I'm glad Nintendo did more of a traditional generational transition with S1 to S2

[JackHandy]

curl-6 said:

JackHandy said:

Well, it's clear from sales that the Switch was what today's gamers wanted. But for me, watching the company of my entire youth abandon the home console market like that, similar to Sega before them... it was a little depressing. And then to see them pretty much just copy and paste the exact same thing after waiting as long as we did? As I said, I was bored with the first Switch after a few years, which has always been the case for me. I grew up with five-year cycles, and new consoles that changed everything. Now it's like, the same system for fourteen years?!?!?! I was not cool with that. Not in the least.

I mean, Nintendo has released iterative successors before; SNES was a stronger NES, Gamecube was a stronger N64, GBA was a stronger Gameboy.

Yeah but most of those allowed for fresh experiences. Mode-7 gave us pseudo 3D gaming, and that audio chip produced near-CD quality sound. When you played the best SNES games, you didn't feel like you were playing NES games. It felt brand new. When you played Mario 64 for the first time, it was nothing we'd ever seen before. Same with Rouge Squadron 2. It was such a massive leap forward, that it felt fresh. The generational leaps were just so great that it didn't feel the same at all. Not to mention new controllers with new buttons which produced new ways to play etc. It was always exciting.

The S2 is mostly the exact same product, same form factor, (mostly) same controllers, and its games are barely different, so it doesn't mask it. If you've played MK8D, you've played MK World etc. It's just one long, fourteen year cycle. It's not even close to the same thing.