Let's cut to the chase.

People who hate or feel threatened by Nintendo will do mental gymnastics to justify or predict the failure of Switch.

Nintendo apologists will do mental gymnastics to justify the viability of the Switch.

What matters are the millions of people in between, who want to play Nintendo games but are unwilling to pay a premium price for Nintendo hardware.

So if Nintendo nails the price, advertises the product, and supports it with lots and lots of attractive first-party titles, the Switch will be fine. Everything else is white noise.

Hey, I never said he cant have a conclusiob out of the teaser or even criticize.Anyone here have the right to do it.But just as he has the right to go on to my thread and say I am insane, that I am wrong and list his reasons, I believe I have the same right.I personally think he is wrong and I wrote it as so.There is no censorship here.

But I personally believe that my prediction was base more on concrete facts that we know or have a better knowledge of.I did mention all the things that still to be confirmed, and did say here and there what I hoped would be in or out, but my main three points were based on things that are already out there, and backed up by facts and data.This thread of his is more based on things we dont even know for sure or outright rumors and taken as a fact.And I personally believe that is much more open for criticism.

So all in all, he can write whatever he wants, but I have the right to say my piece, just as he has the right to say if my opinion is good or bad.

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1. I was talking about it not being a purple lunchbox or something clearly defined as for younger audiences. I meant that it looks good while the Wii U was meh and a more confusing concept to sell.

And that one NS trailer was already better marketing then any Wii U trailer i saw. So the NS marketing has already won over the Wii U's one. There were rumors Nintendo revamped their markering department, and those appears to be very true. Thank God .

It's clear from the trailer alone, that Nintendo now has a good looking device and a clear matured marketing strategy. Which Wii U certainly lacked and 3DS was okay/good on.

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Come on, that's just PR because the 3DS needs to get through it's last big holiday season. They said the same things about the DS remember. Hell, they even denied launching a XL version like a month before announcing it :p.

Nintendo consolidated it's HH and HC for this reason. To make the switch. And it talked a lot about unifying software and hardware in the past. A NS lite version may happen but it will still be a NS. NS is it and Nintendo had little choice but to build one main device.

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Do i really need to explain that the Japanese support will jump on the NS like crazy? Sony won't be competing again on HH and Japan is now mainly HH or mobile. And the NS can appeal to both of those markets. That's the whole point of it. It's designed to win over Japan. It will have great support unless Nintendo is caught insulting the emperor or something.

Oh, the Wii U did not have good japanese support. Even the 3DS had just good support. The Vita was able to lure away a decent number of it.

By the way, I did use the word "mostly" solved in earlier comment, but the above points are supported by good indications and reasons.

Wasn't the initial PS4 reveal them showing off the new controller to us for an hour?

Exactly. And I don't know why but there are so many users on this site who are very ignorant when you criticize the Nintendo Switch (I don't want to be offensive against any user on this site wth this post).

I agree with some of the points in this post. I wish I had the time to address it fully, and didn't have to piss, do laundry, and pull myself together so I can go out and get ****** **, but I do. Still positive about it, but Jesus Tapdancing Christ...2 of the games in the trailer are ???? what? Coming? Not? I can't remember anything like that happening before. Some of the luster of the reveal trailer has been rubbed off by the cold, hard reality of uncertainty. Some of it by speculation. Some by info from Nintendo itself. I wanted a docking station sauce bump. It's more smiles and sunshine than doom and gloom. I like it. But it's worthy of rational scrutiny.

Agreed.

The purpose of the video was to communicate the new console concept while catching the attention of the public. I believe they did it quite effectively. Now they'll likely be able to reach more people when they start talking about games.

On the other hand, if they made a 1h long explaination there's no way they would have reached 16+ million views; people are just not willing to dedicate that much time for a completely unkonwn system, unless they already expect they're going to like it.
Also, if they went all in explaining every detail about feature and games, what they would have shown from today to march? Just more of the same footage? It doesn't seem like an optimal strategy either.

The situation with Ps4 was completely different, people already knew what to expect from it in terms of concept: an HD console with high-end graphics. In other words Sony didn't need to sell the concept of Ps4, they needed to show they were going to deliver on what people were already expecting. In their case it made perfect sense to talk about hardware details and software from the beginning.

I can agree with the OP there are still key puzzle pieces missing, like game line-up (even though we did see a glimpse of new 1st party titles), hardware features, battery life and price. At the same I think it would make more sense to talk about those aspects once we know them.

Do you feel three months is enough time to answer many of the questions brought up by bananaking?