wii U and I think many of its features are superior to Switch, but Nintendo did a terrible job communicating what Wii U was to the market.