Does Nintendo suck at making "Core gamer" consoles?

[zeldaring]

Mnementh said:

zeldaring said:

I didn't say that at all but the switch misses on on many of the big games that core gamers love so if you don't love nintendo games it's too much of a sacrifice to be someone's only console, along with dated hardware it just doesn't make a great core system for the core gamer imo. you talk about resident evil but many of the latest entry's are not on switch. many of the third party games are huge downgrades as well. if you are buying only one console and not into handheld gaming its hard to choose a switch unless you love nintendo games above everything else.

Sorry, there are so many games and you can't play everything, I realistically think a core gamer can be successfully entertain themself with just Switch. Works for the other two as well. What you miss out on is, that you completely disregard indies, which have a lot of core gaming experiences. For instance a lot of turn-based RPGs - clearly core gaming land - are often smaller productions, but many of them are available on Switch. And you can sink hundreds of hours into them. As every Monster Hunter you can put over 1000 hours into Rise. There are classical adventures - basically only on Switch besides PC. Dark Souls, Witcher and Skyrim are also games worth hundreds of hours. Clearly core gamers can easily be satisfied on Switch.

So yeah, core gamers  can be satisfied with Switch. And with all you are telling I have the feeling you aren't a core gamer or talking about core gamers, because your arguments talk about casual AAA games. God of War, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Uncharted - they all go out of their way to make crystal clear what they expect from players, in God of War they expect their players so much to be unable even solving simplest puzzles, they give them away right away with the brat. So, maybe you mean Switch is not fit for players to lazy learn even simplest game mechanics and instead settle for cinematic games (=games that play themself). That in my opinion are casual players, not core gamers.

Ok all those indie games games you mentioned are all mostly on other consoles. I think most core gamers want to be able to experience the latest big games with descent tech. you mention dark souls but armored core 6 Dark souls 3, Sikero and Elden ring are not on switch. That just one developer and they are some of the best games ever made. you see even if you don't like sony offerings there are a ton of thirdparty big AAA games for example this year alone BG3, dead space, resident evil 4 remake, amored core 6, final fantasy, street fighter 6, and much more with switch if i'm not into Nintendo you are basically just playing indie games. Games like witcher 3, MK0 and doom are not even worth playing on switch with how downgraded they are.

Last edited by zeldaring - on 20 December 2023