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1: What do you think of the NS?
I think it has a lot of potential.
I see the capability to really push Nintendo's IPs to new levels of gameplay and have full 3rd party support.
I see the awesomeness of being able to play home console hardware anywhere I choose to go.

2: What do you most like/dislike?
I dislike that crappy white image you used vs the real black image.
I dislike the rumored 3hr battery life (max).

I don't know what else could be disliked at this time. We know nothing about its actual power and what we do know is promising (partners list, active cooling). We know nothing about launch software but again, we saw a large partner list. We know nothing of OS functionality but we did see Nintendo merge to a single account system and it has mic/headset plug, so it promises the improvements we expect. At this point, the rest is just too vague. I guess I could say I dislike Nintendo's reveal strategy for the NS.

3: Most wanted game?
ZeldaBotW
New survival horror game
New action/adventure - big!
New strategy game - big!



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1: What do you think of the NS?
I like it, the concept is nice but they really need to push those third party titles...

2: What do you most like/dislike?
I like the most the new Pro Controller, it looks really comfortable and I can't wait to try it

3: Most wanted game?
As of now BotW but it'll switch to Spla2n or Pokémon Switch as soon as they get announced



1. Super Hyped, the system looks amazing to me, big beautiful screen and nice tidy controls.
2. What I like the most... it could be a popular machine with more power than the Vita, I mean people thought that the 3DS/Vita were the last traditional handheld and the Switch has shown those people, are mental. Dislikes.... that I could be the mental one and people won't buy this console in their millions, that is my only fear, that Nintendo handle the launch poorly and it fails, would make me a sad panda.
3. best game.... when you can pick it up and play it on the bog? anything, I've enjoyed some games on the Vita just because of that portable experience that I know I would never bother setting up a console and TV for when you can just take out a system and fire up a game nice and easy, just makes gaming more fun.



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1. It's fine. It has Nintendo software so I'll buy it. I don't know if there is much incentive for non-Nintendo fans will buy it.

2. For it to work, it needs to have strong third party support. The idea is people can play "their games" on the go. That doesn't mean anything if "their" games aren't available. I really like the idea of being able to do multiplayer with one portable.

3. If we're just talking about fantasies here, then Mega Man Legends 3. If we're talking about announced games, I guess Mario is the only real choice. Everything else they showed off seemed like a port or remake.



I think it's a device of necessity for Nintendo. They couldn't have their userbase split especially in a way where their most expensive to make games (Zelda BOTW for example) is locked away from 80% of their audience (3DS owners).

They can't really compete with Sony/MS with a traditional console, especially since Wii U's failure gave the PS4/XB1 an insurmountable headstart,  so they have to go to what they're still half way decent at -- portables.

They can't support two distinct platforms anymore, not with rising graphics each generation, they barely made it out of the Wii U/3DS generation. That was a lot easier to do when the console was a Wii (GameCube tier graphics) and the portable was a DS (N64 tier graphics), if they kept progressing the portable would be PS3 graphics and the console PS4+ graphics ... not feasible to have two distinct libraries. 

They don't have a new "miracle controller" fad like the Wiimote because those types of things happen rarely in the game business (Nintendo didn't even invent the Wiimote, it was sold to them by an American inventor). So they can't do the whole "Wii" thing again, it doesn't work without a controller craze attached to it, as Nintendo found out the very hard way with Wii U. There is no new controller gimmick here and Nintendo is not even pretending there is one this time.

So Switch in many ways is Nintendo just forced into that position, there isn't really another logical hardware layout. It had to be a hybrid machine given all the above, it had to be portable given all the above, it had to unify Nintendo not only on one platform but behind their central strength (portables) because they don't have a miracle controller to sell the system with. 

That said I do get a bit of a kick out of people who said they weren't possibly just making one device, a hybrid wasn't going to happen, a Tegra wasn't going to happen, a Wii U tablet design wasn't going to happen, etc. etc. and Nintendo basically did exactly that.



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1. It has potential.

2. Right analog stick placement.

3. Of what we know, Breath of the Wild unquestionably. As an open ended question, a new TPS Metroid which brings platforming into center stage and is given as much budget, importance, and attention as Breath of the Wild. One that isn't a Prime game. That and a Pokémon game that looks and plays like Dragon Quest 11.



1. So far, I think the NS could turn out pretty well.

2. I like the Pro Controller, it looks very good. I dislike the fact that it might have a crapp battery life.

3. Breath of the Wild, that 3D Mario or a new Metroid game.



                
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1. I think the Nintendo Switch looks like a cool system.

2. What I like about it is that I can use it as both a home console and a handheld console. What I don't like is that the Joycon controllers look too small when they are used by themselves like in the trailer.

3. I would like a Metroid Prime game like the trilogy and or a Metroid game like Metroid Zero Mission.



1: What do you think of the NS?

Great potential, expecially for 1st party software since game development will be unified.

2: What do you most like/dislike?

There's nothing I particulary like or dislike yet. I'm mostly worried about battery life and I would be really disappointed if they put 4 player multiplayer on lower priority to favour local multiplayer with multiple consoles.

3: Most wanted game?

So far Zelda and the new teased 3D Mario game.



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